Guild Wars 2

It’s bad, we all know that.

What needs to be done?

rework ranger class???

Less reliance on Empathic Bond, since you’re pigeonholed into it for any sort of reliable cleansing, and the lack of on demand cleanses is really killer.

How about making Signet of Renewal into the GW1 Antidote Signet. It would preserve the ranger flavour, and actually be useful.

The description was “Cleanse yourself of Poison, Disease, and Blindness, and one additional condition.” On a 4 second recharge.

Yes – 4 seconds. Virtually all skills recharged faster in GW1 – it made for a more responsive game, where reflexes really mattered – but that’s a different rant.

We don’t have Disease in this game, so change it to: Cleanse yourself of Poison, Blind and 2 other conditions. and put it on a 45 second (36s traited) cooldown. It’s passive could be the same as Signet of Renewal’s – but we’ve done away with the need for a pet. That alone is a trend in our skills that’s worth encouraging.

Antidote Signet existed in an earlier form of the game.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Antidote_Signet