Guild Wars 2

So… were getting an apparent nerf to Spirit of ranger… it was bugged to where it healed ~420 as and they nerfed it down to ~320. (apparently it was supposed to heal 320 every three seconds but they decided against it) The second thing is rangers are getting combo fields with the other two traps. They also mentioned that they are looking at the sword chain, they said that the problem lies within how the server interacts with the skills. Lastly they said they had seemingly grand plans for ranger.

Personally i think that its going to take a really long time for things to get balanced, so I’m not going to get put my hopes up…they did not mention any of the problems people have been complaining about. (except the sword thing) but none of this is final any way.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Still nothing on Fortifying Bond (vigor for stability)? Cool beans ANET!

GeoX.5046:

Lastly they said they had seemingly grand plans for ranger.

Sadly, they’ve been saying that, more or less, since release…

There is a couple of these topics around already with discussions in them. There is no nerf to spirit’s it’s a bug fix and it was never working as intended with the 480hp.

I dunno why people are crying out nerf when everyone knew it was ridiculous at 480.

OGDeadHead.8326:

GeoX.5046:

Lastly they said they had seemingly grand plans for ranger.

Sadly, they’ve been saying that, more or less, since release…

I have to admit I was nearly shrieking at the screen when they said that.

If you can’t talk about it… DON’T TALK ABOUT IT.

No matter where you think the Ranger is in terms of tiering amongst professions, ranger fixes are dead last for credibility.

I don’t want hype. I sure as hell don’t want placating. I want “We’re working on it.” and nothing else until they finally start delivering.

I expect nothing from it, most likely we’ll get those mentioned nerfs, the trap fields, maybe a debatable buff in a weird place, like Harpoon #3 now apply might to your pet instead of fury or something along this lines.

Ranger will still be my main, but have a while that I just hope for no big nerfs, small nerfs and little changes to skills is good enough for me nowadays, true buff is ask too much apparently.

Belzebu.3912:

I expect nothing from it, most likely we’ll get those mentioned nerfs, the trap fields, maybe a debatable buff in a weird place, like Harpoon #3 now apply might to your pet instead of fury or something along this lines.

Ranger will still be my main, but have a while that I just hope for no big nerfs, small nerfs and little changes to skills is good enough for me nowadays, true buff is ask too much apparently.

Yup small nerfs/buffs across the board is how they are looking to work it, avoiding the “whack a mole” fixes etc. The way to look at this patch or any future ones that do not directly buff the ranger is to see other classes nerfs as a buff to the ranger and/or making some builds that little bit more viable.