Guild Wars 2

I’m sure other posters have said this, but I got to experience it firsthand in PvP.

The fact that all the other classes have gotten stronger, better and hit harder leaves the Ranger at an increasing disadvantage.

Rangers in pvp were already not in an ideal position. While every other class takes two steps forward, we remain behind.

I hope I am wrong. I’ve had a blast playing the class in pvp. I like the community in game and on the forums.

But, the way Arenanet makes changes so slowly…..I expect the ranger to be buffed to a decent level sometime in the next two years. Right on time to buff the GWEN Meta (holy kitten I hate that word) right before another expansion buffs them again, leaving us in the same F3cK1ng position we are in now.

Am I wrong? Am I way off base?

I would really like to be wrong. At this point, I’ll just wait and see.

Maybe they will make quick changes.

Well, I said from the getgo that the Druid has no real synergy with the base class.
The only thing that could maybe work would be a healer/tank/beastmaster Druid in PvP imo.

You are not off base IF you are trying to convince us that rangers didn’t get better POWER/Condi builds…

its debatable regarding sustain/tank/healing/… druid mixed it up a BIT by giving sustain ranger a bit of a buff….but in terms of overall power or condi spec builds? Nope.

This spec has NO synergy with the CORE aspects of rangers and NO synergy with our CORE mechanic (pets). In that sense, its almost like a new class.

Druid is only useful for builds that are more focused towards sustain/healing/some cc and party support….thats it.

EnderzShadow.2506:

I’m sure other posters have said this, but I got to experience it firsthand in PvP.

The fact that all the other classes have gotten stronger, better and hit harder leaves the Ranger at an increasing disadvantage.

Rangers in pvp were already not in an ideal position. While every other class takes two steps forward, we remain behind.

I hope I am wrong. I’ve had a blast playing the class in pvp. I like the community in game and on the forums.

But, the way Arenanet makes changes so slowly…..I expect the ranger to be buffed to a decent level sometime in the next two years. Right on time to buff the GWEN Meta (holy kitten I hate that word) right before another expansion buffs them again, leaving us in the same F3cK1ng position we are in now.

You are not wrong.
You got exactly the point. I sadly kinda knew that…that’ s why I haven’ t bought the expansion.
On a pvp aspect nothing has changed for ranger. It was the last class and it will be the last class in gw2.
No way guys.

Well, I, for one, levelled a guardian in the hope that dragonhunter was the ranged, archery based class I had hoped the ranger would become.

Having seen that the druid has been given new limitations like decay similar to warrior adrenaline, on its class form, I am feeling that I made the right choice.

It isn’t the choice I wanted to make though.

Ranger has kind of sad story which goes kind of like:
I want to be useful but from 3 choices i only have 1 decent, that’s why i have very hard coded builds, simply because nothing else is worth to take.

Ranger basically has one trick pony with traits, they need to buff a lot of them.
Made post a while ago how to get ranger on better spot with only fixing traits.

I hope some one from devs throw an eye on that topic for at least few lines ^^

Darkness.9732:

EnderzShadow.2506:

The fact that all the other classes have gotten stronger, better and hit harder leaves the Ranger at an increasing disadvantage.

Rangers in pvp were already not in an ideal position. While every other class takes two steps forward, we remain behind.

You are not wrong.
You got exactly the point. I sadly kinda knew that…that’ s why I haven’ t bought the expansion.

I couldn’t agree more. I have to admit before only complaining that every change consistently addressed most of the problems brought by myself and the ranger community (perhaps not in the best way) except the ones that exist by design (like weapons/vulnerability to cc or useless utility sets). As a class we took many steps foward, however every other class did too, and much further than us. This leaves us in a position where we are always the underdog, and that’s a bit too frustrating to deal with for so long.

EnderzShadow.2506:

Am I wrong? Am I way off base?

I would really like to be wrong. At this point, I’ll just wait and see.

Maybe they will make quick changes.

i just don’t see the core ranger as viable. i think there are some neat trapper builds, but traps are just a novelty and they aren’t too versatile in practice (still no stunbreaker on them). all my successful builds today have been with the druid, offensive and bunker. even some condi builds have been good.

the elite specs (druid included) have left the core ranger absolutely in the dust.