Guild Wars 2

Remember during the Ranger CDI, they stubbornly insisted that Ranger should be the “high consistent damage dealer, without much burst”?

Well take a look at our skillset now:

Signet of the Wild
60 CD
For 8 seconds, you deal 25% more dmg.

Quickening Zephyr
60 CD
Gain quickness for 6 seconds.

Rampage as One
120 CD
Fury, Swiftness, Stability, and Might for 20 seconds

Longbow (weapon)
Low autoattack, very high damage with Rapid Fire every 10 seconds

Greatsword (weapon)
Low autoattack, decent burst every 6 seconds on Maul

Pets (mechanic)
60s cd if both die
Very high autoattack while up. (Goes down quick in Dungeons)

Notice something? Low autoattacks, but super high damage on high cooldowns.

Seems like a bursting class to me. Not that I’m complaining. Things like Signet of Stone allowing the Ranger to perform an all-or-nothing invincible barrage of attacks, is actually kinda cool. I just hope ANET embraces this, because it kinda fills a sweet niche for Ranger, in a very sweet irony.

I would argue maul and path of scars are still the only two burst skills we have. You can supplement them with SotW and QZ for PvE (utility bar is just too full to use those skills in WvW or PvP for the most part.) RF is like… half bursty? with its 2.5 second channel.

Pet autoattacks are not particularly high. We’re talking 2k every 3 seconds or so? I am just guessing.

The overwhelming bulk of our damage still comes from pressure, but we at least have some options to finally get the kill instead of watching people get low on health and then use their heal!

Also I disagree that LB autoattack is low, in a PvP environment.

Being the sustained damage class wasn’t really working out. This game has too many self heals for consistent, reliable damage to win out in the end unless you have some kind of spike attached to it.

What is consistent about a pet which can die? It wouldn’t work out even if ANET wanted it to. There for, the Ranger is more of an “all-or-nothing” class, more so than Thief, who can regenerate initiative.

Don’t forget signet of the hunt… Since I’ve been running with it after trading out Travellers runes for trappers, it has actually been quite useful. It’s instant so when you see a nice maul coming down you can hit it for +50%!

That’s actually my pet peeve with sotw, cast time means you start out in the hole dps wise…

Classes change. Welcome to MMOs. =P