Guild Wars 2

Note – if you can’t be bothered to read all this, there’s a TL;DR summary at the bottom

I have a ‘Quick Fix’ idea on the suggestions forums – please check it out and tell me what you think: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/A-Simple-Ranger-Fix/first#post1714308

To the developers:

1. We need a decent pet fix. This is the one I was hoping for most. They STILL can’t hit moving targets, and as a result we’re continuously being deprived of a good proportion of our total damage output.

2. They didn’t update the Longbow. EVEN after discussing that they should. This is by-and-large the most widely used Ranger weapon and it’s in dire need of a reboot soon. Hardly anyone uses the greatsword these days unless they want the mobility of skill 3.

3. My only playstyle as a Ranger is a glass cannon Berserker build. Now I’m just glass with almost no canon to speak of because of the QZ nerf. That was the ONE utility skill that would allow rangers to output half-decent damage, while not being overpowered, and now we don’t even have that.

4. Continuing on from no. 3, it seems to me like the only reason you’ve nerfed QZ is because of the overpowered warriors going round spiking the overpowered hundred blades skill with QZ. The reason I single-out warriors is because they seem to be the ones everyone complains about. Thieves COULD have been, but not many thieves seem to use QZ in their builds these days because they’re powerful enough without it. I’ve not seen ONE person complain about the rapid fire Ranger skill being OP.

SUMMARY IF YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO READ IT ALL:

- MORE useless updates no Ranger cares about
- STILL haven’t got pets sorted
- STILL haven’t got longbow sorted
- Killed an entire playstyle through nerfing QZ because warriors were overpowered.

Come on, get it together for the Ranger. Can you at least let us know if and when you are planning to implement these much-needed changes?

Bryzy.2719

Come on, get it together for the Ranger. Can you at least let us know if and when you are planning to implement these much-needed changes?

They could but they won’t.

Here’s a radical idea. ArenaNet is absolutely stymied on how to handle the BOT problem. The vast majority of BOTs are Rangers. If they nerf Rangers enough that the non-BOTers just give up on it then they can use their metrics to say it’s an under-used class and broken anyway (and with some well stated PR speak) they can just get rid of the Ranger and solve their BOT infestation.

I’m sort of bummed on my predictions at the moment though. They’ve taken away my predicted “color buff” and called it a bug. My personal thought though is that after the fact, they decided it was too much of a buff and retracted it.

It seems the devs never fix any of the real game annoying broken systems they just nerf things. I wonder if they even play the kitten game.

Oh but just think they did give the Black Widow more health WOOHOO!

Didn’t know if I could survive another day with the spider not having few hundred more hitpoints.

Pedra.4381:

Here’s a radical idea. ArenaNet is absolutely stymied on how to handle the BOT problem. The vast majority of BOTs are Rangers. If they nerf Rangers enough that the non-BOTers just give up on it then they can use their metrics to say it’s an under-used class and broken anyway (and with some well stated PR speak) they can just get rid of the Ranger and solve their BOT infestation.

You know.. you may be on to something with that.

I am pretty outspoken that I feel Ranger is a very strong class, but it takes a significant amount of effort to be effective (moreso than any other class, imo). Its entirely possible they are encouraging this “feel” for the Ranger to discourage botting. That said, I think there are much better ways to approach it.

I never really used QZ outside of rezzing, as I found the DPS was still lackluster.

Im downright weird though, so take it for what its worth (I went from having an ele main, to a ranger main once I actually put some time into understanding the ranger. I even deleted my thief for the character slot for the ranger!).

Pedra.4381:

Bryzy.2719

Come on, get it together for the Ranger. Can you at least let us know if and when you are planning to implement these much-needed changes?

They could but they won’t.

Here’s a radical idea. ArenaNet is absolutely stymied on how to handle the BOT problem. The vast majority of BOTs are Rangers. If they nerf Rangers enough that the non-BOTers just give up on it then they can use their metrics to say it’s an under-used class and broken anyway (and with some well stated PR speak) they can just get rid of the Ranger and solve their BOT infestation.

I’m sort of bummed on my predictions at the moment though. They’ve taken away my predicted “color buff” and called it a bug. My personal thought though is that after the fact, they decided it was too much of a buff and retracted it.

Christ I had not thought of that at all. Very conspiracy-esque and deviant if that is actually the case. And a crying shame. Ranger is the only class I enjoy playing. If they don’t make the desperately needed fixes within the next month (which, when you put it like that, seems unlikely) I won’t be coming back to GW2.

Guys nerfing ranger won’t even cause a dent in botting, botters will just make a little less gold or switch to another class if it’s more profitable. Either the devs don’t understand the class well, or they worry more about balancing ultra high-end spvp (where rangers are strong) than general pve and wvw for the rest of us.

I absolutely love the greatsword changes. But I guess I am “no Ranger”

Maul hits like a truck. And now the weapon is so much tankier than it already was with the CD reductions.

Caldric.1685:

Oh but just think they did give the Black Widow more health WOOHOO!

Didn’t know if I could survive another day with the spider not having few hundred more hitpoints.

Considering it is a HoM reward, you would think it would have been higher priority. I didn’t grind my kitten off for hours in GW1 to have a pet with half the health of others.