Guild Wars 2

Looking into the leaked notes, condition builds across all classes are going to be very strong. My concern is that ranger condition removal is very bad compared to almost every other class.

Our signet of renewal is very gimmicky and rangers will have to spec 30 ws for empathic bond just to survive.

The other option is to try to outregen the conditions, but debilitation conditions like immob and chill, plus the new weakness will outright destroy us.

Also the reliable condition removal abilities dump conditions on the pet, which still hurts us as even nerfed pets are a large part of our damage functions.

I feel like we will be pidgeoned into 30 ws to survive a conditon meta, run food/runes, or build regeneration bunker just to stay competitive. Even then, a combination of these defenses might not even be enough.

I foresee a lot of rangers with cluttered traits and setups built for condition survival with not enough space left over to be offensively competitive.

The flipside is damage rangers with no empathic bond or signet being eternally locked down by torment, confuse, and etc.

I concur. (15 char.)