Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow rangers,

For those of you who have much to complain about the ranger profession, please notice that a new forum section has been opened up to filter and discuss this topic.

Refer to: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance

I suggest you focus on posting constructively over there. The better you explain your concerns regarding balance, the more likely that rangers will get dev attention (cross your fingers and your pet’s fingers too).

So don’t begin by writing none sense, like for example: removing pets, making longbow 4000 range, giving phantasms to your pets, making glass cannon builds super tanky and survivable in WvW, etc… On top of all the none sense that can be said, leave all ranger hate outside that forum, that’s what this forum is all about already.

WvW is truly where ranger issues begin to shine, start by looking between – do I suck as a ranger or is this a balance issue – type of questions, cheers.

I’ve been reading perrrrty much ever Ranger post made in that section and it’s all been said 100 times over. Same issues, same suggestions, same arguments. Hell, I’ve personally made posts months ago about everything I’ve seen in there so far. It isn’t like it was hard to read or find suggestions before, they’ve read all of that already. Expect the same outcome. Or lack there-of.

I read somewhere where Arena.net was afraid to balance ranger class due to ranger bots in Pve. So why can’t they separate pve and wvw to better balance our class? Isn’t it too obvious to do that? I’ve never seen a ranger bot since i’ve played wvw so what is Arena.net afraid of?

Not like any ANET will read or comment it. They know about every single issue about ranger since day one. Their only solution was to break ranger even more down with their “fixes”. Ranger was my first character and still is my most played character but now it is degraded to run world events because it has 100% map completition. Where situation can be harder, i bring my W.

Burnfall, back then when ANET thought we are OP. (wtflol) Almost all bots were rangers, they kept running together naked with bear on their side. Forstgorge looked funny with 10+ naked ranger running around and kill everything in sight.

They once mentioned that they would create separate tabs for pve/pvp/wvw, in order to allow players to have builds for each scenario, without having to go back to the trainer every time you went from one aspect to the game to the next. This idea has probably been discontinued, more likely because they think they have done a great job at balancing between each area in the game…. except that rangers continue to find a huge disparity here, I hate having to change my build on exiting from WvW. Even though you can work to create solid builds, the best thing you can do is fill up your bags with gear. They could easily allow for tabs to change build and gear options.

So far I have seen Anet respond to Warrior thread, Thief thread, and Engineer thread. Now, I can understand that the Engineer’s needs some work but I think they are better off then we are. But does the warrior and thief really need a response from a dev considering how overpowered they are? Meanwhile, ranger’s with their broken class mechanic, or should I say Acknowledged broken class mechanic, hasn’t even been viewed? Do they have absolutely nothing to say about our class or our suggestions to help the class?

Akisame.9508:

So far I have seen Anet respond to Warrior thread, Thief thread, and Engineer thread. Now, I can understand that the Engineer’s needs some work but I think they are better off then we are. But does the warrior and thief really need a response from a dev considering how overpowered they are? Meanwhile, ranger’s with their broken class mechanic, or should I say Acknowledged broken class mechanic, hasn’t even been viewed? Do they have absolutely nothing to say about our class or our suggestions to help the class?

That’s an intriguing question. Consider the ranger profession as a whole, it’s interaction in PvE/WvW/PvP with respect to the other professions. The #1 concern is regarding the difficulty in skill that rangers have to go through, in order to be in par with other professions. Plus, there are many numerous reasons why other professions, due to their inherent abilities, have an easier time at getting the upper hand in all battle scenarios with respect to rangers. Granted, there are clear things that keep on coming back that rangers tend to complain about (putting away any specifics for the sake of removing none sense). All of that presents a pretty intricate issue in terms of balancing a profession to the point where it is more or less on par with the others.

The reason why they don’t talk to us to try and figure this out is likely not to all the above stated, but to all the none sense that rangers bring up in these discussions. I can say that because of reading past posts and after a short while all you read is nagging. Now why can’t the devs man up and tell us something, or do something constructive to get rid of the ‘ranger issue’, I don’t know. It’s very possible to succeed as a ranger, but it certainly requires a lot of skill compared to every other profession. It shouldn’t have to be like this.

Think about this if you look across the boards Warriors (the profession Anet seems to bend over backwards for to make PvP “viable”) complains when they are out played by a ranger. Even with every advantage they have it is like losing boxer getting beat by a one-armed blind man.

Bran.7425:

Think about this if you look across the boards Warriors (the profession Anet seems to bend over backwards for to make PvP “viable”) complains when they are out played by a ranger. Even with every advantage they have it is like losing boxer getting beat by a one-armed blind man.

The only place they lose to us is in spvp where I suspect most are hammer spam folks who think stun spam and healing sig make them gods and will kitten and moan about how someones condition/regen tank outlasted them.

They still outplay us (arguments about this not needed, they still have a far easier time getting into groups) in PvE and WVW zergs are about 30% warriors.