First off we all know that the recent Ranger update was completely bogus! as much as i like ArenaNet all i have to say is, wow that update for rangers really sucked big time.
anyhow this is what i would like to happen to the Ranger class, and if any1 has any imput on how to improve our class, by all means reply to this post.
first of all, get rid of the shouts cuz we all know the ranger’s shouts just plain suck. Replace the shouts with lets say…. preparations! preparations was one of our big damage dealers in Guild Wars 1, why not have them in Guild Wars 2? I would like to see “Glass Arrows”, “Disrupting Accuracy”, “Ignite Arrows”, “Kindle Arrows”, “Read the Wind”, “Seeking Arrows” just to name a few of the Guild wars 1 preps. here is a link to the guild wars 1 preparations…. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Preparations
Second, this adresses the long bow…. Long Range shot does decent damage at range 1000+ but jus plain sucks the rest of the time! and with our pets not holding aggro like they should, the enemy just gets too close too fast…. sure we got point blank shot but that has a big cooldown to keep the mob at range! So instead of having Long Range shot how bout getting “Keen Arrow” or “Penetrating Attack” instead? And what ever happened to one of the ranger’s biggest damaging attack the “Power Shot” ive looked at every class that uses a bow and “Power Shot” Was lost between GW1 and GW2 somehow. better yet add those 3 skills to our utility skills under bow mastery or something so at least we are given the choice to use them. I loved to spam Power Shot in GW1 every 2 normal bow attacks, plus it was a fast attack for extra DPS. Also the time it takes to fire off 1 arrow using the longbow is not bad how it is now because it should have slower attacks than the short bow so that makes sence, but the long bow should do at least twice the amount of damage that it is doing right now… My Ranger’s Attack is higher than my Warrior’s attack, but my warrior does at least 3~4 times the amount of damage my ranger does…. using hundred blades which hits 8 times on all enemies in the range of 130 i’ve seen total damage higher than 10,000 but the Ranger’s barrage doesnt even come close to that it only does about 350~687 [including crits at crit power 55] about 6~7 times every second for 6~7 seconds to all enemies in a large radious, and rapid fire only hits to about 5000 dmg with full crits take ~2500 dmg non crit making the Ranger the Worst Possible Class to play as!
Third, Pets need to hold aggro better if we are stuck with “Long Range Shot” thats basicly the only problem i have with pets at the moment.
Fourth, Melee needs to be Fixed even though the key word in Ranger is “Range!” I thought it was awesome when ArenaNet made it so we could go Melee, but our HP and Armor values are so low that if we decide to melee we get 1~2 shoted even if we wear full exotics that specializes in Toughness and Vitality. Love the dualwield Sword and Axe skills but it just gets me killed if i fight in non starter areas using dualwield s/a.
I understand that the Ranger is supposed to be, in the words of the movie “Sky High”, Hero Support; but we are even side kicks to our pets! my polar bear has over 4000 vitality what is that like 35,000 health? my polar bear also hits between 650 and 1200 i think at the same attack speed as my Longbow! What the Heck, there is something wrong with that… an arrow to the face should be more devastating to something than a blow to that something’s Plate Mail Breastplate from a bear especially if the bow user is point blank range…. arrows should do more damage at close range than long range because there is less air between the targets.
as far as spirits go, i don’t really use them that much but i do know their range of effect sucks compared to their range in GW1, so thats the only thing i can think of there.
As far as traps go, the onlything that needs to be fixed with those is the Condition Damage attribute! other than that i think the traps are good.
Elite skills, we need better elites! the only good elite skills we have are Entangle and Mistfire Wolf [only if you have CE/DD version of GW2 otherwise you cant use mistfire]
Hopefully i covered everything, most likely i didnt…i just typed everthing i could think of, if i didn’t then please post to this topic and also i would like feedback on this and anything else any player can think of about making the Ranger a more competative class to play as, because as we all know that the Ranger is the worst class in this game and i would like to sarcasticly thank the “BOTS” for making the Ranger Nerfs Possible!
“Thank you so #$%^&*((&%%$$#%^^ much you @#%$#^%$$#^ BOTS for the $#%^^$%$R#^^&@%#%^#^ Nerfs!” [for those who couldnt tell, i just held down the shift button on my keybord and randomly pressed numbers for dramatic effect, those are not real swear words LOL]