Guild Wars 2

Multiple pet AI quality-of-life changes and bug fixes are being made for the ranger. For example, commanding your pet to use a skill or attack an enemy will now occur instantaneously and will break the creature out of its current action. The skill activated by Keen Edge is now considered a Survival skill and will benefit from other traits that impact this skill type.

honestly i dont even know why i expect anet to do something about rangers. Probably the class with the most potential to be fun and interesting and anet just doesnt even care enough to put some kind of effort into them.

wow yay our pet f2 can finally be used instantly…. all these other classes are getting new and exciting changes and ranger get this garbage something that should have been implemented before this game even got out of beta, and its not like our pets can live long enough anyway or arent completely useless when it comes to AI so this change is worthless to me.

Im honestly tired of them putting so much energy into pets. their AI is obviously a mess so just take em out put more power into the ranger itself and screw the kitten pets this game did a horrible job with them and its annoying to even have to worry about them unlike other games where pet control is smooth and rewarding this game its just a nuisance.

thought this big patch would get me back into the game hoping that they will finally do a REWORK on the ranger class not just some stupid pet AI balancing but anet has made it extremely clear that they can care less about this class. good thing ESO is coming out which did more balancing in their beta then Anet has done in over a year.

Meh. I never used Keen Edge because everybody and their mom already applies 1000x bleeds. So that’s not exciting.

The pet f2 responsiveness improvement is a step in the right direction, but it is still going to take 2-4 seconds for the skill to go off… so, yeah, there’s that.

You’ll end up like me and lose your hope thus making your Ranger a mule.

hopes are lost man, i just dont like how vulnerable LB ranger is in WvW i like to roam the zerg ball isnt my ideal way to play in WvW. but ive played trap and spirit rangers, they work while roaming but the play styles just arent that fun, i like the LB play style and ive tried it with all kinds of secondary weapons and stat builds you either do 0 dmg or get blown up there is no middle ground with that weapon. one of the big issues is that you get obstructed from people moving right or left while firing and they arent even addressing that issue which is rly annoying. the increase missle speed on LB might help but honestly that is NOT worth a trait that should be standard in the LB which needs a lot of help as a weapon over all.

….Dude, edit that post, and atleast wait for the april 15th patch before getting out of town….

Also, Polar bear facepalm. Its more appropriate to the situation, and I don’t think it breaks any forum rules.

Have to say so far I am rather underwhelmed with ranger changes, I hope I am wrong and that they will prove so in ready up, but I doubt it. To me it seems like every big round of fixing up classes its like crap we forgot something for rangers (again) get the list with the kitten load of issues and lets quickly do one so they don’t notice we forgot them (again). I do hope they prove me wrong the 15th.

Well tbh it’s a start. And what we saw on the dev blog was just a preview. Let’s just wait until the feature patch then we shall see what is what. No point in commenting now because it’s a preview.

P.S: Somehow the class is workable without the things mentioned in the patch preview, just not as reliable

These “new” changes, are actually “fixes” to the broken ranger.
“Fixes” should been delivered through patches.

Pet skill effects needed to be instant.

They have already said this like three times during the stream – they are not doing too many buffs/nerfs to skills and such because of the changes to runes, sigil and crit damage.
Instead they did fixes to pet AI. WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE ASKED FOR MONTHS ON END

Guys, I have a confession to make…. The reason why us rangers are mistreated is all my fault… Before you judge me, please hear me out.

It was just a normal Sunday like any other where I would log onto GW2 and go on PvP (October 2012). I didn’t know that there was an Anet player there, so I took out my overpowered build and owned him along with his other Anet friends. Who knew the red badge next to the name meant anything! 5v1 it was (me being the only guy defending Clock Tower), and they said, “Ranger OP! We gonna nerf you, you B-i!” And that is how it all came to past…. True story. I am ashamed… if only I let them beat me up, this whole thing would never had happened.

I now go into isolation.

…. I’ll admit that I was trolling the hell out of them…. But that is what I do! I act as if I’m the “last boss” in some video game, and then start monologuing of how the Clock Tower will soon be mine, etc. It’s fun, and I get lots of fans who add me to their friend list… Few reports here and there…

Ok, I get it, you’re underwhelmed, but don’t start kittening at ANet when they actually give us something that everyone has been begging for since the beginning. Say, “Yes, finally, it’s about time, what about the rest of them.” Don’t say, “Why are you bothering at all, too little too late.” If you give them that kind of attitude why should they even bother to fix things for us at all?

Hey, Mr. Kal Spiro. Let the people complain if they like. Don’t go around and point finger you sad ranger =) And ps, my story isn’t complaining. I’m only telling you guys what happened and what came to past! A Great Ranger will tell the people what they want to hear… but a True Ranger tells the truth (that’s me) -_-\/ Like a boss