Guild Wars 2

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/your-vote-decides-the-guildwars2-international-all-stars-teams/

Niah is the only ranger on the list. And if you’ve ever seen him play, he’s quite good. He didn’t even use spirits in the first ToL tourney. : O

I voted for him and so should you. Let’s watch a ranger play at the highest level!

He used them in the 2nd though!

I don’t know the EU players personally so I voted for people who didn’t sound like total pricks. Pretty much “does this person brag about how good they are? If no, I voted for them.”

Niah is the only ranger on there because he is the only ranger that actually plays competitively and because he’s been in the game for so long. Promote the class and wait out a bit and you will see more rangers crop up in teams.

Eh, Niah is alright, after watching him play there’s been many many mistakes made by the ranger, not saying he’s bad but he’s not the best and he has a team of really good players to carry the downsides – but I guess that’s the point of a team right? Besides, I think there’s only 3 rangers now that still play in top tier being Niah, Eurantien, Nnight? Shame though that almost every ranger that used to be really good no longer plays now (Tany,Vyndetta, Folly, Genyen, there’s many many more)..

Niah has run spirits ever since he ran non-spirits in that 1st ToL because non-spirits is simply not viable and anything but spirits are very selfish specs.

Those selfish specs, good for back point, but then you’re forced to sit on a back point because you provide nothing but condi harassment in a team fight and one groupwide condi clear if you’re running renewal.

blitzkrieg.2451:

Eh, Niah is alright, after watching him play there’s been many many mistakes made by the ranger, not saying he’s bad but he’s not the best and he has a team of really good players to carry the downsides – but I guess that’s the point of a team right? Besides, I think there’s only 3 rangers now that still play in top tier being Niah, Eurantien, Nnight? Shame though that almost every ranger that used to be really good no longer plays now (Tany,Vyndetta, Folly, Genyen, there’s many many more)..

Niah has run spirits ever since he ran non-spirits in that 1st ToL because non-spirits is simply not viable and anything but spirits are very selfish specs.

Those selfish specs, good for back point, but then you’re forced to sit on a back point because you provide nothing but condi harassment in a team fight and one groupwide condi clear if you’re running renewal.

Pretty much this.

Also, for the EU side, I voted for the whole Team Mist (TCG) squad personally. I don’t care how much people dislike Helseth’s personality either, he’s the first person to criticize the devs and push for better balance, and TCG doesn’t run the same 5 man cheese tanky comp that’s gotten so popular lately.

That being said, I think that NA not even having a whole team to vote for really skews the win in EUs favor if all of Team Mist make the cut, which is really unfortunate. I won’t ever understand why ANet didn’t grab 5 people from the same team on NAs side at least. There’s a huge chance now that it will end up being basically a premade versus a superpug.

Oh well, esports and all that jazz, I guess.

Niah is actually quite amazing, and he loves running carrion which makes him my buddy ole pal… Of course, that will put him at odds with 90% of the ranger forum stooges who are soooo much better in PvP with their “statistically superior” berserker builds… Go power rangers!!!

You see the occasional LB video pop up, but I don’t think too many people claim to run berserker in PvP?

Archon.6480:

Niah is actually quite amazing, and he loves running carrion which makes him my buddy ole pal… Of course, that will put him at odds with 90% of the ranger forum stooges who are soooo much better in PvP with their “statistically superior” berserker builds… Go power rangers!!!

0/0/6/4/4 Carrion Might stacking build is one of the best 1vs1 builds for Rangers atm. I applaud him for running Carrion. As for tPvP, its terrible.

If anyone is interested in the specifics, PM Tanbin.

Archon.6480:

Niah is actually quite amazing, and he loves running carrion which makes him my buddy ole pal… Of course, that will put him at odds with 90% of the ranger forum stooges who are soooo much better in PvP with their “statistically superior” berserker builds… Go power rangers!!!

Carrion is an extremely good option. I would argue that Celestial competes with it in certain areas since the April 15th balance patch, but that being said, Carrion WAS the meta build for the 6+ months before the patch, so I guess I missed people promoting power builds in a competitive PvP environment since I’m only on the forums periodically (about once a week, more for a day or two back to back at times during that weekly visit) lol.

Yessss! Vote him up to sign up to sure death.
That will may show AN how poor our balance is.

Fluffball.8307:

You see the occasional LB video pop up, but I don’t think too many people claim to run berserker in PvP?

raises the hand of his zerker ranger