Guild Wars 2

Push for the shortbow returning to its normal fire rate….it was nerfed because of an animation issue not because it was overpowered or anything….please push for this to get fixed now…it wont take any time at all and doesnt need to be tested. Nerfing a skill because of an animation issue is sorry excuse….change the animation not the skill so please return it back now to its original speed. Again it wont take any time at all.

It was changed for an “animation issue” that no one ever saw. Then it was explained that people were “spamming 1 too much and it wasn’t fun gameplay.” I personally think it was the one option rangers had to be not completely terrible. Everything we have needs to be uniformly awful.

Spamming 1? It was on autofire there was no spamming involved. What was the thought process behind that?

Right now I am having to spam 1 over and over to have it to stay on target…it will stop firing altogether at times and i have to spam 1 especially when i pop Quickening Zephyr

And how are we not suppose to spam 1 when all the other skills are on their overly long recharges?

Casey.9687:

Spamming 1? It was on autofire there was no spamming involved. What was the thought process behind that?

Anet getting caught in a lie so they had to make something up. The real truth was they wanted to put a damper on the bots.

Why not just sue the third part sites that allow botting in Guild Wars 2. How hard is that. After all, they have the money to afford it.

YumCHA.8706:

Why not just sue the third part sites that allow botting in Guild Wars 2. How hard is that. After all, they have the money to afford it.

Or you know buff some of the other shortbow skill to balance it out. Or do that thing they do where they only decrease damage in one part of the game and not the other.

Fix it! Animation issues my bum.

If the problem surrounded heavily on botting, why didn’t they deal with it in a legal matter? Seriously Anet.

Why does one profession be so important to change, when EVERYTHING was working fine. Just because of a botting mishap?

K.

/inb4 infraction.

Casey.9687:

Right now I am having to spam 1 over and over to have it to stay on target…it will stop firing altogether at times and i have to spam 1 especially when i pop Quickening Zephyr

And how are we not suppose to spam 1 when all the other skills are on their overly long recharges?

I get this problem on my ranger, especially when I am at max range because I have the trait that allows me to shot further. It’s as if the bow doesn’t recognize that the target is in range so the auto attack stops firing and I have to manually shoot, arrow after painful arrow. This class… I wish I never wasted my time.

i believe this is a issue that can be fixed here and now and no time will be wasted. I wish Anet would comment on this topic and explain why this easy fix cant be fixed right now

Wow…
This wasn’t talked about extensive 1~ month ago… and it had such an impact then…
Oh and of course, the devs have no idea what they are doing is doing until random people on the forums tell them that, you know, their nerf to attack speed…
wait for it…
NERFED ATTACK SPEED
OMG
DATZ CRAZY
QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ

We need to talk this up, it at least one of the fix that they can do here and now and not make us wait. They fixed the traps that they had bugged within a hour of them being bugged. This should be easy enough for them.

????
You do realize that the ranger forums did post like crazy and rage about it…
A month ago…

It’s not a bug, so it wasn’t reverted.

I am all for this. The nerf in the first place was not needed and their reasoning behind it was severely broken. I’m starting to get the feeling they have no idea what they are doing to Ranger.

garethh.3518:

????
You do realize that the ranger forums did post like crazy and rage about it…
A month ago…

It’s not a bug, so it wasn’t reverted.

I wasn’t calling it a bug if you read my first post you can see that i clearly know it isnt. I was saying if they can fix traps just like that then why cant they fix something as simple as this, overnight.

Casey.9687:

I wasn’t calling it a bug if you read my first post you can see what i clearly know it isnt. I was saying if they can fix traps just like that then why cant they fix something as simple as this, overnight.

Needing an overnight fix for it implies they did something wrong, added a bug to their patch, the lower attack speed wasn’t an unintentional nerf to dmg…
It wasn’t.
They knew what they were doing.
Anet knew what they were doing and quite obviously see the effects of it… yet this change is nothing they see as in need of a ‘fix’…

Even more simply, the easiest way for you to understand this, people were complaining their kitten off the day after it happened.
It was quite a show, and so it was obvious the patch notably lowered the attack and disproportionately the QZ attack speed.
(there were even videos and narrations showing the exact loss in attack speed)
If Anet had any intentions of reverting it, they would have then…
They aren’t acting coy about it, waiting for someone on the forums to say ‘its ok anet, we will forgive you if you revert it now’…
They made and stuck with a change to shortbow attack speed.

by saying fixed i’m just wanting them to return it to its original speed. I know they did it on purpose, I know they had the chance to change it a while back. I think after what they did tonight we at least deserve it. They are expecting it to just blow over and it won’t if we keep bringing it back up and keep calling for it to be reverted back. They shouldn’t come in and nerf one of the best weapons for ranger for no good reason, but they did and its up to the community to keep telling them that it was a bad idea on their part. Maybe it will get fixed maybe it won’t, but we can keep trying.

I would rather push for them to do their jobs and look at ALL our weapons. I refuse to settle for just SB. I want to choose my weapon and be as viable as their beloved Warrior instead of being forced to play with SB and still be inferior to pretty much every other class.

I want them to look at all of them also im just pushing for SB because it was one of the first nerfs that didn’t even make sense and SB is one of the most used weapons by rangers. They won’t fix any of the weapons over night but this they should because it would’t need to be tested or anything because they already know its fine.

You speak as if your words carry weight.
Everyone complains about their class on the forums, srry.
Only 2 people actually balance them though and I doubt they spend time reading threw random ranger threads about auto attack adjustments they already settled on…

People have done graphs, I’m sure Anet has too, of players and what class they play and what rank they are.
The ranger population is already extremely, extremely small at the higher end.
It now probably disappeared.
That speaks a million times louder than this topic ever will.
(for better and worse)

sigh guys like you always looking at the glass half empty, please go comment on a different topic

Short term fix for shortbow would make me willing to at least play my ranger again until there’s a fix. At this point I’m not even touching it.

Really wish we could get a reply from Jon at at least one of the topics…

He’s probably sleeping, or he’s drafting a reply for tomorrow. This is a ticking time bomb and he has a lot of unhappy customers in more then just the ranger forum so any reply is going to have to be well thought out and delicate.

Nuzt.7894:

He’s probably sleeping, or he’s drafting a reply for tomorrow. This is a ticking time bomb and he has a lot of unhappy customers in more then just the ranger forum so any reply is going to have to be well thought out and delicate.

yea i guess your right….guess we will wait till later this day

U all can fix it now!

Just

play

a

Warrior

ITS AWESOME

Every Patch i get buffed .-)

Casey.9687:

Really wish we could get a reply from Jon at at least one of the topics…

what do you think he will write? Sorry? I dont think so.
He will write… “Stuff need time to be fixed…” GS and LB are good as it is (he already wrote that) and thats that…
After this fiasco he wont tell any dates for fixes or things like that….

“poof … he will not post here any more” thats my guess…

Oh man… why do I always pick the ranged and/or petclass in a mmo… I know that no mmo can do them right… but there is always the hope!

What I don’t understand is if they didn’t want us spamming crossfire, which of the shortbow skills did they intend for us to use? To maximise DPS on the shortbow the weapon was designed for you to spam crossfire. They nerfed the damage to encourage us to go against the weapon design?

I’d rather they just be honest with us from the start the shortbow nerf and how they handled it is creating a knee-jerk response whenever anything else suffer from a bug from changes.

Look at what happened with the trap bug.

My favorite profession is at the ranger i don’t wanna be forced into a warrior =\

Any idea on why they will not return it to its normal speed? I would like a reasonable answer