Guild Wars 2

Do you think ranger should be turned into two classes, yes yes i already know that it won’t happen, and we ALL know that Anet winces when they glance at the ranger forum and hurry on their way. (usually to the Mesmer forum… Jon)

Ayways, don’t you think it would be a good idea to change ranger into two classes? On one side we could have a class known as “Marksman” or something, it would obviously be focused deeply on long range combat, with superior LB damage, rifle damage etc, able to use SB as well (maybe not pistols as i don’t think they’d give that much use on top of the others) then for closer range we could have axe main hand or sword main hand with torches or war horns as offhand. Could keep the current ranger skills for these weapons and make some new ones for the rifles, skills would obviously need some buffing and a few changes first. Marksman would have no pet whatsoever making it up with stats that actually matched other classes.

Then on the other side we could have Beast Master, which is more like the current ranger but pets aren’t totally useless, they’d need big buffs and changes, there weapons would be low damage like the current ranger weapons are and their weapon skills could be changed to support the pet more than anything else (like the current ones but not rubbish) The types of weapons they use could stay pretty much the same as the rangers.

So basically on one side we have the same ranger with a pet that actually makes the class viable and on the other side we have a new class for the people who picked ranger because they love that long range combat. I think it’s a nice idea, but then i’m probably wrong What do you think anyway?

On a separate note, don’t you guys just love the new hawk icon?

too drastic and un-needed..

rather they polish the weak “lackluster” skills, traits, weapons and pet AI

that being said what you suggested is very close to what you can do now..

spec MM and focus on the ranger doing damage
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spec BM and focus on the pet doing the damage

if you want a rile and no pet.. i know it gets said alot but have you considered a ranged warrior?

Because i really enjoy the range of longbows and attacks on ranger ,warrior longbow is only 900 range which is okay but when you know you can have 1500 on the ranger it feels so much better, it just needs the attack power balanced.

Radnar.9814:

Because i really enjoy the range of longbows and attacks on ranger ,warrior longbow is only 900 range which is okay but when you know you can have 1500 on the ranger it feels so much better, it just needs the attack power balanced.

Except warriors longbow does alot more damage than rangers. And warriors can increase range to 1200. 1500 range isnt important except in certain scenarios in WvW.

As to the OP, Id rather they just make a new scout class that lets us focus more on being a mix between thief/ranger, a class with stealth but focused more on ranged weapons and only melee weps would be dags and swords, but wintersday scout was amazing. I hate pets too.

I feel like our pets should do 10% of our dmg should we ignore it (Look at what a warrior gets for ignoring his/her mechanic that cant debilitate him/her). Or we Should get extra damage when the pet is alive (ranger solo damage on par with all other classes, with pet being more).

i like the fact my pet does alot of damage..

that means i can go full on bunker and still retain semi decent dps