Guild Wars 2

Empathetic Bond is a fairly massive nerf…Now it actually transfer’s the conditions (though the wording of that talent didn’t suggest that at all despite the complaints) and it only takes 3 conditions (massive nerf).

This was most likely done because people are whining about Trap Rangers in SPVP and how they can’t win without changing their meta to fight it grin

Then we got the Guard Change, which I find also highly annoying….This now moves this ability back into never touch my bar again category…..I’m thinking this has more to do with Mesmer’s getting ressed by Search and Rescue then anything, But that could of easily be fixed by adding a bloody auto release to the game after so many minutes in world vs world…..But nope…this was easier i suppose.

The other changes are minor and aren’t massive changes (the crippling talon thing is the only real buff, the axe change isn’t a buff, since you’d be using offhand trait anyway)

But you know what I don’t see in this patch? The same thing i’ve seen in every patch for month’s…No fixes for Spirits being God Awful…instead our class gets 2 very good abilities we had basically gutted, and we get nothing in return in our other broken lines..

Highly annoying..

Yep, kitten you very much Anet

yea this was kitten ridiculous. completely unnecessary. now instead of cleansing that burning and 10 stacks of bleeds, i’ll be cleansing weakness and some other useless crap from the 6 conditions that might be on me.

thing is, the nerf wouldnt be so bad if we got some decent buffs lol.

nerva.7940:

yea this was kitten ridiculous. completely unnecessary. now instead of cleansing that burning and 10 stacks of bleeds, i’ll be cleansing weakness and some other useless crap from the 6 conditions that might be on me.

thing is, the nerf wouldnt be so bad if we got some decent buffs lol.

I see very little reason to continue to play my Ranger to be honest.

Our Power Builds are a joke
BM Bunker build while great for 1v1 and such blows everywhere else in World vs World (I use to be able to switch over to Guard when near keeps and be somewhat useful with my Natures Ninja build, that’s gone now) and is in no where near the league of my thief in terms of being able to solo in World vs World (Not because the thief is better in 1v1, but because I can escape everyone with ease)
We have jack kitten for support cause Spirits still haven’t been touched in months…

Every patch chips away at the Ranger class while not providing really anything new in terms of game play….

So we just keep getting weaker, or they remove ways to play (Guard)

heh…
I’m playing the ranger and only ranger from the beginning (tryied for some thief and guardian, but thief isn’t really for me and guardian was more than “killing them before they will kill me” than really that I supposed)
and never used “guard!” nor “Protect me!” never even used most thing from this patch – only crippling talon, when still used sword+dagger.

and still cannot stop to laughing about that about spirit – played a very lot of time with spirit and now I don’t use it only because I was always forgeting to resummon them after that minute… :P but in every second when my spirit will be needed – quick swap of some utility and traits – spirits again.

Regards to all of you guys