Guild Wars 2

It was pointed out to me today in a dungeon that my spotter buff wasn’t helping the party, and as I found it only has a range of 600.

This short range on a trait named “Spotter” feels really really wrong, and it also doesn’t fit with the ranger class as a whole; I feel it would be more appropriate for it to have a range of at least 1000 in my opinion, or pinning it to longbow range would be ideal (1200 untraited 1500 traited).

No, it’s in line with other traits like Empower Allies, Strength in Numbers, etc.

You shouldn’t be more than 600 units from your party in a dungeon anyways.

Poobah.6254:

It was pointed out to me today in a dungeon that my spotter buff wasn’t helping the party, and as I found it only has a range of 600.

Giving you a heads up… you might get some comments on this part…

That being said: How does Spotter imply that the effect itself is supposed to affect allies who are far away? It doesn’t. It’s not designed to support allies from afar. It is designed to support allies who are close to the Ranger. This just happens not to work out when you are hanging out at max range while your party is in close combat.

I see where OP is coming from. Spotters in real life tend to be Snipers on the edge of cliffs miles away. I agree it should have more range, or have its named changed :P

That is why ranger is kinda hated in dungeons, LB in the preferred weapon of many that create a ranger and it makes us try to be as far as possible while in dungeons you better be as close as possible to the boss and the rest of your party.

This game isn’t really designed for ranged combat. We have a weapon that’s most effective at max range, but for a number of (stupid) reasons, the only thing that’s acceptable is stacking. The game itself is designed for it.