Guild Wars 2

So Rangers, tell me, do you dislike the name of our Elite skill Rampage as One? Because apparently Kui Calmon-Huang doesn’t. Just after the livestream went down, if you watch the VoD on Twitch, he drops an absurd statement out of nowhere. Heal as One and Rampage as One are becoming shouts, as we know. But out of the blue:

Rampage as One is being renamed to be Strength of the Pack.

Rampage as One:
– Naming theme with fellow shout skill.
– Callback to a Ranger elite skill from Guildwars 1 with a similar effect.
– Flavour of the name links directly to the might granting.
– “Rampage” also calls back to the similar GW1 skill, Never Rampage Alone.
– Changing iconic names kittenes players off. See: League of Legends Finales Funkeln.
– A pack suggests more than two, which is more than would be rampaging. Yet no functionality change was mentioned to address this. RaO still suits the elite being a team-wide buff too.
– “Sssstrength!” does not have the same ring to it as “Rrrrampage!”
(Yes, I say that every time I use the skill)

Strength of the Pack:
– References runes of the pack, which provide all the same boons, except stability, and cast something suspiciously similar to a ranger skill.
– “as one” would possibly suggest a fusion, name change because the druid fuses?
(Not my idea of a fun skill, but it’s heavily demanded)

What are your thoughts on the change? Can someone actually explain to me why a name change was even considered?

I’ll still be calling it RaO.

Not sure but proberly because its shortened name was Rampage and that is the same as warroirs Rampage which is a tad confusing for new players .

Its even more curious.
if you watch the stream – http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/669362853
2:17:00 he says, “The old RAO which is now Strength of the Pack”.

What does he mean by the old RAO? the same version we had like 3 mounths ago before the stability change? somthing else? bad use of words?

LughLongArm.5460:

Its even more curious.
if you watch the stream – http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/669362853
2:17:00 he says, “The old RAO which is now Strength of the Pack”.

What does he mean by the old RAO? the same version we had like 3 mounths ago before the stability change? somthing else? bad use of words?

i was Tinkering over in my head , if we have so much acess to swiftness now on the minor trait and Timber ect , " do we really need Swiftness to proc on RaO" .

and that got me thinking they might change it , to a new Boon like Resistance or somthing maybe even just Removing Swiftness and lowering the Cooldown to 80secs so you can then add on the 20% reduction as its a shout after HoT.

i bet they have revamped it but they are not 100% sure to comfirm it or not “yet” as to why it wasn’t noted on the slides and or it just slipped out of his mouth .

i can’t remember does timber effect allies?

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

LughLongArm.5460:

Its even more curious.
if you watch the stream – http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/669362853
2:17:00 he says, “The old RAO which is now Strength of the Pack”.

What does he mean by the old RAO? the same version we had like 3 mounths ago before the stability change? somthing else? bad use of words?

i was Tinkering over in my head , if we have so much acess to swiftness now on the minor trait and Timber ect , " do we really need Swiftness to proc on RaO" .

and that got me thinking they might change it , to a new Boon like Resistance or somthing maybe even just Removing Swiftness and lowering the Cooldown to 80secs so you can then add on the 20% reduction as its a shout after HoT.

i bet they have revamped it but they are not 100% sure to comfirm it or not “yet” as to why it wasn’t noted on the slides and or it just slipped out of his mouth .

i can’t remember does timber effect allies?

Yes it does.

At least it’s not called, “Hunt the Dragon.”

Wondrouswall.7169:

At least it’s not called, “Hunt the Dragon.”

LOL

LughLongArm.5460:

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

LughLongArm.5460:

Its even more curious.
if you watch the stream – http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/b/669362853
2:17:00 he says, “The old RAO which is now Strength of the Pack”.

What does he mean by the old RAO? the same version we had like 3 mounths ago before the stability change? somthing else? bad use of words?

i was Tinkering over in my head , if we have so much acess to swiftness now on the minor trait and Timber ect , " do we really need Swiftness to proc on RaO" .

and that got me thinking they might change it , to a new Boon like Resistance or somthing maybe even just Removing Swiftness and lowering the Cooldown to 80secs so you can then add on the 20% reduction as its a shout after HoT.

i bet they have revamped it but they are not 100% sure to comfirm it or not “yet” as to why it wasn’t noted on the slides and or it just slipped out of his mouth .

i can’t remember does timber effect allies?

Yes it does.

sweet then i see no reason why Rao should keep its swiftness , as leap changes just means its not as important as before , we’ll always Transverse long distances with swoop and or sword with the Tail wind, shortbow skill 3 and or a bird.

the only time the swiftness will be handy on Rao would be is your not using swoop, sword or a bird or Tail wind , sb.

the only change then would be to grant LB huntershot swiftness to both pet and ranger , then the swiftness on RaO isn’t mandatory or needed with those other sources.

gs will likely be traited into Skirmishing anyway and if they dont use the skirmishing tree you got Birds and LB swiftness / Sb swiftness plus or super speed on the beastmastery line.

i’ll be disappointed if they didnt give RaO a QoL change.

RaO still needs its swiftness because you won’t always be using it with RT….

I honestly think these name changes, like this and the traits for example, are so that they can have both in the game at the same time. Like, for example, the runes they changed (ie Soldier/Trooper). I won’t speculate on why they would want both at the same time and only use one, but that is the only reason I can think of that they would change the name to something terrible like Brutish Seals…. uuugh or Clarion Bond… omg.