in-game alias: Powerr
Skills and Balance/PvP Team Principal QA
Former active member of Team PZ
Skills and Balance/PvP Team Principal QA
Former active member of Team PZ
They broke something with Longbow this patch
It was an example to prove not everyone is upset with Ranger.
I’ll accept that. I apologize for having clearly caused you frustration over the matter.
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We understand you obviously are in favor of this bug…I mean I would be too on my Ranger. The point is that it was an unintended change and we are obligated to fix it. We were just talking and one thing we do want to do with Ranger is find more places to place Fury. A lot of these posts are just erratic emotional responses filled with tons of hyperbole. The Ranger isn’t going to “go back into being useless” because of this fix, because it’s already strong. Sure it has it’s flaws like all classes but it is one of the top classes in PvP and in PvE it is competitive with top burst damage. It’s got better support than many classes and it has probably the best elite in the game. I mean it’s got an 87% participation rate in the 2v2 tournaments that have been happening every weekend. What that means is that one was on every single team in the tournament except one.
Sorry I don’t have more time to chat but things will be getting better for the Ranger in the future. You can count on it.
That’s good that the ranger is still viable in PvP and PvE, but what about WvW? I mean, there is still very little the ranger can do in large group dynamics. Isn’t WvW one of the biggest game modes for GW2?
Most of the ranger complaints do not stem out of PvP or PvE because quite honestly, PvP is balanced fairly nicely and PvE has a predictable play pattern. 2v2 PvP tournaments are good for rangers so tell us something we didn’t know. No one was denying that rangers were good in small man teams, but I bet if you made teams go up to say 10-15….you’d have less and less rangers involved. Not because the ranger does not want to participate, but it’s because the ranger does not bring anything to the table that can effectively support their group so they are not wanted.
Test it out in PvP, open a weekend tournament for a 10v10 and see how many rangers or teams with at least 1 ranger is participating. Maybe then you guys can get a better picture of where the ranger needs to be “war” combat wise not scout roaming.
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It was an example to prove not everyone is upset with Ranger.
Well can I say — not everyone is upset with Obamacare?
Hey guys,
As Tyler mentioned above, this is clearly an unintended change. Eagle Eye is currently attached to a script for an entirely different trait, and that needs to be fixed.
Not to mention that a trait with damage, range, and permanent fury seems sort of crazy. Ranger will see improvements, but this isn’t the way to do it.