Guild Wars 2

Whoever gets hit with it, forget getting killed by it, should just suck it up and deal with it as being lost in the chaos of the battlefield.

At the moment this is true, but I would also say that it is an issue, although it is another issue entirely than what I was trying to highlight.

Essentially, nothing vital to combat should be getting “lost” on the battlefield, at least not in small scale fights (like PvP is). There is nothing worse than having an important function of a fight, like a pet or a spirit, get lost in the chaos of a blob of unnecessary graphics. There needs to be some better middle ground at times between things looking “pretty” and seeing actually being able to see what’s going on.

Especially as a ranger. I hate losing my pet in a group of enemies (especially in WvW) and then having to sit there and wonder if it’s actually doing anything, because I don’t see it and I don’t have a pet status bar on my UI.

@Thread about crits;

I mean, I know it’s tedious (and I’ve been at a new job for a few days now and unable to put in the time) but is it possible that the crit rate is so atrociously low on the storm spirit that it just doesn’t occur that often? For example, what if it has base player stats, so that it only has a 4% crit rate?

If it does only crit 4 out of every 100 times, and we are only considering on activation (and not on death) Call Lightnings, then wouldn’t it take about 2000 seconds to get 4 crits (on average)? Meaning that, if that is correct (I’m just speculating), it would take about 34 minutes to reach 4 crits, meaning you would only get about 1 crit every 8.5 minutes, and only if the Storm Spirit is being used on cooldown.

Nature’s Vengeance would essentially cut the times in half I believe, meaning you would probably see a crit about every 4.25 minutes, assuming 2 Call Lightnings per 20 seconds.

Also, it should be factored in that because we don’t have direct access to the code, we don’t know if there is something quirky coded in that makes potential crits more conditional. For instance, maybe Storm Spirit only crits on it’s own when taking Nature’s Vengeance. Maybe it only crits when it Call Lightnings on death. Maybe, it only crits when under the effects of another spirits passive effect.

However, all of that is all just speculation on my part haha.

What I do know, is that when I have noticed my storm spirit crit, I have never really noticed any sources of fury. But that doesn’t mean it didn’t have fury on it, and I was just inattentive or unaware of the source at the time (which is admittedly a very likely case).

Just food for thought I guess.

proper power scaling , massively improved pet AI , trait rebalancing and redesigning

Not all thing are equal but that doesn’t mean they are not balanced. Not all classes can have the best dps power wise Just as not all classes deal the best damage condition wise.

To say x skill is OP because it deals 5k damage without a large investment is kind of a narrow view of balance. Its not like you can increase that to15k with an investment.

Rangers don’t really do anything the best but at the same time. We aren’t really the worst.

There is nothing wrong with being about to create a bunker build that can do a little bit of damage. We are not the best Bunker class nor the best DPS or Condition. For a middle of the Road class to be able to do two things better than any of the classes that are at the top in a given category: Trying to do the same thing is balance.

There are 8 classes and only 4 main areas to be good in dps which is split between power/condtion Support and CC. There isn’t room for every class to be the best in one area. There is room for classes to be the best configured to do A&B or A&C.

The Idea that if your not The best in Power, Condition, Support or CC this is no place for that class. THIS IS NOT OK.