Thanks for completely destroying ranger as a class. Only class I wanted to play in the game, and now due to the severe imbalance in spvp from thief Mesmer and Necro sporting a new condition that my supposed condition removal is supposed to address, gets activated and 60% of the time it does nothing but go on cooldown.
I’ve spent over 400$ on this game since launch( In store, extra copies of the game for friends, buying gems to convert into currency, etc). Arenanet will never see anymore money from me.
There are aspects of ranger class that are JUST as broken as they were last year when the game launched. It is severely disheartening to see a company that CLAIMS even balance and supposedly cares about their balance and classes in pvp/wvw/pve and then releases a build like this that completely destroys a class, You nefred BM( pet damage) which is nerfed across all builds, and yet you didn’t buff our direct damage? Like you said you were going to ?
The fact that there is a STICKY in this forum for broken ranger abilities etc by one fan, illustrating and proving it for 9 months and yet issues on the list are STILL broken ?
I heard from a friend that gw1 ranger is still broken. I wonder if this will be the case for this game….
I worked toward pvp rank as an avid pvper when I could; That being said, Look up Faithless Ryuuken on the pvp rank listing. I’m no scrub, and I am no noob. I’ve tested 7 weapon sets, and probably over 10 builds since the patch. When I can’t 1v1 the classes that got buffed in conjunction with the supposed ranger (broken)balance update… The state of my game is in jeopardy.
Which in turn says the state of YOUR game is in jeopardy. Ask yourself what you want from your players, if its longevity with this game, Fix the balance issues. Stop buffing OP classes, and rebalance the giant steaming pile of kitten you just took on my rangers’ chest. Please and thanks.
PS. I’m not playing your broken unbalanced game until you do something about it. I’ve seen tons of my friends who said the same thing. Balancing in Games, especially online ones, is very crucial. Even more so when the company is CLAIMING to have balanced it…. when clearly, either no internal testing was done, or you just don’t actually care that when the next game comes out, like Wildstar, Arch Age, or even FFXIV ARR, you’re going to loose people to this garbage you call even balance, when clearly it is not even balance. I’m not going to play your flavor of the month bs.
What’s worse, is one of my friends and circles said they play favorites in terms of the classes, this was month 3 of the game launch… and NOW I believe them… Necro and Mesmer were already Strong PVP classes….
Stealth is a completely broken game mechanic, and subsequently THF is kittened op in the hands of a decent pvper. To prove this, I took THF without a stealth build, naked, with very minimal traits etc for pvp with pistols, and I topped the charts with it.
I then took another look with dual daggers, and short bow, incorporating stealth, the first build I tried I fully traited, and went in naked otherwise, and I scored over 100 points more than the top person on each team. There was no person below rank 18 in this match. All tests were done in Spvp Hot joins. No team stacking, just solo play, as it is with the occasional zerg that is unavoidable in spvp.
This is not balanced at all.
I hope the Devs take the time to read this and a patch follows soon, because as previously stated I for one will not play this game as is. I’m 100% sure I have more than 1/4 of the serious ranger community behind me. ( this does not include the 30 rangers on my friend list or the guildies that have all stopped playing the game all together or are boycotting ranger.
pps. I didn’t even go into detail of all the problems I have experienced on this class since launch. The list is over 3 pages long.
Would be fun.