Guild Wars 2

There was some talk in wvw about upcoming ranger nerfs but they didn’t got into specifics about it.

Is something coming and do we have any clue on what might be involved.

lol anythiing that isn’t Annouced by Anet , take it as False.

They are reducing the speed of rapid fire by 200% and renaming it sloth fire. They are also adding a laser pointer so engineers know when they are being targeted. :-)

kitten and I was hoping they would add a bouncing trait for the longbow like thief’s pistol ;-)

Archon.6480:

They are reducing the speed of rapid fire by 200% and renaming it sloth fire. They are also adding a laser pointer so engineers know when they are being targeted. :-)

In fact, in the first game there was a bow skill named Sloth Hunter’s Shot. Pretty legit one, I might add.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Sloth_Hunter's_Shot

What are the upcoming nerfs?

I dont know what the nerfs are. The group was just saying that rangers would be kittened about the changes. I guess he could have been trolling too.

Keavaa.5047:

I guess he could have been trolling too.

I would suggest that this is the case, or maybe wishful think on there behalf.

unless they are referencing to the animation to PBS which depending on your point of view could be considered a nerf, but it not its just a way to give skilled opponents a chance to react.

Eggyokeo.9705:

Keavaa.5047:

I guess he could have been trolling too.

I would suggest that this is the case, or maybe wishful think on there behalf.

unless they are referencing to the animation to PBS which depending on your point of view could be considered a nerf, but it not its just a way to give skilled opponents a chance to react.

I don’t think skilled opponents were the ones complaining about longbow rangers.

According to the Ready Up episode, there was talk about LB being used to much. This is pretty much saying “We are nerfing LB” which is fine with me and I play a ranger. You don’t see top tier pvp players using power ranger and there are way to many of them in pvp. Most of them ruin the game by just bad play. Granted, there are a few decent players in power spec but most of them are trash. I’ll be glad to see them gone once they realize they have to L2P in pvp

That same ready-up mentioned the telegraph on PBS. That’s the only nerf I’ve heard mentioned.

I want guardians to glow bright orange whenever they have retaliation up. Where is the telegraph for that?

Rangers using rapid fire will have bullseyes that show up on the world map and be crippled for 30 seconds.

Androlan.9487:

According to the Ready Up episode, there was talk about LB being used to much. This is pretty much saying “We are nerfing LB” which is fine with me and I play a ranger. You don’t see top tier pvp players using power ranger and there are way to many of them in pvp. Most of them ruin the game by just bad play. Granted, there are a few decent players in power spec but most of them are trash. I’ll be glad to see them gone once they realize they have to L2P in pvp

Is that any different than the mesmers running around now after their change? Or a thief running around weaponless yet still nuking people down like there is no tomorrow? Let us not even bring up ele’s and engineers. Once a build becomes popular everyone flocks to it because they think 1 + 1 is 2 and a win for them. They ignore that populating your avatar with build and gear does not always equal easy mode. Skill still rules at the end of the day.

Skill does matter because there are players at the end of the day that take a difficult class to play, then play it well with their build and setups, and are fine. Then a change comes, take Rapid Fire for example, and all of a sudden they look like a killing machine and the alligator tears fall out of the sky like skittles with everyone battle shouting for nerfs.

I find it funny when a Mesmer is asking for rangers to be nerfed because they died to a pair of rangers. Yet they publicly say they can, and will, kill any class due to their recent changes to scepter. Go figure.

Point is, Arena Net has had two years of WvW and done zero with it. It is stale. The only reason why the die hard players are still here is because there really isn’t anything out that comes close to the WvW play style.

Make pets die even faster perhaps?

Half life 3 confirmed.

#Everythingyoureadontheinternetistrue

“In order to improve the experience to Guild Wars 2 players, we have decided to remove the ranger class from the game. We felt that having 8 classes in the game was too complicated for newer players to handle, and also balancing 7 classes is much easier and lazier than balancing 8. We hope you will enjoy these new exciting changes and do leave your feedback in the forums so it can grow to 100 pages and we won’t read it.. Meanwhile, get ready for a new exciting purchase in the gem store that will allow you to unlock the Ranger class again!”

ArchonWing.9480:

“In order to improve the experience to Guild Wars 2 players, we have decided to remove the ranger class from the game. We felt that having 8 classes in the game was too complicated for newer players to handle, and also balancing 7 classes is much easier and lazier than balancing 8. We hope you will enjoy these new exciting changes and do leave your feedback in the forums so it can grow to 100 pages and we won’t read it.. Meanwhile, get ready for a new exciting purchase in the gem store that will allow you to unlock the Ranger class again!”

They should really do that with necro. Upon unlock from gemstore there should be a message saying: “Attention! This class is useless in PvE and you will be kicked out from experienced groups”.

Lol, necro was my first character, and honestly it left a pretty bad impression on Gw2. I do feel for them, though at least they excel in their niches, just not in pve at all. It’s just a class that lacks vision.

In any case, back to the ranger, they really also need a more clear vision beyond “too many players are using longbows”

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

lol anythiing that isn’t Annouced by Anet , take it as False.

Hell, a lot of what IS announced by Anet is false.

I won’t lie, in SPvP about 2/5 of your teammates in solo que end up being Rangers… and of those Rangers they’re zerkerLB Rangers. Personally I’d rather see the bows get nerfed into the ground, but that’s not fair at all to the weapon and the options it allows players just because it’s major cheese and easily used.

I’m not sure how that (which honestly I feel is the only thing that bothers people about Rangers) could be “balanced” as I don’t even remember what RF and the whole of LB was like before the changes.

No nerf, they are talking bs. There won’t be any major balance changes until march.

Rangers are the only ranged class. Necros and eles puting aoes from range but not a real pewpew feeling

KsmxRaika.5489:

I don’t even remember what RF and the whole of LB was like before the changes.

It was exactly the same, except the hits from RF took twice as long (roughly half the DPS, but likewise a dodge avoided roughly half the damage it does now). That’s why I think most of the complaints about it are psychological, not technical. The damage from the skill is exactly the same as before. People just panic more when they arrows are hitting them every 0.25 sec, instead of 0.45 sec.

The other major change to longbow was a GM trait to increase autoattack speed by 10%, and doubled arrow movement speed to make them harder to strafe-dodge.