Guild Wars 2

I would like ANET to focus each patch cycle as it is on simple, small changes

BUT

Take one class that is underperforming in each of the next say 4 patch cycles and deep dive make changes to make it more viable.

Be bolder than you would be if having to do the same for all classes. Yes, chances are you will make mistakes but if it is only one class at a time, how hard would be fixing it in the second patch? Ranger is clearly the bottom of the barrel if we even are in the barrel.

Chances they will change their patch philosophy? Not that high. Typically, more content for the masses who are more or less satisfied keeps a game around longer than focusing on where you made key early mistakes (such as rangers). Sad, but true, fact of gaming marketing.

I would settle for just a post in this forum from ANet acknowledging this class’ existance. That the problems players see aren’t simply our imagination or us wanting more than ANet feels they want the class to be.

How about a simple post telling us what they want the class to do (because we all know the class description is 90% miss and 10% hit), where they want it to be in 6 months, and some high level things they are considering in the future?

COMMUNICATION! I’d wait another 6 months if I at least had some acknowledgement that I wasn’t so far off base with my expectations of this class. If they want it to be a single target condi class that is only good at roaming, please just let me know…

I want to see more fluid melee weapons, a more informative pet UI, more responsive pet AI, and a few more quality of life improvements.

What I don’t want to see is more Maul buffs. Anet, if you’re going to buff the greatsword, I have a tip for you: Maul is not the problem skill that needs buffing.

I would hate getting a focus on melee weapons as I much prefer range unless range was part of your definition.

That is the problem, the ranger class has so much to fix that depending on your play style certain “fixes” do you a lot or no good. Is there a universal quick fix that impacts everyone?

Bombsaway.7198:

I would hate getting a focus on melee weapons as I much prefer range unless range was part of your definition.

That is the problem, the ranger class has so much to fix that depending on your play style certain “fixes” do you a lot or no good. Is there a universal quick fix that impacts everyone?

I feel like our ranged weapons are just fine. Our melee weapons however are rather clunky, and in the case of the one handed sword, difficult to use properly.

I feel like the only clunky part about our melee weapons is the root on long sword.

However, I think most of our weapons could use a change. Longbow doesn’t feel interactive. GS feels pretty weak. Axes are iffy. They need some slight tweaks.