Guild Wars 2

No time has been wasted in “fixing” “bugs” by adding internal cool downs but why is the Ranger class mechanic of pets allowed to suffer without even acknowledgment?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3bzpmx/ranger_pets_are_even_worse_off_than_before_the/?sort=new

Since the big update, Rangers have seen their damage reduced across the board, with no QoL improvements, no class mechanic improvements, and no communication about what to expect going forward. Ranger has long been dancing across the line of under-performing and acceptable but, post patch, I feel it is firmly within the realm of under-performing in all aspects of the game- spvp, wvw and pve.

If Anet can waste no times in patching the pet stow “bug”, why can’t they see that pets are assigned proper attributes? Or that LB is doing its proper damage? Or that healing spring actually heals?

As an aside and general outlook, I feel like this the massive trait patch was quite unneeded and rose so many more problems than it solved. There were some classes that needed to be bolstered and some that needed to be tweaked down a bit but overall I felt the game balance was much more stable a month ago.

P.S. Re: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Fix-for-Taunt-coming-soon/first#post5249818

Devs need to start listening to community feedback, not “special player” feedback. We all know what a monumental failure Wildstar was, right? Why? Because that game catered to the few- the self proclaimed hardcore. When a dev team takes only advice from the “hardcore” or “elite” players, they take a class in a direction that loses its appeal for many. While fixing bugs and exploits is always a good thing, they are certain play style expectations that rangers have come either to be accustom to or to expect. (Functional pets, being a superior bow wielder instead of just another melee-only-stack-or-gtfo class, traps that are ground targetable, etc.)
To balance a class around an engineer’s pov, regardless of how good that player might be, is a discredit to the large community that wants to play ranger and keep the core of the class in line with what we were sold.

relax …. i have been playing ranger since beta ….. nothing surprise me anymore

the only reason why ranger are currently at this state is because pets are OP if they are FIX, only the best class need to be nerf to balance the game

cheer up

They could fix Clarion Bond by changing a few numbers, how hard is it to add the +150 attributes to the pets, honestly? Priorities.

With how dumb pets are, they will never be op. ;-;