Guild Wars 2

What weapon and skill type you all want in next Ranger Elite Specialization?

Shortbow/Stances

Hammer ‘n’ Glamour

2h Spear and Stances

Hammer ‘n’ Glamour

haha, funny. That would be pretty fun though.

^I’d love 2h Spear.

I’d also looooove a nature themed Scepter and Mantras, and a profession mechanic based around attuning to natural energy (Sage form or w/e)

Dagger with Meditations or Hammer with Wells.

Shield Warden
Mainhand shield. Initiative system.

1) Shield charge your foe (450:range,cost:1)
→ if initiative is below 75% do a standard shield strike chain that ends with cleaving daze (range:130,cost:0)

2) Hold Your Ground: stationary, block attacks for yourself and Allies in a cone emitanting behind your shield. (Cost:33% initiative,channel:5sec). Every blocked attack reduces initiative regen by 10% for 5sec (resetting duration) stacking up to 10×.

3) based on offhand weapon equipped do a themed attack costing 33% initiative. If initiative is below threshold, do an amazingly better attack.

Dagger)a) stab 3 foes infront of you repeatedly (x10) causing massive bleeding.
B) below threshold, poison your dagger aswell.

Warhorn)a) the next time you use call of the wild, call hawks on more foes (+4) infront of you.
B) below threshold, summon griffons instead that deal more dmg and rip boons from foes(5) in front of you.

Torch)a) set a controlled cascading forest fire infront of you. Closer foes burning more and for longer duration.
B) below threshold, instead of burning ground infront of you, set targets infront of you on fire. These foes suffer the effect (blaze, 5sec) that causes them to pulse burning to other nearby foes. Your allies striking these foes gain fury and might (1sec icd)

Axe)a) strike your foes(3) mainhand with your axe disabling their first 3 skills for 3sec.
B) strike both your foes(5) hands disabling all their weapon skills for 4sec.

I’d like to see the people who sought to get a better dps spec get it with the next one. (I am a druid fangirl)

Seeing as we got a 2 hander this time I would imagine they’d switch it off for next time. But if not I would say Rifle or Hammer.

MH Pistol would be pretty cool!

Main hand and Off Hand whip, focused on CC. yes, MORE CC. (Daze, Stun, Pull, Immob)

Mid Range with the auto being a cleave.

Physical Skills Category. Touch Ranger. Omnom

Javelins and Mantras
Mid to Long Range, power weapon

Yes I would love 2hander spear,

but if possible I would like a ES with two weapons (main hand and off hand)

want Lance Shield combo, with Conjures

Rifle. \o/

People wanted the whole nature magic support thing and not having to bother with pets, and druid caters to that. My fingers are crossed for the hunter aspect now, with a focus on damage/control and pet synergy, and a take on more modern hunting could fit. The only issue is that i’d see shouts and traps as the most fitting skill types to go with such a spec and we already have both.

Alternatively, melee staff or main-hand dagger would be neat for a Robin Hood style forest robber.

Ideally, I’d like to see specs as sort of GW1 secondary classes, adopting another class niche with the main class spin. In that sense the druid is sort of a ranger/monk (though there’s no monk in GW2), the rifle hunter a take on ranger/warrior and the forest robber a ranger/thief.

Marksman/Sharpshooter spec. Rifle

Pet mechanic replaced with preparations.

All by Myself spec. Pet removed and self damage upped in compensation.

Bring back the Bunnythumper! xD

Dagger main-hand with Physical skills.

I’m voting for a new ONE-HAND range weapon that’s not pistol.

Maybe a throwing spear or something.

Aomine.5012:

I’m voting for a new ONE-HAND range weapon that’s not pistol.

Maybe a throwing spear or something.

Thowing mace. Calling it now.

Razor.9872:

Aomine.5012:

I’m voting for a new ONE-HAND range weapon that’s not pistol.

Maybe a throwing spear or something.

Thowing mace. Calling it now.

Why not a shoe?

Another melee choice fo’ sho’.

Rifle plus tricks.

Sandzibar.5134:

Razor.9872:

Aomine.5012:

I’m voting for a new ONE-HAND range weapon that’s not pistol.

Maybe a throwing spear or something.

Thowing mace. Calling it now.

Why not a shoe?

Who throws a shoe? Seriously?

I know it’s unlikely and most people were thinking if it doesn’t happen for druid it’ll never happen but I really would love a skinwalker/shapeshifting/transformations elite spec.

new elite spec Mordremoth

you literally become Mordremoth

all of your powers revolve around tentacles and messing with sylvari’s heads

also you get a minor trait that gives you +10000% damage against flying targets

Give us a elite without pet!

Rifle and mantras. Mantras can act as like different types of ammo, so you might have a damage ammo, a condi ammo, etc. Rifle will be a burst ranged weapon (something we really need) the mechanic change would to go into a stealth every 10 seconds or so. Would be fun I think.

Kitty.1502:

Rifle and mantras. Mantras can act as like different types of ammo, so you might have a damage ammo, a condi ammo, etc.

That is a pretty cool idea. GW2 mantras to act up a bit like GW1 preparations and make the ranger count the bullets for his rifle.

Aomine.5012:

I’m voting for a new ONE-HAND range weapon that’s not pistol.

Maybe a throwing spear or something.

Scepter it is and because I know how much you loved druid , new ranger elite spec just for Aomine… Scepter/ Arcane = Black Mage. Enjoy

ProtoMarcus.7649:

Main hand and Off Hand whip, focused on CC. yes, MORE CC. (Daze, Stun, Pull, Immob)

Mid Range with the auto being a cleave.

Physical Skills Category. Touch Ranger. Omnom

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Javelins and Mantras
Mid to Long Range, power weapon

Why you do this. I want it now.

Brings me back to Ragnarok Online Gypsy.

Ahhh… those were the days.

Terra.8571:

Aomine.5012:

I’m voting for a new ONE-HAND range weapon that’s not pistol.

Maybe a throwing spear or something.

Scepter it is and because I know how much you loved druid , new ranger elite spec just for Aomine… Scepter/ Arcane = Black Mage. Enjoy

You actually have a great idea here.
An offensive and debuff Druid, that use ritual tools to curse your foes and punish opponents through the wrath of nature, invoking fire, water, earth, and wind (which are all natural phenomenon)

And that awesome class is a special class only for me!? I’m flattered >//<

I want Bunny Thumper back xD

I would like to see Shield /stances specialization.

Hmmm, a tough one—lets say “Warden”, hammer, and wells or “wards”

arkealia.2713:

I want Bunny Thumper back xD

I played Gw1 but don’t really know anything about what this entails, every time I hear it it just makes me think of being able to summon hordes of rabbits/rats/pocket raptors etc. like necromancer minions.

Rashagar.8349:

arkealia.2713:

I want Bunny Thumper back xD

I played Gw1 but don’t really know anything about what this entails, every time I hear it it just makes me think of being able to summon hordes of rabbits/rats/pocket raptors etc. like necromancer minions.

Actually nope, it’s a highly aggressive spec that emphasize on using a BIG FREAKING HAMMER to smash all the foes in the way, spamming powerful hammer skills at low MP cost (thanks to ranger’s expertise decreasing the mp cost).

The reason why it’s called bunny thumper is because not only do you holding a big hammer smashing (you know the game that you use a hammer and smash the incoming bunny that pops out?), but also you’re doing this with your adorable pet by utilizing Rampage as One, that both you and your pet become an aggressive force to be reckon with.

I have a feeling next ES will have a 2H spear, because there’s no more weapon they can logically give to Warriors, so they’ll have to make a new one.
And I’d love it. I’m thinking melee 2H Spear with the Physical Utility skills from Warrior. Could work as DPS/CC with one or 2 ranged CC, the rest is close combat utilities.

Rifle. Why is Rifle Ranger not a thing? It’d fit perfectly with the long range DPS spec that some people were disappointed we didn’t get.

Oh, and if no one’s said it yet—I’d love to see mainhand dagger with venom utilities

Some kind of bow.

Shortbow, crossbow – I don’t really mind.

I would just like ranged/ranged to, once again, be as viable/optimal as ranged/melee, or melee/melee.

…and in fact, I would like this to happen regardless of elite specialisation.

Oh and also, untargeted stealth.

Ranger should be able to blend in with the environment.

Hammer with Stances – Heavy Hard Control (Bunny Thumper?)
Little twist on hammer, its a mid range weapon

The hammer has like an ‘earth’ theme, so attacks have rock/earth related animations and effects. It’s a power weapon focusing on hard control

Auto Attack creates a crippling rock shard (same animation as Ele Dagger Earth Auto) up to 800 range that cripples for 1s per hit (hammer animation on auto is like the ranger hitting the ground and it creates the rock spike at the target’s location)

Attack 2 Makes the ranger launch/hit a huge boulder at the foe, 900 range. Applies vulnerability

Attack 3 is a gap closer, ground targeted move that launches the ranger to the target location and knocks down up to 3 targets in a 200 radius AoE for 1s – 700 Range

Attack 4 Makes the ranger perform a powerful ground smash at his feet and it creates a stone wall in front of him – destroys projectiles and knocks down targets if they were hit when the stone wall appeared

Attack 5 2-chain skill – First Chain is a ground smash that AoE stuns on a 200 radius and 2nd chain is an AoE launch on a 250 Radius

Any melee weapon to replace the sword would be glorious. A mace or hammer that focuses on CC and heavy hits sounds nice.

Hammer and Stances like others have suggested.
Hard control melee weapon with a new set of utilities to help us frontline aside from signets.

Oh and I wouldnt mind a new weapon like a lance or a 2h battle axe if it followed a similar role.

Just want to also say that ranger does not need another ranged weapon (though I admit having a pistol or rifle could be cool). We need another melee weapon aside from Sword and GS.

Rifle and Physical? Since Druid’s magical, the next ES focusing on mundane tricks makes intuitive sense to me.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Sandzibar.5134:

Razor.9872:

Aomine.5012:

I’m voting for a new ONE-HAND range weapon that’s not pistol.

Maybe a throwing spear or something.

Thowing mace. Calling it now.

Why not a shoe?

Who throws a shoe? Seriously?

:)