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This fight reminds me a documentary I saw, where the male lion with all the tools in the world to defeat his prey, got kitteny on this young exhausted, bleeding to death buffalo (of which died eventually), the lion proceeded to go for the neck only realising too late that the buffalo had enough strength left in himself to lunge and plunge his horns into the Lion skewering him and later leaving the lion to die of his wounds.
Not to say this isn’t an impressive video, only that this thief had all the tools in the world “sustainability, stealth, and far superior burst” to demolish you, yet you being on the defencive that whole fight, you took advantage at the opportunity and you won.
I’ve had similar fights to this, but I’ve lost more than I have won, I live and roam alone. The way that thief fought is frustrating beyond all hell, and to me you won with a slither of health.
My gawd, do I WANT a longsword like that in the game. So simple and beautiful and reeks of finesse unlike the current over the top flamboyant weapons >.<
This class sound amazing fun, would play as a main as I thought my Ranger would be similar in nature, unfortunately it’s not quite what I intended as the fluid fighter class.
Hey guys, I would be on the knees drooling for a different kind of art type for some weaponry, particularly two handers for my Rangers.
I think the overly flamboyant art caters for many players out there, but couldn’t we also have a lighter touch design particularly for legendaries. More a long the lines of this
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles5/171262/projects/4876543/41e9d8df4c332c22af561a6d2230ddcc.jpg
A simple yet beautiful art concept, I was wondering if these kind of looks are on the agenda for design?
I feel the game is amazing in its art, but sometimes people like the simpler things.
lol, this thread again we should make a sticky saying WE ARE NOT the ranged class. If we were, I sure as hell wouldn’t be a Ranger.
What a childish, ignorant, non constructive, silly thread.
Yes i’m a main 80 Ranger, and love the idea behind my ranger, yes the Ranger needs tweaking LIKE every other class in this game, no we are not broken.
All these extravagant qq threads are getting old, this is not a holy trinity of an mmo, once people get this through their thick heads, the better and the more you will enjoy your class and game.
Hell yeah man, i run a full Con build/traps/sword, torch with SB support.
I constantly slow, stun, aoe dots and heavy single target damage, and it’s fun as hell.
I’m working on a great sword build for wvwvw and I’ll be posting some videos soon to show how viable we still are with the GS and trap/con build soon I think, this community needs an upper.
Ranger. Do you see the word Range in that? I don’t see sword and greatsword as a ranged weapon. Some people actually pick their class on the decision if it’s ranged or not. I don’t like up and close combat, I prefer fighting from a distance.
Longbow just doesn’t do enough damage because you can’t kite mob while you are in combat(mobs are faster than you). Shortbow was good untill they nerfed it.
And what about Ranger not being a damage class? What are they? They aren’t a tank, support class. Of course they have their pets, but these are useless right now. If you take anything else than a tank pet(bear) it will die within seconds. Your bear pet might be good enough to tank 1 or 2 mobs, but more than 2 is just impossible.
So yeah, I suppose ranger should be a damage class, as they do not have anything else to really focus on. It’s a really generic class.
Also the ranger should have a higher DPS because they don’t have real utility skills to break out of combat. Almost all classes get a skill to boost their movement speed to get away, rangers only have a 10% passive boost, which doesn’t help in combat.
As last I would like to say something about you. Please don’t flame people with “WoW Baby” or refer to that game. Many people don’t come from that game. Heck, I haven’t ever played it. So next time you start a topic, don’t start off with flaming people who enjoyed another game and compare it to Guild Wars 2.
Wrong, wrong and more wrong.
If anything we are top tier in avoiding damage, we have vigor regen coming out of all four orifices and again, welcome to the forums for if you weren’t new you would know that fifty thousand qualified Rangers, have shed light over little rangettes such as yourself THAT we infact do not MEAN ranged individuals.
A ranger does not mean one who excels at ranged weapons, google and increase your bran. If a ranger was another ranged close boring kitten class that allows easy moders to sit back and pew pew to their hearts delight I wouldn’t have chosen such a pathetic class. I’m so glad we are not purely Ranged pro’s so glad.
What I don’t understand with these Ele whines, is my friend who is an Ele just plainly wrecks on his, and hard.
Yet ele seem to kitten one of the most.
Zsymon>>> Saying how a longbow doing extra damage at range makes no sense, just screams the type of caliber, educated, insightful, historian of a guy you are. (longbow, welsh, yeoman, medieval british, go brush up on your history boy)
And your 2 second glance at a class and concluding to a complete biased opinion and in your mind fix is quite frankly laughable.
My main is a Ranger, I love him to bits, does he need some tweaking like EVERY other class in this game yes. Does he need any of those changes you just mentioned, hell no. Seriously please take a step back and see GW2 in the light that it actually is in.
Very snazy man, I’m loving the diversity and those different synergistic combos this great class can perform.
I was fully into being creative with names until I realised, the names didn’t stick so now naturally all my pets are named Juvenile.
Posts like these make me worry, that Arena net has to consider your plea at all, even if they don’t answer it, it’s now in their minds or part of a discussion topic.
I LOVE MY RANGER, granted a few tweaks and reworks on things, like EVERY OTHER CLASS IN THIS GAME, is needed.
People ARE just so use to the kitten cookie cutter, every WOW clone MMO, and it’s poisoning your judgement for GW2.
OP take a step back, analysis hard and really hard, try and tap into intelligence you thought you never had and really think, now if I got all that I wanted how stupidly, mind boggingly broken is my class now.
Cheers.
Your pet is probably downed, and you think yo ucan heal it while it’s still down. Make sure he’s alive before trying to heal him. Because they work fine together.
This OMFG this, man I would die if my ranger could dual wield some sexy kitten swords.
My main is a Ranger, I live and breath the idea of the Ranger, and I must agree with Sideshow Mel, depending on your playstyle you can be an agile quick Ranger or a heavy fighter. It just depends we can’t have everything served on a silver platter.
It makes sense for a thief to have sustained swiftness across the board, they are an assassin archetype with their burst, they require to be in and out, they don’t have the similar endurance the Rangers boast, I see the reasoning behind why it’s the way it is.
Ranger class too newb friendly/one dimensional, not enough viable builds in WvWvW
in Ranger
Posted by: Aesseus.4596
This is a passive aggressive post of someone who lost against a better player who happened to be a Ranger.
This game has endless possibilities, fighting techniques, strategies, play styles that many counter one another.
People tend to fight a very conventional way, and then straight away jump to a conclusion that, (oh I used all my strengths and still lost, they must be OP) far too often, and you mate fell into that pit of silly whiners, albeit being diplomatic and respectable, so I do kudos you for that.
I get frustrated with the class ranger because I think it falls short especially in a play style I wanted to be as a Ranger. However playing with a professional guild, where anecdotes, constructive discussions and analysis are a typical daily mumble occurrence, I guarantee you, ten minutes with some of these players will put your mind at ease with Rangers and even perhaps pity them in a few ways, especially for stPVP.
T.I.L Rangers are solid, versatile, strong but are left with the short end of the stick in regards to min maxing for a certain extreme profession. As oppose to what other classes can achieve.
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Your comments about the ranger ring true as my friends and I have all needed to take short breaks from playing this profession because of the skills. It’s not that the ranger’s skills aren’t powerful compared to other professions, but there’s not that many skills to choose from, and because of that playing the ranger gets repetitive. I find myself using the sword/warhorn or axe/axe combo not because I like those skills (melee on a RANGEr seems wrong) but because I get sick of the longbow and shortbow. The ranger has something like 32 weapon skills compared to the elementalists’s 60+, and if you want to be a traditional ranger and go bow only you have a whopping 10. We need more bows! Recurve bow, flat bow, horn bow, CROSSBOW (dual wielding crossbows!).
Longbow: My favorite weapon. I love rapid fire, barrage, and point blank shot. Barrage is about the flashiest skill in our arsenal.
Shortbow: I like all of the conditions this weapon can inflict, except that concussion shot never seems to stun even when I’m for sure standing behind a foe.
Greatsword: My absolute least favorite weapon. I feel clumsy wielding it. Counterattack would be more useful if the timer was longer.
Sword: Entertaining, but I usually aggro additional enemies with all my acrobatics.
Axe: I really only like it in my offhand when I can use whirling defense.
Dagger: Whimpy.
Torch: Both skills do burning, which is predictable. Maybe one of the skills could push your opponent back, cause blindness, reflect projectiles? Something?
Warhorn: No complaints. I love both these skills.Traps are useful, especially if you unlock the trait that lets you throw them. (Otherwise you have to command your pet to retreat, or most enemies won’t get close enough to trip them.) Spirits die way too quickly, and the range of their triggered abilities is far too short. You have to assign traits to improve them, but even then they’re not very strong. Could the cooldown be made shorter? That would help a little. And I sure wish the F2 skill for the pets would work.
Anyway, that’s my rant for the ranger. My complaints are mostly related to the lack of really fun weapons, specifically bows. Adding a bow or two exclusive to the ranger would go a long way to making the profession more unique and fun to play.
Melee on a Ranger seems wrong?!
Wait what, you do realise Ranger in this context does not mean a person that uses ranged weapons right. You do know, that misconception is dumb, and I feel too many people have it. A Ranger is a trained person in various guerrilla domains. ’That person ranges across the country side protecting the wilderness. ’
Ahh, now it makes sense..
I always thought that those rapid fire hits were separate, like 2k + 2k + 3k etc..
If that were the case you would see people die instantly and not seem to have 50k health.
Shortbow is the single target dps/control utility, longbow is the aoe/single target burst/control utility.
I disagree with the shortbow being the highest ST damage a ranger can do, one handed swords do much more damage ST.
Yeah we did, warriors in heavy armor doing more damage then is didn’t though… That’s legit.
Go back to WoW, your post is seriously missing the plot of what this game is about.
You can also add the misconception of Rangers being based around ranged weapons. This infuriates me, and just shows the common denominator of what the mass is, ignorant and stupid.
This whole argument of Rangers should be able to use all ranged weapons is not what we are about and more importantly not the definition of our profession. We are Rangers of the wilderness, wardens if you may.
Just because you received your education from mmo’s does not mean definitions you thought are set in stone across the board apply to sensible game developer ideas. A ranger is not a ranged specialist, a ranger is a protector of the wild or a person who RANGES —> to pass over or through (an area or region) in all directions, as in exploring or searching: They ranged the entire countryside.