Great ideas.
I would also add some incentive to defend keeps.
Like Ori nodes in T3 keeps and rich one in Stonemist, or just better rewards from defence events.
1. It is not root, it is leap. Advice here: Making stupid title makes You look like whiner and makes Your thread less likely to be taken seriously by devs.
2. I use sword and I use autoattack (lazy) And it’s worth it anyway. Annoying sometimes, but this weapon is far from useless.
3. There is a problem here, but this is not a “sword” problem. Dodge interrupts every possible action except leap. Becouse dodge is supposed to interrupt actions, it is not queued. So when You try to dodge in the middle of the leap, dodge do not work and is forgotten. It should be a general fix that dodge, when not executed immediately, should queue just after current action (leap). Same with stomp btw.
Question regarding active effect of Signet of the Hunt:
The GW2Wiki for Attack of Opportunity reads “Damage increased 150% on next attack.” as the in-game description, but then goes to say below “the next attack do 50% more damage.” Besides the bad grammar, 50% more damage is 1.5x damage, whereas 150% is 2.5x damage!!!
I’m at work, can’t verify. Has anyone tested the active effect?
Not just harder to learn, all is harder, ranger is broken
Spirits die in seconds
Pets die in seconds
Arrows are 90% obstructed, missed or something else, they hit anything but not moving Players
Rangers dont have Burst Dmg! if u think we have, then play a Thief and u know what Burst Dmg is.
It isnt me that Rangers doesnt have Burst, its Anet and the Class, is it my fault that Arrows didnt hit? is it my fault that Pets dies in Seconds in Dungeons an WvW?
It is easy to say, yes! but if u say yes u didnt really know to play ur ranger
Honestly, I don’t use spirits, so I don’t know.
But my pets don’t die in seconds, and if they do, I can swap them. No loss.
My arrows are 10% obstructed. Annoying, but I can live with that. And they miss when enemy is moving in evasive way, but if he is evading, he is not hurting me too.
I do play thief and I do play against thiefs. So I know I can dodge/evade his burst. He cannot dodge my constant damage.
So yes, Ranger does not have burst. Guardian does not have burst too. They both do have different strong points.
Redo the ranger with your pet on passive. That’ll be more realistic.
He used ranged pet. Ranged pets does not suffer from moving targets issue.
Not what I’m talking about. But since you brought up the moving target issues, due to the vast difference in projectile speed with the ranger arrows vs the warrior rifle, a warrior will still hit something while the target is strafing where as the ranger will miss.
I was actually referring to the fact that the pet is going to be dead in most fights, so if you want to compare the killing speed, you need to take that out of the equation.
With 15 points in beastmastery, pet does not die that easily (especially ranged one) and ranged pet damage is weak anyway.
Agreed about projectile speed, but:
Ranger damage is almost constant while Warrior does have spikes (kill shot) that can be dodged.
In real combat crossfire will proc bleed quite often and it was not included in this test.
I think it makes up for some missed/obstructed attacks.
I am getting bored watching some people trying to proove that rangers have “some” problems, but other than that its our fault cause we did not learn the class good. Really?
Rangers are the worst class by far atm on pvp and wvw. In farm its pretty ok with axe and torch and sometimes SB, but thats it. I play ranger in all the games i play so far, and never had a problem to put out the best of them, even if some problems existed.
I have 4 chars all exotic, and i find the ranger the worst class by far atm. I play other classes and not only i am good at them, but i have fun also. I put 100% on my mesmer or my warrior and i destroy people. I play with ranger, giving my 150%, and i seriously luck effectiveness and fun.. Cause the class is simply broker.
No. It’s becouse this class is not for You.
For example, I love necromancers. But I can’t play it effectively. I don’t know why, I just suck.
Happens.
I don’t have that problems with ranger. Of course, it was hard at the beginning. 100Blades was my nemesis. But I learned how to play ranger and now warriors are pet food. Of course, You can switch to thief and feel godmode after hour of training. It takes much more for Ranger. But this does not mean that Ranger is broken. Ranger is just harder to learn.
I think Your runes don’t match the rest of the build. You might consider Dwyna or Lich instead.
I don’t see the reason to have spider too. If You want immobilize, Krytan Hound sounds better. You might also consider a Bear for condition removal.
I wasn’t trying to denigrate rangers … was just surprised at this thread demanding speed buffs as if it was an intrinsic right. Especially when https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/ranger/ doesn’t mention rangers as the fast class.
This site mention rangers as “Unparalleled archers” ;D. They are not.
I just love spirits, but I find it umm.. unfair that we must put 30 Trait points to the line if we want our spirits to move. Don’t know about others, but I think spirits aren’t that big help if they can’t follow you. And that’s one of the rangers problems. If you don’t max the spirits line they suck. If you want your pet to survive you must max that too.
All aspects of a ranger works that way. You want traps, You need to spec 30 points in skirmishing. Signets -30 points in marksmanship. You wont to use pets effectivly – beastmastery. Etc.
Afaik it is 50% increase on 1 hit.
Like 750 instead of 500.
Considering our level of control over pet….
Please make me a favor..Go to the Mists pick up a Jaguar,pick up the signet of the hunt and activate it.Dont do anything now…just click on your Jaguar….it have an icon saying attack of opportunity…and below says 150% more dmg in the next hit
Make me a favor. Take Your jaguar to the golem and order him to attack.
Tooltips are tooltips. Reality is reality.
I play the game too. I play Ranger too…and if you’re having trouble keeping distance, you’re doing something wrong….do you PvP?
1. This is not about keeping distance in combat. There are lot of in combat swiftness(birds, skirmishing line) dodges and evades.
This is about scouting. And scouting requires quicker out of combat movement.
2. I can’t see a reason why Thief signet have to be that much better than Ranger signet.
They might have better, ok. If Ranger is jack of all trades, ok. But in this trade, we are in deep bottom half of the race along with Mesmers. So let Thiefs be fastest. I would love to match Warriors/Elementals and Necros.
And honestly, I would prefer to get some traited speed option.
Like: 10% speed buff when attuned to air/ melee weapon equipped/ dagger equipped
15% speed buff when 2 daggers equipped.
etc.
Edit.
Small idea for beastmastery line trait (becouse it seriously needs some improvement):
10-15% speed buff if Your pet is alive or 10% when alive and 15% when close.
People who left becouse of lack of gear progression will come back.
For a 2 days. They will grind another tier and leave again.
People who are not interested in gear progression would play this game for months. And now they might leave.
I can’t see the reason in this..
Or they will get their ascended rings in a couple runs of fractals before even fully clearing the place and think to themselves…“well that was easy…I complained over that?”
I have made 8’th alt yesterday. Do I have to go through several AC runs again? No. I can Go to COF, if I like it more. I can craft my stuff, I can earn it in WvW.
But I will have to go to fractals. Maybe I will like it. Or maybe not. But when I was buying this game, I was promised I will have a choice. And that’s the point. Broken promise. Maybe Anet will introduce another tier of gear in next 3 months. I don’t know that now.
I’m not ragequiting here. But I do understand that people are dissapointed.
And I’m worried, becouse those disapointed people are important to this game. They are quite often paying customers.
People who likes gear progression are used to farm 10+ gold in orr for legendaries and they can buy their gems for gold. It is casuals who buy gems with their dollars and euros, that will suffer most.
People who left becouse of lack of gear progression will come back.
For a 2 days. They will grind another tier and leave again.
People who are not interested in gear progression would play this game for months. And now they might leave.
I can’t see the reason in this..
Do you even play a Ranger? The LB damage decreases the closer the mob gets and the firing rate is slow as hell. So you have to use the SB for short range firing damage.
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LB for long range, SB for short, what’s wrong with that? I have swich weapon option for a reason..
If I wanted to use a slow ranged weapon, I would choose a different class, ie: Warrior?
This is one of most funny posts in this thread ;D
So, a ranger HAVE TO be fast firing ranged character? This is Your defining quality of this class?
Personally, I love my ranger LB becouse of slow rof.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like this nerf. I’m not advocating it and I would prefer Anet to buff other weapons instead. But Your could choose Your arguments better. ;>
For those who do not know, Caladbolg is a weapon I have to wield during one of sylvari story quests. And I have never have that bad experience during my 270 hours with this game. This is madness. It takes me ages to kill single orrian with this so called legendary weapon. And they comes in waves. I would do more damage with lvl 0 dagger.
Maybe it can work for some armoured class. I remember I manged to do this quest with a ranger dying only 5-6 times. For thief, this is nightmare.
This weapon needs some serious buff.
LB and GS for PvE and WvW, LB and SB for SPvP.
20-20 -15-0-15
Runes of the Centaur for increased mobility.
Honestly, I’ve had a lot of laugh today thanks to all this cool drama on this forum.
Seriously, If someone plays ranger only becouse of 1 ability of 1 weapon, he/she should change his class. Not becouse it was nerfed by 5%. Becouse it have to be boring to run around only shooting people with autoattack.
And yes, it is 5%, not 30% or 30%. Strange behavior on QZ is a bug and will be fixed.
Completed crafted items prices are a complete joke. Have been since day one. Absolutely no reason to craft other than for EXP (and I think they nerfed that) or for something to do. Surely arent going to make or even save money doing it.
This is not the problem of economy, but crafting.
1. Everyone can craft everything. No receipts/schematics means there is no need for educated crafter. If You have mats, You can do it. Everyone crafts for himself.
2. Crafting gives a lot of exp., so everyone is crafting.
As for the whole it’s useless in boss fight nonsense, just take the trait where you get it refreshed on kills, because that makes it quite a bit better…
Seriously?
You say this can work, when I will invest another grandmaster trait in this?
Instead of Piercing Arrows?
Or 5% permanent Longbow damage bonus?
Well, possibly. But other master traits are much better.
For comparison, Thief minor traits in power line:
- Stealing applies 10s poison
- Every poison applies 3s weakness
- 10% damage bonus if my target have a condition. (that would be 90% of the time)
And Ranger have 5 voulnerability stacks once per fight
And another 5 voulnerability stacks once per fight
And 1 guaranteed crit once per fight. Great. I have 60% crit chance anyway, and no really strong attacks to use use guaranteed crit on it (aka eviscerate or backstab).
Those three should be combined into two traits. Spotter would make a great minor trait. It is cool, but there are too many “must have” master traits in this line to consider it.
I think there is not enough ranger in ranger skills/traits
4 spirits
4 shouts
4 signets (only passive works on ranger)
4 traps (or 5 if we count muddy terrain)
4 (3) skills that let ranger do something.
2 of them are selfbuffs (shoot faster or shoot and bleed)
We have 1.. Yes single one skill that makes our character do something. And this is additional dodge…
Thief have additional dodge too. He can also stealth, blind, stealth, teleport, pull.
His traps hit harder, Signets are better (10% speedbuff vs 25% speedbuff), selbuffs have multiple effects that allows different tactics.
Don’t get me wrong. I love this class and I learned to like my pet. But shouts have to go. They are too weak and much too situational to be considered useful.
We need some ranger action.
And kind of BTW, I have 5 alts. Opening strike line is the weakest minor trait line I have played in this game.
Not to mention, that even when it will work as (hopefully) intended, it is still weakest minor trait line ever. In any serious fight (dungeons, bosses, PvP) going out of combat does not happen to often. And when it happens we get 5 stack of vulnerability? Seriously? I can point stronger effects that happens every time character makes a dodge..
