Guild Wars 2

Durzlla.6295:

Casey.9687:

Holland.9351:

On a semi-related note, the next balance update will give Hilt Bash a 1.5s daze. With Moment of Clarity this becomes 3s. With Rune of the Mesmer (+33% daze duration) this should give Hilt Bash a 4s daze.

I just tested moment of clarity with rune of the mesmer, either anet doesnt allow rune of the mesmer to work on ranger skills or rune of mesmer and moment of clarity dont stack because when i put both together its only 2 seconds of stun when it should be more. Maybe anet needs to look into this

Ill just make a thread about it cause sigil of paralyzation isnt working on the weapon skills either

That’s because Runes of the Mesmer buffs only daze not stuns.

It doesnt effect the daze either…

Sigil of Paralyzation and Rune of Mesmer are not working on ranger skills could we get a fix on this?

Holland.9351:

On a semi-related note, the next balance update will give Hilt Bash a 1.5s daze. With Moment of Clarity this becomes 3s. With Rune of the Mesmer (+33% daze duration) this should give Hilt Bash a 4s daze.

I just tested moment of clarity with rune of the mesmer, either anet doesnt allow rune of the mesmer to work on ranger skills or rune of mesmer and moment of clarity dont stack because when i put both together its only 2 seconds of stun when it should be more. Maybe anet needs to look into this

Ill just make a thread about it cause sigil of paralyzation isnt working on the weapon skills either

Eurantien.4632:

Casey.9687:

Prysin.8542:

Casey.9687:

nagymbear.5280:

Casey.9687:

Well after 5,022 hours on ranger and this is all ranger gets?

Rly? Apart from all these changes being pretty sweet, there are quite a number of them too. Don’t be so negative. I think this opens up some build variety. There are a lot of possibilities if you look past the longbow changes.

Yay you zerg runners will finally be able to sit in your zergs and be helpful. It doesnt change anything for spvp ranger. They will still get destroyed. This isnt anything to celebrate. Wait till all the other class buffs and changes come out and ranger will be right back in its useless spot.

kk, then delete your ranger casey. Ive spoken with you ingame, and you are one of the thousands that relentlessly paint a black picture of this class, but still miraculously keep playing it.
Now for once, stop insulting every ranger player there is and do what you tell everyone else to do instead, your negativity is not helping a darn soul. These buffs are well deserved, they are needed. Most of them have been asked for since forever, and if you fail to grasp how much this means to the average ranger player, then i can only conclude that you are playing THE WRONG GAME.

Thank you ArenaNet, Thank you for listening to our wishes!
Not just myself, but most ranger players are HAPPY about these changes.

and 90% of all these ranger players are bad and have no idea what they are doing in spvp. So of course they will be happy when they dont really understand its not changing much for spvp

Only the zerg runners in WvW who can beat scrub players and the pve’rs are goin to celebrate these changes

You are either:
A. On a god tier level at sPvP ranger.
B. Horribly confused.
C. Didn’t see the future changes.
D. Close minded.

It’s not A.

These are great buffs for sPvP ranger.

Eh i was just in a kitteny mood. I think the changes are pretty good its just i’ve ran trapper since beta and traps havent been touched since beta weekend 3 and i also have The Dreamer and now i gotta put it away since Longbow will be the new viable bow to have and i was really hoping for SB buffs, so i got kittened at the updates cause none were what i wanted so i went on a childish rant.

Prysin.8542:

Casey.9687:

nagymbear.5280:

Casey.9687:

Well after 5,022 hours on ranger and this is all ranger gets?

Rly? Apart from all these changes being pretty sweet, there are quite a number of them too. Don’t be so negative. I think this opens up some build variety. There are a lot of possibilities if you look past the longbow changes.

Yay you zerg runners will finally be able to sit in your zergs and be helpful. It doesnt change anything for spvp ranger. They will still get destroyed. This isnt anything to celebrate. Wait till all the other class buffs and changes come out and ranger will be right back in its useless spot.

kk, then delete your ranger casey. Ive spoken with you ingame, and you are one of the thousands that relentlessly paint a black picture of this class, but still miraculously keep playing it.
Now for once, stop insulting every ranger player there is and do what you tell everyone else to do instead, your negativity is not helping a darn soul. These buffs are well deserved, they are needed. Most of them have been asked for since forever, and if you fail to grasp how much this means to the average ranger player, then i can only conclude that you are playing THE WRONG GAME.

Thank you ArenaNet, Thank you for listening to our wishes!
Not just myself, but most ranger players are HAPPY about these changes.

and 90% of all these ranger players are bad and have no idea what they are doing in spvp. So of course they will be happy when they dont really understand its not changing much for spvp

Only the zerg runners in WvW who can beat scrub players and the pve’rs are goin to celebrate these changes

Eurantien.4632:

Casey.9687:

Eurantien.4632:

Casey.9687:

Eurantien.4632:

Casey.9687:

nagymbear.5280:

Casey.9687:

Well after 5,022 hours on ranger and this is all ranger gets?

Rly? Apart from all these changes being pretty sweet, there are quite a number of them too. Don’t be so negative. I think this opens up some build variety. There are a lot of possibilities if you look past the longbow changes.

Yay you zerg runners will finally be able to sit in your zergs and be helpful. It doesnt change anything for spvp ranger. They will still get destroyed. This isnt anything to celebrate. Wait till all the other class buffs and changes come out and ranger will be right back in its useless spot.

I think you’re very confused.

Eh show me a ranger being viable in spvp with longbow or gs and i might change my mind =D

Hi, My name is Eurantien.

and?

http://www.twitch.tv/blu42/b/547246493

http://www.twitch.tv/eurantien

I watched the tourny of legends qualifier. I watched you play, it wasnt anything special
You beat a ele who couldnt play and a thief who couldnt play, was watching it with friends and even they said the ele and thief were horrible and lost it for their team. Even people in the stream chat. You won again mediocre players it doesnt prove anything?

Take your team against Apex would loooove to watch you be viable lol

Eurantien.4632:

Casey.9687:

Eurantien.4632:

Casey.9687:

nagymbear.5280:

Casey.9687:

Well after 5,022 hours on ranger and this is all ranger gets?

Rly? Apart from all these changes being pretty sweet, there are quite a number of them too. Don’t be so negative. I think this opens up some build variety. There are a lot of possibilities if you look past the longbow changes.

Yay you zerg runners will finally be able to sit in your zergs and be helpful. It doesnt change anything for spvp ranger. They will still get destroyed. This isnt anything to celebrate. Wait till all the other class buffs and changes come out and ranger will be right back in its useless spot.

I think you’re very confused.

Eh show me a ranger being viable in spvp with longbow or gs and i might change my mind =D

Hi, My name is Eurantien.

and?

Eurantien.4632:

Casey.9687:

nagymbear.5280:

Casey.9687:

Well after 5,022 hours on ranger and this is all ranger gets?

Rly? Apart from all these changes being pretty sweet, there are quite a number of them too. Don’t be so negative. I think this opens up some build variety. There are a lot of possibilities if you look past the longbow changes.

Yay you zerg runners will finally be able to sit in your zergs and be helpful. It doesnt change anything for spvp ranger. They will still get destroyed. This isnt anything to celebrate. Wait till all the other class buffs and changes come out and ranger will be right back in its useless spot.

I think you’re very confused.

Eh show me a ranger being viable in spvp with longbow or gs and i might change my mind =D

nagymbear.5280:

Casey.9687:

Well after 5,022 hours on ranger and this is all ranger gets?

Rly? Apart from all these changes being pretty sweet, there are quite a number of them too. Don’t be so negative. I think this opens up some build variety. There are a lot of possibilities if you look past the longbow changes.

Yay you zerg runners will finally be able to sit in your zergs and be helpful. It doesnt change anything for spvp ranger. They will still get destroyed. This isnt anything to celebrate. Wait till all the other class buffs and changes come out and ranger will be right back in its useless spot.

I love how everyone thinks these are amazing changes to the ranger lol This is the best they can do in almost 2 years of the game being out when these changes were called for like a year ago? Comon guys ranger is still goin to be slaughtered in spvp this isnt anything to celebrate. Only zerg runners in WvW are getting anything to celebrate

Just wait till all the other class buffs come out and watch how ranger falls right back into its useless spot.

Well after 5,022 hours on ranger and this is all ranger gets? is the buffs to the same kitten weapons they have been buffing for a about a year. No love to traps? no love to shortbow? No active stability that isnt on a huge recharge? Guess its time to hang up this silly game

so what? signet ranger are now goin to die a little bit more slowly. They wil still be slaughtered in spvp

These are pretty lame for buffs to ranger. Please stop trying to make longbow the rangers main weapon. Its not goin to happen

eh they are all pretty lackluster…only signet rangers are getting any love and they will still be slaughtered in spvp

Just make pets a utility like engis kits and give ranger a whole new class mechanic so then it makes up for the used ultility slot. Then we can still have our pets and a class mechanic that doesnt suck. Then all the little rangers who want a pet doing all the work for them can have it and the ones who like using their own skill to kill people can have it their way also. Its a win win.

Just yesterday i was rank 29 in solo q’s so if you dont think i know what im talkin about when it comes to how worthless pets are then theres your proof. I run a celestial trapper and could care less about my pets damage. My wolf and hound run around half the time chasing somthing their not suppose to or missing because…you know good players know how to watch pets also. The only use i ever get out of pets is their CC. For these wannabe beast master extremist they can have their PvE pet as a utility where it can actually hit somthing, but for us actual pvpers give us a better class mechanic that we can work with.

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

Casey.9687:

relying on AI to do all your damage is a terrible way to play a game. Like phantasm PU mesmers and turrent engis.

you still haven’t sourced your statistic. if you’re going to make fake statistics state it as an estimate

that being said, passive ai, I agree, is a bad design. however actively controlled ai (on the level of pets currently if they worked as intended or higher) requires skill to play and is a valid playstyle (IMHO)

Im guessing you both are pve’rs so of course ill meet resistance on the fact that pet should be a utility. You must not know how bad pets are in a pvp stand point and the only viable thing to come from them is their CC. Their damage is easily avoided by even the mediocre players.

relying on AI to do all your damage is a terrible way to play a game. Like phantasm PU mesmers and turrent engis.

That level of passive play is disgusting tho and only about 10% of people want to play that level of passive

Thats why anet needs to make pet a utility instead of the mechanic so people can choose which way they wanna play ranger

Engis can change out kits whenever they want why cant they just make a pet utility that does the same thing?

Making traps the class mechanic would be the best thing for ranger. If you want to run trapper at the best it can do then 3 traps is a must and that takes out any available stun break given to the ranger. Running 2 traps is ok but it really hurts a trappers effectiveness

I could care less if my dog or my wolf do any damage whatso ever…i just use them for the CC same with spiders. People who run bearbow only use the bear for its tankiness the damage really isnt needed. So i say please just make all the pets hit 0 and have them only for support purposes and give the ranger its full damage.

Clearly anet cannot fix the whole broken system of the pet so please just make them pure passive or even a utility and make traps the class mechanic would be so much easier instead of waiting 2 years and however much longer it takes to fix the pets.

That entire video he had full stacks of condi, guard kill buffs, and food buffs. Not a single person he fought in that vid had a single buff on them.

Killing noobs in WvW doesn’t show anything about it being good. Just means you can kill people who probably spend more time AAing a npc then actually fighting other players

jcbroe.4329:

Just because you have an issue with a build doesn’t keep it from being a meta build. A meta build is, by definition, the most easy to operate and effective build in the current metagame.

Better yet though, I made an entire build thread for the PvP meta that includes trap variants as well.

Take any issues up with how passive things are with the developers, not me: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Let-s-Talk-PvP-Meta/

How about ya jump on gw2 there and actually show me that you know what exactly you are talking about because ive seen plenty of your type on the forums. You tell everyone else how they should be playing ranger and are not even a good ranger yourself. It would be like me telling people how to play warrior when i don’t play warrior myself. So please show me that you can actually do what your promoting on these forums then i might actually take you a bit serious.

jcbroe.4329:

Casey.9687:

Theres a difference in being a good forum hero and a good ranger, all these so called in “influential” rangers have nothing to show for all the talk they do on the forums. By all means any ranger who thinks hes good in this game come duel me and ill see if your build is up to standards of this game. Because the crap builds that these so called “influential” rangers such as JCbroe and Durzzla have spit out on the forums is next to useless. Till I see some action in tourneys like say the Tournament of Legends i advise all rangers to stop getting information on their class from this forum.

So Settler’s Spirit builds and Celestial Spirit builds AREN’T meta builds right now for PvP? By all means, enlighten us then.

You can disagree all you want, because even I agree that I’m just another forum goer and I didn’t even put myself on my own list, I’m just a community member. But that gives you no entitlement to be rude or disrespectful just because I post a lot and people decide to have conversations with me.

Nothing is set in stone with anything I post. I theorycraft, I play the game the way I play, and I push the builds I come up with to their competitive limit in my hands versus other players, and then I post them with the hopes that somebody else has success with them or can take them to a level I’m incapable of.

I never ONCE said anything I said was certain. Even Chrispy will testify to the fact that almost nothing I say is definite, because I’d rather have a constructive conversation and weigh options than say that a particular way of playing or choice for playing is more definitive than another. I let Brazil and Turtledragon and Guanglai handle PvE, and most of the builds I post I take directly from NA and EU weekly tournaments and change either rune or sigil choices for my own playstyle, so you’re essentially insulting every single trait setup that people run at the highest tier of gameplay.

But that’s okay, I could just report you for harassing me on the forum instead of being constructive, since you’re in clear violation of the code of conduct. Instead, I’m choosing to respond to you to show you that I’m not moved by your anonymity empowered attitude enough to retaliate and argue with you, because I agree with you that everything on these forums should be viewed with a certain amount of skepticism.

But I don’t agree that any of the builds I’ve posted recently are anywhere near the poor quality you claim them to be, and I read your post with as much skepticism as your read my posts. I see that you offer nothing but negativity, and are more than likely attempting to troll in that regard by dragging a poor response out of me instead of providing anything constructive to back your skepticism. And with that I say, shame on you for your poor, toxic post, when you could have actually made a very good point, called me out on some of my shortcomings, and provided a counter argument.

Because I’d really love to see it. I’m only one person, I have a set way of thinking, if somebody on these forums can actually surprise me with a build for rangers I haven’t seen or thought of, that actually works, then I will put their name with their build in my signature for giving me hope in an otherwise currently stagnate game.

I hope that you feel better getting that off your chest though. I sincerely hope you find what makes you happy in life, and I’m sorry that I couldn’t have been more helpful to you.

THATS RIGHT SAY WOOORDS! also you didnt have to write a novel just for me mate, i am actually quite flattered. Im not sure what pleasant things you said about me in that delightful looking post but please show me some action. =D

Also promoting Spirit rangers is like promoting hambow for warriors. If you really want the ranger community to sink to that level of passive play then by all means keep promoting it. I rather see more skill based gameplay then throwing spirits up and spamming 1 with shortbow =D

Theres a difference in being a good forum hero and a good ranger, all these so called in “influential” rangers have nothing to show for all the talk they do on the forums. By all means any ranger who thinks hes good in this game come duel me and ill see if your build is up to standards of this game. Because the crap builds that these so called “influential” rangers such as JCbroe and Durzzla have spit out on the forums is next to useless. Till I see some action in tourneys like say the Tournament of Legends i advise all rangers to stop getting information on their class from this forum.

By all means leave the warrior wheres its at….only bad players play warrior anymore cause any child and his grandma can master it. So please leave a class for all the noobs to flock to and buff all the other classes and eventually warrior will be left in the dirt =D

Prysin.8542:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

akallou.9704:

Ranger is the only class ingame with 15sec invul uptime..

If your pet doesn’t die. And only if you’ve traited for the signets.
I highly doubt that the raflect we have is as big as the ele ones (Ele 400 units radius, ranger (traited) 150 units radius). Furthermore, the ele’s reflect lasts 6 seconds, it doesn’t require the ele to stand still and it hasn’t be traited to be somewhat effective.

Roots are neglectable in PvE. In PvP, they’ll mostlikely be cleansed immediately. Furthermore, using spiders locks you in using bunkertype builds. You can’t go straight out damage. That is one of many flaws. We can’t make straight damage setups and be as effective as other classes. Another flaw is that we have to trait for every aspect of our build to be effective. Try to protect your team in a dungeon with untraited axe 5. You not gonna succeed until you’ve told them to stack behind you.

Right, so you say that the crybaby OP should not listen to me, but rather you tell him ranger sucks, is flawed, elite sucks, cannot do condition builds either….

I…. am confused now….

crybaby OP? are you like 5 years old? please stop trolling the forums. Your posts are now unvalidated.

im a trapper =( we dont get the luxury of quickness on petswap

Hey now im just saying it needs to be returned to its original speed, i dont need a lecture on the class.

like i just said in the profession balance forums….if they allow engis to shotgun their grenades then rangers should be able to machine gun their bows!

This video was already shown in the ranger forum but do to the lack of “dev” presence in said forum i thought id post it here.

P.S If you allow engineers to shotgun their grenades rangers should be able to machine gun their bows. Just saying

Lol yea i thought somthing more was goin to come to traps other then that lame one

Just wondering if traps have been looked over by anets “balance team”. Is there any changes coming to traps to make them more viable in tpvp?

Please durzlla….fight my ranger and tell me that healing spring is a viable heal and that empathic bond isnt needed

I have been playing nothing but PvP for months and im tired of completely destroying rangers and wondering where the heck they are getting these terrible builds from then i come to the forums and every kitten build is here…

It’s a cute build and all…sad to see that every ranger and his mother is running this build. I never tire of destroying these rangers with my trapper tho

Any ranger running longbow or GS i see as a free kill.

Ranger still sucks…try playing a warrior, necro, or mesmer and you will clearly see a huge difference. Ranger takes skill to play but that skill only goes so far when you apply the same amount of that skill into any other class you are far more rewarded. Don’t listen to this crap that ranger is in a good place. I would love to see what you other so called good ranger players have to bring to the table so please hit me up in game so I can prove to you that ranger still sucks =D

Durzlla.6295:

Casey.9687:

Anything other then trapper or spirit ranger your wasting your time and need to gtfo. Longbow and greatsword rangers are horrible and make rangers look bad. Ranger doesn’t belong in melee range with all the better CC so many other classes have like warrior, necro, and thieves. Longbow is so easy to dodge its not even funny, you get 1 knockback if your lucky and thats pretty much all longbow is good for. Signet Rangers are by far the most lazy of the ranger builds and should be ashamed of running full signets. Also signet rangers have no aoe or support whatsoever. If anyone disagrees with any of this i would love to be proved wrong ^.^

Bad signet rangers are lazy and passive, a good signet player (regardless of class) id say is more complicated than most builds because you have to know when you want to give up your passive, how many of them you want to give up at a time, and when you’re better off roughing it out and waiting.

And longbow rangers aren’t bad, they’re just harder to play than SB, because they’re harder to play you’ll see more bad people with it than another.

EX: there’s significantly more bad eles out there than bad warriors because warrior is significantly easier to play at the high skill end than an ele is.

Well out of the whole time ive played since start of the game i have yet to see any good longbow ranger that even comes close to viable. I have seen every build possible on ranger and i can honestly say when i see a longbow ranger in spvp or wvw i know it’s a free kill. You can’t sit there and tell me its all bad people that i’ve ran into since release of the game. The same with greatsword, when i see somone using a greatsword we joke in steam chat saying there’s another free kill. These weapons are bad….they will continue to be bad unless anet does somthing drastic. For the signet rangers….there are no good signet rangers because the good rangers wouldn’t be running signets. Like i said no aoe or support. Without those 2 aspects ranger is worthless and a cripple to the team cause any other class can out damage a signet ranger.

Anything other then trapper or spirit ranger your wasting your time and need to gtfo. Longbow and greatsword rangers are horrible and make rangers look bad. Ranger doesn’t belong in melee range with all the better CC so many other classes have like warrior, necro, and thieves. Longbow is so easy to dodge its not even funny, you get 1 knockback if your lucky and thats pretty much all longbow is good for. Signet Rangers are by far the most lazy of the ranger builds and should be ashamed of running full signets. Also signet rangers have no aoe or support whatsoever. If anyone disagrees with any of this i would love to be proved wrong ^.^

Take Rapid Fire off the longbow and put in on the shortbow, bring back “The Machine Gun” that you sorry excuses for Devs whined about being to strong….then shortbow will be somwhat on par with other weapons =D

i agree with the barrage and axe 5 also

So it says on the skill that spike trap is suppose to pulse 3 times? It clearly does not pulse 3 times. It would be amazing if it could and would make it on par with all other classes immobilise/stun/daze combos cough cough warrior! cough cough

sephiroth.4217:

Shirk.6421:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Tear.3617:

“The thief has a better short-bow and the warr has a better longbow.” it’s funny cause it’s true.

The Warrior Longbow? Absolutely. The Thief Shortbow? I laugh in your general direction. Barely any damage to the thief shortbow. #1 ricochets, #2 just explodes or can go into multiple explosions, #3 is the same as Ranger SB #3, #4 is just a poison field, and #5 just lets you teleport a distance. It’s crap compared to the Ranger SB in terms of damage.

A weapon doesn’t have to be a pure dps weapon to be good. The shortbow offers nice movement, poision fields and blast finishers. It’s a gimmicky AoE weapon.

What…

Ranger short bow has poison, cripple, dodge, stun/daze, bleeds without needing to crit and a fast attack speed.

As to the OP, one of my rangers is strait up longbow and aze/warhorn for zerging running PVT/Valk gear 30/30/0/0/10 traits and using those traits I have piercing arrows and opening strike refreshed every kill, opening strike 100% crit chance with 90% crit damage at 3600-4400 attack depending on might and bloodlust stacks.

Also ontop of that build with sigils of force, flanking traits and the 20 vuln that can be applied just with rapid fire (opening strike stacks 5….that is refreshed when someone goes down) all up im looking at +60% extra damage.

I think people need to learn builds a bit more, even after a year of ranger and the recent patch I can now self stack 24 might but that’s by using the right traits, sigils and runes.

Go home seph your drunk…..Gotta love that 0 condition removal on that build any condition based bunker class would destroy you in seconds and guess what…..those are everywhere! Have fun fighting a longbow warrior who none stop stacks bleeding and burning on you, who also regens 500 hp a second before rengeneration is applied. Your longbow has barely any defense to it which is its stealth after that your screwed. Your axe/warhorn has no surviability what so ever. Apparently you are the one who needs to learn builds my good sir.

Eh anet just has one of the worst balance teams ever….they honestly have no clue what they are doing. Why all of a sudden did they release the patch notes early for all of us to see? They use some crap about the asking for our help and then not changing a single thing we have been asking for. They change what they wanna change and don’t listen to their player base. They are greedy idiots who worry more about the money they makin off gems then their actual balancing of classes. Get a new team anet.

Coarr.3286:

Casey.9687:

This build is the new meta?!? rofl! come fight me on my trap ranger and ill show you how terrible greatsword still is =D Please stop using longbows and greatswords….they are useless weapons and you silly rangers thinking they can actually help you are just lieing to yourselves. Anet looks at you silly ones and sees that your still running them and thinks oh they must be ok but their not….stop lieing to yourselves guys.

lol you still play trapper? i use my sword/horn + axe/torch wvw roaming build and did beat down a trapper + spirit ranger pretty easy in spvp ( my first 3 matches ever yestarday. havent died a single time )

You clearly haven’t fought me yet =D

4,293 hours on ranger 4,326 across all characters. All I ever run is trapper all other builds like this one are just crippling ranger they all still suck. Longbow is still horrible dps. Greatsword can’t hit the broadside of a barn. Spirit Ranger is alright but its the most lazy build I have ever witnessed next to signet warriors….Tired of rangers getting on here and lieing and trying to make the greatsword and longbow into somthing their not….they need fixed, bad. Stop trying to make them work on a build its just down right disappointing

This build is the new meta?!? rofl! come fight me on my trap ranger and ill show you how terrible greatsword still is =D Please stop using longbows and greatswords….they are useless weapons and you silly rangers thinking they can actually help you are just lieing to yourselves. Anet looks at you silly ones and sees that your still running them and thinks oh they must be ok but their not….stop lieing to yourselves guys.

You failed to see the rest of my post saying pet was on a 20 second recharge.

So you switch your pet and it gets bursted and your saying my F4 will save my pet? Even though its on a 20 second cool down? yeah cause that makes much since bro.

To many times I have had to active my heal just to keep pet alive even tho I really don’t need healed. Why can’t they just have an option where we can activate our heal on pet and on the character? Like a little box next to the health bar of the pet that has the heal skill in it and take away the heal effecting both player and pet. The heal still serves its purpose and it doesn’t change it at all really its just changing when you and the pet both heal so you dont have to waste your heal just to keep pet alive.

Worst Balancing Team I have ever seen in a Game before….just pathetic

Love all the viewers that the last tournament got lol and how about that $7,500 grand prize? That sure is alot more then the $100,000 Tournament Series in Guild Wars 1. This game is on a downward trend and the fact that they come on here and make poor excuses why they can’t fix a class mechanic thats been broken since first beta. Why they can’t fix a sword rooting that has ticked off alot of people since beta? I love all the attention that Jon is giving the thief forum =) at least he’s helping his precious thief along and answering to their tears. Get a team member who actually plays the ranger to get in here and get our feed back we are tired of your excuses jon.

Edit: PS: When ya see a team of developers who have gone all this time without relying on the forum base for help in balancing and then all of a sudden coming out and almost beggin for the help of the actual players you know they are scrambling….

3,935 hours on ranger, 3968 hours across all characters, im pretty sure i’ve mastered my ranger by far. When i go into spvp i destroy all other rangers and their not even close fights, i always win by a long shot. I hate this so much tho, why cant ranger be easy like the other classes? Mesmer just has to spam phantasms and dodge skills, warrior just has to put on healing signet now and tank away, guardian can just spam his staff and tank all day, thief can just constantly go invisi….what does a ranger have? pretty much just its dodging ability. Warriors, Thieves, and Necros can out tank and apply better conditions then rangers. If you try to go longbow you have to pretty much be full zerker to make it worth it and full zerker only works in WvW zergs. All these rangers in spvp trying to make the LB happen? Just lieing to themselves. Everytime i see a ranger with a longbow or his greatsword out i know its a instant win and so does my team when i run with them all we have to do is instant target the ranger and it melts under our immoblises, stuns, and conditions. Pets die so easy to conditions now its not even funny, the rangers only good condition removal kills its own pet (thanks anet). I know exactly when to switch my pet out to keep it alive for as long as it possibly can so please don’t try and argue i don’t know how to run my pet if it keeps dieing….theres only so much conditions you can get transfered before your pet just dies before the recharge is up. Thanks to necros, warriors, and thieves condition durations your pets are next to nothing when up against them. Ranger really needs to be completely reworked.

1. They need to make condition durations for ranger on par with the other classes.
2. They need condition removal on weapon skills, not just traits and utilities.
3. They need to make pets just an utility and give us back the 40% damage.
4. Give us damage negating skills on weapons, (like greatsword 4) but that doesnt end when ya get attacked.
5. Give the shortbow back its firing rate like it was before it was nerfed 2 months after game was out.
6. Synergize the traits a whole lot better.
7. Allow the GS to have better aoe attacks and have its attacks hit more accurately.
8. Reduce recharge of Longbow skills.
9. Allow spike trap to trigger its "immobilise 3 times like it says on the actual skill: “Pulses three times when trigggered”
10. Please find a way to improve pet AI even more (i know its really hard but hopefully theres a way).

Would continue but its already TLDR so ill stop there for now. In case you were wondering i run a condition/crit hybrid trapper.

3,861 hours on ranger, 3,893 across all characters….+1 that pet has been nothing but an annoyance since i started ranger…