Guild Wars 2

Seriously, this is getting a little ridiculous. It seems like every time there is anything good about a ranger build, it gets nerfed. Then when people find the next best build and start doing well, it gets nerfed again.

And who exactly is deciding that the pets hit too hard? Is it the player community or just a few devs? Who makes the decisions to nerf our best build while fixing little known bugs that no one cares about?

So to address the other question that wasn’t really answered:

Do you have to be present at the beginning of the event, the end, or both, in order to receive credit and the reward?

Im guessing at the end like most events, you just might get bronze or silver completion.

Jon, thank you for your reply. It just takes something this simple to let us know you are out there and that you are working on some fixes. Thanks again.

Since launch, the only bug fix I have seen so far that actually helps rangers was making entangle affected by the 20% cooldown reduction, so thank you for that. Despite the bugs, the ranger was still a fun, playable class.

My question is that out of all the 68+ bugs on the Ranger Bug List, why mess with one of only decent DPS options to change a completely unknown “graphical glitch” that doesn’t affect playability?

Why not just change the animation if that was truly the only problem? Instead of fixing one of the numerous serious bugs on that list, you guys “fixed” something that wasnt even broken.

If time is going into fixing bugs, why not the ones that the community actually recognizes as a serious problem? Has anyone ever posted about this “animation glitch” and about how we needed a major game mechanic altered in order for the game to be better?

You claim that it was to prevent “1” spamming, but what about us who didnt spam “1” and just let the auto attack run? Why does auto attack and QZ suffer so much?

It just seems like a huge change for Rangers, with absolutely no input from the community on this issue. It seems like it came out of nowhere, and I have never once noticed this being a problem, or “broken,” during the last month of getting my ranger to 80.

Why reduce damage by a claimed “7%” just to fix an animation glitch? It seems like such a poor explanation for such a huge change.

Also, the devs claim that bugs take alot of time and testing to fix. Was this bug fix ever tested extensively? Were the numbers ever checked?

Was this changed because Rangers were actually considered OP?

I am just confused as to why we as a community get such a small say and limited explanation for big changes like this?