Guild Wars 2

Kal Spiro.9745:

So basically your thinking is, the only way to fix these things is to completely trash them and start over. Not to work with what we have, within the design of what we have and make them work. That is typically what is done when rebalancing and attempting to fix a class. It’s the main reason your whole design is infeasable, because when you’re done you have a similar but different class, not just an improved version of the original class.

We aren’t trying to trash the way Arena.net has build the ranger. It just doesn’t fit the play style that the ranger should have. I think they did a way better job in Guild Wars 1. There are some things that they really screwed up on (SWORD) but overall they made the ranger correct in their play style. Honestly I agree with everything Castaliea has said. Some are saying the spirits are op, but are they switchable on the fly if you have to switch them out of combat? I see no difference from any other class.

I agree with EVERYTHING you have suggested and really hope the devs find this… you aren’t asking for the ranger to be overpowered, but it definitely needs a major overhaul and what you have presented sounds perfect. I would also add that the shortbow needs a bit of work too. The short bow used to look and perform great before they turned into a stub and changed all the skills. I think they should change it back to something like the 2010 gamescom live ranger demo, and same with the sword. Look at this video to see what I’m talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAh1OHBI4uM&list=PLQjlCwEV3nuMDzq57AD4d5QCqi4319Qj-&index=10

General XIII.8537:

It is pretty obvious there will be expansions. In one of them make the Kodan a playable race.

On that note, add a “race change kit” to the game

I agree on both of these. I keep having the problem of hating my race at later levels, only to delete them to restart. Playing as a Kodan would be freaking awsome too. Other races that would be cool to play as are centaurs, tengu, QUAGGANS, and one that should have been an original playable race, the dwarfs.

I have been wanting this since the game came out. I have had to delete my characters to restart… which sucks, so I completely agree with this idea. I don’t see anything that arenanet needs to worry about because you aren’t switching professions on the go at lvl 80, you are restarting at level 1.