Guild Wars 2

The ranger seems to be the most universally hated class for structured guild WvW. I think it has to do with the ranger fills lots of roles but none as good as another class.

I’m interested to hear other people’s opinions as to how to cure this.

One suggestion I think would go far would be to make the greatsword 4 attack have a lower cooldown(8-10 seconds when traited with martial mastery) and be an AoE blast daze/stun along the lines of the warrior’s hammer burst skill earthshaker. All other classes have access to more blasts than the ranger and all classes have access to some superior hard CC. The blasts available to the ranger are the warhorn and tailswipe pet skills…only the warhorn can you guarantee will happen during a fight. I think this small change would give the ranger a way to compete or at least be appreciated alongside the warrior as a weaker armored yet water field generating compliment to the team.

The pet is fine, I just don’t like being pigeonholed into using only 4 pets when there are so many better looking pets I’d rather use. Being able to have more control over what skills the pets bring would make the variety of pets seen in the game larger. As of right now, all I ever see in WvW is the green lizard and the wolf.

I’ve noticed that pets have been pretty much “figured out” in areas such as WvW and other areas of the game. Everyone knows to bring one of about 4 pets. The reason for this is because the skills that these have are the most useful. What ends up happening is you see everyone carrying the same pet. Here is what I would like to suggest:

Instead of have the attack moves of pets be based on the pet, have the pet skills assigned to a pet be selectable from a list of skills just like the skills you as a player bring to battle. It would make a larger variety of pets viable and everyone wouldn’t bring 1 of 4 pets to every battle.