Guild Wars 2

People that are not playing Jumping Puzzle must pay high prize for laziness!
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Don’t let them pay less then 8silver!

Gaile Gray.6029:

We also wanted to express our thanks to Reyana and the commanders she has been talking with in her World vs World Commander Interview series. Reyana is a dedicated member of the WvW community and a WvW streamer. She has brought together a diverse group of community leaders to constructively share different perspectives on how they play with their guilds, and our team has taken a lot of the commanders’ feedback to heart. Reyana has put a lot of effort into organizing these interviews and we want everyone to know that the efforts that she and the commanders made have been greatly appreciated.

Have a very Happy Holiday!

All this changes need to come before the end of winter holidays, don’t let that “early 2016” be april-may..

I agree on every thing that you’ve updated WvW with, I just want to point out one thing. There are plenty of commanders that I know that are amazing [by that i mean platinum and and higher without any EOTM bs and they have insane amount of WvW hours of leading that i’m proud to be part of], and no one of them were interviewed and none of them ever spoke to her, ever. I just find funny that Reyana is from EU and i can count 10 commanders that are one of the best and did not get in touch with her.

I’m not saying every commander deserves or must be interviewed, but who were those hand full of people if not those [I don’t request names, I’m just wondering]? It seems opinion of extremely good commanders have no value if you don’t know devs or some one that represents ArenaNet.

Thx that you guys at least let us know about the progress.

I dont care if they are GOLD purchasable, it’s eating content away and its making this game look S***, and sorry to say, i’m tired of GEM store any kind of items until things are fixed, and i’m specially not wasting money on pathetic bundles.. who ever though that made worst deal ever! Cuz who’s dumb enough to pay 25€ for a bundle.. i would buy maybe outfits or armors for 800gems (with money not gold), but 25€ for bundle, thx and bye and i can only flip a finger to a greedy managers.. gg

64 client, every kitten time, you default our settings, it’s the 3rd patch now.. same story..
All options settings are restarted and it’s stupid as kitten!

Riku.4821:

I don’t see the problem. Gw1 has achievements like this. And it seems they will be available after wintersday. Just play the game and enjoy it. No need to grind. Yes 10k is a lot but they will come in time.

Yeah sure, no problem if i had 24/7 every day time, but this is time gated with winters day that’s the biggest issue..

insanemaniac.2456:

i wonder if op has been around for past festivals where the achievements were actually as grindy as he is suggesting they should be and if he remembers the grindyness complaints.

I am, and i’m posting this because i’m tired of same bullkitten destroying the gaming experience of enjoyable content that could be very awesome and interesting. But no, lets destroy it with 10.000 drinks. There is just this one thing that destroys every thing.

cakemonkey.6347:

Aidenwolf.5964:

Dashingsteel.3410:

Jumping puzzle is also required to get winter’s presence. This is another unfortunate trend since HoT. Platforming seems to be an emphasis since HoT.

Honestly I don’t have the same aversion to JPs you do and think adding skill requirements is OK. The item could of been entirely skill based and I would’ve accepted it even if it meant I lost our on it. My issue is the insane amount of gold sinks thrown into every part of the game.

I’m not dismissing your hatred of jumping puzzles I just didn’t think represented a threat to the game like these sinks do. Fractal encryptions even require gold to open, it’s everywhere.

I think the JP thing was to point out that HoT has started a new direction in general for this game. You don’t like the grind/cost. A lot don’t like the JP requirements in general. JPs are now a part of the new direction and people don’t like that either. Platformers have been disappearing from the gaming scene. No idea why GW2 wants to bring them back. Along with tired mmo models like raids and mass grouped content, and insane grinding(like most of those in f2p mmos which this isn’t supposed to be?).

Wintersday is a great representation of GW2 – Post HoT

JPs were always there, and they require nothing. it’s easy to do. Wintersday JP was already there last season, so this is not rly a HoT direction. But what i have issues with is stacking same thing… what.. 10.000 times? srsly? absurd

Wiperas.7240:

So if I get it right some people here want Anet to shut their only source of income? Stupidity has reached new levels .

Some people think the 50€-120€ expansions and core game doesn’t count towards anything. The sad part is Anet made 10x bigger content in GW1, no subscription either, and no GEM store. Are you shocked?

It’s not our problem, if you came from a game that was ripping you for years, and now you think that tons of things are acceptable.

It’s absurd to see company change like that. WHile they don’t even deliver 50% of what they’ve promised.

ZachAttack.3957:

Guys. Nightfury was hundreds of times worse than this. The ONLY costly part is the drinks. Just about every component of nightfury was costing in the hundreds of gold. And think about it- what kind of “special” item would it be if just about every player in the game could get it? You don’t HAVE to get it- heck, I don’t even really care about it because I don’t feel like having no shoulder skin.

You forget that this game is not getting enjoyable, and it’s getting contradictive of what anet have said! They promised us that we won’t need to grind like we grind in other games… But the reality is even worst, we have go HORD AND GRIND. There is not a single event or thing … that would let us enjoy content…

Why cant they give 50x win every event in wintersday, then you get your achievements done… why do we need 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 drinks?

I’m hardcore player, and i find this absurd due to one reason, there is a lot of enjoyable content in this wintersday holidays, and we should do events to accomplish achievements, not toasting 10.000 times where is the fun here?

This ONE achievement brought ABSURD BAD GAMING EXPERIENCE to literally every player that came to the point where he needed to get 10.000 junk drinks.

I’m sorry, this is just bad design team that decides what and how many things we need to acquire to get the desired item.. If you ask me they could remove 9900 drinks… keep 100 drinks in, and rise the event expectations to win.. from 3x > 50×.. and this would be a lot more enjoyable!

It kittenes me off that i was growing up with ArenaNet and now they became backstabbers.

EDIT:
There are things that are fun and awesome, mostly 95% of the content, and there is this 3% that we are ok with, and there is 2% that destroys every kind of gaming experience that was pleasant warm and fuzzy.. gone in a blink of an eye!…

I agree with you on so many levels, i felt the love of how Colin convince me, I know it’s not only HIM who decide, but entire team, and i’m ashamed that they done such dirty move every time.

Where are MMOs that gave you quests and they gave you content on holidays that you enjoyed and you got online just to play that with your friends.

I miss GW1 and I miss devs saying :
Hey there, we made something for you, because you guys are loyal and you play our game every day!

Anet is forgetting that this games should be fun.
@Colin
@Gaile
@Johan
@Mark Katzbach
@Rubi
@Regina

Hi, i think building Winter’s Presence should be fun.

Masterful Toast should be completely removed from needed item/achievement or set achievement goal to 100.

LEGIT effort for the presence shoulders should be supporting the events not grinding gold to get the drinks that count towards the achievement! This is ABSURD!

My suggestion is rise existing event completion:
150 mystic coins > 150 mystic coins
50 Obsidian Shards > 50 Obsidian Shards
10.000 toasts > 100x toasts OR completely remove it
250 flawless snowflakes > 500 flawless snowflakes
3x Champion’s Snowball > 50x Champion’s Snowball
3x Bell choirs > 50x Bell choirs
3x Snowball Mayhem > 50x Snowball Mayhem
3x Snowglobe > 50x Snowglobe
30x Refurbished Toy > 30x Refurbished Toy
3x jormag kill > 5x jormag kills

What we are currently supposed to do is go to event, finish all events needed in less then 30 min, then go back to grind the gold… Why anet? Isn’t playing events and enjoying them more pleasent? Why do we have to involve fluid income (aka gold and expensive items) to acomplish anything? Isn’t it sad that you guys told us You wont ever need to grind and swing again!

I did enjoy collecting and playing mini games, they are really fun, I’ve even done over 50 choir games today, because I enjoy them so much, and I felt really awesome to enjoy the sound and creativity of people.

But then i came to the point where I’ve found out that i need 10.000 pointless drinks.
I rather wont have the shoulders then forcing myself into something pointless like this 10.000 achievement.

Every thing is so hard to move post patch!
EDIT: every single setting in 64 bit is changed to default >_>

spirits don’t move! It’s unbelievable bug > on bug..

Wanze.8410:

luzt.7692:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Firelysm.4967:

Vayne.8563:

It’s a shame that people think this gem store is so bad. Cause you know, it’s really not.

It’s eating away the content, with huge chunks.
It is bad for the game, because it brings absolutely NO value to gaming experience.

Different people work on the gem store stuff. The people who make content, bug fix etc have nothing to do with what is made for the gem store. So I really don’t see how it is eating in to content.

In a sense it does, instead of releasing it in the Gem store, they could make it obtainable by just playing the game.

Thats not content, thats rewards.

Rewards are content, GEM store is not. GEM store is something you purchase, I could argue that GEM store is mini DLC.. You purchase additional stuff. Wanze, i know you don’t complain about GEM store, because that’s how you play the game. TP game. Can’t judge you, but that’s a shame that only people like you have benefit of that..
POOR gaming experience

BrotherBelial.3094:

Firelysm.4967:

Vayne.8563:

It’s a shame that people think this gem store is so bad. Cause you know, it’s really not.

It’s eating away the content, with huge chunks.
It is bad for the game, because it brings absolutely NO value to gaming experience.

Different people work on the gem store stuff. The people who make content, bug fix etc have nothing to do with what is made for the gem store. So I really don’t see how it is eating in to content.

Same people work on gem store and game content, where do you think skins are made? It’s management who decides where they will be released.

EDIT: wrongly expressed, same designers work for content and gem store. That’s what ive meant.

DanteZero.9736:

It could be much, much worse than what is going on right now. At least there’s an option to pay for gems with gold, some mmo devs don’t even allow that option.

I dont want to pay it with GEMS or GOLD, they deserve neither, i want to earn it in game.

Vayne.8563:

It’s a shame that people think this gem store is so bad. Cause you know, it’s really not.

It’s eating away the content, with huge chunks.
It is bad for the game, because it brings absolutely NO value to gaming experience.

And you will see if you guys went to far with overloading GEM store or not.
I don’t know where this is leading, i have only one word to say:
#Shame

I’ll put it straight, they can shove that extractor somewhere deep…
Paying 45gold for salvaging / extracting something, whiile MOST expansive rune is less then half that price. kitten LOGIC.

GW1 developers and market / economists where are you,…

Arena net you guys became from serious game, a serious joke.

I can’t wait that there is another MMO on the market that will take away some of your player basis, so you can start working and caring more, it clearly looks that you guys give less effort in then you should just because you have no competitor on market right now and while releasing unfinished and unbalanced game you’ve still sold expansion for full 50€ for some over 100€ which is shocking..

I understand you guys need to test the classes with large testing(live public) player base.. But taking 3 months for collecting data to release first balance is absurd. 14 days into expansion is enough for post-mortem to receive data, and make a huge balance patch within 3-4 days That’s a must… waiting for 3 months is just over kill.. GG Shame… where is ArenaNet that once cared for their community.

@Colin? Can we get this done? 2016 is knocking

It’s hard to be loyal player this days, if company is not loyal to player base.

We seriously have to stop this.
5% gem store, 95% game content.
Not other way around.

We are playing the game,
and the game runs like this.
The only thing you can only know,
is what you can put into words,
that you’ve experienced so far.

Lets suppose I love the game, raptures.
Some would say to me,
but, do you really love the game?
How am I going to prove this?
You’ll say yeah, write poetry,
tell us all how much you love the game,
every one will believe!

If I’m an artist I can put this feelings into words,
convince them all with writing the essay.
You’ll say, Ok, ok, we believe you, that you love the game.
But supposing that you’re not very artistic,
are you going to tell people that you don’t love this game?

I start writing,
hours pass and my lines grow big,
bigger then I would though,
my feelings are all over the paper,
judgement of others begin.

I wonder, are we heard?
What are feelings of developers,
when we are knocking on the doors?
Just like a science, minus or plus, money or passion,
who are You?

We just wait while you fix your mess.
Short and honest.

FIXING IS NOT BALANCING!!!!
FIXING IS NOT BALANCING!!!!
FIXING IS NOT BALANCING!!!!
FIXING IS NOT BALANCING!!!!

Patch notes say it’s fixed, but now it’s even worst.
You get rooted and you can’t move until your next Ancestral Grace is up to unbug it.

GG from disaster to catastrophe.

Ranger department, please get some rest, holidays or something, then come back with fresh body and mind to fix the mess of 3 years of nightmare.

Every day and night tempest is best
With tempest tank/healer/condi stats we managed to get VG down with 2min15sec left

Druid was only viable because Anet promoted it, but once people figured out that this was a lie, they went tempest and got insta bust for 50% better heals and buffing without giving away any dmg compared to druid junk.

oshilator.4681:

To the OP – It’s great that you’re having fun on DH. It really is. And I’m in no way knocking you when I say the following:

If I wanted to play other classes, I’d be playing other classes.

To Irenio, if you’re reading this – Some communication would be nice.

This is what i’ve done for nearly 1 year now, and i still think that way, but i don’t feel like staying on class that has every single aspect cropped down or bugged not working or it’s simply done better by 50% by other classes. I was always a fan of underdog and I still am, i just decided to release some tension ^^ No worries brother/sister, i was just suggesting this class to people because it’s really fun, and what i love about DH is how responsive it is, ranger has everything on casting time, no instants, no reaction, every thing takes time! It’s such a great replacement of what ranger should be.

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

I tried playing the rest of my 80’s and for some reason I keep playing my ranger. Is this a sign of addiction? I don’t understand, is my opinion wrong? please advise.

I did play 3k+ hours on my rangers, [yes i have mutiple] and i keep making and leveling new ones, but now i’ve decided to play anets game. To not care about their work on ranger until it’s worthy.

Makka.3620:

i envy u really , ive created Kudzu and The Dreamer for my ranger

i can easily pass Kudzu to my warrior and make a burn zerker for raids but what about the dreamer and what about all the 8 bag slots i have on my ranger

Same here, I have some hard time with it, but with my infinity salvage i dont have a problem ^^ I’ve been never more happy to leave ranger behind for a while, and enjoying my DH as hell!:) I just wish DH was medium set, so i could use full potential, but i’m almost done with 2nd ascended that is meant for heavy class which will bring the sharpness of those shots even harder:)

NOTE for Anet:

• You can do what ever you want with ranger
• you can take your time
• It’s no harm to use players, it reveals the real image to the world

I just wanna say I did decide to stop playing ranger for a while after 3,5 years and over 3k hours on it, and so should you. DragonHunter can pee on ranger from simple fun perspective I’m enjoying DH way more then i did enjoy ranger in last few months.

To bad ranger will stay junk for way to long, and i’ve decided to enjoy other classes until then, good luck! I gave up upon anet, and I decided not to frustrate myself with writing trillions of threads on why we can justify buff and fixes for ranger and how to fix the class mechanics. On the other hand our developers don’t even read it.

So i just want to send a message to you guys, I LOVE ranger, and if you enjoy ranger but don’t feel like playing clunky stuff like Druid and the rest of our beloved class, try dragon hunter, you’ll have fun, you’ll enjoy it, and for once, you’ll stop being mad on anet because they are not capable to fix one simple class after 3.5 years.

All fellow rangers, good luck!

At minimum rate a Weekly or minimum every 2nd week communication with community about WvW.

Hi I need to level fast if it’s possible, but it seems nothing gives good exp any more.
For some reason DS only gave me 14k exp for killing mouth of mordre.

What’s the fastest way to get last two mastery up that i want to finish my collection for glint shield ^^

Any help will be appriciated.

NOTICE: i use boosters, and both foods. Let me know in what events and where to farm exp efficently as fast as possible.

[I’m not a fan of PvE content, i just want that shield, thx for understanding ^^]

If you think WoW is so much better then go for it. Ty

I agree WvW is kittened up, but every thing else is false.
Raids will get own sub-LFG search soon.
If you want easy Raids, go play Fractals, no easy mode, no nerf, get better, get good.

I did play your content, easy content for 3 years, now welcome to my world, where i love hard content, if you want to play my content, get good, get better.

@maddoctor, or simply fill maps until 85% and always fill those that are almost near the 85%, and close unpopulated just to merge them into better maps. I don’t see reason why they would not implement that.

Please stick to the topic:

This should be done in 2012 and not that we request for it in 2015 post HoT release.

• Map must close in 5 minutes
• Map must prevent taxi-ing people into closing map
• Map must redirect players into map with better progress
• Map must handle 60 seconds reconnection for disconnected person
• Map transition to better overflow must save personal progress and rewarding
• Map must reward people with 15min experience buff and diminishing return cleansing.
• Map will keep merging low populated maps to itself until they are 85% full.

This would save guild wars 2, if we don’t get similar mechanic to this, GW2 will die because gaming experience is already horrible if you don’t play in prime time.

Druid: Astral Force is no longer gained when healing a target that is already at full health

Let me state this, ranger before patch 20.11.2015 with buff on AF to gain it from every source, and nerfing staff 1 and 2, was acceptable, very viable and fun, we were able to support people and give them chance to survive. We are specialized to support people, while yesterday tempest was in pair with druid healer, providing more heals already before the nerf, but now? Ranger Druid is not even viable any more because you limit yourself so much that this simply denys you from using specialization.

• 1) This is support class, who do we support if we can’t build up AF in time with this change?
• 2) What’s the purpose of limiting a ranger and denying him from using glyphs that are important in CA mode with this change?

Developers, please come to the game, and feel your classes, stop just drilling the kittening paper theory which makes 99% of the time no sense. I was playing druid for 2 days, because now it was decent, but now, i’ll just leave it in dust, it’s not worth taking it any more because other classes that are not even support, are doing that job better and more frequent then we can.

Anet devs, wake up, no hard feelings, it’s time to stop pointless changes.

Astral force was designed wrongly, you should be rewarded with astral force for every outgoing heal and healing boon! Which means when ever you apply regeneration on even fully healed person, you’ve done your job as support providing heals in advance. GETTING YOUR STUPID ASTRAL FORCE FULL WHEN YOUR TEAM MATE IS ALREADY DEAD HAS NO MEANING. AND SPLIT kitten PVP AND PVE, YOU CLEARLY ARE NOT HAVING CONTROL OVER BOTH SIDES. YOU DID RUIN DRUID RANGER EVEN FURTHER.

Ranger solo was viable before, but now it’s a kitten on the stick, just like that ascended collection reward that we got.

In current state ranger Druid seems OK, even though we got a Staff1 huge nerf.
Of course if AF gains with Regen, SoW and other shources, then I can’t complain.

BTW regeneration now apply AF.
This better be intentional!

Can we employ Ranger developer with less tunnel vision, please?
Irenio I hope this is not your work… >_>

Not just that:

• spvp should queue where ever
• spvp should switch characters in between standing in queue without breaking it.

What’s even worst? WvW queue:

• 60 man queue is frustrating, you wait more then 30 minutes, stuck on 1 character without being able to swap to other characters, else you break..
• Swapping character in WvW kicks you out of WvW and you have to queue again, which is rather frustrating.

There is so many minor things to tweak to make this game much better in terms of gaming experiences.

EDIT: looking at strawpoll, there is 10% voting for NO, i’m sincirely asking those people, give me one reason, why would you not want to queue outside of HoTM, why?

Misguided.5139:

It does less than half the base damage as rapid-fire at max range, where it is easily avoided. Rapid-fire also has longer range, applies vulnerability, and is a combo finisher.

Now go away.

You live in the stereotypical past my friend

Are we serious right now?
Revenant: 8k hammer dmg with not even full zerker. 2 sec reuse cant be blocked by wall of reflection
Ranger: 10k dmg full zerker, 10 sec reuse, can be reflected

And you can’t use quickness?
You can use even more quickness to push your 8k hits every 2sec, while ranger has to wait long time compared to revenant And lets not mantion that ranger is designed that he can’t get away if you get into close range, while revenant can be in blink of an eye 1200 range away, 2400 in less then 5 sec

10% less hate on ranger class in year of 2015/2016.

Lex

Tragic Positive.9356:

Daharahj.1325:

Tragic Positive.9356:

Irenio confirmed he’s been reading through forums and he has some changes in mind. Druid needs a lot of changes if it’s supposed to please more users than it currently does

Confirmed where? How do you know this?

One of the videos updated. Someone even linked the exact time in the video with him saying this in another topic but I can’t remember which one it was.
If I remember or find it I’ll direct you to it.

EDIT: This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=K2ZHhJQn0B8#t=2356

We haven’t really gotten any core neither Druid concerning changes (except awful nerfs). So I suppose it’s still up to date (I hope).

It’s not about pleasing the users, as developer, you MUST develop something that is fun and feels good. Druid feels like you play with 400 ping, nothing goes off on time, every thing is with huge delay. It’s a poor concept that needs hard rework, and Irenio knows that.

I’ll put it this way, DRUID IS A BAD CONCEPT. Why?
Well it’s amazing in zergs, large groups bigger then 5 people, and open world events to heal people where no one cares.

Why is druid bad? Because if you are solo, or with 1 or 2 friends, it makes no sense, it doesnt scale well, because you are depended on healing others more then doing your primal job. And whats that? Progressing through content with your damage. Ranger damage on druid is useless, even though we said no holy trinity, we dont heal a lot and we don’t sync at all with our pet, we don’t get event attendance if we don’t damage anything, it feels like this was elementalist specialization but failed.

Ranger has one problem, he’s assassin, and assassins don’t support, they kill. This concept will NEVER have positive meaning because it will only work in zerging.

Why i don’t play druid:

• its clunky and it feels clunky, no synergy with pet and other skill, full potential of glyphs is wasted due to very poor AF generator.
• bad gaming experience because a lot of skills have huge cast for skills that are easily dodged
• a lot of skills feel and look clunky because they feel like you play with 400ping
• Druid Avatar form skill 1 is disaster should be insta cast with skill reuse
• Druid Avatar form skill 5 movement lockdown and long cast?? Works for pvp, and NO WHERE ELSE, it’s kittened.. U cant do that in smale scale fights like 8v8, you cant do that in zergs, you cant do that in events…. While Revenant in shiro form elite does the same with… faster cast, can move… but no.. ranger has to root himself just for rooting the enemy?? pardon me, that’s where my logic breaks, you risk your death in events just to root some one, while people have tons of stun breaks, All i have to say on this come and play WvW with us, or Events like DS, and u’ll see that this concept is one of the most depended on other people……..
• Druid Staff skill 4 clunky takes to long to cast, takes to long to aim
• Druid staff skill 5, if you compare it to reflection wall… reflection wall is nice and visible, ranger staff skill 5 wall is DISASTER TO NOTICE IN ZERGS.. we waste so many things because we dont see them
• Druid Staff skill 3 gives you in combat
• Druid Staff skill 1 has no dmg, pure sadness
• Ranger avatar form should offer at least 1 stack of stability
• Druid Astral Force cannot be recharged while in avatar form
• Druid Astral Force cannot be recharged fast enough if you dont have more then 2 players around you.
• Due to very bad druid mechanics, we are not even able to use ranger elite because we lack of stability

If you ask me, druid was again, rushed last, shame, pity, and sad to know.
EDIT: I TOTALLY FORGOT, DRUID and Celestial avatar, HAVE NO SKILL QUEUE. Please fix that?

I dont feel the same, i hate tons more fun with full zerker thief, i love challenging 2 hits deaths, because i love to play hard. I did also play dragonhunter with no traits just bow and i went in to unlock stuff.

It’s nothing near hard as you described, it’s true that pets take agro, but thats just bad agro management of this game, that has nothing to do with ranger being easy, that’s a huge difference!

I’ll quote one of Devs what they told us a while ago:
“We had idea about pats like this, but to change them now we would have to create walking animations for all of them, which we are not planing to do so. Same goes with moving attack, which means our pets don’t move while they use auto attacks, but they should, but again this would take to much time to make new animations.”

Something like that was explained to us from Devs a while ago, and it’s shame knowing that they know it, and they don’t intend to fix it. If that would be my game, i would want to fix it, because it’s core mechanics!

Not any more.
Pre HoT 3 sec stealth & super speed, and it’s not about stealth, it’s more about super speed, which both got nerfed for 1 second. Why was trapper so good? Because you could get away fast, and you could get to unpredictable places with super speed while still be under effect of chill or cripple, and no one would expect of you to make that far of a distance. And that’s what made trapper runes strong, and not the stealth itself.

So the answer is no even though the difference is 1 second, because the runes were already on very low priority position. I wouldn’t recommend playing trapper as well, it’s nothing near good compared to the builds that we currently have available.

People did complain for 10 second cooldown, rapid fire that made 10k dmg.
Say hello to Revenant hammer, 8k dmg aoe with 2 sec cooldown.

There is only one way to fix this:

• Nerf revenant
• buff ranger longbow

Which one is going to be?