Guild Wars 2

I still can’t believe they havent just made a post acknowledging the concern of their hottest topic post on the entire forum and instead get a moderator to just close the thread and hope it gets dusted under the carpet…. 796 replies from Rangers concerned about their class… over 78 000 views.. and they cant even give us an explanation or ANYTHING AT ALL …..

Anet Devteam1: " We see 250+ new users joining our Ranger forum community after our most recent hotfix to the shortbow.. And all these new users seem to be expressing their concern in only one thread. "

Anet Devteam2: " wtf should we do…."

Anet Devteam1: “Quick close the thread…”

fin.

i have done very little spvp yet in this game yet, was an arena master in WoW, tho i didn’t start GW2 right when the game came out and didn’t play in beta, havent been playing like crazy so hadn’t reached anywhere close to max level yet, and was still doing mainly WvWvW and dungeons / pve to keep leveling up… wvwvw and dungeons pet is dead 80 percent of the time you are in combat and actually using them, if you keep them on passive i’d lower that percent to about 60 percent of the time. Although i havent found all pets and am by all means not claiming to be the master of rangers. Just saying from an experienced gamer, i am trying to give the OP a suggestion in avoiding our class altogether and going with another might be a better choice if he wants to play a RANGED class and actually make a difference.

Let me save you some grief in the long run…

Dump the ranger idea, if you like it for the pet they are dead 80 percent of the time you are in combat in pvp, in pve to level up they are decent, still buggy as hell to use tho.. if you want to play the class purely for the ranged gameplay, your better off to start a warrior, buy a rifle from the trading post at level 2, you will enjoy their ranged gameplay far more then you would a Ranger at least in it’s current state. Don’t listen to those few posts that state the Ranger is great still… read the post a few threads down regarding the SB not being 40ms nerf… and you will see how the Ranger community truely feels about the class and how much the devs at ANet seem to care about fixing us.

Been ranger since I started this game but after all the buttlove Anet gave the class recently nerfing our best pvp/ pve wep and their total lack of communication with us about what was going on , I finally gave it up, since then started playing my thief again who i still find boring, but started a Rifle Warrior and using GS as off-weapon, and couldn’t agree more with the above poster in saying this is what I feel the ranger should have been. Do far more damage as a 16 Rifle Warrior then my 47 Ranger ever could… only thing i dislike about the warrior is their skills dont favor the way i play the class, and their self heal is really lackluster. Theres NO WAY a warrior should come close to dealing as much damage as a Ranger from ranged. This is a complete joke.

Since the nerf and leaving the Ranger however I’ve found myself playing the game itself a lot less, used to want to play every night for at least a 2-4 hours, now I log in a few days a week, sometimes log in and just log right out. Not at all as interested as I had been when I was happily playing my ranger 2 weeks ago. Completely changed my plans about buying any expansions or giving ANet any more of my money after seeing the way they run things and treat their players. off to borderlands 2,not really into the fps games but it’s kinda cool and really dont feel like loggin in today.. good luck all

Well that sealed the deal for me, unless in the future the class receives some serious changes to the Shortbow, either being #1 going back to the way it was, or reworking our 2-5 skills to put out more damage, the Ranger class is useless to me.

Started a Rifle Warrior two days ago, playing the exact same way i played my Ranger minus controlling the clunky pet, and I’m owning and doing far more damage, killing more and dieing less in World pvp and thats only at level 12. Also have a 27 thief that i’m going to give another shot but i found boring. Loved my Ranger just both Short and Longbow suck so bad, and I want to play the profession as a ranged character. This is coming from a former Arena Master on WoW so not just a noob player commenting on how much Rangers suck now… Axe/torch/horn is now the only decent option but again I’d much rather have a bow as a ranger class and our only viable bow for pvp is now garbage !

Can’t believe how much i’m ranting as this is only my 2nd post on the forums (both posts in this thread) and never posted on any previous mmo forums / official forums before either. Just so appalled at what they’ve done to this profession I just need to voice out. I definetly will not be spending ANY real money on this game in the gem store, was considering buying another character slot and definetly picking up all expansions, but now when the next expansion comes out, hopefully the class will either be reworked or that will likely be when i quit. Hopefully something else new and better will come out by that time. Been spending alot more time on Borderlands 2 as of late, and Assassin’s Creed 3 comes out Oct 30th.. that will be awesome.

Best of luck to all the Rangers out there in sticking with it, starting new classes, or moving on ! Hopefully ANET gets there head out of the gutter on this one and fix our broken class..

this post needs to stay at the top of the forum, and this needs to be looked into ASAP. I’m done with the Ranger class until we get a response if it will be fixed or if it’s working as intended, which if thats the case will either be re-rolling or quitting altogether. Glad i picked up Borderlands 2 to keep me busy until this gets fixed.

The auto attack is the only damaging skill we have with the shortbow from a ranged standpoint, our #2 ability only does noticeable damage when used from point blank, 3 is an evade, 4-5 are control abilities that dont do near enough damage to warrant using in place of auto attack.

Has anyone made a post in the bug forum ? maybe someone else needs to see this and not just JonPeters.. who doesn’t seem to care.
Never had to post in the forums before but this issue definetly warrants a first time post.