It is, I use it on an almost daily basis. For whatever reason though, it doesn’t activate sometimes, like it just doesn’t register and attempt to activate. I attribute it to server lag.
Happens to me alot as well, it’s especially painful when you have 2-3 people down in a group fight and you press it and nothing happens.
Tanbin inspired me to play ranger because he beat me on my d/d ele back in the day around the beginning of the game in WvW with power traps and I loved the playstyle so much I decided to roll one up and I really haven’t looked back. Since then we’ve become good friends testing out builds from time to time. Another few good rangers I’ve met who have had a strong influence on me are Eurantien/Folly/Sol from PvP and got me to start playing sPvP on my ranger.
Man there’s a ranger on maguuma named tanbin who is kittening amazing at roaming and duels dunno what people are talking about. id like a good ranger in a wvw roaming group, but yea in a gvg i can see them not being really useful at all compared to warrior/guardian/ele
Yea but tanbin is also one of the best rangers in the entire game and even he dies if focused heavily, thats the problem , if rangers get focused they can get away but not alot of mitigation overall so they become #1 targets immediately in small battles/gvg
Haha kitten yea i remember tanbin he is the most insane ranger ive ever seen that kid is mad good, dun think hes ever run zerg play though only roam and duel but anyway for ranger zerg play i just dont think they have a spot there at the moment only in small group roaming and even then like quoted said they get focused hard in any fight and are considered ez kills. im a thief and i go for ranger first usually unless theres another thief on their end thats a heavy threat that needs to be taken out im sure its no different in zerg play they just dont provide nothing that stands out in large group play (except maybe spirit elite??) and are ez to focus and down in fights usually
Then again any other profession, short of warrior, will get killed if focused hard.
Guardians and eles – super healing but once you burst them they dont have the HP pool to take it
Necros – apply any sort of stun/daze and they are done for in a heartbeat
Mesmers – only a few builds are good for survival when focused
Thieves – If they want to kill oyu, you got two choices, die or die later on.
Engineers – This one will take a while if specced right, but it will go down too.
Yes rangers have horrible burst mitigation. We got 2 utilities, 3 if counting Lightning Reflexes + Sword 2 combo to create a large distance.
Many other professions have way less stability then rangers. Mesmers, Thieves and necros spring to mind.
Also, many of you argue that rangers do not bring stability to the zerg. WELL WHO CARES. I don’t see any eles spending tonns into earth magic to spread 4-5 seconds every now and then, nor do i see mesmers ever use their mantras for that purpose in a zerg. And necros and thieves have more then enough issues with just getting stability up at all. So in the end, the whole “they dont bring group stability” argument is pointless, as there is only two classes that does that effectively. That is the warrior and guardian.
Yea, true I agree just dont think they have anything that stands out and stuff they can do alot of other classes can do much better, anet should do something about it really without making them too op in small grp play/dueling
Man there’s a ranger on maguuma named tanbin who is kittening amazing at roaming and duels dunno what people are talking about. id like a good ranger in a wvw roaming group, but yea in a gvg i can see them not being really useful at all compared to warrior/guardian/ele
Yea but tanbin is also one of the best rangers in the entire game and even he dies if focused heavily, thats the problem , if rangers get focused they can get away but not alot of mitigation overall so they become #1 targets immediately in small battles/gvg
Haha kitten yea i remember tanbin he is the most insane ranger ive ever seen that kid is mad good, dun think hes ever run zerg play though only roam and duel but anyway for ranger zerg play i just dont think they have a spot there at the moment only in small group roaming and even then like quoted said they get focused hard in any fight and are considered ez kills. im a thief and i go for ranger first usually unless theres another thief on their end thats a heavy threat that needs to be taken out im sure its no different in zerg play they just dont provide nothing that stands out in large group play (except maybe spirit elite??) and are ez to focus and down in fights usually
