Guild Wars 2

You’re completely missing the point of this topic…

Elite skills feeling like Elite skills. Ele’s aren’t elite skills because we already have a skill like it that isn’t one… FS isn’t an elite skill because it got nerfed and now it’s no greater than the other summonable weapons. And Tornado is an Elite skill, it’s just that it’s suicide to use that.

The point is going over your head. It isn’t saying they aren’t useful, it’s saying that the one’s we have don’t feel as such.

I won’t lie, in SPvP about 2/5 of your teammates in solo que end up being Rangers… and of those Rangers they’re zerkerLB Rangers. Personally I’d rather see the bows get nerfed into the ground, but that’s not fair at all to the weapon and the options it allows players just because it’s major cheese and easily used.

I’m not sure how that (which honestly I feel is the only thing that bothers people about Rangers) could be “balanced” as I don’t even remember what RF and the whole of LB was like before the changes.

Beserker LB/Power Ranger in SPvP

seems to work for a lot of folks.

Of course if you want to be different than the probable 70-80% of Rangers nowadays, a tanky condi build would be good. Other than that just get in there and try and play and find your way to play which makes you more comfortable.

Honestly and I’ve said this before to guildmates, to friends outside the game/ingame. It’s the way the game’s PvE works with how the they decided to make classes behave. Unfortunately MMO’s for the most part will always be games that will have the optimal, decent, suboptimal, and then terribad.

Truth be told I’d rather have a way to play with the things I personally enjoy with things that can support the party, but because the class works as it does with the way PvE works, you get pigeonholed into how this game is “designed” to work. Hence, why I think this game’s PvE is just… for the sake of nice words “unimpressive” and I usually tell people this game is a PvP game with PvE in it because half the mechanics and nifty things are left out of PvP.

Sides, when it comes down to it, the PvE aspect of the game is nothing but stacking, skipping, bursting, and some occasional dodging so you don’t get wrecked. There isn’t really any real “teamwork” in this game. Least in my opinion.