- Dagger is slow, does low damage, have no survivability
- Loss of a meat shield if you want to use the soulbeast’s special ability
- Almost no dps outside of a sic em meme build that will get nuked form orbit
- Beast skills using low powered skills, instead of using your pets’ F2 skill
- Won’t be welcomed in high level PVE and WvW, due to less buffing options than druid
You can if you fiddle around with Xpadder / joy to key etc. There’s a guy on youtube that post videos of him playing with a steam controller. https://youtu.be/qppiFVJE9JY
No Vulkan API and multi core support in 2017 is worst. Both would help performances by a large marging and developing for Vulkan is quite easy, too. It took ID Software two months to port DOOM to Vulkan. And vulkan, unlike Directx13, work on older GPUs and Windows.
Druid bored me to tears so much that i stopped playing the game, after the fact was clear that rangers cannot get nice things, aka getting nerfed 5-6 times after HoT release.
You make it sound like i need a mount when i have 100% upkeep 33% faster running on my druid. Also, you can always restrict gliders in jumping puzzle areas.
Replaying Fallout New Vegas with TTW, since Fallout 4 was a disappointment and needs heavy modding via the G.E.C.K (released in January). Or cuting elder wood logs until my eyes bleed out.
The tiger is now the best kitten for dps. Tiger > Stalker = Panther > Lynx > Snow Leopard. There are no reasons to not use a tiger in pve. In pvp, smokescale is still very good, despite getting hit by the nerf bat three times.
I always find it funny that Anet nerfed the druid / it’s new pets to the ground in less time than saying Lord Jebus, and yet, literal gods (Bunker Chronomancers, Revenants in general) are walking around untouched. And then there are berserkers / warriors in general. They are in a very bad state right now, it makes you want to bring them behind the barn with mister shotgun to end their suffering.
I find it funny that Ranger got nerfed 8 times on the last 10 updates since HoT release and all other are getting free passes until the end of the PVP season.
Anet needs to learn that you balance BEFORE a pvp season, not after.
Anet is so funny. Instead of balancing their classes before a league, they are balancing them after it.
Colin posted on Reddit earlier that Anet did intend for the HoT release to be the balancing prior to the league.
It just didn’t work out for us because they changed so many things post-HoT release that we really wanted a further balancing.
I’m OK with waiting but I really want them to have a look into AF system. Something not so unforgiving but keeps with their intended function, like allowing us to go into CA form(after it’s 10sec CD) with whatever AF bar we have and then place a multiplier to determine how effective the healing will be depending on the amount of AF bar we had when we went in the CA form. Of course the system will have to remember the static multiplier because the AF bar will be degenerating until we go out of the CA form. Or something like that.
Most professions needed at least one more BWE. One BWE for acrobats and druid was not enough.
I made a dozen ascended weapons by mining and cutting wood all by myself. It can be done for a legendary, too, it you do not want to throw 1,500g at the trading post. See it as a long term goal.
If you take beastmastery, Smoke Assault is now on a 16 seconds recharge, knock down is on a 16 seconds recharge and F2 give the very useful smoke field. It’s a very solid pet.
Getting bladed armor chest is impossible now, since you need T4 reward during the night defenses and all the Verdant Brink night maps i ever see have all, but one or two outposts taken by Mordrems and rarely reach lvl 2 reward.
I am using Ascended Zealot’s with an ascended Cleric Amulet (swapping to ascended Berserker’s amulet if in need for more dps) and Ascended Berserker’s trinket. My staff is ascended Zealot’s and my longbow is ascended berserker’s. I can dish out damage while having around 1100 healing power with food and maxed life sigil.
It can pull that off, have one of the best dps out of all the pets, but the bad thing about it is that it’s F2 is that it cannot hit anyone that’s not at the same height than the pet. So, if you try to hit someone in a flight of stairs, you won’t hit them.
Anet will never do it.Pet and minions AI is using the same AI file than PVE mobs. And Anet said a long time ago that if they want to change anything for pets, that would break their code.
That’s not a good comparison. You can’t compare an elite skill from gw1 that you had to cast to traits like LL or Blinding Ashes that are passive procs.
It’s also cast very quickly and blind was way more potent in GW 1. All good GvG teams had a Blinding Surge ele or melee train spikes was murdering their target. It’s a lot harder to break a spike with passive procs.
every time when a random noob create a topic about a sepcific ranger nerf in the pvp section.
it takes around 1-2 days and you can see exatly this nerfs in the patch description.
1 pet qq on pvp section => hard pet dmg nerf and hard pet range nerf (bm ranger)
1 sprit ranger qq on pvp section => some days later first spirit nerfs, followed by more
1 smokescale qq on pvp secition => 2 day later smokescale hard nerf
1 lingering light qq on pvp section => lingering light hard nerf
etc etc. there is for sure more.
every time ranger gets good in pvp they nerf it verry fast down.
of course anet don’t want to get ranger players viable in pvp.
in the same time it hurts ranger for pve aswell, but maybe they don’t want rangers to get viable anywhere.
but this thief/mesmer combo and celestial ele cheese can faceroll for one year.
Do not forget:
BWE 1: Greatsword doing damage => 50% damage nerf to the auto attack
Shortbow being the best ranger weapon => Attack speed nerf + ranger nerf
Quickness too good on ranger => quickness goes from 100% to 50%
You or your pet have to damage the dazed foe for ancient seeds to proc. Hilt Bash, point blank shot and Glyph of the Tides proc it since all of them do the require damage at the same time than the cc.
