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Bows should given the most attention of all ranger’s weapons imo. +1
Yeah, LB is probably the most characteristic weapon of a RANGER since it favors RANGE, yet it is the least efficient one. Also it is my favorite and I refuse to play my ranger without a longbow. Definitely needs change.
Also, in most MMO there is this weird phenomenon: reworking a class feels like a taboo thing.
It’s not a shame to rework a class or skills or mechanics or whatever. It’s fine. But sadly, nobody does it. Never. Only small changes here and there.
ArenaNet has made a great job with this game. I am involved in design and I have to say the design of this game is the best I’ve ever seen. That’s not only because they have very talented people working there but also because they focused in the most important thing of all, the concept. They made every class with a deep concept, like ranger – nature, pets etc. Thus, the weapons of a ranger are natural and not rifles or guns (which I would like to see but anyway it’s k). However, the other concept they embraced was to be able to play the way YOU want to play. But for all of us who played games like these for ages, that is extremely hard to achieve. The reason is people tend to find builds which are generally better than others. And obviously, since they are more efficient, they become trends. Now I, for example, want to play only longbow and sword/x or GS. This is not possible and yes I play for fun but its an MMO and not an offline game. So interaction with other people is a must. And that’s why we like it. Most people though, don’t care about you and how you like to play and just want “perfection”. That’s half of the problem. The other half is that I don’t see any intention by Anet towards improving the concept of variety in builds, so everyone can feel satisfied. Also I don’t see many responses to threads like this which is either good – they prepare a surprise – or bad – they don’t care about that unless the number of rangers gets to like 1% of what is now.
Totally agree with you and most of the other people who posted above.