Guild Wars 2

Godzilla.2847:

The classes with the most problems are always the most problematic to fix. Changes are coming in slowly because fixing Ranger issues without creating more problems is tricky and time-consuming, not because Rangers are being ignored. Easy changes are always the ones that get made first, REGARDLESS of which class or weapon set or build needed it most.

Arenanet just needs to be way more careful with how they characterize upcoming changes in their announcements. They may forget that 99.9% of their players come from WoW, and, for some stupid reason, expect WoW level turnaround. What Arenanet considers an amiable group of changes isn’t the same as what a community of spoiled MMO gamers expects.

You have no idea if this is true or not. You are welcome to speculate that the changes rangers require are difficult and resource intensive, but there is and has never been any indication that what you say is true.

Additionally, you have no idea how many players come from WoW nor what they expect. So before you generalize and make blanket statements about who we are, what we want, and that we are spoiled, you should probably take a hard look at yourself and realize that your assumptions are nothing more then a reflection of your personal feeling.

Next time, I suggest presenting them as such to avoid presenting yourself as such an ignorant, entitled, self-proclaimed spokesman for both the community and Anet.

Thanks and have a nice day.

But you are not supposed to like using an auto attack. This is a dynamic game that far surpasses the need for a one – three stage auto attack that happens to be a part of almost every single primary hand weapon in the game. You should continue to dodge, stun, or provide buffs. Damage doesn’t actually kill monsters; a dynamic rotation does!

Besides, who actually needs to tag monsters? Farming isn’t encouraged nor is it required for dynamic events… like for monthlies or one time “world changing” events. Oh wait…

Signed. At least they told us that the traps cool down was a but then proceeded to address it. In this case we were told it was an animation issue. Once players started crunching numbers, which btw they always do, it was determined that the fix had a major impact on SB damage.

The response then changed to something about rangers relying on the automatic fire too much and how it wasn’t fun for anyone. Wasn’t fun? Interesting. I enjoyed the utility of skills 3-5 and liked that those skills were as needed. That to me was fun. But hey, what do I know.

In the end, the SB was nerfed and pawned off on a truly arbitrary, bias opinion that never actually explained why the damage was reduced. If it was an intentional nerf, say that. Tell us the amount of damage you decided to lower the SB by and be done with it.

That was the first time I saw Anet act deceptively. The second time was when we were promised major changes to the ranger profession. It’s hard in retrospect to claim that we were lied to. Without actual information, all we can do is balk at Anet’s vague and superfluous “teasers.”

In summation, these misleading posts aimed at calming the ranger community are nothing more then shovel after shovel of propaganda.

Are ranger’s completely broken? Maybe. Depends on who you speak with. I personally like some of the builds I’ve come up with. Is the overwhelming perception that rangers are broken? Yes. See the difference there. It doesn’t actually matter if you magically balanced the class through the numerous nerfs and adjustments. The issue is the perception the community has.

I personally have been subject to discrimination based on my profession. I’ve personally seen /m LFG stating that rangers were not welcome. I’ve had others laugh at me for even playing a ranger. Do you know what that feels like?

This perception is an extension of the perception of the people who actually play rangers. When we ourselves cannot defend the legitimacy of our profession and have no indication of the direction the class is heading, how can we as players even take pride our class?