Guild Wars 2

What do you guys think about the weapons?

Keep em’ coming!

Traits
You have stated yourself that they need to be re-worked to fit with the profession as a whole. There are many useless and unappealing traits. Some need to be moved to different locations and some just need to be removed. Please post ideas on improvements.

Spirits
Spirits are currently not viable at all. I have yet to see a Spirit Ranger since the beta nerf in PvP. Warrior banners are invincible. I am not asking to make Spirits invincible but they need two things: a lot more hit points and AOE reduction as well. We give up utility slots for our spirits only to have them die quicker then our pets in PvP. Unacceptable. I personally, believe that Spirit of Nature is fine.

I personally would like to see the range inscreased and internal cooldown decreased.

Signets
Complete re-work. Better synergy with our profession. This might take some time though. One thing you can do quickly is increase Signet of the Hunt to match the Thief. The argument of Ranger being a ranged class and Thief being a melee class isn’t valid. Both can use melee and ranged weapons. Personally, I believe the Thief has far better mobility and close-the-gap ability then the Ranger. If anything the Signets need to be reversed.

The cooldown needs to be decreased across the board on Signets until the re-work. At least give us something to work with.

Downed state skills
Please fix number 3 or give us a new one. Pets in current state are either already dead or at 10% health. In PvP/WvW this skill isn’t even viable unless you died and no one is around. They need to instantly run to you and not be able to be interrupted. They should be able to take damage and be killed though. This skill is even worse with the current patch: PvP downed health is now 75% of what it was.

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Please remember this is priority fixes and not annoyances. These are fixes that would make the Ranger profession viable. Remember this when you post about what you would like to see changed.

Keep the post civil and constructive please!

Mr. Peters, the following is a list of, at least what I believe, priority fixes for the Ranger. These fixes would ease a lot of the tension in the Ranger community. They would also make the Ranger a more viable profession.

These are issues that I believe are priority as I see the Ranger (through my gameplay). They may or may not be on your list. Please feel free to add what you see as a major cause of your rage.

THESE ISSUES ARE RELATED TO PVP/WVW AND HAVE LITTLE BEARING ON PVE. PLEASE KEEP THIS IN MIND WHEN REPLYING.

Pets
You have stated yourself Mr. Peters that pets need improvement. They need MASSIVE improvement. Our pets are a core mechanic to the profession. Here are the highest priority fixes for pets:

• The inability to move and attack at the same time. The Ranger’s DPS is lower then other classes because of the DPS we gain from our pets. See the problem? Our DPS is significantly lower then other classes because our core mechanic fails us. This should be a priority fix ASAP.

• The utter lack of survivability our pets have, even with Beastmastery traits. Not only do our pets not attack on the move, they also die very quickly in PvP. You must add a passive for all pets that reduces AOE damage. I personally would like to see 75-90%. There is just too much AOE in this game that destroys our pets in seconds. This should be a priority fix ASAP. (Note: I personally do not know if AOE resistance would be enough. Give Beastmastery a trait for HP increase).

• The delay in using our F2 pet abilities. This sucks but I would much rather see the above two fixed first.

If fixing attacking while moving is very difficult to code, then please add an option to stow our pets for a % increase in damage. This could be a temporary fix until you are able to work out the code. I love using pets but they have very limited use in PvP at the moment. I doubt you envisioned Rangers keeping their pet by their side for pet or rune buffs.

Weapons
I’m over the shortbow “fix” that the Rangers received a few patches back. I do not understand your thinking though about how you personally believe that, paraphrasing, “You do not think spamming 1 is any fun”. The reason everyone was upset was because it was the only viable weapon for PvP. The shortbows skills 2-5 are not damage skills, they are utility skills. There is a reason most Rangers were using shortbows because it was our only viable weapon. Which leads me to:

• Missile speed. Let us face it, it is far to easy for arrows to miss at range. Guns do not suffer this problem. Trying to hit a moving target at range is simply frustrating. We are primarily a ranged class according to your companies description of the class (“Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows.”). Missile speed must be increased to allow us to bring down foes from a distance with our bows! Even using the shortbow, a moving target at medium range will avoid (NOT EVADE) most of the arrows. I see fair play in evading a Crossfire under Quickness or Longbow’s Rapid Fire, but I do not see fair play missing those skills at the range of 500. This should be a priority fix ASAP.

• Obstructed. Enough said. This should be a priority fix ASAP.

• Sword mainhand 1 skill rooting the Ranger in place.
• Longbow damage based on range needs to be removed.
• Longbow 1 skill needs it’s speed increased slightly (too much plus a damage increase might be overkill).
• Shortbow 1 skill flanking requirement for bleed needs to be removed (Hello Warriors!). The duration of our bleed and flanking requirement warrants it’s removal. The only other conditions on shortbow have long cooldowns.
• Greatsword 1 skill needs it’s damage increased.
• Greatsword 5 needs it’s behind target requirement removed or increased from 1 second.

I do not have a lot of experience with axes, daggers, and torches in PvP so I will leave this to other posters who do.

Just looked at Dev Tracker and JonPeters just posted in another forum.

Let’s hope he has the guts to come over here and defend this patch.

or

Maybe we will have to wait for “someone to call him” and “poof” in.

Back to the warrior…

What a kittening disappointment. All this time and this is the best they could come up with?

None of the core faults (for PvP) of our class were even addressed:

1. Pets
2. Longbow
3. Missile speed
4. Spirits will still instant die
5. Obstructed shots
6. kitten weapons

Jesus christ..

I can take a screen shot when I get home but 70% is not the max. I think I’m at 99% critical damage.

With the food I use I think I sit around 104ish.

I’ve been debating getting Dishonored.

I really only like Ranger. So, I’ve been playing Smite. I’m just going to wait to see if I need to burn all my gold to re-gear or not. Don’t want to jump the gun, purchase all new gear, and it gets fixed next patch.

They probably have all their resources on the invisible WvW issue. It involves a lot more players then just Rangers.

That being said, I do not understand why they couldn’t take three minutes to just reply to the topic.

Looking for an active WvW guild. I have Ventrilo and Teamspeak.

Currently I play nights (9pm-12am) during weekdays and throughout the day on weekends.

I run a Longbow and Shortbow power/crit/crit damage build (3200/53%/97%). Currently have rare armor, exotic weapons, and almost full exotic trinkets.

Thanks!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fMAQJATVjIV11RWCWo2Bg1j96LwWBOZPOkxHB;TkAg0UUZoSQllKHVSqWUMsA

Hope that works, did it on my phone. From memory it is around that but I don’t do SPvP and everything I wear is berserker. Straight glass cannon build.

Use to use Lightning Reflexes but I don’t get caught in wrong place anymore.
Flame trap is just too nice to throw down while fighting up close.

I run a power/crit Longbow and Shortbow in WvW. I’m around 3200 power, 53% crit chance, and 95 crit damage.

I usually main the Shortbow because the damage is better then the Longbow. The Longbow sees usage with (Fire Sigil) barrage, when I need range, and to follow up a Shortbow rotation with Rapid Fire.

The problem with Rapid Fire is you need to be close (not a problem if you are using Shortbow often) and it is easy to evade negating a lot of damage, even with quickness.

But the Longbow reigns supreme for tower/keep battles and sniping low health, light armor targets. Hitting them with some 3.2K criticals with it’s auto attack while under quickness will catch them off guard before they can react.

My barrage can crit around 1.5k and with Fire Sigil puts out respectable damage clearing people from the area. I always bust a quickness with barrage and use the rest of the buff to rapid Fire into the crowd. With Piercing Arrow I can sometimes take down 2-3 people.

I’m in a Drakhaven guild that does not participate in WvW. If anyone wants a level 80 Ranger power/crit build lemme know. I really only do WvW and have Ventrilo/Teamspeak.

So annoying to be flipping my camera around to accidentally target something while looking, causing me to lose my current target.

Just a simple check box to disable this would be great. That way people who like it can leave it on.

I bought three superior runes of ranger last night. I applied the first one and then second one. When I went to apply the third it wasn’t there. They were in a stack and it looks like two applied to one piece.

So I look at my armor and it shows set bonuses as (8/6) instead of (2/6). I do not know if I’m getting full bonuses or not because I didn’t really check my stats beforehand.

If I’m not can I get my rune back? Also I hope my two pieces of armor aren’t now bugged.

In PvE I have very little complaints about pets. In SPvP I still have very little complaints about pets. Now in WvW pets need some help.

Currently they are only good for those random 1vs1 and staying by your side on passive for buffs. They need some sort of help like an ignore certain percentage of AOE damage or traits in beastmaster to make them more durable.

EDIT:
Please increase longbow arrow speed so I can use my range effectively.