Guild Wars 2

When I first bought Gw2 I dropped Dota 2 and had a blast with this game. My first class was a necro, then I made war, and then a ranger. I remember thinking to myself everyone should buy this game. The pve for this game is great, very well put together. But after rerolling for the third time its kind of lost its lack luster. Im doing the same quests over and over again. Then I started dueling which is arguably the MOST fun thing you can do in this game. Sad that there is no implementation for this. I assume that its because Anet doesnt condone 1v1, hence the name GUILD wars.

Still, its mad fun and the players have set up their own system through duel servers. Think about it, whats more fun. Sitting in a point for a full 20 seconds to capture it and then running along and getting the next one, or Halo style Slayer, Most kills win. Killing people is obviously more fun at least it is to me. The problem lies that the game in very imbalnced at the time especially for 1v1. Cond>power for nearly all classes especially the ranger. The same things are being said over and over again but its taking your developers way too long to implement. This patch was the last straw for me.

The leaked patch notes were leaked early last month and quite frankly it was lack luster. The saving grace for me was the buff to maul because as a dual gs ranger this is big for me. Why dual gs you might ask? Why be so noob? Its because im tired. And bored. Ive played every ranger style and this one is the most fun for me. s/t a/d with shamans and spirits is easily the king of ranger builds but its hands down over the top overpowered.

Anyways its october first now and I was excited to see a new patch come out. I thought to myself this is it. At least Ill have a buff to maul. NOPE. No buffs but more importantly no nerfs. The problem with your mentality is you dont balance this game for 1v1 but you should. Think about it. If every class and every decent build is equal to another then 1 war vs 1 theif is a fair fight, 2 war vs 2 necro is a fair fight. etc. etc. Yes balancing is a lot harder then it looks but listen to your players. Play the game 1v1 and find out yourselves.

How many treads do we need to create about healing signet before you shave it down? Obviously we have not made enough. Mesmer is still the king of 1v1 pvp using unchallenging and unskilled mechanics, the only classes who can take down a real mesmer are stun wars with healing signet(just as op), s/p theives spamming pistol whip(Op), Spirit cond shaman rangers(kitten op). You shouldnt reward unskilled builds with month long OPness, but you do. Who knows when any of those classes will get a nerf, no one, you dont even give us hints of upcoming game changes and the ones you do are BORING, no one cares about them. The most important part of patch notes is class balancing, everything else is crap compared to this, I promise you.

Another thing is asura. It pains me you that refuse to give players the option to make them a larger size. The most tryhard thing anyone can do in this game is play Asura, you dont do it to be cute and cuddly, you do it because its overpowered and poorly telegraphed with huge advantages. The trade off is that you are a coward. Thats just bogus for me Anet. They are cowards, and their behaivior shouldn’t be rewarded. Nerf Cond, nerf stupid skills aka phantasmal duelist, pistol whip, skull crack. Make an option for players to see asuras as the same size as human. Do this and watch your forums explode with joy and pain, but it will explode. You will see players rushing back in to try this new meta. You will watch your esport become something real and not the laughing stock of the competive gaming pvp community as right now it looks like a bunch of rats(asuras) running around.

So as it stands, the slow patches you put in, they are just not enough for me. Ive been slowly fading away from this game for the last few months now, and it saddens me because there is something here. You created a world from scratch with its own lore. But I am bored now, your failing to keep me excited and thats your job when it comes down to it. With dota 2 I am challenged every time I play, I am a team with my real life friends talking to them with built in mic mechanics. Its a free game yet it gets patched nearly every week with amazing changes but most importantly they fix what is broken, thats the kind of amazing Developer IceFrog is, he listens to the good players and fixes whats OP or weak, and he doesnt care if some kids cry and quit. Here it seems I am just waiting for what feels like eons for hypothetical wishes. You might look my post with disgust, but I am a player, I am your player, we have a relationship in some way. If you want me to keep spending my time on this game then you need to keep me interested. More patches, more buffs, more nerfs, more. MAUR okay.

I can see why. War used to take the most skill to play but after the healing sig buff anyone can own with this class. You used to have to be great player to beat other classes like guardians eles or really any power build but now its just been dumbed down for the masses. Its as easy if not easier then playing mesmer or shamans spirit cond ranger(sad). Just boring and imo low skill. Hats off to you if you are war and dont use this bogus sig. You are oldschool legends, tight kitten, keep it real.

NEVER EVER. Sometimes GW 2 will bug out and give a blank see through screen while maintaining the cursor. You cant alt tab, you cant bring up task manager to front, and you cant even log off. Only otpion is to restart. Fix this Shiz. First time this happened I was like whatever but its been few times now. Unacceptableeeeeeeeeeeee.

trick is to just kill yourself for making a skullcrack gs warrior with healing signet. Ez. jk jk that was my rage for the watered down warrior class talking. kitten kitten . If ur skullcrack then ur power, if ur power go rifle, if your cond go for LB.

Jungle Spider(Mesmers R Low Skill)
Wolf (Healing Signet For Nab)

Play mesmer? Crying? HEres SUGGESTION. MAKE A NEW CLASS! A REAL ONE! LOL! You see your skill on mesmer is just an illusion, its not really there and never will be. That’s your class mechanic, automatons.

I would glady take no changes to ranger for a year if instead of phantasmal duelist, mesmer would just summon pink butterfly that floated around the fruity mes, or if instead healing signet did – hp regen to punish you for being a passive regen clown. Top it all off! Burn dmg heals you! Cond meta fixed. Game would finally be balanced.

as a dual gs zerk ranger I have to say I cant wait for this next patch! 15% dmg and some more vuln on Maul will tooooooooooootally turn things around in this condition hell right? RIGHT!?

Ok its no surprise that leaked notes are out and you guys can harhar close all the posts u want and pretend like you never heard of this before but you know as well I do that the data mined patch notes are 90% true and planning to be implemented. First of all let me thank you for buffing GS for ranger, as part of the 5% of rangers who actually play power instead of cond this is big for us. Wow. Thanks. but I noticed you didnt really nerf anything here. Yeah u htrew us some candy but you didnt kill whats OP. As dual gs zerk ranger I hate the OP. Yeah you nerfed spirits, decently but they are still lame strong esp in multi man situations. Ok biggest most broken skill in this game is phantasmal duelist. Its been said over and over again, every single serious mes is running this pistol for this skill. At no time should anyone be able to summon not 1 but two imba kitten pink 1200 range, 8 stacks of bleeding, multi criting, confusion stacking clowns that win them every fight. Top this off with a 20 second cool down and you have the king of all skill in the game. Secondly, healing signet “dude healing signet isnt good 2v1 or poison” um dude no heal is good vs 2v1 or poison and whats worse for those other heals is they can even be interupted. 380 hp per sec is simply too strong on warrior who uses heavy armor. Wars are tanking harder much harder then guardians and the biggest problem is no war is running anything else. Every war u come across will run healing signet. Want to diversify ur game? Tone this down a bit. Last but no tleast for the chopping block is the life blast dmg from necros. Out of nowhere these guys start critting us for 4k now. ok fine. My problem comes from when the necro is at 10% life force and hes still critting me for 3k. Thats a problem. Life blast dmg used to scale with life force and obv it has been reworked. Before it was too weak, now its too strong. Your good at doing that ANET. Fix it. Sure theres lots of things to fix but these are my top three. Hell I dont even really care about the necro, just do something about the first two.

Dont listen to the hype, sure necro and spirits are strong in this meta(maybe the strongest) but mes and thief are easily the most played and tryhard out of the bunch.

Ok I know a lot of you play as asuran but this race has such a benefit over other classes because of its small stature and this game isnt supposed to give game changing racial bonuses. My eyesight is fine but half the time when asuran is using a block skill I cannot tell because they are so tiny and poorly telegraphed. I have cought tons of reflect projectiles cuz of this. Can you guys at ANET do something about this? perhaps make them 50% larger? they would still be smallest class. Another option which I think is pretty cool but I know you devs would never implement would be to scale DPS with size.

For example The largest norn would have a 1.1 damage multiplier while the smallest asuran would be something like .9 damage multiplier. This way when you build big characters you get some extra dmg too offeset the wvw aggro and ez read telegraphs and if you build tiny you get some reduced dmg because vice versa. I think this a really cool idea because a gigantic norn should be hitting way harder then the tiniest asuran in the first place. I feel ashamed when I see my friends rerolling the same class as Asuran just because they know the advantage it brings. Plz do something about this.

One might argue that LB range trait + piercing arrows is better then LB range trait+ remorseless or piercing arrows + remorseless. Our 15 trait in power is uterrly useless, the opening strike is not applied to pet when going stealth in remorseless and even when pet gains stealth like jaguar. Only when you kill a foe, talk about useless its why you buffed remorseless in the first place. Barrage is nice but cd is too long even with shortened CD.

Holy crap yes and MORE PETS WILL ALSO KEEP US HAPPY. Gonna nerf us? give us another pet, rinse repeat until all the other classes become jelly of our zoo keeping abilties.

The third volpe, aka Trey Fox, aka Volpeh, aka miserablepersonirl is the truest form of human scum. As much as I hate this guy for his obnoxious trolling with his full bunker thief(Trey Fox, who does 0 dmg but just runs away and stealths(obvious stealth needs needs nerf, just watch this clown and be amazed how lulz ez low-skill stealth mechanics are)) while downing and interrupting duels for 14 hours of the entire day, every day. If I saw this person IRL (isnt hard to find him on fb when you connect the dots) Id probably hit him. Your best bet is to just get him kicked from the server when he does this kinda crap, most of the duel server heads have already banned him few times so they are used to it. I have gotten him banned once and later followed him around rubbed it in his Adams Family Lurch-looking face. He was really quiet and didn’t talk back after so I knew he was hurtin bad. Even trolls have feelings LOL. All that being said he prob wont be banned from the game with this. I know it feels like you got em but this doesnt really prove anything. Tons of ppl have been under the stage(esp in duel servers), its not that hard to do and almost obvious, using already in the game mechanics. I really doubt its illegal and bannable but who knows. Sure its annoying but if hes under the stage, you can just move your location and he wont be able to get you+ he can only hit you with under water weapons. But yeah Trey is still a piece of garbage troll, just take solace in the fact that he will be forever alone and never reproduce.

Black Lion pet plz!

I do hope they give you guys some other stuff. I dont think mesmsers should be dependent on phantasms even thought they are built into your weapons. I dont really have any trouble with phantasms except duelist, 1200 range 8 stacks of bleed, tons of dmg, never stops to move, 20 sec cd. They can shoot through your combo fields as well, each shot providing a stack of confusion, Ive had 17 stacks of confusion on me like this. Anyways Im all for buffing and nerfs for all classes. I can admit spirit ranger is too strong which is why I dont play one, not because its an expected nerfbat incoming but mainly cuz its boring and easy. I’d advise healing signet warriors to watch out too, cuz if mes, ranger and necro get nerfs I doublt they will let the 392 hps per sec signet slide.. Btw Selen this is that same ranger from a long time ago, the smash bro. haha but yeah only thing I can say for mesmers in denial is to just try any other class in a 1v1 server. If you dont get tired of fighting mes within your hour then hats off to you, you prolly have a really huge kitten irl.

Okay im back just wanted to say Im LB GS now and having a blast as a power ranger. Still would love to see some more from GS. Maul Blast finisher/KD ftw!

Heard someone talking about this earlier, said it was going to be put in next patch. Is this true? Can anyone provide proof or link plz. Ty.

I know why you don thave mobiltiy its becuas eyour one of the best 1v1 poisiton holders. It would be too op to give ur phantasms insane dmg and speed as well. If anything they should make you trade off for it.

my biggest problem with duelist is that it hits fast and hard and drops heavy conds. Unlike all your other phantasms it will have be pumping 100% dps rate because it will never need to stop to move with a 1200 range. So we kill the annoying lil guy. Then hes up 20 sec later. not cool. 20 is the price you pay mean while the other player who prob took dmg from ur OTHER phantasm and you at the same time is rewarded with nothing except heat off his back 19 seconds. So we cant stay and kill you but we can run away. You cant chase us but you can stay and fight. They just need to bring ur mobilty on par with the rest of the classes, increeast ur topguh power and vit/toguh, and lower ur phantasm dmg. As it stands the class is dependent on phantasms.

blast finisher>leapfinsiher

U see ranger spirit cond is the most op class in the game. I am lowly NERFED bm power gs ranger. I have figured out how beat u and that is to stoop to ur lvl in opness and become a shamans spirit cond ranger. ppl cry everyday in our forum about spirit ranger so obviously it will get a nerf. Is it not allowed for me to say what I think is fair? Luckily im not conds or spirits so I dont have anything to worry about. I am all for buffing you, I think they should raise your toughness and hp and remove your dependence on invisbility and phantasmal dmg. Same with thieves. Phantasms should do half their dmg and your other skills should do more. If im taking insane dmg you have should to aim for it. They should give you better team skills so maybe they will be used for tpvp play, but as it is maybe Anet just doesnt want to reward mesmer for pvp play. I can see why *cough verylittleskillinvolved cough

plz just nerf duelist or buff gs ranger. But something is wrong when every mes is using this weapon.

First things first I know this game isnt about 1v1 but this is a personal question which I am hoping to learn from as I play in duel servers. Obviously dueling should be in the game but it hasnt been implemented yet/lazy. Phantasmal Deulist is an exceptionally strong skill and is probably the most dangerous weapon in the mesmers arsenal. I am having a lot of trouble with it.

Any good mesmer who ueses duelist whether it be zerker or phantasm will p much wipe the floor in a 1v1 situation if the other person is brave enough stay and fight through the illusional dmg. The exception to this is your cond necro, your cond spirit ranger, and your cond war or mace zerker war (with healing signet). And again this is only occasionally, but a good mes will vs you again and again til he wins and his ego is satisfied(needs trophy imo). As a power ranger I am having a lot of trouble against this class as pretty much everyone else is. No one is thinking yeah mesmer is easy to beat, in fact in duel servers its not uncommon for a mes to be turned down from a duel. If I stay and fight, they will get 2 duelists up (20 second cool down) eventually, drop a chaos field (which the duelists will shoot then through putting even more conds on me) and then I will just run around and play with my kitten as there is nothing I can do with 17 stacks of confusion on me.

Now heres what Ive tried and what Ive learned. I feel like the phantasms are too strong to let beat down on you, they are like the mesmers armor and their sword. You must kill these annoying kittens, because not only will they body block for the mes, they will do insanse nuts dmg on you. In short a mesmer without phantasms will not be able to kill you. Basically if you alawys kill phantasms as soon as they are up, the mesmer never do enough damage to down you. Some ppl may disagree and maybe those ppl have a better solution, and thats why ive made this post, so I can hear this better solution. I have also tried sending my pet to kill off the illusions while I chase the mesmer. This is a very hard tactic because you are constantly redirecting the pet to phantasms(often there already more then 1 up) and then tracking down the mes again to regain targetting while keeping it focused at the same time. This usually yeilds the best results for me as if Im lucky I can catch a break and down the mes(at point they will say “again” and vs me until they win and the blood leaves their head). Again this makes for an extremely ardous fight but if you were born with a calculator in your hand feel free to give this a go. Another otpion is to send the pet after the mes and kill the phantasms urself. This is the safest route as bm ranger because you can always guarantee a stalemate. They will never be able to kill u without the help of their imaginary friends. Some other facts about my self is that I am a sb/gs ranger (power valkyrie setup). Anyways hope you enjoyed the sarcasm but srsly could use some help so hook a kitten up with those mes murderin secrets.

As for healing spring, ill be lucky if my opponent steps in it so I can swoop at them and continue to fight but usally I am swooping out to them losing valuable regen and more importantly cond removal.

Atherakhia.4086:

Swoop’s primary advantage over the Warrior’s Charge skill is that Swoop isn’t affected by movement impairing skills. When they nerfed Ride the Lightning into the ground I thought for sure Swoop would follow.

Definitely untrue. I cannot fathom the number of times my swoops has just flopped due to cripple or chill. You will go barely half distance. I have no idea where you came up with this Idea.

Buff this kitten. Come on meow.

yes you named a bunch of strong condition class and super glass burst. I am a power ranger, its simply impossible for me to burst you down, ranger power is very neglected because half our attack is going to our pet who also doesnt really dmg you anyways.

Whine or not bottom line is your in for rude awakening if you truly think this going to stay the way it is. In the end we all know mending should be the better heal regardless because hellooo cond removal.

Just wait for nerf dont worry its coming, as ranger I can say spirits OP

Maybe they should just remove the class.

yes mes is easy mode not arguing that but face tanking anything coming your way as full melee with a scary kitten 3.75 sec stun and using whirl wind and charge to avoid run away as your health fills back up has taken away much of the SKILL needed to play the warrior class.

Scoobaniec.9561:

Sami.7923:

I think this will get a nerf for sure, its all anyone talking about in duel servers. I just saw a war get turned downed from three duels because hes was using HS. You guys are still no phatasm mesmer but I think it would be silly to let this continue or believe this is acceptable. I have a war who is lvl 80 so I can admit this is over the top . If spirit ranger and Cond necro are getting nerf in the near future you can be sure as hell this will too. Sorry.

So..nerf it back to 200hps? Yep good solution. I just wondering why noone complains about surge or mending paired with restorative streght trait (7 condi cleanse)

Because you need to cast those skills, no one casts signet of healing unless they abut to lose. For mending you need to create a gap and then cast it and even then it can get interrupted. Passive healing means you are always healing, always mitigating burst and conditions. Its ez mode. They dont need to take it to 200 but something like 280 with a better scaling with healing power would be a start. Some many ppls saying war has been underpoweored for a long time but its horese kitten. Ive lost to plenty of good mace stun wars long before this buff but now I lose to no skill wars who no not even need to move. You can complain and cry trying to hold onto this ez mode skill but there is a hoard of ppl doing the opposite and its obvious from what ppl are saying that it will not stay. The only class who can actually bring you guys down in a 1v1 situation anymore is a very skilled cond necro, very skilled cond spirit ranger, or your average run of the mill no skill duelist phantasm mes who kills everyone regardless.

I think this will get a nerf for sure, its all anyone talking about in duel servers. I just saw a war get turned downed from three duels because hes was using HS. You guys are still no phatasm mesmer but I think it would be silly to let this continue or believe this is acceptable. I have a war who is lvl 80 so I can admit this is over the top . If spirit ranger and Cond necro are getting nerf in the near future you can be sure as hell this will too. Sorry.

No daecollo after huge complaints about the BM ranger we lost “gain quickness on pet swap” and recieved the kittentiest MANDATORY trait in the game “your pet gains quickness for 5 sec when you are down” We cant pick up anything in the BM line without first picking up this crap. Many ppl including me have abandoned the BM line completely. I have yet to see any other class have to take such an unneeded/useless trait for their class mechanic.

As a ranger I can say OP is correct. As it stands Spirit cond ranger is prob 2nd best in the meta just behind MM necro. I know this because I switched from my regular power gs build to try out spirit cond ranger with shamans gear. Face rolled everyone I came across(even phant mes) but lost to a good necro. Its really not that hard to play one, just go s/t a/d (evade on both swaps) spam tons of conds and spam spirit skills when their up(who actually aims that lol) Go something like 10/0/0/30/30 and not only will you not die you will just melt the toughest armored opponents esp if they are stupid enough to sit in bonfire for a few seconds. Spirit Cond builds are so much stronger then any power ranger builds it leave for a very 1 sided playstyle for our class. Yeah yeah they nerfed bm and gave us some treats and now they are prob gonna take those away too but whatever. Im tired of seeing these guys everywhere in spvp thinking they are the kitten, Id gladly take a nerf here if they decide to nerf the OP as hell healing signet on the war and finally JUST MAYBE show power ranger some love.

Hey so heres what I did. I took moment of clarity and isntead of GS s/d im now running gs sb. This has helped me fix some gaps as I can now drop movemoent speed and kite when I need to. I no longer have to run in and take AOE in the face as full melee. the SB #5 also helps me proc moment of clarity and if Im close enough I just wep switch and maul, continue fighting and wait for maul to come off cd before I go for hilt bash into maul for another moment of clarity proc. Overall I am a little happier but till still SB doing the brunt of the work. I think maybe all this might need is some increased dmg the the auto chain and change maul back to what it was with bleeds or provide something cool like blast finisher. Still have not figured anyway to counter healing signet warriors. I can stand behind them with SB in full zerker for a full 30 seconds only to take them to 75% hp.

Sword has better defense, almost the same movement, and much better damage and pet buffing using just 3 skills. I would love too see gs#2 be a blast finisher but that will never happen. You would be able to blast finish 3 times in healing spring with reduced cd. Im not zerker by choice but because crit dmg and precision along with moment of clarity is a neccessary to turn the GS into something other than an oh kitten Im in trouble weapon. Look at the trait for GS 5% dmg? wow Very original should def pick that up. Srsly just not enough love for this weapon. Every other class you with gs avialable to them you will see plenty of them using them. You will barely come across rangers who GS. Not because they dont want to but because they found better and settled. Us however were just trying to make the best of an already bad situation. Your happy with it but you dont spvp so you dont know whakittens like to be set to certain amount of stats while other builds and classes tower above yours because your too stubborn to let it(the gs) go.

Yeah ill be in Rethesis 1v1 dueling arena if some pro wants to come show me how its done.

Most rangers are not fine with GS which is why youll hardly ever see a power focused GS ranger. The other options for melee is SWORD and DAGGER which is I use on swap oh and Axe offhand if you like standing in place while being obvious.. You are not forced to post here either but you just enjoy polite trolling me. Very big pro you are plz teach classes or something. I have a warrior and a necro but AS I SAID BEFORE I play ranger because its the ONLY class that can use GS and wear medium armor. Whats wrong with you? are you a gs ranger? yes? how could you not want a buff? No? mad spirit ranger? f off.

@ chopps yeah u can do that but why would you? hilt bash is neccesary to proc moment of clarity and even if u dont use that trait its too invaluable to just miss on pupose for ur pet to do a stronger atk that may or may not crit.
@malpractice yes hes suriving Ive used counter attack plenty of times to block shots from duelist etc but the problem is its not doing enough dmg to cancel the mitigation from skills like regen or protection or god forbid the strong as hell healing signet. I can handle my pet fine, I use a naga mouse, its ez. Every BM ranger knows how strong cat is, cool. You know whats cooler? putting 0 into bm and still making ur pet work which is possible with skills like guard and carnivorous appetite. And your wrong about the gs doing all the work for insanse regen. Insane regen is insane regen, it doesnt need the assistance and even if it did s/d provides MUCH better damage mitigation. I actually picked up LR because the block on GS is not enough when you get illusionary leaped. In fact the block is usless when it happens because you attempt to kick the evading mesmer and take the full brunt of his attack.

ppl can say counterattack is great but Id much rather have it do something else. Anyone who duels knows exactly whats going to happen when they go to attk u while ur holding ur sword up in the air. “you have to time it correctly blah blah blah” no. its just not that great. the KD kick is the best thing about it but half the time it will miss if the enemy is moving. If you could use the KD on command instead of crippling throw it would be way better. Your problem is you think I am some noob with this weapon but I assure you its not the case. I just dont want to force myself to use a weapon that in undeniably underpowered. The sword easily out dpses it and the chain is even better. 1 sec evade on every third attack? Yeah a chain that takes 3 seconds to complete for a chance to evade isnt that great when compared to 400 range kicks that cripple and give might to ur pet and much attacks faster for nearly the same dmg(give or take 10-20. really? freaking pathetic).

@ malpcractice I actually have seen that video and ones like but its nothing special. Hes just in wvw bunkering down using cleric gear with prob ascended gear picking on those who have less then him. Hes simply outlasting his opponents using rangers excellent healing through regen but the thing is a Cond spirit ranger in shamans(apothecarys) can and does do it way better. I used to run a build which was just like that long before I saw that video, it was obvious. But the thing was I didnt need the GS, in fact it hampered me bcuz when u switch to it you do no conds and its dmg isnt enuff to deal a sufficient amount outside critting or getting attack of opportunity with maul. Go to any duel server in spvp and you will never see a ranger with GS aside from me. And no from what Ive heard and seen ESO is actually copying the gw 2 engine, its both first and third person, you can switch between the two.

Im sorry but theres simply no love for this weapon. Every other GS weapon for other classes are awesome, many people use the GS as their main like guardian, war or mes. They all have powerful skills. We have swoop and maul as our best and they really arent that spectacular. Id much rather spawn some dude thats gonna fight for me and do INSANE damage, Id much rather do 100b that hits for 3 times the dmg of maul, and Id much rather spin around in huge AOE immbolizing my enemies. but no, I have to land mauls, mauls that take a good about of time to hit the ground and give me vuln. Nice vuln there hmm what do I follow that up with? Oh some weak gs 1 chain? Some weak swoop? Some non-existant dmg super short-range hilt bash? I guess ill stop for a second before I throw my sword at them. When I switch to gs they chain all the moves in 4 seconds and then for the next 6 I am are slowly swinging around doing pitful 400 dmgs and lucky to get some evades in while my opponent is enjoying the nice breeze I am providing.

If I could fix this game heres what Id do
Raise theif and mes toughness and hp, reduce SR to 3 seconds(No stealth should be longer then 3 seconds when there is no counter to it in this game) Nerf Phantasm dmg, duelist should do way less dmg for sure.
Nerf MM necro a lil bit
Nerf Cond Spirit Ranger
Buff Guardian
Buff power ranger
Nerf Healing Signet by 50 hp or lower it and make it scale better with healing power
Replace thieves guild and engis crate with something that isnt BS.

This weapon is so gimick as it is right now. The recent change from mauls bleed to vuln was not a buff but a NERF. The only way to make this weapon work is to run zerker and use moment of clarity. WTF!? I have to get interupts on my enemies with the 25 sec cd on hilt bash into maul AND the moment of clarity affect wont even stack with the skill itself? What kind of BS weapon is this. Everytime I switch to gs my opponents end up healing up until I switch back to s/d and even then Im pretty sure its the conds doing all the work, not the power. it simply doesnt have anything special about it aside from great escape and chase this weapon is just trash. I have spent countless hours trying to make this work and it JUST DOESNT.

I then tried condition s/t a/d with spirits, shamans ammy and face rolled everyone I came across( even phant mes) but lost to necro. But I have to say it was pretty OP and just straight up BORING for me. Look. Only reason I made ranger was so I can use GS and wear medium armor as the ranger is the only class that can do this. I dont even want to lvl to 80 when I know theres nothing to look forward to, I will always be SEVERELY underpowered as a power ranger compared to my condition counterpart.

Why am I so Underpowered? Hmm geez maybe cuz you devs at Anet decided to give 50% of my physical dmg to an unreliable AI. AND THEN you decided that if we wanted to ultilize such AI we must first spend points on a trait that gives “Qucikness to your pet when downed” WTF! This is the most hands down garbage trait in the entire game!

When I duel other OP cond spirit rangers and lose they tell me “hey some advice buddy, power on ranger is noob” WOW! THANKS ANET! GLAD YOUR TRYING REALLY HARD TO BALANCE THIS GAME AND NOT SHOVE ME IN A CORNER WHERE I DO NOT WISH TO BE. PLZ SHOW MORE OUTSTANDING DEVELOPMENT AND I WILL DEFINITELY CONTINUE TO PLAY YOUR GAME AND NOT ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE IN THE COMING FUTURE

I just tested soldier rune on my ranger with gs s/d. Plenty of REQUIRED poison from s/d. Still not enough, blackbeard is completly right about balanced builds not being able to do enough dmg to mitigate the heal. I could not even take this war down to 75% but slowly and surely his bow and sword wittled me down even though I am running MASSIVE cond removal through, healing spring, emphatic bond, signet of renewel, and soldier runes with 2 shouts(guard and protect me). My only option is to revert back to zerker and this puts me at more disadvantage as I am paper with no toughness and low hp. Even the Zerker rune is not enough as I must run moment of clarity(GM trait) and MUST get INTERRUPTS through hilt bash(25 sec cd..) into maul. Do you have any idea how unbelievably hard that is when my only trump card is to interrupt you and try to win the fight early? Honestly the problem may not be HS but the fact that ranger gs is just a gimmick, a silly thing made only for escaping and running away. Today I also tried a spirit cond ranger with shamans ammy and s/t a/d. Facerolled everyone I came across, even phant mes. Lost to a necro but still, it was pretty OP and boring. Theres simply no balance between power and cond for the ranger, the fact that rangers do less atk dmg then every other class is just makes for one sided playstyles. So yeah whatever, keep your clearly strong signet. buff power ranger, make gs viable and not some bs escape weapon.
ps. I originally posted this in spvp forum dunno why a GM moved it here, not trying to troll.

They have protection because they are light armor. Ppl think ranger pets are OP? They are our curse… Ranger dmg is cut in half bcuzwe get a pet with bad AI. They only do enuff dmg if we spend the trait points in them and even so in wvw or dungeons they will always die. Ppl compalined about pets and we got a huge nerf to them, not just any nerf and complete trait line nerf. To even get any traits in BM line we must pickup “Your pet gets quickness for 5 sec when you are downed” which is arguably THE WORST TRAIT IN THE GAME. If we could choose not to have them and get out 50% dmg back then we would. I think you guys are missing the big pictture here which is Healing per second. TU has 15 seconds of down time on 25 sec time AND we have to activate it. it heals for 850 per sec. HEaling spring has 30 sec of down and heals for a pitiful 5k. Do the math and you will see healing signet heals more then TU and this is with 0 healing power. So more toguhness, Heavier armor, and more healing. You guys can go conds (swords bow) or power (mace shield gs). Rangers are stuck to conds. Whens the last time you got downed by a power ranger?

I am full melee as well but u dont see me with 500 healing per second.

As it stands its pretty overpowering. Even most wars I come across agree with me thakittens OP. Its 392 healing (without healing power bonuses!) per second and can be activated for 3300 heal on 20 sec cd. You may disagree but consider this. Signet of the wild, which is based off healing power gives 140 hp with full clerics and with regen uptime which gives 80+healing power(low ammount) is still below healing signet. Now the offset to this is to use conditions as the war is not using the other heal to remove conds. but what if I am a power build? They changed my gs maul from bleed to vuln so I had to switch into zerker to make it do any dmg. I dont even use signet of the wild anymore because it give me a pitiful 50-60 hp per sec even though its probably our best passive utility. So wars that I come across now pretty much outheal me and outdamage me. What was healing signet before? Now before you guys make fun of me for making gs zerk ranger(its the only way to make gs viable on ranger as the DMG and speed are pitiful and only if I take a grandmaster trait moment of clarity). Know that I dont care to play full shamans cond spirit ranger(low skill). Its just as OP if not more and its going to get a nerf very soon. I agree that wars needed a buff(still no love for guardians) but this is too much.