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i love ranger. it fites with my style and in pve or dungons i have a blast. yes, you can play in pve and dungons without being “underpowered”. like all the classes, some of a utility skills dont work well, but if u play and u have fun, and you learn what DOES work, with your style, then smart people will love to play with you. soloing champs are doable, and EASY to do with two rangers. i dont know your guild but the rangers in mine never have a hard time getting into dungons. i love bm heavy with atlest 20 points in power for penatrateing shots.
if you want to wvw, then i cant speak to that as i mostly pve/dungeon.
Awarw, i know there are problems and i agree with you about some of what you wrote, but not all. i know that alot of our utilities do NOT work as written. i would LOVE it if our spirts worked better and not killed by a stray hit with long cool downs, it would GREATLY increase our group support, bu tthey dont. its an example of what i mean about our problems that they have been “looking at sense launch”.
i do not know if you have looked into it or not but penatrateing arrows, the 20 point under power, is an amazeing god send. it alone can radicaly increase the total damge you are doing if you are fireing into a mass of bad guys, or move around to line up your shots. in pve this is nice when useing your pets or anouther player is surronded by bad guys. in events or dungons this is nice bc you can stay focused on your main target and all the little adds wont block your shots. ive even found it nice in pvp(wvw) bc no matter who gets between you and your target, the target is still going to get hurt.
the 30 in bm is also REALLY nice. you and your pet get an extra heal over time. one of the minor traits (forget whcih one but its only a 5 point) also gives you a heal over time, there is a signit that gives ANOUTHER heal over time, and troll urgent is awsome for you and your pet as no matter where the pet goes you can heal him. the 30 in bm also makes your pet much tougher AND boosts all the healing those hots are doing for you.
there is anouther minor trait (5 point) that allows you to dodge much more often (i think +50% endurnce recharge) and not getting hit as often gives those hots a chance to heal you.
and on top of all this, you can use the signial for stacking crit chance, and the sigil that heals on crit. all of this togeather and i can easly solo stuff i wouldnt even think of doing on anyone else.
i KNOW we have problems, but there is alot of good too. i just dont understand why people dont talk up our good points more.
Ok. I know rangers have tons of bugs, quirks, and things we have all wanted to see fixed sense launch, but I still don’t get what’s up with all the self hate on here. This is not about all the things that are wrong with ranger but what is good about it. The ranger is my first 80 and my first love. While waiting for fixes I’ve leveled a war to 80 and got 78% world completion, a thief and mes into the mid 60s and tons of minor charaters, but ranger is still my true love.
Yes there is tons that a ranger can’t do as well as class X, but with 30/0/5/5/30 a shortbow/ax/horn reef drake/devour and some signtes and soldier armor, it is the only class I have no fear of champs on. I can USUALLY solo them and if I can’t I leave. I have great fun in pve and dungeons. Penatrateing arrows and reef drake are great for upping the total damage and devourer ai is smart enough to use ranged attacks and back up.
I KNOW we need tons of fixes but when I read these fourms 90 is all self hate and makes me wonder why anyone would play a ranger. Well the short answer is bc its a game and its FUN. Please think about what CAN be done with your ranger and set up and try and spread joy and about the good parts while we try and fix the broken ones.
Collin jones. Ok now I’m confused. You said that in 8 vs 2 thiefs yall spent all that time fighting and chaseing but couldnt kill one of the thiefs. But earler you said you fought one of them 1 on 1 for 15 min and droped her several tmes but couldnt finish her and in the end she ran away. Which is it? Sounds to me that YOUR the one that is op. Being able to go toe to toe and do something 8 people couldnt. Also and here is something you don’t understand. She fought you for 15 min and couldnt drop you either. Two people fought two people lived sounds like a draw. That sounds balanced to me.
Typo. Ax 4 givs u pluse 20% to crit. Ax 5 is the whirling that u can still move and tag hurt everything
A few things to think about and I’m sure some of them won’t mess with your curent spec. I love sword/ax with riffle the signate that lets u dodge more and the power trait that hurts those at end of your dodge. You can leep in with sword 2. Do aoe with basic sword attacks (take the pression trait for 50% longer bleeds) u can also tag and hurt tons of things with ax 4. If you need you can dodge into a fight for more aoe or out if things go bad and can switch to riffle with penatrateing rounds for kiting boss or groups. The bleeds from riffle and sword will still tic as u do damage. My build may not be optimized but I enjoy it can kite dungeon bosses and rarely get droped by anything. Its 10/30/30/0/0 with soldier gear for power tough vit and rapager weapons with sigil of percison for higher crit chance and blood for healing on crit.
so its been well over a month now sense jeff declared “he fixed it, just waiting for it to go live” has anet bothered to let jeff’s fix go live yet or is this pos company still sitting on it?
this is not meant to be an “elitist” jerk response, just some advice. yes i know these quests doNOT scale well with deffernt classes/builds/weapon selection. some classes will do better then others (ie easiser) and i am not saying that is a good thing at all. but to get through them now you may need to think about what weapons and skills you are useing. i used to play a thief, human street rat. got to the level 10 personnel quest and got stuck and couldnt no matter what i tried, get past the story. it was so bad i changed classes. i have however gone back to thief. but this time i new more about the class, the fame and the boons by talking with others and playing more of the game. as a thief one skill/weapon set that makes the game MUCH easier is pistol number 5. if you do dagger/pistol or sword/pistol all the game (pve) is much eaiser. pistol 5, makes a circle that lasts 5 secs, and all the bad guys in circle are blind while inside. this means they CANT hit you. at all. the dagger does great single target damge, the sword is malee aoe. this with the heal skill that stealths you if u mess up is a god send.
only reason why i wrote all that about the thief, is that each class seams to have a “sweet spot” of skills that if you use, makes theings much easier. other builds are MUCH MUCH harder. this is NOT optiomanl, but is the state of the game at this time. you just need to find that balence in your own classes, and it may not be they way you would “prefer”.
but if you think this is bad, just what till you get stuck on all the personal quests that you CANT complete no matter what you do bc the code itself is broken and will not advance, and get told by anet that it does not affect enough players for us to risk brakeing something else. ie 1/6 of the base, bc 3 orders and 2 brances. there are several, so the real numbers are even higher.
Jeff thank you for being honest and up font. These ae however several factors y’all don’t seam to be taking into account. You said “I found and find this problem the same day it was reported”. Thank you for your honesty. This makes anet look even worse bc it was reported first nearly a month ago. And anet has been sitting on it. Not good. You said that it wasn’t being released bc Halloween AND Nov were more important. This is even worse. Btw we aren’t stupid. We know y’all are doing something for Christmas too. So now we are looking at not getting a fix you made ready for three or four months? And you expect us to stick around? Do the math. There are three orders. There are two decisions. This means this will stop about 1/6th of your l
Player base. And you still don’t think this matters? Also remember this is not a minor bug this is a stop sign. Story over you lose. I think “rage quite” is silly and stupid. Just remember not only are you not “the only game in town” but you are up against borderlands 2, assassins creed 3, and even xcom. As a matter of fact your not even in thier league bc thier game actually work. If you want to stay in business at all allowed fixes thaty
Ou admit are ready. Not four months later.
you know, this is my first post and its a shame that an other wise nice game has such an issue. the programer said he FIXED this on 23 oct but has NO IDEA when anet will let it go live. at this time that was 9 days ago that it was fixed, nevemind how long ago it was BROKE. and the response from anet was even worse about us trying to talk about it. they said “answer was given, deal with it” and locked the other post line. i dont CARE when the progrmer did his job and fix this, other then it shows how awful anet is being by SITTING on the fix. REALLY? thats your answer? and then to lock down even talking about this? whats next baneing me for finialy speaking up? deleteing this post? anet, yall really think this is a way to keep players happy? how about ATLEST disableing the choice for future players so they CANT pick a brach that doesnt work when you have no desire to alloy fixes? your coder says he fixed this, so let us play the game.