Guild Wars 2

Thank You.. just when I thought all hope had gone!
Thank you for the reply…I will now be able to continue playing my ranger with some hope!

I have watched quite a few pvp videos now and one thing I notice is the lack of a finisher on the ranger!

The nerf to sb was over the top- they should of added a finisher as every other class seems to have one!

Why did rangers get nothing?

Thief has cool finisher/warrior has nice finisher and mesmer well they got very nice finishers if their clones are up!

We need a nice finisher for rangers!
I feel this class was rushed and no thought put into their design and now they are an after thought and will most likely end up at the bottom of the pile once anet gets around to fix elementalists and the other weaker classes!

Hmmm Bacon toastie! Pork chops and chips……. and apple sauce,,,yeah the pig is good for some things!

Vorkk.4927:

People were loud and bothering them with actual facts. I’m not even sure if they understood the math that the mathematicians amongst us gave out. Next are going to be mass suspensions from the boards or even then game. Some people already got them. More will come. I’m sure they have a list of the louder people and I’m on it for calling them liars quite often because well…they are! That is most likely going to be their strategy over fixing things. A few suspensions and bans are far easier to do than say ’’sorry’’. Let’s see how long before this message gets deleted. They don’t usually like what I have to say. I guess the truth isn’t fun for them at the moment. It’s better to be off in LA LA magical land where they don’t lie to their customers.

Your not far off there – I got a temp ban for a day on the forums for posting in the joke post that got closed! -said temp ban for posting stuff that wasn’t relevant to ranger forums- yet the joke is that it was relevant as it was jokes about rangers – facepalm!

Anet getting annoyed with people telling the truth so if they cant close their posts- they ban them and threaten perma bans!
This game company is a joke- worse then bioware tbh!

For the first time ever playing a mmo I feel that I cannot continue with this game due to the lack of response and actions taken by a gaming company- what they are doing is tantamount to suicide for their game.
Do they not think people will be asking themselves these questions and what future this game has?
I would just like a clear response from them with the directions they plan to go.
Ignoring thousands of players thinking your game is safe will not make it safe- people read forums and follow other forums that are not moderated by yourselves where their voices can be heard!
For example mmorpg.com- you have not control there of what people say and believe me when people voice their concerns it will be on those site like that and reddit and twitter which will give a true picture of the state of the game!
So closing posts here and burying your head in the sand wont work!
Please let us know what you plan to do with this ranger class and others or you might find you got a dud of a game on your hands very quickly!

Don’t take my word for it- the proof is all around what happens when you ignore your playerbase- just ask funcom with Age of Conan or even better ask Bioware after their massive failure with Star wars Old republic!

This nerf hasn’t stopped me spamming 1- I still spam it and the so called “fun” is now less then when I really was having “fun” with my ranger!
I don’t think anet knows what they are doing and I have lost faith in this company delivering a solid product – I for one wont touch another game or expansion from this company!
As time goes on and another mmo comes out- people will move onto that!
I for one will sooner go play Star wars the old republic when it goes F2P in the next month or so!

Deleted already -haha- typical -they don’t care about rangers- move along- reroll warrior- they excel at ranged and melee and get to use heavy armour- your wasting your time with ranger!

Your wasting your time- Anet doesnt read Ranger forums! They ignore this class…your better off rolling a warrior/thief or mesmer- those 3 do a far better job at ranged then ranger and excel at melee!

Not to mention they useless in pve dungeons as well- they die super fast- only good for grinding or farming in open world- hence why they bot favourites!

I am not holding out for a buff in this class- with Anets silence its a given they will do nothing- Lucky I have started with a mesmer AND warrior just in case they nerf the mesmer if JonP gets annoyed with mesmers killing his warrior and nerfs them!

Brannoncyll.1978:

I think the ranger needs work because none of its highly situational weapons are good at their assigned roles.

Take for example the longbow – this is supposed to be a long range weapon, yet when used at long range in PvP 90% of the arrows miss a non-stationary target, many more are obstructed, the fire rate is so slow that one can only get off a few shots before either they go out of range or come so close as to reduce the damage to effectively zero.

Shortbow is better but the bleeds are virtually useless in anything other than 1v1 pvp or surprise attacks because of the difficulty in flanking the enemy, the number 2 poison skill is absolutely terrible, and the stun skill on 4 is so short that its only use is to interrupt channeled attacks.

Axe is ok, but rangers are too squishy to survive long at close enough range to a group enemy players, so its multi-target ability is wasted.

Melee weapons… good luck going melee in WvW as a ranger.

Couldnt say it any better
Don’t forget pets as well though- they miss 85% of the times as well and die easily in pvp and in pve in dungeons most times they get one shotted!

I still like the shortbow for kiting and my axe/warhorn is astonishing! When you swap to axe warhorn and use the buff skill in combo with quickness- its unbelievable the speed and the damage as well- and the flock of birds- its sweet dps heaven!
The warhorn buff on everyone around you is sweet as well – even buffs npc’s which is a huge help when you doing an event with npc;’s solo!

Ranger is easy to play but at the same time you either excel at this type of class or fail miserable at it!

I like my ranger even after the nerf- and yes its given we need a few fixes and they have nerfed and not fixed other skills- but I can still solo packs elites etc with ease.
The pets I don’t have any issue with you need to learn to swap them at the right times and time your heals and such on them!
My pet swapping has saved myself and others many times on event bosses- even had people tell me that if it wasn’t for the pets they would be dead!

Ranger is very fun class to play if you can master it!
I always get gold and virtually always out live everyone in dungeons and events- play smart!

I usually name mine as i keep a certain type as the others are useless- my water pets are brown bear and shark / land pets are brown bear and what ever the flavour is of the day- usually the wolf or something for its knockdown ability!

I named my brown bear paw as that’s the tank one i use and its very very handy with its condition remove skill- so that’s my main one for water/land

then the shark is Jaws Jnr as its the best dps underwater one by miles!
The wolf I call Woof- plain and simple:)

You know your next on the target list for getting nerfed into the ground- your not warriors and peter plays a warrior- they are the ONLY safe class!

Your turn next!

Why did the ranger get squished trying to cross the road?

He though he could make it in 40 milliseconds!

- How much time does it take to kill a shortbow ranger? 40 milliseconds.

Thats the best one yet! and so true with the amount of rangers quitting!
LMAO!

Well I take it from the high number of lvl 80 warriors that ran past me- not really focused on the lower levels when I was checking as its quite easy to get to lvl 40-50 quickly- its from the 50 to 80 range that people tend to see if a character will shine and warriors seem to excel at all levels!

The other day I was in lion’s arch standing there in front of the TP with my engineer testing something out with new skills, while I was standing there after around 10 minutes I started to notice something as ppl ran past and my mouse hovered over them!

Warriors…. every 5/10 players that ran past me where warriors! I sat there for a good 30 minutes watching the classes run past and was gob smacked by the amount of warriors that ran past me on desolation server- the next highest gaurdian/thiefs and mesmers!
I saw only a few engineers and rangers and as for elementalist well they must be the rarest played class as I very seldom spotted one- in the entire time I was there like only 5 ran past me!

If the trend continues with the way arenanet is coming up with non existent “glitches” to warrant nerfs like the ranger sb issue and the countless other class nerfs this game is truly going to turn into Warrior Wars 2!

On the plus side you can call WvWvW – Warriors v Warriors v Warriors :P
It all works out the same now lol!

I quit my ranger and this game if they can just “make up” glitches to warrant nerfs- its totally out of order and an embarrassment for Anet to try and tell us this!

Took a couple of days to get debugging in on this. It is in fact a 40ms difference which equates to about 7% less damage when spamming 1. We made this change because it was creating some animation bugs to leave it where it was. It was also encouraging just spamming 1 which isn’t the most fun gameplay. If our data shows shortly that shortbow is now not effective we can certainly address that, but would do so by improving other skills on that weapon rather than by reintroducing the spam on 1 and the bugs that it was creating.

From the Dev himself-so its official that the nerf stays! -check the Ranger SB nerf:not 40 millisecond post- he has responded in that- official dev response!

Warrior from day 1!
After the sneaky nerfs to rangers among other classes and hte lack of fixing any other class, it makes me think warrior should of been my first choice!
They have superior ranged ability’s compared to a ranger which is supposed to be the ranged class and then if you say ranger can do melee well no where near as good as the superior warrior again!
So tell me why roll anything else when warrior can do all the above and so much better at it?

Its been a few days now since you put a response up- any news please? or is this class officially dead now?

Has ANYONE got a screenshot or proof this even existed?
I would love someone to come forward and show us proof of this or any report it was there in the first place…….. as I believe this was nothing more then a sneaky nerf!

Thanks to anets sb nerf- wth where they thinking? this has ruined the game for me now- I don’t want to be forced to play warrior/thief or mesmer but it seems those are the only ones with superb damage and here the ranger had the sb which was really only viable weapon and I logged in today to find it has been seriously nerfed -that 40 millisec is rubbish- I can see a HUGE difference!

This is anti bot nerf rubbish-thanks anet- I give up with this rubbish game and your backward punishing of players!

unable to login- got booted when trying to enter class quest now I cannot login again!
Are servers down and where can I check server status please?

This seems to fix the skill point npc’s on a temp basis till you can resolve the main issue with it.

Please can we have daily restart to reset these npc’s – I have so many uncompleted maps now because of bugged skill point npc’s- its really putting me off the game getting so frustrated over this issue.

Please just a daily server restart will alleviate a lot of these issues
Thank you

Lvl 80 engineer- I have tried all the specs- there is only one viable pve spec and that’s going full heal/support- very low dps but you can survive atleast 3 mobs- any other spec and you will die to 3 mobs!

We need a fix end of!

They need a serious boost not nerf to their dps compared to other classes – I see warriors and other classes rip through 4+ mobs easily yet as engineer if I get 3 mobs even at lvl 80 with good lvl 80 gear I get hammered -90% chance i will die if i get 3 or more mobs!

I have tried every kind of combo to see if it improves- the ONLY viable spec is going the full healing/support route and have a very low dps output which gets you bronze or silver rewards at events and lets you survive more then 3 mobs but very slow killing them!

Please look into this- i quit my engineer now until this is look at – Easier to play one of the other classes which have an easier time grinding away!
Starting to see less and less engineers about!
Also turrets- they a complete waste- NO engineer uses them anymore- I NEVER see any engineer on deso use it unless its WvW and the net one is used!

These two servers have a serious disadvantage and arenanet just bury the proof as they know that the FR server has both the french and the canadian french on it 24/7!
My cousins live in canada and they tell me what goes on there.
They laughing at the people a they know they can keep zergs up 24/7 and take everything!

It needs to change or desolation and far shiverpeaks will just become dead servers as people transfer off them due to the disadvantage

It sucks to see these Canadian players helping out the French to run 24/7 – deny it all you want its the TRUTH and needs to change fast or you frenchies and canadian frenchies will be playing all on your own! As people will leave the other 2 servers and join others servers for a better fair play game!
Arenanet -stop this from happening please!

Don’t try say it isn’t happening btw- I have relatives in Canada and they tell me exactly what’s going on as they play this with their friends on this exact server!