Guild Wars 2

Try running a ranger in WvW. Or don’t because as a player who’s had one since near launch I can say that ranger’s currently are lacking in many aspects including their ability to add to a team. Been trying warrior in WvW and it is nice to actually be able to pump out big numbers consistently from range without having my dps nerfed by a nearly always dead pet that dies to the slightest aoe concentration.

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Best Gw2 update imo since launch.

Good luck running dungeons, that will be tricky.

I haven’t played gw2 in months simply because I do not have time to level other characters besides my lvl 80 ranger and I was too fed up with class balancing issues at the time. After months off it seems that the ranger has not significantly been updated as was promised. Makes me very reluctant to log in at all.

Link doesn’t work for me.

The active from signet of the hunt is aweful, a petty damage boost to one attack. When taking signet of the hunt I never use it’s active, unless I am defending a stationary position and am rarely moving- which is almost never. It would be good if the active was changed and the other signets boosted.

No profesion is close to perfection, and the rangers certainly still a ways further away than the other professions.

Perhaps you could post a video of such a build kicking kitten No offense but when I hear such claims about the ranger I am usually rather skeptical..

It would be cool if the game knew you were in combat (weapons out) then it would appear on the side, otherwise in the middle out of combat.

I pretty much only use a longbow in WvW with the added 1500 range and a power crit build. pumps out ok dmg.

I should name a pet “Easy gank nearby if you can find my master.”

I’d love to see this high burst high damage ranger build, even if it is glass cannonish. I’ve been wanting to play a high damage (burst or otherwise) ranger, I don’t care how fragile I have to be to make it happen. If you find out anything more I’d love to hear specific info!
Thanks.

I actually dropped 10$ to buy a new character slot to reroll as a warrior so I can have fun in PvP till they fix my lvl 80 Ranger.
But my gems have not arrived. It is awful, I can’t play the class I wanted to play competitivley and now I can’t seem to add another character to try another class.
Yeah I could go through the whole customer support spiel, but at this point I’m just too fed up to touch the game.

I have a lvl 80 full exotic ranger with about 60%crit strike and 2400 power and 1300 vit. Pretty glassy but my longbow damage is still not great. I don’t even use 3 as the vulnerability doesn’t do more dmg overalll compared to if I’d taken the time to just shoot one more regular arrow off. and skill #2 does worse damage then if I just spam my 1. I can do okay in sPvP only if I can hide myself in a good high vantage point and shoot at targets that don’t move a ton.
It’s awful, the day I found out that the dmg posted for the number 2 skill is a total dmg over time for the skills duration I lost a lot of ups for the ranger.

At the start of the game it was a great skill as most people didn’t realize they could just cut through the vines in a second or two, and if they stayed in the vines the damage is nice, now though most good players dodge the odvios animation or cut through vines too quickly.

Man I hate it when people spam a and d or q and e straff to dodge all arrows. I as a ranger also feel bad when I’m facing another ranger and dodge all the poor basterds incoming attacks. Makes me feel op and invincible when I do that to other rangers, but it also makes me feel like a d1ck

Get this fixed! I’ve just wanted to roll a proper longbow ranger since release

A pity I can’t use pain-inverter as I am a Charr

If your a Char then good luck :P I can’t find a wicked looking helm for mine, their all pretty poopy options.
eh, actually the monocle eyepieces are pretty cool, but that’s it, there really isn’t anything else I’ve come across.

I’m not one to grump around on forums or complain about stuff much. In pretty much every game I play I have fun playing and that’s it. Gw2 however has some big balance issues getting in the way of my fun. When I don’t have time to play characters besides my lvl 80 ranger main it pisses me off when I cannot have nearly as much fun as I might because of a rather broken class.

I’ve now started labeling the class a DPS class.(much to my lvl 80 ranger main’s discontent)
Well you may say that’s just not true! Ranger’s do not possibly put out enough damage to be DPS classes, and if by DPS you mean Damage Per Second then you are right.
I however trying to be positive positively assert that rangers ARE the ONLY proficient DPS class in the game.
Derps Per Second
XD
T_T

Yeah the ranger is totally a DPS class! – IF by DPS you mean:
Derps Per Second
XD
T_T

deepwinter.9015:

21k hit from a single blow with minimal conditions vs. my highest 12k hit – the last tick of a Rapid Fire with 25 stacks of Vulnerability.

Yeah, Ranger DPS is in the pits and our pets are a sorry excuse to make up for it. Even combined (pending the target isn’t moving) our damage cannot equal that of other professions. We have to jump through hoops while they barely have to twitch their little finger.

I thought rapid fire worked like this for some time until I understood, the numbers on rapid fire are a bit misleading. the last shot in rapid fire is the total dmg from all shots. Each shot in rapid fire only adds to the total that is displayed for each hit, making it seem that you are doing more damage for subsequent hits, when you are not.

Nope.
I don’t have the time to grind for Apoth gear.
And so I suppose I’ll be boycotting them.

I’m kind of in the same boat and so I will be shelving the game until I can have fun playing rangers competitively in all forms of pvp.
Also I see your server’s the Tarnished Coast.
Me too – “For the Coast!!!!”

It’s just rather a poor skill when compared to other classes equivalent options.
It’s so kitteny that every other revive skill for other classes also have a passive buff, or extra utility built in, but of course the ranger’s revive skill gets a long cd and no buff or added utility whatsoever.

Heck engineers get a revive and cure conditions skill on their mere tool-belt! They don’t even have to fill up a utility skill as it is a toolbelt skill that comes in Addition to a regular skill. Not only does the skill revive allies in an area, but it also cures all conditions so it can be used for that too.

check this page out, you can see how all other revives are far superior, but then again that may not be too much of a surprise because after all, we are ranger’s
And as you know a certain company likes to Kitttten rangers in the A55.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Revival#Skills_that_revive_allies

We need more then 2 people working on class balance in the game as it is so very important to every player’s enjoyment. Merely those 2 employees out of the hundreds are responsible for a large portion of my happiness, or otherwise, playing gw2.

So funny XD All the info was true too XP

Those thieves in WvW really get my back up. I’m a level 80 in full exotics and I have been 2 shotted by thieves on a number of occasions. At first I reported the 1st thief. I thought how the hell is it balanced for a class to be able to 2 shot another class? He must be hacking. Other’s arrived and fought the thief and said, no this is just the thief and you are a ranger.
I have a level 8 elementalist and I can put down far more aoe damage in wvw than any ranger build.
lvl 8 ele in white hear > lvl 80 ranger in exotics
:(

Ksielvin.1587:

Zox.5964:

You obviously haven’t properly looked through other profession patch notes to see where their all at because comparatively warriors are in a good spot right now, they really are.

I had hoped to just ignore silly public opinion but as it seems dev resources are scarce and affected by words repeated enough times, here goes.

Balance-wise, I’m fine with warriors as they are. PvE leveling could maybe use a nerf but who cares about that. Spvp has issues but those aren’t really warrior issues as such, just the spvp in general has been in bad state (bunkers) and thieves too good at filling mobility/burst role comparatively. WvW is fine.

Bug-wise, warriors aren’t better off than many of the others. Our popular builds avoid bugs where they can, same as others. With a special case like necros, I’ll suggest fixing 3 necro bugs for every warrior one. But in the end of the day, we need our stuff fixed too.

Well even though this is my opinion I would say that it is not really silly. Read up on what other’s are saying, the warrior is relatively balanced. Yes like every profession there are some bugs, but hopefully they will be looked at. Try playing a ranger and have half of your ranged shots “obstructed” there are few things more frustrating.

I I never knew this. I’m going to have to try this out as I’m a manner’d bear and don’t swear on the forums. here lets see- kitten kitten kitten /p>

-Bwahahahaha, it worked! heh I understand now :P

4. The lack of ranger changes is really grating with me.

nerf was well warranted.

Regarding the burst potential of rifle warriors, watch this video and tell me it’s not a little ridiculous?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ru_rXq2LYg0

warriors are in a very strong position in ranged combat, so please don’t complain about it too much- try other ranged classes 1st.

Kurajin.4607:

DUDE, finally some projectile finishers, this is all i ever dreamed off!!!…

Seriously, looking at the other professions’ patch notes, i am really disappointed – again.
Why won’t Anet give us warriors some love?

@Smilinreap: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012

You obviously haven’t properly looked through other profession patch notes to see where their all at because comparatively warriors are in a good spot right now, they really are.

I feel bad for arena-net if ncsoft forced their hand, which is more than likely.

Come now fellas why all the Q.Q why so serious?
Don’t you know us ranger’s are still competent ranged damage dealers see! -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ru_rXq2LYg0

Oh whoops! I didn’t mean to pick the video of that heavily armored class, how silly of me.

A side note, your not Momo from “The Fairy Tail Guild” in game are you?

As a student with not a lot of time to spend on gaming I’m a kinda a one class guy where I only have enough time to dedicate to one class. After the game was out for nearly 2 months I finally leveled my ranger up to lvl 80. Really though there aren’t many interesting or effective build options and many of the weapons skills are just a bit boring or useless.

I don’t know I don’t have the time to dedicate to another class and so this game is on hold for me until the classes are balanced more and I can expect to play sPvP with any class and do reasonably well with skilled play.

Ziddy.2583:

So Jon has admittedly said that they wanted to add more to rangers in general and possibly more classes but ran out of time. He also mentioned having limited resources citing that only 2 people work on actively balancing the game. That said, it is understandable that the amount of work they have limited this patch.

But I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that it should really not take you over a month to come out with the amount of fixes and balance changes that you inevitably did.

So… When is the next balance patch coming? Is it in a few days? A week? 3 weeks? Waiting until Christmas until we can get a BALANCE UPDATE?!

A response would be appreciated.

I love this game and I love my ranger (well that love is cooling off a bit XD). That said balance is a very very important part of the game. It is a big part of how muhc people enjoy the game and feel good about their characters, and so it really seems like it would be in arenanet’s best interests to have a team of people constantly working on balence instead of just two people no matter how brilliant they may be.

Hey don’t worry this vid proves that ranger’s can still be competent as ranged damage dealers-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ru_rXq2LYg0
oh wait..

JonPeters.5630:

Poof! Someone called and I am here. We made some ranger changes this patch, but had to go back on them because of risk factor.
Jon

I’m now understanding this risk factor a bit more. I think if the ranger did indeed get some substantial quality of life changes rangers everywhere would be so surprised and overjoyed that heart attack rates would go up worldwide. Due to this “dangerous” risk factor the idea that the ranger will indeed get some love must be one ranger players have to be eased into.

Zera.8907:

Guys, Rangers are fine! Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ru_rXq2LYg0#!

Again, Rangers are fine…..oh wait :-(

O.O
I was going to start defending rangers and my lvl 80 main and tell you chaps to quit whining and be patient as changes will come for the better but after seeing that video…..
What the H*ll. I mean seriosly how the h*ll can you do so much damage? Regular crits from a charged attack over 10k? I have a pretty much full exotic lvl 80 longbow glass cannon ranger and the highest crit I’ve ever gotten in WvW was around 4500. This is just stupid, how is damage like that even alright? And I hear warriors also got buffed this patch..
*sigh I hate all the whining and am all for constructive criticism but this is ridiculous.

On I suppose a plus, rangers could become so scarce that in pvp players will not be used to playing against them and so they will not know how to counter them effectively, not that it takes the biggest effort currently XP

I played all the Beta’s and decided to main a ranger. I leveled it up to 80 (the 1st mmo I’ve played to hit max lvl mind you) It is fun, but I am lossing a good deal of interest in my ranger as there really aren’t a ton of build/trait options that seem to work well/ are effective or fun. Supposedly the class is being worked on (all classes should and most likely are being worked on as far as balence is concerned at all times) but so far the changes to the class seem a bit underwelming. I’ll hold my breath and be patient for some time as hopefully there will be more changes, not just to the numbers mind you.
PvP you can do ok, but it is tricky. I rolled a thief on a whim and in the 1st 5 games I found it easier to do well then with a class I was very experienced at. I usually can learn and be proficient with any class in an mmo and so I’m pretty confident the ranger needs a good look. It would be cool to have pro gw2 players to comment on balence.

We have a few rather poopy utilities that I hardly ever use. The pet shouts are pretty awefull- except for perhaps protect me which can help keep you alive if you have a beefy pet out. the pet gaurd I never use except for one or two dungeon instances when I can’t actually fight. the greatsword needs a look at too. Right now I feel ranger’s don’t really bring anything unique to the tanle that other classes can’t already do better. A warrior has far more burst in melee or ranged, our support spirits are lackluster- thier abilities, like our pet f2’s. have an annoying delay before going off. There aren’t very many fun and interesting builds right now that can compete with other classes.
That said I really enjoy my Ranger. I main one and have been 80 for some time. Playing just gets a bit stale every once and a while, and it can be disheartening to have other profeshions outshine you in everything.
Oh and traits need to be reworked some. Many traits I have just never tried as they just seem to be of little use.