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Do not celebrate these changes. They are ill conceived and not internally consistent with the trait layout. Biggest example: Longbow is, apparently, all about stacking vulnerability now. So Marksmanship, right? Extra condition duration when you invest. But if you want to drop the cooldown, you have to put 20 points into Skirmishing. There’s 50 of your 70 trait points.
Greatsword is another example. It’s cooldown reducer is in Wilderness Survival. Which gives condition damage. Bleed on Maul is now vulnerability. Great. So now I have to choose between cooldown or longer vulnerability. Oh, and the one handed sword is still useless since you can not reliably dodge while using it.
You even throw us a bone and make Warhorn #5 a blast finisher. Except that it’s still a 35 second cooldown. Warriors have a Warhorn blast finisher that can go as low as 16 seconds, and provides the single most important defensive buff – Vigor.
Apparently, ANet, you don’t want anyone to actually play the Ranger. Well, congratulations. You win – I give up. I’m retiring my Ranger until such time as you hire someone to actually make the Ranger into a viable profession, because the people you have in charge of it do not seem to be taking each facet of the profession into account. Sit down, figure out what role or playstyle you want each weapon to support, then craft around it. Scrap what you have now and start over.
My group just ran AC Path 1, killed the boss and received no rewards. Didn’t even say we completed the instance. Filed a bug report in game which contains the details. Considering I’ve also lost 75 COF tokens over two runs, I don’t know why I bother with the instances anymore.
First time doing an explorable mode dungeon since an early attempt in late August at AC. Received 30 tokens for a full run in COF Path 1 (Effigy) and 15 tokens for COF Path 2 (Scholar Magg) while at least one groupmate (all groupmates were representing the same guild) received 60 each time. Bug reported submitted immediately after each run under this account, see those for greater detail. Remarkably disappointed in the solution to the farming problem and even more disappointed in its implementation.