Guild Wars 2

The only weapon Rangers have that doesn’t have completely boring abilities also happens to have an autoattack chain that roots you.

Really, the bow abilities are so vanilla, they’re something I’d expect a warrior class to have, but even the warrior bow has the fire/burning thing going for it.

Orson.8034:

My only complaint about the toolbelt is that it is clunky to rebind the f1-f4 keys, without dedicating a second hand to the keyboard ffxi style.

I have mine bound to ZXCV and it works fine.

Weapon skill 1 is set to F and weapon skills 2-5 are QERT, with 1-5 set to heal, utility and elite skills.

I’ve rebound the functions some of these keys used to be bound to to my extra mouse buttons or alt, shift, ctrl.

spayced.2016:

Nah other classes have a skill like that: an immobile block that does some other effect if you cancel it early. Just rolled guardian and they have one.

Protector’s Strike (Mace 3 for Guardians) hasn’t been immobile since beta, I believe. You can most definitely move while blocking. Just logged in on my Guardian alt to confirm it.

Pete.6037:

If 5v5 hot join was implemented, then it may encourage people to walk together, instead of zerging.

What are your thoughts?

Part of why 8v8 is such a zergfest is because of how points are awarded.

Hotjoin 5v5 would alleviate the numbers issue (which is definitely a separate issue), but I don’t think it’d do much about players zerging. Winning just doesn’t give enough bonus glory, so you’ll see people capping points and killing players in large groups for easy, quick and guaranteed points.

You don’t see this in tournaments because there’s an incentive to win greater than the paltry bonus glory you gain from hotjoin.