Guild Wars 2

Lot’s of these but here goes anyway.

Did Anet actually look at the mythology of Druids before deciding to make them a healer? Only thing centering around healing was their knowledge of plants and herbs.
To quote “History and Myths of Celtic Druidism”
“Though, druids could heal, using some sort of magic or just using herbs, it was mainly the work of physicians.”

It was their knowledge of nature and their supposed abilities to use magic based on nature, understanding of animals, and the fact that they were considered prophetic that made them powerful in their culture.

And what about the legends that they were shape shifters and could also change OTHER PEOPLE into animals? That was where their real power lay. Imagine that as a power. Change an ally into a rampaging drake with temporary special abilities, or change an opponent into a lesser threat, even if only for a few seconds. Now THAT would be something.

On another note, they were worshippers of fire and supposedly had special powers in that area too. Would like to see the flaming arrows of the original GW come back, along with some other fire abilities attached to using the bow or mastery skills.

And by the way, they used wands, not staffs.

I for one, would prefer to see the healing aspect dumped and a more historically correct Druid be brought into play. Keep the existing Ranger healing as that is more based on nature anyway, but don’t turn them into an area healer.

If you want to boost healing you basically have what D&D players would consider a Paladin in the Guardian. Go that route. In my opinion, the current path for the Druid is making the Ranger a much less desirable character class.

This started a couple weeks ago. If you run into an area with bad guys and hit a number for an attack the ranger will often target the furthest opponent he can reach rather than the closest threat like he used to.

I’ve had the ranger take a shot at a monster at the furthest range of the bow that, until that point, wasn’t pulled into the fight, while the monster charging and getting ready to jump him is totally ignored. The ranger used to automatically pick the closest target. This problem has caused some situations where he can’t win, especially in the areas added by HoT where singling monsters out without drawing additional attention is the difference between slowly winning by picking monsters off or getting mobbed and killed.

This problem started happening about 2 weeks ago when I updated to the latest AMD Driver 15.7.1 and GW2 ran an update because I hadn’t been on line in a while. Not sure which one is the culprit.

None of my other 3D games do this. I’d suggest filing a problem report with AMD also.

My computer hangs after just a few minutes of play, and then I have to do a hard reboot.

Guardian named Bjorn Basher