It’s not the builds. It’s the class. If the class is bad, you can’t find working builds on it because nothing works.
You will always die fast except with the spvp gear because you are nothing more than a basketball and other classes simply play with you.
Just go to eb jp and notice everyone attacking you because they know how kittening weak ranger is, then do the same with mesmer, nobody ever wants to pick a fight with you.
Good job, you found something fun to do with this class and you only have to waste like 5 skills for it to be able to kill 1 idling invader.
Remember Bioware?
They lowered their requirements for server population, meaning servers showed “High” with lower people online than before, meaning overall the servers seemed more alive from judging the small little word beside it indicating its number of inhabitants.
I don’t say they do this, but trusting it blindly is just stupid. There is literally no reason to show anyone how dead a server is.
By the way, to the people who say low level zones are active, when i leveled my warrior to 80 just weeks ago on a Medium server, 95% of the events were dead and i stumbled across a non-bot player only every 1 hour or so.
I never said Ranger is fine.
Ranger is by far the worst class anyone could play in this game. I switched weeks ago to another class.
What i meant is, Jon himself said that Ranger is fine, which means there will never be buffs, may be for water combat but not for the class.
So just abandon it already if you aren’t a masochist.
Why are people still posting in this thread?
It’s not like it will change anything. Anet said that the class is fine as it is.
If you still play ranger at this time, it’s almost your fault.
Just saying, but ranger is dead since anet stated that they will never fix the class.
Hotfixes don’t require a download, it’s just some code they put into the game live.
Seems anet got hold of it thanks to this post.
So they are reading the forums, but not for doing good things.
May be i’ll get an answer in form of a stealth message?
The Hunter in Arah Path 3 doesn’t drop anything anymore, it was a good 26s with a chest every 5-8min and it got stealth nerfed in between the last 3 hours.
If you create a game where you have to grind immeasurable amounts of gold for simple things like a shiny weapon or seasonal goodies like halloween skins or materials for leveling a profession to 400, why the hell do you kill every single way to get gold for little time?
You promised to not sell a grindy game but you add it anyway, good thing the game isn’t subscription based because you would have none left by now, then you repeatedly nerf every way to grind.
Can you please, at least, tell us why?
I still play because i have nothing other to do at the moment.
If the next content patch is as bad as the last, adding even more gear treadmill, i will go back to LoL.
This is seriously comedy gold.
To lie so much, you should get straight out kicked of a company.
“Fix traits and stuff” they said, now what do we get, more warrior buffs and ranger changes that would change nothing if they were left out completely.
Oh boy, now baddies will run 100% mf gear and die every 10 secs.
Why can’t you do anything right?
Rangers are good, period. That doesn’t change the fact that they need fixes more or less than every other class.
The real “delusion” will probably go away on 15th when the patch is released.
Funny that someone like you who openly says that Ranger is fine talks about delusional.
The patch will do nothing and you will go on with your remorse leveling a Ranger to 80, all that time you could’ve spend to actually level a good class.
They don’t need fixes, they need a whole revamp of all traits and skills and the pet system.
I wouldn’t come back to my Ranger if they gave them 100% more damage, it’s still boring and monotonous like hell. Well even then any other class still does more damage but you catch my drift.
Oh boy.
You really think those poor 16 bullet points will be the homecoming of jesus for ranger right? I hope you realize it’s some minor bugfixes. You really think they will “fix” the pet? That’s near impossible if you’d actually understand anything about game engines or programming. They’d have to remodel the whole pathfinding.
The pets damage is just as bad as the rangers (if it would hit for once), the traits are 90% clusterf. and there are bugs (obstructed, invulnerable) bigger than it could get fixed in months.
Keep on hoping son, my mesmer just hit 60.
Are you guys still arguing about the thief vs ranger damage?
Holy…
It doesn’t freaking matter what class’ damage you put up against rangers, ranger will always be kitten poor compared to it.
Stop accusing him of lies you delusionals. Ranger is worst and will stay worst.
It shows no damage because it deals no damage.
- 16 bugfixes
- virtues buffed by 20%
- 100 blades now useable while moving
Oh wait.
So i have to grind again to not get worse gear than others?
Oh well, thanks for keeping your promises anet.
“I feel mighty!”
But you aren’t, and you never will.
My Mesmer is already level 55.
Also i have a level 45 Warrior.
So i’m set.
Guys there’s really nothing wrong with Ranger! I swear!
Because they don’t actually play the game, that’s the problem.
If they’d make only 1 dungeon run or WvW run with Ranger, they’d buff the class by 300%.
But as already said, it’s only some fixes and buffs probably to traps and spirits. Nothing more.
Shortbow “bug”, pet pathfinding, low damage, low utility and all that will stay, as well as beeing the laughing stock of the other classes.
That’s a confirmation for nothing.
What happens if you keep playing ranger instead of changing now and the patch turns out to be bad, like the last 10 patches since beta that weren’t good for ranger either?
You’re right – there isn’t an entirely separate post regarding a major update coming for the Ranger next patch.
You’re right, that patch will most probably totally fix the Ranger class.
With astounding 16 bullet points.
But i feel pity for you though, you still hold onto that small hope. The 15th November will crush you.
Makes you wonder why people still play their Rangers.
When i come across newcomers and they play ranger i already whisper them to better switch classes before they quit the game at level 80.
Those 16 bullet points are nowhere what is needed for Ranger. Probably 80% skillinfo fixes.
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- Pets now able to attack while moving, not rooting them (fixes 90% of the pets problems)
- Longbow range increased to 1800, 2300 when traited, missile speed increased by 150%. (this fixes out of range quite well)
- Spirits invulnerable and following by default, uptime increased by 50%, better buffs when traited (this fixes spirits)
- Shortbow attack rate increased by 50% (so pre nerf) for condition builds, longbow damage increased by 50%, to make it on par with other professions (thief + warrior excluded as always)
Is it seriously that hard? This thread is full of videos showing what’s wrong with ranger and we’re alrady waiting for months to get it fixed. I’m currently leveling my lvl47 Mesmer and i don’t see any point of ever coming back to my Ranger as it is now.
Revamp?
Hell no.
Anet thinks ranger is in a average condition right now, only some bugfixes are coming, this does for example not involve the 30% (50% with QZ) attack rate nerf of sb.
He doesn’t mean the movement calculation system or however you call that in games. He simply means the obstruction bug.
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In Pve, the ranger is too squishy to pull many mobs to make use of the 2h swing that gets many targets.
The longbow needs range to be effective, once you have someone near you, you can dump it.
The axe is only good because you can use a warhorn with it.
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That’s actually a good idea.
Give the pet the same range a bow has, 1500, then it doesn’t have to go 1 step, so not bugging like hell.
Give it the same amount of health and the same amount of damage.
BOOM ranger suddenly fixed. Probably still half the damage other classes do, but way more fun to play.
No.
If you get into combat he goes out again.
1 hundred blades does more damage than you will do with your pet in like what, 10 seconds?
Mesmers with phantasms up and thiefs also laugh about all do many times the damage ranger does.
Hell a freaking ele aoe does almost as much damage as ranger autoattack. Another thing, to hit for 2k+ with LB you have to stay back, so what do you do after your vulnerability runs out or if someone just runs up to you? You’re kittened big time because you have to swap to shortbow which does like 500-800dmg to normal geared (exo) people. A single guardian heal can heal your 10 shortbow auto attacks while throwing out more boons in a second than you have useful skills.
Wow the post above me is more sarcastic than anything in here.
But to op: If you already have a mesmer, you seriously wont find any fun in Ranger. It’s broken, weak, overnerfed, useless in PvE/dungeons. It’s just plain horrible. You can’t even compare it to non-broken classes like Mesmer.
And i’m a long time level 80 Ranger with full exo gear. But i’m already leveling up another class because i really have no faith in the upcoming patch, as many others don’t too.
90% of my posts get removed because i tell people how bad the ranger class is.
Many others get their posts deleted to.
If it’s about ranger beeing broken, or the upcoming patch that will flop, they delete your post.
You’re right.
Ranger is designed for nothing.
Pvp: thief, mesmer
Pve: warrior
Everything because overpowered like kitten: guardian
Bugged and nerfed to hell: necro, ranger, ele
I already gave up on that class.
Made myself a mesmer im going to level up now.
Who says it’s a buff by the way?
If they say they’re doing some tweeks, it could also be 5% more health for spirits.
People who way longbow does no damage probably aren’t rangers.
I the right gear, i do my constant 10k damage with the 2 skill (sure, any warrior laughs about that) but for a ranger it’s kitten much.
Also, 1500 range is good in wvwvw and the 2 skill with haste is really nice, though, good people will just dodge it in wvw, but not many.
However, for spvp or pvp upfront (1vs1 and that stuff) shortbow is better. Not because of the damage, that’s always super low, but because of the utility that shortbow gives you, for not having an aoe and such.
If you run longbow + shortbow, you’re not doing anything wrong, except may be in hard dungeons where you should buff with horn. But if you don’t trait, they even have the same range, which is also stupid imo, but well. Game balance and all.
Yes, 1 measly random condition.
Other classes have shouts that casually cleanse everything bad from the world while applying like every boon gw2 can give you to the whole group.
It’s a joke.
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All those plebians in this thread.
I had asuras with golems in my run and still did it easily.
The puzzle stays the way it is.
Either get entangle or rampage as one.
The other elite skills (as also 90% of the overall skills) of ranger are useless.
Even the elite spirits die after 3 hits.
2 attacks.
ice + jormags teeth.
can’t block em both.
50% Warrior + Guardian because it’s a literal baby class.
Faceroll over the keyboard = either won dungeon or won skirmish.
Why the hell would you use vsync?
You’re not supposed to use that anymore since 8 years.
Also turn off depth blur.
Yes bots, also the only people left that play this dead class.
Certain AC fights?
Ranger is useless in general PVE.
They could make quickening sephyr break every condition in this game and give it a CD of 10 seconds and the class would still be horrid.
At this point i don’t see them fixing it in years. After the disappointment this patch will bring even more people will run baby kitten like Guardian/Warrior.
Ranger here.
What i expect from the patch:
- spirits health increased by 10%
- skill added “Superior Giving”: you now drop a trick or treat bag on death, we removed Quickening Zephyr for that
- overall damage increased by 1.5%, attack rate decreased by 15%
Because of the huge impact this will have on other professions, we buffed Warriors damage and the duration of Guardian Shouts by 150%.
Hundred Blades can also be used while moving now.
With this, we will hope to see actual people instead of only bots playing ranger again.
To me, it just looks like they cranked up the colors.
Don’t need a download to do that.
And why the hell would you get a ban for using graphics enhancing stuff? (though this one doesn’t even enhance it)