Guild Wars 2

For me, the pet feels more like a libility then a “ohhh cool”-friend in battle.
Like.. making us sacrifice points that is needed to make the ranger do dmg or stay alive in order to get the pet up in working order is in my eyes making the pet a negative thing. I really feel a bit bad about not even giving it one point. And so it dies all the time.

And the way we get the pets.. it has no, absolutely no, story or feeling to it. Just run up to some juvenile thing and press F.. Its like paying for sex, no emotions attached. Even the original GW had more feeling to it. I still remember the struggle to tame a bear in pre-searing lol

And the way anet puts pet-stats in the power-trait.. i will never understand.

But i love the game And i do love the ranger, despite all this.

Look at the “legendary” bows.. Were the warriors and assasins and all other classes gets cool MANLY gear, the ranger can shoot rainbows and have flowers in their footsteps.. WTF^^ I am a guy, and straight..^^ And as for pets.. for me it is cannonfodder with the same emotional attatchment as a schrapnel mine^^ It has no story in getting them, and i think anet looks upon it as purely tactical choice, but in that case then remove the RPG-description and just call it a MMO!!!!

Ok, as of now, i have three things i would like to adress to anet:

1. Ranger legendary weapons.. Come on Anet.. i am a guy, and i am straight.. I would really like to see a bow that is more “death lava-glowing electric hellfire” then to be spreading flowers and rainbows all over the place

2. Pets: Why not make all pets have same life, or at least make just two categories: Ranged pets and “Tanky pets”, were the ranged ones can have a little less hp, i guess..
The reason for this is that you make us choose pets more for stats then appearance.

3. Longbow: Please make the damage stay the same no matter what distance it is. Its already wayy slower then the shortbow and the dmg is pretty much the same.

Ok guys! I want to make a thread here so that we can make constructive input for anet in order for them to hear us out in a more clearcut and constructive tone.

So lets write up our suggestions for possibly how to improve the ranger, or what we like to see in the future! But lets try keep it constructive, reasonable and SHORT. (Better post one, or a few, clearcut idea/points every now and then instead of all your points getting lost in a too long story

Ok, i hope this post isnt too wrong in here.

The shapeshift for the norn is a complete joke. As all other post here; You need to stand still, cant change as you move and the time and recharge for it is just insane. Why cant we stay 100% shifted? Its not overpowered, on the contrary! And no utilityskills?
And also, besides this.. all norn elites are a joke. Elites are supposed to be possible “gamechangers”.. but the norn are left with crap!

I am not specialist in this, but i can give you some input. And with the anet statement in mind, there should be no need for not playing your prefered proffesion.
1. If you go warrior you got a tough dmg dealing guy that pulls aggro from the ranger so she can be more “sniperish”.
2. Elementalist can be tricky with ranger since your both ranged and ele is even more glass-cannon so you have to hide behind your gf
3. Thief can be cool if you like more fancy playing, but maybe it is confusing for your gf if your here, then there, then need to run away, then..
4. Two rangers can look nice together and is really nice partnership-looking.. you both got pets.. share same stories.. weapons.. skills.. stuff like that. But cant really get so much synergy.
5. Guardian can be nice if you want some tough warrior with healing and some magic.

If i would choose i would choose warrior if you want to be a bad kitten in her eyes and also get some good teamplay. Go ranger if you want to be more involved in your gf`s buisness and she into you (but if she dont like you in her case 24/7, or you dont like it, be honest, then not recommended) If she likes excitement, and can handle her own more, and you love your assa, then gogo

Good luck and enjoy

I agree totally with the feeling of wanting to move, and it is ok if it is just reflecting the projectiles if you can use it to close in more while also doing some melee dmg. It is really a nice animation, but would be so much more loved if we can move with it!

Still broken..