The best way to set up a viable Ranger build for raids is to drop the perfectionism and accept that an extra two or three minutes in a raid from suboptimal damage output really isn’t that big a deal. I most certainly appreciate that you’re aiming to let everyone participate, so my comment really isn’t directed at you so much as the types who see the “meta” as the only thing that exists. X) I’d say that, so long as they’re pulling their own weight, they’re as viable as they need to be.
Ranger probably needs some shouts reworked, but suggesting a class overhaul and a lot of these changes isn’t really plausible. Signet of Stone for example would be OP given any buff, as it is already used in pretty much every competitive spvp build. On Search and Rescue yeah, the revive speed should be similar to that of Ranger’s own downed state, but it makes no sense to add anything else to it. Those spirit buffs are OP as hell. People complain all day about spirits but they see use every day. They’re good.
Many of the other changes suggested here also don’t play out very well from a game design perspective, but I just wanted to give you an idea.
Do certain skills need some love? Yeah. Do they need overhauls? No.
This build doesn’t have Spotter which has far more value than boons that generally get tacked on by other classes in the raid.
I would try making a build around Skirmishing/BM/Druid instead.
I also wouldn’t have a 100% investment into healing power. I think Druids will be healing most of the time, but I can see a sword on weapon swap for DPSing whenever possible as their meta.
Within the open world of the Heart of Maguuma, you’ll earn and build two new armor sets with unique looks for light, medium, and heavy armor, five new weapon sets, and over 60 unique additional item skins, miniatures, and more!
And that does not include the Legendary gear including all levels of precursors (there will be 3 each or something like that I believe.
Any numbers we know of today would just account for how many would be immediately available at launch.
As raid wings and other additional new content are released, new skins will come with them.
There isn’t enough compromise in these changes (leaving them overpowered), and I don’t know why these changes would be necessary in the first place. Glyphs have been seeing a lot of use in the beta so far, and I think we should let the expansion settle before looking them over like this.
Everyone thinks they are a class developer these days.
Okay, but other parties succeeded with Berserker and right now Berserker is the best in slot until they change the base/scaling properties of the heal.
Guardian, Tempest and especially Herald/Revenant are all capable of mitigating damage as well as Druid. Druid is best at raw HPS, yes, but the other classes make up for it with mitigation and other forms of support.
I thought the adds were boring. Yea they require different types of damage or control and offer a break bar but I would have liked to see them having something that needed interrupting at the same time. Or what if there were more than the 3 adds. Like say they added two more add colors and every week you never know which combination you’ll face. Each add could bring a unique mechanic to deal with so every week the way you handle fight mechanics changes. That would be more interesting than direct dmg, condis, boon strip, now break the break bar.
Edit: I don’t want to be all negative though, I loved the stacking mechanic and the control aspect.
I believe the point of the adds is to gradually teach you the mechanics of the upcoming fight, so you can learn to handle all of the boss mechanics before having to deal with all of them at once.
I personally think this concept is beautiful, and I hope it continues in raid content.
Nature Magic and Beast Mastery supply plenty of support in addition to the massive aoe regen they have.
You can have ridiculous aoe prot uptime with lingering magic blue moa and pulsing earth spirit. You can also opt to have your pet heal with its F2, while having it pick up healing traits in the BM tree. Quickness on pet swap is huge for rezzing people, as well.
Druid can use both warhorn and staff btw, and it’s actually recommended since warhorn 5 blasts staff 5 while providing the aoe regen.
Are you leaving out ele on purpose? We got the least diversity when it comes to weapons. Imo I think that is due to lazyiness/not having enough time, though. I think warrior is fine with an offhand, but mesmer should have probs gotten a MH.
Why would he include Ele? Warhorn = 8 skills, and Tempest is playing incredibly well lately now that people are figuring out cool builds for it.
While I agree with the idea this thread is painting, it’s important not to get carried away on the statistics.
With 1000 people wanting to raid, we’ve probably only lost about 1,500 hours of invaluable testing and debugging, 8,100 (precisely!) hours of either troll or ignorant feedback, and the rest spent on people who did not share their input with anyone after concluding their experience.
6. Masteries are completely locked in an linear now, no choice, terrible change
7. Gliding takes much more xp to unlock now. Pointless change that makes the map less fun to navigate for no reason.
Shoulda stopped at the original post.
Pretty sure it’s just gliding that you have to get first (which makes perfect sense for game and map design) before you can start choosing.
While I love condi, it’s important to remember that it doesn’t start out-dpsing Berserker until about 30 seconds into a fight on a target that hasnt moved out of any bonfires.
Berserker is still better at short fights, adds, moving targets and burn phases (which apparently will be a thing in raids).
I’m guessing it’ll be best to carry both sets and switch depending on the boss when raids come out. That would be cool IMO.
Because having to build more defense/support/control than full Berserker, and having trait lines that are very supportive automatically means trinity, right?
Sure, it does work and is useful, but that is hardly synergy.
Synergy would be your pet dealing additional damage or crippling foes with the wisp attached, or shadow stepping to your target when you use Vine Surge.
That’s just using your version of the word.
Technically one can argue that the staff has enhanced synergy as it synergizes with not just the pet but other allies as well, so the pet synergy is still there… and then some!
