I can’t say I didn’t expect at least a few replies from people who have no clue how to effectively play a ranger in zerg fights, or think their build is superior to any other.
Oh and Rizo, I’ve checked some of your posts, including:
“Played Ranger for 3 years…
But only few months ago, i have understood, WHY i lay ranger!
Because i love to reed forum, where some rangers CRY, how hard their life and other topics, where mesmers, warriors, Guardians, d/d Eles and thiefs cry about how OP rangers are.
I love it really much!
That’s why i play ranger!”Your plan B if Druid sucks?
in Ranger
Posted by: Rizo.9534Yeah… ^^
Yes, i have wrote that, and what?
You have cut it from context, because it was sarcastic topic if you don’t know.
You have made most useless build for WvW and you’r proud of it?
1100 toughness with 16k hp against organized Guild?
Axe as offensive weapon? Next you have to make Staff/Staff berserker revenant or Scepter berserker Necromancer.
With such gear, you’ll be just a rallybot, not more.
Make video when Focus group sit on you in GvG and you survive all damage and keep supporting your teammates, or how you rush under arrowCarts and MetiorShower t3 keep against organised guild.
You need more swiftness in these build, because you’ll have to run allot from respawn in these build
And No stability build for big fights is victory xD GJ.
Wow amazing healing for 1.3 million imagine if you were actually doing something like dealing 1.3 million in damage. The fact you were not shutdown in a beta weekend means nothing.
Just about any class can triple the damage done by a druid. Using this as a scale one can easily out pace a druids healing.
This just illustrates what a druid could do if were given a real aoe weapon set.
Bunkers are a thing, eh? You don’t need to deal damage to win the match, just hold the points. If two Druids can bunker mid against the other team, then you have 2 players to take far and hold it and one other to take close and then help at mid.
Revenant can hold mid against 4 ppl. tested it in ranked and revenant + whatever else can hold mid against 5 man + kill someone by focus? i run to mid once a minute, dropped few CC and heals on mid and run back on spot as druid, and that’s was all. all damage revenant outhealed by itself, and HP does not dropped above 40%…
Only when necro unload signet on it, then HP dropped to 20% and back to 100%.
IF Thief/war + mesmer will focus druid, it will die faster than mesmer will destroy last shatter. It was already tested many times. Zerker mesmer can 1shot in 1.1seccond guardian with sentinel amulet from stealth. there’s nothing can save 15k hp bunker druid.
In low tier druid are cool, but on high mmr druid blowing like bubble, and it’s with old healing power. With new healing power will be much worse
It’s cool class design!!!
When you use Sick’Em! and use one of pet commands, SIck’Em will be canceled and goes on Cooldown.
When you use F2 and hit “Guard!”, f2 will be canceled and goes on cooldown.
Ranger are best interrupt class in game, because he have best mechanic to interrupt himself and cancel his abilities! xD
IT’s like if Thief stealth was something like: If you press W, then you’ll be revealed, or warrior: If you press 1, then you lose all boons and “Endure pain” will be canceled.
But devs don’t care… these bug was in 1,2,3 BWE before game launch and nothing was changed.
Ive seen warriors outheal every dmg with healing signet…
Wat?
Its, at best, 450hp/s if you run all clerics. If a build cannot out damage that, its beyond terrible.
with adrenal heal it goes to 422 + 177 = 599 + regen 599+280 = 879 and if you are cleric, then of course you pick shouts. Each shout heal for 2200 AOE, and every might stack give you 10 healing power, so you can get additional 250 healing power.
And all those shouts AOE cleans and heal
2 shouts give about 330HPS in addition, but you can take more
So max output are not as low as you think.
IT’s more HPS in total, that Druid spam 1st skill
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I honestly really do not like that idea. I think its quite good as it is now, especially with that CD and Verdant Etchings, if the range was better, it would be fantastic. For PvE it is just amazingly good.
I think it have to work on your pet also, that will be good.
That way there will be much more synergy with “Protect Me!”.
You transfer damage to pet, and pet reflect these damage to enemy. Why not?
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For example in SkyHammer, LR and Entan. will be worse than SotP and guard, but in other map will be better in some situations.
I have player with surv skills for about one and half year, and now switched to shout one, and i can say that both have huge problems and both have good advantage.
SoR cleaned So many times Fear, taunt and Immobilize from me that i can’t remember already, just from passive.
Once even Necro started whine in map chat in ranked arena about it
And if it will not clean, then i can always clean fear/taunt/root with Guard with 12sec cooldown.
But you have t kite allot in these build anyway… you can’t allow to put on your face all what they got, and swiftness from shouts really help you in that.
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The more I read about Revenant, the less excited I am about Ranger and Druid.
It’s cool to have a bow and pet for aesthetic reasons, but everything Revenant seems to be far superior from what I’m reading. Along with the option to be a better sustained healer, Revenant also other goodies to support their team. I get the feeling that Revanant will completely outshine Ranger in every aspect and game mode.
Of course Revenant will be a better sustained healer. Druid isn’t a sustained healing spec. It’s burst.
Burst healer with Channel 4th skill or spam 1st skill in avatar.
In fact 1st skill is so bad that it’s better to just spam 2 3 4.
The point is, that if you press 4th skill, you can’t use anything at all, or it will brake channel. 2nd skill has delay? so if you’ll w8 when these “thing” will blow, then it can be too late already.
3th skill have 5sec cooldown.
ANd most fun, that you have 3 blast finisters, but you can’t blast in CA… no, you can, but it will brake water field channel gr8 synergy! xD
Just make pets invulnerable, that will fix it.
or
Shared Anguish: “Whenever you are crowd controlled, it is transferred to your pet, if your pet is defeated, it is revived and then transferred to it.”
Sounds good to me
Or transfer it to Pet, pet receive invulnerable, and next pets attack will return these CC to target, but 2x longer and have to be something like 30sec cooldown.
Looks like Fare! And rename to “don’t mess with ranger”
I’ll post idea to Ranger Developer.
OP are you agree with such change?
No? You have no choice anyway xD
No kidding. After extensivly playing ranger in pvp it furiates me to no end. I can name 7 other classes outperforming the poor ranger atm. Such shame.
In team Fights – maybe.
In 1v1, all depends on ranger.
There are too many things you have to manage when you playing ranger.
If you concentrate on battle, you’ll lose pet.
If you concentrate on pet management, then you’ll lose concentration on battle and will be not 100% effective.
On almost every class, you can start dominate after 1-3 days of playing it.
With ranger, you start to push out from it all only after few months or maybe year of playing it.
That’s why none loves ranger, because only per_verts can play for so long with such a broken class.
Why you all think, that there are no spot for ranger in raids instead of DruidHealer?
Do you even know what DPS can output sinister ranger???
After pet Buff these will be much more than 20k dps in raid.
Do you know why Sinister ranger was not the part of Meta?
Because all encounters last for 12-30sec, and sinister Ranger start shine only after 10-14sec of battle. And last part, why sinister Ranger not the art of meta, because Sinister gear scale really bad with IcoBow and after iceBow was nerfed, SinisterRanger can become part of New Meta in HoT.Sinister ranger is good if your target doesn’t move (Bonfire + Fire Trap). But you can now use shortbow efficiently and put down spirits (frost and sun) for more damages. And your pet won’t die as well.
Also Druid traitline could replace the BM one, Ancient Seed is a nice addition to condi. We’ll have to wait for what we’ll get at release and do some maths (since pet doesn’t take damages in raid, BM might might still be the best option).I hope they’ll introduce more stat combos. I’d really like some Prec/Condi/H.Power.
Druid traits no where close with Pet DPS output. Old pets under full buff can output 6-7.8k dps.
ShortBow are wort choice for DPS no matter what build you make.
And most interesting – Sinister ranger not suffer from dodgeRolls. for power builds if you use dodgeRolls, you can lose up to 40% of your max dps. For sinister druid it’;s about 5% only.
The idea to make the Druid a part of the meta by making it a heavy healer is an interesting idea.
Interesting, but fighting them and seeing what they can do, that’s apparently not what it does best… At least not in WvW. The Druid as is can insta-kill any class. No healing will ever be needed lol.
A druid can’t insta-kill any class…
Yes they can lol. I have no idea how they do it – I havent played them. But I have seen druid insta-kill people from full HP. Its some type of pulse attack that does 4K damage each. But hey at least its balanced by 30K killshots, hah!
The beta weekend gave me a real feel of p2w… You’re going to need HoT to compete, no question about it.
If you’r talking about WvW, then it’s not a druid, it’s new PET.