Guild Wars 2

With all traps in one kit like engineers and having 900 range on it instead of 600, I feel like ALOT of rangers would be considering running trapper. I know I would certainly love it.

Having to sacrifice every utility skill bars makes the player so vulnerable, plus by taking traps you’re making yourself already a lot squishier than lets say a spirit build or beastmaster build for spvp.

I think the devs should talk abit more for the ranger class in the forums, I mean come on you made a CDI about it and suddenly you decide to be silent about it as if the CDI never happened. That’s the way I feel about it at least.

I’m sure ANet is working on the ranger but at least be more talkative about it. This silence only makes players who main rangers worried.

As a ranger you never want to stay stationary when you’re in a fight. Always move around your target. Know when to apply your poison and when to interupt with your shortbow. Save your dodges for when you need them also. I recomend every ranger to use the wolf for the fear, as it can save your life and your teammates aswell.

I think you should try both classes to have an idea of which class to play as.

I main ranger since beta and they sure aren’t weak in pvp. There is just too many bad rangers in pvp it’s not even funny. On my ranger I beat warriors and engineers quite easily honestly unless they are very good at their class.

If you want high skill cap, I think you should go for engi. People will hate you less in pvp since you’ll probably end up playing a spirit ranger in tpvp if you play one, which you’ll get hated on by a kitten ton of players. :P

For the ranger:

- I think the change for the Spirit of Nature is fair because it gave just too much for an elite skill. It’s the final nerf spirit rangers needed in my opinion.

- For traps, I think the Viper’s Nest combo field is nice but alot of players would use it more if it would hit 5 targets instead of 3. When you run traps you also don’t have much access to swiftness unless you take either the rune of speed, signet of the hunt (I much prefer having a third trap or signet of renewal) or the warhorn with you (even there I don’t think warhorn is good enough for trappers). Trapper rangers have the potential to be great home point defenders and even far pushers (if only we had the easy access to swiftness engi has). It just needs a few changes and it would be in a good spot in tpvp.

For warrior:

- Healing Signet: In my opinion, I don’t think you need to buff the active of the warrior at all, just reduce the passive heal abit more and it would be fine. Thing is, if the active of the healing signet is too good then it’s going to be overpowered as the cooldown of the heal is pretty low so you have to be very careful with that you want to buff in the active.

- Pin Down: I think it’s a nerf that was needed as you had to be a lucky dude to be able to dodge out of that skill.

The build seems pretty solid to me! Gonna have to try that in a abit. I’m used to sword/torch with shortbow, maybe axe dagger will give better results. Love trying builds that require skills.

Thanks for posting this man.

I built a power build BM ranger to try and counter this build and it works quite well I must say. Weapons I use are Greatsword and Sword/Axe. Have a wolf withyou (for CC and Fear) and Rampage as One as your elite(don’t use it before fight begins the Warrior will kite you till RaO ends) with a Stun Break utility skill and you’ll beat most of the Skullcrack Warriors unless they are highly skills, there it would depend on who plays best.

But I have to admit tho I use my Warrior for fun sometimes with a build similar to this and I have a blast playing it. You are right alot of people don’t want to find counters and they end up calling for nerfs when they could find solutions to counter the build itself. Which is why I got rid of my Spirit Ranger.

Spirit Rangers is a boring build to play with anyways haha!

Looks like a nice build you got there. I`d really like to test my BM power build against you one day to see how well it fares.

Ryan.8367:

Prysin.8542:

Bryzy.2719:

Why is it that we are the only profession who has to say “oh well it could be worse, let’s just keep our heads down and hope they don’t nerf us more” after EVERY SINGLE UPDATE since release?

What is it about the Ranger that deserves so much neglect from ArenaNet?

Is it the fact that all the elite classes moan about us and shout at Anet till they nerf us?

Is it the fact that our playerbase is perhaps smaller than the elites like eles, guardians and thieves so they put less effort into maintaining our profession?

I just can’t play any other profession…. Ranger is the only prof i want to play in ANYTHING, whether it be Runescape, Grand Fantasia, Dragon Age, Skyrim or Kingdoms of Amalur. Why should I have to consider quitting just because ArenaNet can’t get their ‘balancing act’ together?

well honestly, if “we” (the ranger community) stop thinking of ourselves as “should be 100b burst like uber range warrior” and think of ourselves as what we really are, you realize that rangers ARE quite OP in their own right.

sure we cannot tank, sure we cannot outburst the DPS of a 100b zerker warrior or a clone bomb mesmer. yet, we can evade all those attacks and dish out a stable high-end damage.

That is what we do. we do not burst, we do not tank. We just run around doing pretty good damage all the time, hell we dont even need to use burst skills, just the autoattacks.

I could prolly make a video or two of how awesome rangers are, but in the end, i prefer letting people see for themselves. easier that way.
Bottom line is; if you can’t be successful ingame, it is YOU not the profession, that is to blame.

I have a handful of people I could have you duel in WvW that would seriously make you realize how underpowered rangers are to eles, guardians and engis when those classes are played right. I hate people like you who have yet to actually play against truly GOOD players and have the audacity to tell them it’s the player and not the game. Quit living in a fantasy land and actually duel good players for a change or stay in the zerg and keep saying these blanket statements.

If you seriously think making a video of you killing kittenty roamers is gonna prove a point you’re very sadly mistaken.

Then I would love to see your eles, guardians and engis, as I never had a problem beating those classes in sPvP at all or in WvW roaming with my BM ranger. Seriously, rangers underpowered? Then why can I beat any class in the game with a ranger? Bad players? Hmm in all that time I played the game I don’t think they were all bad players, there are actually some great players in sPvP tournaments.

I admit I do like the idea of rangers getting a staff in the near future!

Well I do hope that ANet realises that if they put the pet DPS down, they are making the class’s DPS down. I agree that if they are to nerf the pet’s DPS, they should put it on the rangers instead of just giving a DPS nerf to the class as a whole.

They gave so little information when they talked about the ranger nerf in State of the Game that no one knows how this will affect the class when the patch is going to arrive.

-Is this only for SPVP or is it PVE and WVW included?
-Will the ranger get more damage output to his weapons in exchange? (i hope so…)

I’ll try that setup of weapons sometime in the future, I just rarely have 1v1 or 1v2 encounters in our server without having a huge zerg coming from behind, then again I could try it in sPvP.

I’m sure it’s a very powerful build, I just personally prefer having a ranged weapon with melee weapons rather then being full melee.

Hmm yeah I admit I use traps very oftenly so the shortbow is pretty useful. And sorry but you really don’t need arrows to pierce through everything if you are against groups as small as you showed in the video.

I like the video, shows what a good ranger can do. Personally i take a shortbow with me on my condition build to stack bleeds with my autoattack so fights don’t become too long. You kinda make me wanna try those Apothecary stats tho instead of my Rabbid ones, seems pretty legit!

Vargs.6234:

Your melee choices on ranger are greatsword, which crits for 900 in zerker gear, or 1h sword, which is the most awkward and frustrating weapon to use in the game by miles due to the animation priority on the #1 attack which prevents you from using other abilities, repositioning, and dodging while also sending you flying off in random directions occasionally.

Hmm okay then why do I see crits of 1500-1900 on my greatsword ranger? Maul hits for 4000-4300 also. And then again, the ranger greatsword is not meant to be a dps weapon, but a defensive one, which is really good at it. I can’t tell how many times it saved my life in wvwvw and dungeons. I know rangers need better dps on all their weapons, but that doesn’t keep me from winning most of my 1v1 fights.

Something alot of rangers would love to have for dungeons is when they call for their pets when downed, they would be healing the ranger for certain. I don’t want to press the skill 3 button and have a minimal chance that he comes to me and heals me.

Btw thanks for responding in the ranger forums! It’s good to know some of you play the class.

As much as I hate to say it, I was deeply dissapointed by this major update. So many people talked about the issues for months and they haven’t done much to fix them. I played with my ranger for more then 1000 hours and continued to play hoping that it may get the fix it would have so much needed after all this time. Seriously, I am one of the not so many Rangers in PVP and I can see why.

I don’t want to sound like someone whose raging at the class, it’s because I care about the class that I am posting this in the forum. Just letting us know that you’re currently working on improving the Ranger class would make alot of people already happy…

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

I predict that the Pet will be fixed in the February patch. The pet will be all over the targeted enemy like molasses! Unfortunately all the Ranger attacks will be obstructed by the new pet AI causing all attacks to miss…

I miss playing my Ranger… well sort of. I miss the Ranger but I’m tired of the bugs.

Yeah same here. There is so much bugs in this class it’s not even funny. They should stop focussing on the other classes for a lil moment and focus on the ranger. Most of the arrows i shoot get obstructed 40 to 50% of the time.

If they don’t seem to want to talk about the state of the rangers as of now, I guess we shouldn’t put our hopes too high for the patch of this month. Maybe there will be huge updates for us rangers, maybe none. Just don’t put your hopes too high guys.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Why in the world don’t they disable the option to buy this thing until it is fixed?

That just seems like common sense.

I totally agree with you on this. I bought the Ranger laurel box without knowing it had issues, and now its just there in the inventory while I could have bought one from another class.

I love my Ranger but I really think it needs some fixes in some regions like the pet AI. The Ranger’s strenght is far too much dependent on their pets and they rarelly can hit anything in wvwvw because of a certain bug that makes them stop moving for a second and a half before attacking. It would really help if they could be able to stay alive longer aswell during battles as they get their butt kicked pretty quickly, including with agony in Fractals of the Mist as agony resistance serves nothing for them. I know equipment stats aren’t supposed to affect pets, but at least let the agony resistance for the pets.

Race: Charr
Sex: Male
Class: Ranger

Armor: Wrangler Coat (Charr Cultural Tier 2 Medium Armor)
Pic 1, 2 & 3 – I don’t know if this is something you guys can fix, but with this medium armor, any backpack can be seen going through the hood. I wonder if there could be a way that the backpacks would affect the hood depending on which backpack you equip. I personally think it would be a neat thing. Here are images showing the Quiver of Swift Flight and the Mad Memoires. As you know getting 250 Powerful Bloods for the specefic Quiver ain’t cheap but I really love the look for a ranger and I did have to put alot of time and effort to get it, so I don’t want to simply hide the Quiver. And changing armor skins is not something I consider doing as this is my personal favorite for my Ranger Charr.

Like I said, I don’t know if this can be fixed because this seems like a bigger task to do. I just thought I’d post this since I really love the skin.

EDIT: Pic 4 – Alot of the foot armors can be seen going through the clothing as you can see in the fourth picture. Pretty much every foot armor from the dungeon vendors in Lion’s Arch does that.

Pic 5 – AND lastly (I’m so sorry in advance for nitpicking like this), weapons you equip like swords, warhorn or torch go through the clothing. I didn’t mind at first since i thought the other chest armors would be like that, but it isn’t the case. The weapons need some better placement compared to other chest armors showed in the last picture.

Here is my level 80 Charr Ranger.

Yeah I’m getting the same issue here. I call for my pets even when they are very well alive with most of their health in them and come at me just standing there doing nothing. It is frustrating when you’re counting on your pet to stay alive.

I’m so close to get this short-bow now and I’m really excited as its one hell of a great looking weapon!
But yeah I would really love to know if ANet is aware of this bug issue on the back. We do have to put alot of effort on getting it MAINLY because of Charged Lodestones haha.