The only AoE that my build has is bomb kit and Flamethrower AUTOATTACK 1 and 4. Unlike Necro AoE that exploded on touch, our AoE (Bomb) only deploy after a certain amount of time. While Necro AoE can be used from afar, Engineer AoE requires them to be in melee, save Gernade kit. And you know what kind of battle the Rangers favour most? Melee, because they can use their evade skills. That’s why you see a lot of them running with S/D and S/W set, make them so hard to hit. Also, it take good 7-8s+ to actually kill their spirit, that is required them to be closed enough inside the radius of e bomb kit. And a Spirit Ranger in 7-8s already put too much pressure to you, forced you into defensive mode already. All they need is give you no time to recover, you are as good as dead.
Now you can argue we have Gernade kit, kitten use it. Ranger also has the option of Short bow/Long bow. It is not hard to spot a ranger that uses S/D and Shortbow/Lbow set. If you use Bomb kit, too bad, they will kite you to death. If you use Gernade kit to attack them afar, too bad, they will just dodge it. In case the Rangers has no kite options, and Engineer uses Gernade kit, the same will happen with Bomb Kit, they just simply use their evade skill and Regen, out heal any of yours Condition Dams while putting pressure condition on you. Also, please remember that Engineer is one of the class that is struggling with Condition removal.
Now back to your Necro, after the patch they changed the animation of Reaper’s Mark, have you noticed a dramatically reduce on QQ about Necro being OP? And have you seen me post any QQ after that patch? Simply not because right now, it has a distinguish animation, if you failed to dodge that, it simply you are not get used to it enough. Before that, it all based on luck. Though, the number of Condition that Ne to can put out in less than 5s still need to have a look at but that is not what I want to say right now.
I agree with you all prof in this game can be used as mindless spamming rotation. However, you failed to notice the very big difference between them:
- Engine Gernade Spam style does very poorly in 1on1 Encounter. Even in mid-fight, with no teammates support Dps, he can spam until entering with no one die. I know because I tried. Those who successfully mastering the Art of Gernade build, they will not be called a spammer because they know what they are doing to get the most effective out of the kit. Regardless, Gernade build still struggle with 1on1 counter.
-Eles spam rotation is as good as dead. And at the current state, even a good Eles is still useless, save spammer. If an Eles want to survive with his spam skill, the only way to go is with Cleric Amulet, means Bunker and hit like a wet noodle.
-Thief spam HS, it will suffer the same fate with Eles though it is more forgiving and more effective.
-Spirit Ranger spammer, with high Protection buff uptime, maximum in toughness and Vit tree, using Shaman Amulet that give extra Toughness and Healing Power, both benefit greatly for extra survival and Heal Regen, packed with Condition Damages + more condition damages from Wilderness survival tree, result in a very decent Conditions Damage bypass any Armour despite being trait as a bunker. Also, with their evade skill built-in, lots of them, plus all the Spirit moving around acts as a body block, and a second chance of fighting with Spirit Renewal. All spirit give passive bonus. All of this allowed a player spam with no worry in mind, no need to think, no need to aware of situation, still deal decent Conditions and survive like second to none.
So while other class is not so forgiving to a spammer. A ranger can keep spamming his skill and still get high rewards.
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