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How do they make more money out of this system than the one that FORCED your to buy certain color on gemstore?
Because not everyone has a compulsion to collect the rainbow. If I just wanted a few dyes I would buy them and be happy. End of story. With random packs, you keep buying them with the hopes that the RNG gods smile upon you and give you want you want.
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“We oldbies also know all too well what happened anytime the Ranger started being any kind of damage dealer.”
Well Arenanet had a few problems balancing particularly GvG in Guild Wars 1 and one of the early ones was ranger spike teams. Still the standard burning arrow / crip shot builds were very viable and probably still are for balanced PvP teams (and very good in alliance battles too). PvE became a bit problematical for rangers later in the game, since so many mobs were immune to conditions. Still you could usually spec something recently decent.
The problem is no one wants “decent”. They want good. No one is going to take decent with them for high end PvE or any kind of PvP where every last point counts and especially not when there is another option that gets the job done faster and more efficiently.
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Guys, it’s pretty obvious from Jon’s post and the lack of serious pvp alternatives that they have gone back to GW logic, we are to do nothing but spam Crip shot/Poison on the enemy, neither of which happen to be the “1” key that we were spamming too much apparently.
Seriously though, anyone who has played GW1 should have seen this coming. The only time we ever got any real love from the devs was when an entirely new game came out and we got new skills like Broad Head Arrow.
We oldbies also know all too well what happened anytime the Ranger started being any kind of damage dealer.
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