Guild Wars 2

brb,
wet my pants from laughter.

If you’re being serious then um…
crickets

OMG ANET MADE AN IMAGE ABOUT SOMETHING EVERY ONE KNEW ABOUT
HOW GREEEDY LIKE OMG “MOM RESUB MY WOW ACCOUNT NOWWWWW”

Ok now that comical moment is done, how about we all go enjoy a nice thanksgiving dinner

Clerics
There is no conditions of importance on staff…

I’m still fighting and nagging for Burning on Solar Beam…

I was told that it would be a “bad presidence” if developers posted on threads that were demanding answers….

That’s all I was told on the matter….

ReaperJr.5967:

No hotjoins included?

I highly doubt that anyone considers Hot Join to be reliable information for anything PvP related….

1) No restrictions on who’s on what team
2) People can freely switch teams
3) People really don’t take it seriously, it’s a sand box to test builds / get your feet wet

…. It’s a title get over it…
I highly doubt you’re a Legendary _ within the community to begin with… If we are going by who’s Legendary it’s only 10-20 people.

Eh I love Kudzu…
It reminds me of something a Kurzick would use in Guild Wars 1.

Besides that fact, the whole nature theme of the bow works amazingly well with Rangers and of course Druid.

Then again, I’m not a 14-16 year old who’s into the whole goth vampire scene.
No offense to any 14-16 year olds who are into that stuff all the time.

dragonWarrior.1045:

My intentions are to buy HoT at some point but I wanted to see how this played out. I purchased with real $$$$ GW2.0 (x3) almost 3 years ago so I am not a freeloader. I mostly play WvW and PvP so new content for PvE does not interest me. Apparently WvW is dead and PvP is useless without these new builds? Why do I feel like I am being held hostage for $50?? Is this the future of F2P?

Sorry to hear about that, some things I would suggest.
1) Tweaking your build some more and playing to your strengths
2) Wait and see if HoT goes on sale, I’m sure some retail stores may have a black friday sale…
3) Wait for Anet to release the next expansion and for the HoT to be pushed out for free (may have misunderstood this)

This is not a new or GW2 specific issue though. Whenever an Expansion drops there will be some people who do not upgrade for whatever reason and they will miss out on the new classes or races.

A classic example i can give, is World of Warcraft. When Happy Panda Land was released ((essentially what the expac was)) those who were stuck on Cata couldn’t play Monk or Pandarian.

Guild Wars 1, when Factions was released if you were stuck on Prophecies you could’t play Assassin(Thief 1.0 ) or Ritualist (Revenant/Guardian 1.0 ). When Nightfall came out, if you were stuck on Factions or Prophecies, you couldn’t play Dervish or Paragon.

As with all the examples listed above, the goal was to promote the new classes. After some time though, people were able to find ways to counter them with just the vanilla classes. It just takes time.

You’re just behind the 8-ball atm and to stay competitive, you need to adapt by purchasing the expac or by fine tuning your build to be productive against the new elite specs/ new class. Even if this means, playing a role you normally would not play.

Hope any of this information helped out.

Cheers

1) Call Out Threads will NOT get you a reply from ANET… at least a majority of the time.
2) Chances of getting infracted by constantly demanding a reply will increase
3) This has been something i’ve been reporting on since i was made a FSP
a) Haven’t heard anything back….. (shocker)

Nothing really wrong with this thread but please stay on topic and quit demanding anet to reply to this thread… the reply you may get would be along the lines of “Thread has been locked” by a moderator…

90’s kids can see it without any problems…. the kids from 2000~ on the other hand don’t understand the sprites we had to stare at lol x)

Though… I’m just as content playing my Pokemon Blue on my old game boy pocket then playing any of the new ones on a “New” Nintendo 3DS.

It would be a good idea in my opinion, to add a Raid section to the LFG tool.
Currently, finding any open world events is a pain due to all the requests for Raids.

This can be done in a couple of ways.
1) Changing the Dungeons section to say Dungeons & Raids
A) Add Spirit Vale as a new category

2) Give Raids it’s own sub section.

Thoughts?

Serves them right, Hope their player count shrinks and they learn their lesson. Idiotic for DNT to be that foolish.

Would be nice to see/ partake in

RubberDougie.2750:

Lol, still no developer response. They must be so ashamed.

lol they are probably so ashamed that you didn’t bother to play the game xD or you’re one of those players who thinks cut scenes = bathroom break o.O

Here’s some SPF PWNNNNNNNNNN for what Bobby posted though

What if the Blind portion of the trait was dropped in exchange for the cool down being dropped to 8 seconds. The healing players get from the trait increased by 15%

Would that be a good exchange or is blind something that is a must have for the trait?

For me, I really don’t care for the blind, I mostly ran the trait to keep the parties HP up a little more.

Sorry for the late reply…
Been moving (house wise irl) the last 5 days and I’ve finally had the chance to sit down.

I did get a reply back from Mark that the reports I’ve sent for Druid have been forwarded to the proper departments.

Sorry I don’t have more to say but that’s all I was told or know about at this time.

If i hear more back i’ll let you guys know o.o

Who Killed Who in the bottom right of your screen like in PvP would be nice….

My guild does a few kitten around matches and it would be nice to know who got the killing hit and stomp.

I’m very sad by Irenio CalmonHuangs actions or lack of….

Looks like he doesn’t have a spine to stand up for the class or has no clue what hes doing… not a shock though.. we get one thing fixed in exchange for an overly dramatic nerf =/

I’m very sad by Irenio CalmonHuangs actions or lack of….

Looks like he doesn’t have a spine to stand up for the class or has no clue what hes doing… not a shock though.. we get one thing fixed in exchange for an overly dramatic nerf =/

Sadly it’s true…
A warrior or Revenant complain about Ranger and Roy comes through the wall like the Kool-Aid man with a nerf hammer then leaves without bothering to clean up the mess….

On FA in WvW

40-50 People in Quaggan tonics running to SMC

Josh Davis

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Joshua_Davis

Today is National Grouch Day,

Even though he isn’t a stink green trashcan monster (i think)

Wanted to say I appreciate (sort of) all of your hard work!

Now that i think about it….maybe… nahhhhhh

Only thing I do not like about this, is that both Halloween & HoT share the same release day.

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

Hey all,

Since the third beta weekend there’s been a lot of great feedback – thanks!

Below are some of the more solid changes to the Druid since the beta weekend that were made to address some concerns regarding net damage loss in a raid, celestial avatar form feeling gated by staff and glyph reward scaling.

• Grace of the Land: This trait has been re-worked. Instead of its former behavior, allies affected by your celestial avatar abilities gain 3% damage and condition damage increase for 8 seconds. This buff stacks 5 times.

• Lingering Light: This trait has been re-worked. Instead of its former behavior, when you heal an ally their next outgoing attack will heal them (based upon your healing) and blind their target.

• Glyph of Unity: This skill now has a 400 initial effect radius and a 600 radius leash.

• Glyph of Empowerment: The radius for this skill has been increased to 600.

• Glyph of Alignment: Increased the weakness and cripple duration on this skill from 3s to 5s. Reduced the cast damage by 66%. This skill now applies 3 stacks of poison.

• Ancestral Grace: Is now an evade and will immediately end upon reaching your destination.

• Celestial Avatar Form: Entering this form now has a 10s CD. Charging of Astral force by healing has been reduced by 40%. Charging of Astral force by outgoing strikes has been increased by 200%. You now retain half your current astral force if you decide to break form early.

• Celestial Avatar Form: Skills that heal have had their base heals reduced by 15-25% and increased their healing coefficients from 100-145%. This should leave base heals solid while really rewarding players who elect to use healing power stats.

• (Celestial Avatar) Lunar Impact: Reduced the daze on this skill from 3s to 2s. This skill is now ground targeted and will blast finish correctly.

Well wishes,
~Irenio

Bonus: Bristleback Pet F2 is no longer the Sharpen Spines ability. The F2 is now Spike Barrage to give you more rewarding control.

More importantly….
any word on the staff Idle animation / Running Animations?
Are we still stuck with the staff being used as a Hammer when it comes to animations?

This isn’t a problem… Play Now formally known as Practice formally known as Hot Join has always been a sandbox play pen for people to test strategies and builds.

The solution, is to play Unranked & Ranked.

You did bring up a good point bout the queue time and that is going to be addressed in one form or another with HoT release.

I’d rather over heal then under heal.

I have a full DPS set and a full healing set.

If the tinfoil hat association of GW2 is right, then no big deal… I have a dps set nothing lost. If anet is right and it is very challenging, then I have a healing set that will put everyone’s to shame in PvE.

Like any game, it’s better to heal for too much then not enough. I’d rather spike heal for 9k-12k and keep my team mates alive if they over aggro or mess up on timing. This also prevents heated kittening matches with DPS fighting among each other. You end up being a larger asset to the team if you’re able to pick them up and and keep them alive through the over aggro then being the one to blame for failing to keep the party alive.

Justine.6351:

Wolfey.3407:

Dual Staff seems interesting.
Why bristleback over any of the two wyrven?
Maybe Rune of the Undead over Krait, just for the extra toughness?
Sigil of Bursting over hyrdomancy may be good to use as well for 6% Condition damage added

1 Sigil of corruption would cover both weapons.
Bristkeback will actually hit with dmg and is unlikely to get cleaved down similar to devourer.
The build gear has 1k toughness. It doesn’t need more.

Bristleback from my testing, seemed to be very squishy more so than a pure glass thief.

TorsoReaper.8530:

Everything in videogames is p2w if you wanted to be realistic. Someone with dual 980ti’s and gigabit fiber and a 4k monitor is going to be at an advantage over someone playing on a 13" laptop with integrated graphics and 1.5mbps dsl.

The one with the 13’ laptop has an advantage in PvP XD have you ever tried to stomp someone who’s lagging so bad that they appear to port every couple of seconds.

Would be nice, if they used a system similar to Guild Wars 1 to where when your pets leveled up, they would grow larger. Instead of the level up system, maybe a mastery system for them? obviously with a Cap on how large they can get.

<3 My Rainbow Phoenix

Dual Staff seems interesting.
Why bristleback over any of the two wyrven?
Maybe Rune of the Undead over Krait, just for the extra toughness?
Sigil of Bursting over hyrdomancy may be good to use as well for 6% Condition damage added

Ranger is a little subpar in the PvP scene; however, for a solo roamer there are a few builds you can play around with. One of my favorites is a pure condi roamer. I’m able to break tanky players without any real issues and it’s fun to harass thieves and mesmers with.

Shortbow
Axe/Torch
is what I’m running.

Torch for AOE burn
Shortbow for constant bleeds
WHAO i still use, it’s not at the state I like ; however,I find the 6,520 to be way more than enough for me. Not to mention, when traited it’s down to 16 second cool down.

Pets I run:
Lynx for the Bleeds
Juvenile Wolf for the Fear & KnockDown

Traits/Sigils/Runes I’m keeping quiet on They are easy to guess though.

Rizo.9534:

Unholy Pillager.3791:

Wolfey.3407:

Popping in,
The developers are reading this still. They are not going to post anything until they are certain of any changes they are going to make.

The thread is not being ignored, just not being posted in at the moment. They don’t want to shoot them selves further in the foot by saying something and not following through with it 100%.

They also don’t want to start a chain reaction of: This class raged and got ton of responses from developers so now they hate ____ and ____. So now _ and _ rage and start expecting the same thing ranger go.

Again, It would be nice if they popped in and posted more; however, they are still reading this thread. (waits to get flamed).

The problem with this line of reasoning is twofold:

1) Roy already does give that kind of feedback/discussion on the revenant subforum.

2) No other profession has been bottom of the barrel since launch, in every part of the game. You’ve had dungeon groups looking for anything but ranger, you’ve had tournaments where ranger was the only profession not represented. As an engineer main, ranger needs the feedback, the help, and the attention more than any other profession in the game, by far. You have to help the ones that need it the most, and anyone from any other profession that thinks that their profession needs help more desperately than ranger does is deluding themselves.

As owner of Champion Genius, Champion Paragon, Champion Phantom, Champion Shadow, Champion Legionnaire and Champion Hunter Titles, i’m 200% agree with you!
They have to fully concentrate on Ranger, because it almost pass “Point of No Return” already.

I see what you did there :P

If I here anything else, I’ll drop by and tell you what I know. Till then… ill just enjoy my coffee and and bounce back and forth between PvP and Ranger reading.

For those who are playing the game for free, you’re playing the Core game. The fact you’re playing the game for free should be way more than enough. If you want to play HoT content and features you should pony up the cash or deal with the base game.

Sorry your friends got turned off because they couldn’t chose a hero… but it’s a slippery slope. Next free players are going to be jumping up and down demanding to use elite specs because it turns them off from the game. Then, they will jump up and down demanding gliding, then other masteries. At what point does Anet say “hey you’re playing the base game for FREE if you want to play HoT pay to play HoT or deal with the base game”

TorsoReaper.8530:

Maybe Anet just can’t figure out pvp without the help of Morello who is now at Riot. Is it just coincidence that GW2 pvp is a mess and League of Legends is absolutely killing it?

One person does not carry a game in development.
If so, then Neopets > WoW

Popping in,
The developers are reading this still. They are not going to post anything until they are certain of any changes they are going to make.

The thread is not being ignored, just not being posted in at the moment. They don’t want to shoot them selves further in the foot by saying something and not following through with it 100%.

They also don’t want to start a chain reaction of: This class raged and got ton of responses from developers so now they hate ____ and ____. So now _ and _ rage and start expecting the same thing ranger go.

Again, It would be nice if they popped in and posted more; however, they are still reading this thread. (waits to get flamed).

misleading title, you’re complaining about a build with Thief not the class it’s self.

After playing around with it here are my thoughts on what needs to be changed.
My Number 1 Gripe, to where if nothing else is fixed this should be fixed:
FIX THE WAY DRUIDS HOLD STAFF PLEASE
THERE IS NOT 1 SKILL ON DRUID THAT IS MELEE EVERYTHING IS CASTING
DON’T LET US HOLD THE STAFF LIKE A HAMMER!! JUST NO BAD BOY!
Just let us go back to holding the staff like any other caster, you know: Mesmers, Eles, Necros, and Guardians.

Traits:
Druidic Clarity
It’s cool that you’re able to drop conditions that are on you; however, it’s competing with two other traits that are in higher demand. Maybe add: Blind (3 Seconds) and Removes 3 Conditions from nearby allies Radius 240.

Cultivated Synergy:
Only complaint is that for raids, you’re limited to 5 people versus 10.

Primal Echoes:
Pretty solid the way it is, maybe add “inflicts 1 stack of burning to solar beam” if they chose that trait. It will give some type of condi option/ damage option.

Celestial Shadow:
No real complaints

Seed of Life/ Verdant Etching:
Pretty good all around, maybe add: Inflicts 1 stack of poison to nearby enemies when it blossoms.

Natural Stride:
Why was: Slow and Taunt omitted from this list?

Grace of the Land:
Concern for this is again Raids, 5/10 people.

Cosmic Wisp:
I love this trait, the only thing I would add to it is: Damages foes it touches.
If it heals for 401, let it damage for 401. The duration is rather short and this gives Druids another method of getting tags while healing.

Ancient Seeds:
Pretty solid trait, I would add 1 skill modification to this:
“Vine Surge now applies 5 stacks of bleeding on hit”

Minor Traits:
No complaints

Glyphs:
No complaints, took a while to get use to.

Solar Beam:
The beam is very thin and hard to see which makes it hard to coordinate for initial heals. Maybe adjust the effect a little? Also, would be nice if The Bitfrost modified this, maybe into a Rainbow beam with little diamonds around it?

Astral Wisp:
Pretty solid all around, I do think adding “damages foes it pass through” would help with getting tags.

Ancestral Grace:
The cool down seems a little long, maybe reduce it to 10 seconds?

Vine Surge:
Add a poison field to this skill would be a nice way to allow Druids to combo with Ancestral Grace.

Sublime Conversion:
Really not a fan of this skill…
The healing is so small for PvP purposes unless a Ranger is using Rapid fire you aren’t really going to see anything. PvE wise, creatures don’t shoot often to make this worth while.

Maybe modify it to something like:
Reflects Projectiles, when reflects: Heals nearby allies for 50% of it’s potential damage.
Creates a Light Field at the location it is placed.

Celestial Skills:
Seed of Life:
Only gripe is that the picture is a Flower and the skill it’s self drops this egg sac looking thing. A larger detailed version of kudzus foot steps would work for this.

The Duration for Celestial Avatar seems a little too short, maybe increase it by 5 seconds?

Pets:
Bristleback:
It seems to be very squishy very little damage

Smokescale, no real complaints. Does seem a little op with the revenant sword 3 attack.

Tiger:
Not a fan of it’s F2, maybe change it to Furious Roar:
Grants Fury & Swiftness to nearby allies
(could have 5 seconds of Katie perry playing? )

Electric Wyvern :
Weird that this one doesn’t fly. It’s field seems to last very short in comparison as well.

Fire Wyvern:
It’s F2 doesn’t go directly after the enemy being targeted, you have to spam F1 and wait for him to get there and finish his attack cycle and hit F2 for him to do it and wait for the field to finish building. Just seems clunky over all. it is very pretty and bad kitten looking though

Reavan.8753:

Appropriate ways.
What exactly should the players do? Sit in a circle and hold hands? People here have been dumped on for long enough.

Instead of asking what the players can do or that we should show restraint, it should be the devs not the players showing us what they are going to do to appease their player base, a specific part of it that rightly feels neglected and sees many times over different treatment from other ‘pro player’ classes.

Its up to Anet to placete this.
If they don’t let it burn I say.

Im tired daily of some different elitist prick laughing and insulting my class choice due to the lack of simple support from anet.

First portion,
What i’m saying is keep the personal attacks out of the hate and rage.

The rest of what you’re saying I agree with, It’s up to anet to carry the ball and have something productive come from this.

Mr Pin.6728:

No offense but if they were interested in positive change they would have opened a dialog BEFORE getting stuck on stupid with the nerf hammer.

Besides, they have a whole CDI full of advice. I suggest that its not that they can’t make positive design iterations in regards to the ranger along the community’s desires, its simply that they don’t want to for whatever reason that they are unwilling to share.

The idea that they will revisit this skill before a balance patch is baffling, they made the nerf. Its a closed issue for them now.

No offense taken,
there is an old saying:
“Strike while the Iron is hot”

It’s blazing hot and a couple of them are currently sitting on the iron.

I do understand where you are coming from though.

Aria.5940:

So to answer the questions, I don’t think there’s much Gaile can do as she’s not responsible for the changes either way and honestly (no offense to Gaile), I think it would be better for the devs to talk directly to the community about changes instead of having a middle-(wo)man between the community and dev.

What Roy could do would be to actually discuss with the ranger community on the forums rather than use twitter or other media like that. Also either he’s partially in charge of ranger, in which case he should be listening to the ranger community and helping with a road map for ranger, or he is not in charge of ranger in which case he should not be an active player in this.

I have requested in my report for Roy to come on the Forums and explain why he did what he did and asked that he promises to use the website for any planned nerfs as well as talk with the players before swinging the nerf bat.

If he will do so or not, is yet to be seen or determined. With how heated this has become, it may be some time to ensure nothing is said out of line.

Kitty.1502:

Wolfey.3407:

Kitty.1502:

Wolfey.3407:

Guys, please keep things constructive and classy.

You have ANETs full undivided attention, really… you do at the moment. I’ve talked to Gaile for a while last night and I can assure you she is not giving you lip service to make you feel better and forget about this.

I volunteered to help out this week and early next week to do reports for Ranger & Druid as well. If they would like, I will be more than glad to include Ranger & Druid into my weekly reports alongside PvP.

TDLR:
Don’t make kitten out of your selves, you have anets full attention, don’t waste it or use it to take a quick puck shot at someone.

Honestly, I don’t think this is true. Its been 3 years, the body of evidence is really against you. We want action, we want the devs to put forth a road map for ranger to explain what they think is wrong, fundamentally at the core of this is that the ranger community does not trust the devs, nor should we. They have disrespected this community for a long time, and now you are seeing the frustration boil over for 3 years of neglect.

You’re welcome to believe what you want to believe.
I have direct communication with Gaile and I’m telling you what I see.

For those who do not know, Forum Specialists are not developers nor are we people who work for ANET. We are not given any type of compensation, we are players who report on the forums.

I’ve played Ranger since Guild Wars Prophecies and I love the class, I share the same frustration as you guys do. This is why I’m bothering to spend hours to assist ANET on this matter.

I’m ask you guys to not make @ $ $ 3 $ out of your selves when it comes to venting. It’s appropriate to be angry and it’s appropriate to be frustrated. I’m frustrated with a lot of things with Ranger. The difference, I’m not going to run around the forums naked yelling at the top of my lungs. I’d rather use this opportunity to spear head some positive change and use this as an opportunity to be learned from.

No one is telling you not to be angry, the only thing I’m asking and what ANET is asking is for you to use your anger in appropriate ways.

Instead of demanding for Roy to be crucified, what can he do to make up for this?

Instead of throwing Gail under the buss, what can she do to help us out?

The issue is that we have been ignored for 3 years, the devs have treated this community rancidly, we have tried making suggestions, but you know what? The devs are none existent. They have never opened up dialogue or tried in any real attempt to improve the ranger, nor be open about what they think the ranger needs. If things are going to get better, than they need to stop hiding from the community set up a list of things they see as wrong with the class (we already have done this as a community for the past 3 years to no real avail) and have an open discussion with us. This is on them, but their history has shown that they fundamentally do not care, or want to interact with the ranger community that has put up with their contempt and neglect for the community for the past 3 years.

Now that they want to open up dialogue and want to give us attention, do you want them to go away? do you want them to leave with the impression that no matter what they try to do Rangers will never be happy?

Ya, it would be nice if we got the attention 3 years earlier, it would be nice if everything went our way. But guess what, it’s happened… You can’t do anything about it, I can’t do anything about it, O’Brien Can’t Do anything about it, and not even Mad King Thorn can do anything about it to change it from happening.

We can sit on our hands and rage at the monitors or we can try and actually have our annoyances, bugs, broken content, and grievances resolved.

You and every one else, are more than welcome to vent off and rage. I, on the other hand plan to be diplomatic about this and work to get things done as much as I can. (With the understanding I’m not a developer or have dev rights).

Kitty.1502:

Wolfey.3407:

Guys, please keep things constructive and classy.

You have ANETs full undivided attention, really… you do at the moment. I’ve talked to Gaile for a while last night and I can assure you she is not giving you lip service to make you feel better and forget about this.

I volunteered to help out this week and early next week to do reports for Ranger & Druid as well. If they would like, I will be more than glad to include Ranger & Druid into my weekly reports alongside PvP.

TDLR:
Don’t make kitten out of your selves, you have anets full attention, don’t waste it or use it to take a quick puck shot at someone.

Honestly, I don’t think this is true. Its been 3 years, the body of evidence is really against you. We want action, we want the devs to put forth a road map for ranger to explain what they think is wrong, fundamentally at the core of this is that the ranger community does not trust the devs, nor should we. They have disrespected this community for a long time, and now you are seeing the frustration boil over for 3 years of neglect.

You’re welcome to believe what you want to believe.
I have direct communication with Gaile and I’m telling you what I see.

For those who do not know, Forum Specialists are not developers nor are we people who work for ANET. We are not given any type of compensation, we are players who report on the forums.

I’ve played Ranger since Guild Wars Prophecies and I love the class, I share the same frustration as you guys do. This is why I’m bothering to spend hours to assist ANET on this matter.

I’m ask you guys to not make @ $ $ 3 $ out of your selves when it comes to venting. It’s appropriate to be angry and it’s appropriate to be frustrated. I’m frustrated with a lot of things with Ranger. The difference, I’m not going to run around the forums naked yelling at the top of my lungs. I’d rather use this opportunity to spear head some positive change and use this as an opportunity to be learned from.

No one is telling you not to be angry, the only thing I’m asking and what ANET is asking is for you to use your anger in appropriate ways.

Instead of demanding for Roy to be crucified, what can he do to make up for this?

Instead of throwing Gail under the buss, what can she do to help us out?

My Time on Ranger:
6,652 Hours and 48 minutes / 10,686 hours and 48 minutes. out of the past 1,132 days.
Just under 3,000 games played in PvP as a Ranger.

I tell you this so you don’t think I’m some warrior or necro helping out to help out.

GrandHaven.1052:

NOTHING more annoying and NOTING more STUPID in mechanics.

Why does this exist?

How to deal with them????

EDIT : Playing thief and engi.

Thief:
Shortbow
Pistols

Fight off point, you can even bring scorpion wire and drag them off point and dps away.
Kite around if needed.

Engie:
Rifle
Pistol

Fight off point, kite around if needed.

Can even use turrets and just make it rain on him.

Could also use mortar and turn it into a ranged fight.

basically, use the same mechanics you use to fight turret engies.

This really should be placed in the Ranger Forums, more fittingly in the WHAO thread created by Gaile.

BolshoiBooze.3406:

Wolfey.3407:

Guys, please keep things constructive and classy.

You have ANETs full undivided attention, really… you do at the moment. I’ve talked to Gaile for a while last night and I can assure you she is not giving you lip service to make you feel better and forget about this.

I volunteered to help out this week and early next week to do reports for Ranger & Druid as well. If they would like, I will be more than glad to include Ranger & Druid into my weekly reports alongside PvP.

TDLR:
Don’t make kitten out of your selves, you have anets full attention, don’t waste it or use it to take a quick puck shot at someone.

That would be great, actually. From what I’ve seen, you seem to have a good understanding of the class without being overly dramatic. I just hope they listen to your suggestions :-).

Thank you for your kind words,
The next report I anticipate to be a lot larger and more in-depth. The report I just sent off covered a few topics within the Ranger community (really can’t do anything with Druid since we haven’t tested it yet x) ) .

As always, If I hear anything back (and I’m cleared to talk about it) I’ll keep you guys updated ^-^.

For pvp, SoStone

Reason:
You can still cap a point with it.
You also get a small bit of toughness added to you and your pet.

With Protect Me, It’s a shout that prevents point capture contribution and does not offer any passives for having the skill on your bar.

Just tossing this out there as an idea,
could change Signet of Renewals Active to include “Auto Revives your pet”

Could be a mechanic along the lines of:
-Signet is active:
-Pulls conditions from nearby allies
-a buff is added to your pet, when the buff ends, if the pet is dead it is revived.
The buff duration could be something along the lines of 5 seconds?

Just tossing my two cents on how I would like to see it changed:
Crossfire:
Guaranteed Bleed on hit, more stacks if hit from the sides and back.

Poison Volley:
Turn this into an AOE skill similar mechanics to longbow Barrage. Creates a Poison Field similar to thieves. This will give Rangers another field they can combo off of with arrows or whatever else they want. Radius 200, little smaller than healing spring.

Quick Shot:
Add a leap finisher, Add 0.05 seconds of stealth, just enough to break focus, similar to mesmers when they pop clones.

Crippling Shot:
Change the bleed out for Slow

Concussion Shot:
Decrease the CD by 4 seconds, add 5 Seconds of Confusion.

A lot of nice suggestions, please do give details such as:
Conditions
Buffs
Cool Downs
etc.

These are helpful tidbits that can be given to a developer to let them see what the community is really looking at.