Guild Wars 2

Only a Non WvW’er would think Champion Commander Siegecrusher was awesome. You sir need a demotion.

racta.4250:

I love the class, and I think we are close to being balanced. We have upsides, we have downsides, but with a – FEW – bug fixes we’d be close to perfect.

67 bugs on the ranger bug list (yeah I counted lol) those did not include spirit trait line or dungeon pet issues.

There are blue trenchcoats, or red ones, yellow trenchcoats and pink even purple! The variety is endless! lol….

I have to say though I love this idea, I’m sure many will say that they like having light/med/heavy armor specific looks so they are easily recognizable on the battlefield. But It would be nice if we weren’t cornered into wearing a certain look – with the lack of variety we have in each armor class. If they implemented something like this until they are able to add more styles I would be all for it. I know they have their hands full fixing bugs and such, so I have no high hopes of this happening soon but it would be much more fun. Armor skins please!

CRrabbit.1284:

Ranger is never weak in 1v1. The problem is ranger maybe the hardest class to master since it need quite a bit skills. The more I play ranger the more I realized that we rangers has the best melee weapon among all classes —- if you are not using sword, you won’t be a good ranger (at least in 1v1). Many ppl complain about sword, but in fact it’s pretty OP when you know how to use it (need quite a bit skills, but once you know how to do it, you will feel lucky that you play ranger), you just melt any melee classes. I will post a tutorial about how to use sword after 1/28 patch(I don’t want to do it now coz I don’t want it to be nerfed since it’s our last stand weapon, then most of us can enjoy for a while until the next patch).
However, lack of AOE is really a pain especially in wvw (don’t arguee with me with LB5 or traps, they are just jokes when compared with other classes no matter damage or the risk to use them)

I actually love the melee aspect of ranger I’ve been trying lately. Still it’s completely different from the character I thought I would be getting when I started this class. Most of the videos of rangers winning spvp fights are running melee. Does anyone else think this is weird for what most new players thought they would be playing? (which is a mostly ranged kiting class?)

Mitch.4781:

Ok…I’m levelling up my ranger..and I don’t know how or why..but im fighting enemies up to 7 leverls above me..which was IMPOSSIBLE to do on my ele and tough on my warrior. Seriously, I’m like..wow..are they really as bad as they were made out to be? My weapons are longbow and torch and axe3…I find the snares and conditions great and the knockback on longbow cool….Have they been misjudged….? Admitedly I’m only level 28 at this stage..but I can’t help but feel they have been unfairly maligned
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Leveling a ranger is easy mode in pve. . But maybe you want to wait till your 80 and participate in wvw before you fully review your ranger. I still love mine at 80 but there are issues and Lvl 28 pve isint a good way to judge them by.

nawrasz.6219:

There’s balance. Balance in GW2 is a lot like RPS. Except it’s not.

Thieves and Mesmers are Scissors, Guardians are Rock and Eles and warriors are Paper. Engineers and Rangers are…Mushrooms.

Scissor beats paper and Paper beats the other paper. Paper and Rock sometimes come close to beating scissors but then scissors disappears and comes back to try again later.
Rock beats nothing and nothing beats rock and everything beats Mushrooms.
That together is perfect class balance.

LOL I like this. +1 For you

So, do all those posting ranger love think rangers are fine then and need no fixing? Or are they just hating the hate posts? Just curious.

I enjoy ranger in pve a lot, it’s my favorite class. That being said in wvw it definitely needs some love. Anet Is aware of it, I hope they give us the much needed tweaking we have been asking for, and not pass us over because they think we are fine with it.

Braxxus.2904:

They don’t want you to play support.
They don’t want you to play defensively either.

They’ve said multiple times that they want offense to be > Defense.

Basically if you look at the direction of how they’re pushing the mechanics/patches they want zergballs all rolling glass cannon burst specs spooging all over each other.

This exactly is what I think too. Aoe limit is 5, heal is limited to 5, is like they are encouraging the Zerg mentality. You can be an amazing 5 man synergy team, but if a 40 man zerg pops onto you…

Map population and coverage, thats what wins lately it seems. Skill is just how long the other team can hold out IMO.

If you want to be on a server with a lot of options TC is it. We are making blackouts to accommodate guilds that want to transfer together. Our wvw pop is great (never long queues if any) but having more night coverage would be a big bonus to us. Community-wise there is a reason TC is recommended by sooo many. We are a fun, skilled group always making ourselves better. You wouldn’t regret the move here. GL wherever you choose NP – from the sounds of it whomever gets you will be lucky to have you.

Deathdom.8250:

Diehard.1432:

Damyou TC! You stole our KH, you better make good use of it

To add on to this, I will be really disappointed if you guys don’t kick some major kitten now.

welcome new teammates!

All malice aside.

SOR congrats on your new teammates! I hope they find a good home in your server and you guys kick some kitten in T1 when you get there. Sometimes you have to do what is right for your guild and playable time. I think everyone respects that if not likes it. You have been fun to fight against!

I really wished tier 2 was the original TC-SBI-SOR matchup because I think we all would have had a good even brawl. Although the black gate guys were a fun fight, I don’t look forward to reclaiming our territory daily. Hopefully some new guilds to our server will end those shenanigans.

SBI I haven’t honestly seen alot of complaining here from you. SOR and TC both know what it’s like to lose to higher pop servers. It sucks. But then you get to see who your Diehard players are and honestly it doesn’t matter what tier your in, if you are enjoying a fairly evenmatched brawl. This might put you in a tier you enjoy being in. I was cheering you on today, you had sm! Also for ignoring speldan, running to killing the champ oak heart – I was confused by your tactics, but applauded you because it looked like you were having fun. Then you killed me and I lol’d. I’m sure you will be back in tier 2 soon enough.

TC meh we are TC, we don’t change much. I like that about us. We keep our sense of humor and never stop fighting. It would be weird if we did.

Now, not that it matters but I’m bored, scores please!

Forzani.2584:

loopi.7913:

I really hope the devs actively listen to these suggestions because they are great. I’d like to ask for smarter pets when dealing with stealthers. Seems my dumb pet spends my whole wvw fight with them running back and forth between me and my opponent. Only way around this is if I melee them but I’m more of a kite ranger so meh. If I could make my pets abilities somehow a part of my damage as a skill trait instead of having a pet out, that would make me happy too.

Unfortunately you need to waste one of your slots for Guard.

If you follow closely the advice on these boards you will realize Rangers use 9 skill slots.

-_- guard. The ability that takes up space on my bar because the only use for it is taking out siege on walls that no one likes us using because it’s a “grey area”. On my server anyways. I suppose it’s useful for outside of a keep … But dumb pet should run there anyways without me having to use up a slot on my bar to tell it so. Lazy cat!

My first day in wvw I learned Only a wvw player would get the meaning of: “Everyone to SM LR now!!! Man the AC’s (ascalonian catacombs?) get your sups on my BAL ASAP! (what… !?) Zerg inc, mes hide pls. Wow culling, ok spawn, gd pnt tick hold ppl.” lol wut…

Only a WvW player can speak WvW

I really hope the devs actively listen to these suggestions because they are great. I’d like to ask for smarter pets when dealing with stealthers. Seems my dumb pet spends my whole wvw fight with them running back and forth between me and my opponent. Only way around this is if I melee them but I’m more of a kite ranger so meh. If I could make my pets abilities somehow a part of my damage as a skill trait instead of having a pet out, that would make me happy too.

Ultravalefor.5038:

Only a WvW player shouts kitten YOU POPPED SWORDS!!! I SAID DON’T HIT MOBS!"

Also I hear people talking about this Zhaitan, what borderland does he spawn on?

I think someone said he lives in the black citadel dungeon…. Wherever that is!

Only a WvW player would stand naked at the seige merchant buying up siege, and run off to drop it forgetting they are still nekkid. Or know the joy of knocking an opponent off of a cliff.

Any one that is looking for a server that has consistently proved itself to be an amazing group of people, I would have to say look no further than TC. After being on this server for a few months I can’t imagine being anywhere else. Something special about the people that are on here daily. It doesn’t seem to matter the matchup, wvw is just plain fun here on TC. There is something here for everyone. No bad attitudes, just class and a crazy sense of humor needed. <3 Toasters

This is such a close match! What a great server matchup.

Love this idea. X number of players. Capping or participating in events. Escorting a yak. Defending successfully. Just don’t make one that players have to drop x number of siege items or we will have useless siege everywhere.

I agree armor repairs hurts wvw. I really am not sure why it exists. /shrug. Upgrades on keeps. This needs to change. It should be supply that majorly funds it. Perhaps karma also. Defenders in keeps should get some sort of reward for repelling an attack since they wont get much else defending thier homeland territory. And I would like to see siege blueprints drop more often from players and claim lords/keep lords. I think that would help a lot. My two cents.

I just wanted to thank the guys answering questions in this thread. It is a huge morale booster to see some great communication between the game designers and their fans. We know you can’t answer everyone but letting us know you are trying is amazing. Keep it up!

Rangers are alot of fun to play, I love mine. And although I love the idea of this class they can be good at alot of things but don’t excel at anything. I have an elementalist I am levelling, and I can’t believe the difference in survivability. Rangers need a little love.

Yeah I stopped using it also, although if mesmer pets can clear siege and elementalist dragon tooths can go through walls I would really like a dev to speak up about the use of this. I still use my pets to guard outside of a tower when I’m inside. I don’t see any other purpose for this skill. But alot of rangers want to clear the siege and like me shy away from using this skill until we hear it from a dev. Just let us know…

100% support the op. I only wished it could be stickied long enough for the devs to pay attention to it because you are completely right.

I love that wvw is open free for all and any level or casual player can join. It is sad though that many pve players come to wvw for world completion and then leave. Maybe if there was more incentive to stick around they might stay.
And To those that daily guard yaks and throw siege down knowing it will be gone sooner or later you are my heros

Seems like there are many posts with similar ideas the majority of the ranger community is on the same page. More survivability, rework spirits skill tree, make pets less squishy and smarter or let us choose to even have them instead just absorbing their damage and skills for our own.

Exactly what phabby said. This game is great, it has a ton of potential and it’s still fairly new so there are still a lot of issues that need to be worked out. The huge problem is just the lack of communication on Anets part. At least acknowledge the issues the community has ( I know all of them cannot be addressed there are simply too many problems Right now) But maybe a general idea of what they are trying to address so that those giving them the benefit of the doubt are reassured they will at some point fix certain things (like exploiting) Or broken skills, culling ect. I don’t need to have it fixed immediate, id like to be here for the long term… I love this game. A little acknowledgement might go a long way to help calm the nerd rage . It couldn’t hurt to have some community relation moderators keeping the population informed and updated more regularly here on the forums since this is where people look for answers.

It doesn’t seem right that those that wvw have to leave the fight and go pve to fund their wvw costs. The system feels flawed. Sure you can join the mindless Zerg and make a little… But for all the players that guard and defend their territory wont make anything. Especially if your outmanned in your tier the amount of siege that is needed to be put down again and again once you have retaken your towers keeps is a huge gold sink. The jp helps but it’s not enough. Those that regularly wvw can feel the pain of either having to leave to pve, go buy gems with rl money or play the tp game. Grr anet fix this >:( I want to wvw not pve!

Yes our Veloka Tower on tarnished coast server was in the middle of the fortify upgrade, now it wont finish and wont allow for cannons or any other structure upgrade to be started >:(