i hope thats not offtopic for gaile, but that thread is 30 pages big.
Which Trading post action are inspired by this thread or are really based on posts here?
I think i read in german forum that the quaggan back packs are from german player suggested and implemented.
What did this thread?
pet evade on f3, a great idea from ranger, like the normal evade cd of the player. so the vigor pets can gain from us via traits would be usefull.
the spirit idea would be okay when the pet died.
people should hold in mind that anet is against balancing different in the game modes.
The most ideas for wvw ranger would be okay for wvw, but pvp its not.
In WvW our stalker can shout the 5 might stacks, run into the crowd, die, and give the spirit buff as last “huurrrrraaayy” and the WvWers are happy.
In PvP its so that the pet dies not so often, but when because of swap cd or big fights in mid, then the ranger have problems because we only have 70% dmg. A little buff from defeted pets would be nice if balanced.
So interesting tactics can evolve and enemys can think on their own “better accept that pet attacks or let the ranger gain this buff?”
even i have zero interest in GvG i think the main reasons why rangers arent in WvW are the GWEN meta, the stubborn opinion of a lot of commanders that rangers have no zerg support and the main reason is the old opinion “GOOOOD REROLL SOMETHING USEFUL”. Oh and do not forget that GvG is – when we see it simple – AoE vs AoE. and Rangers are just not designed for real AoE.
Anet designed the rangers like they wanted and not around WvW. The players designed their own WvW around things that rangers do not perfectly fit into.
So the whole argument around “If Rangers had….then they would in WvW blabla” is for me just no argument thats worth even listen to.
Bring arguments that prove rangers have less survivability outside the situation of 1vX like in wvw
Well I still havent read one valid point, do some spvp and see for yourself, I think u are running wvw or something where ranger is extremly op since there u can get survability and damage. We still have the lowest survability in game is spvp, and yes that is as a glasscannon since no other spec is viable atm, one change of sigil and I loose half my damage its not working. We just lack survability skills, sure sigil of stone is good, but u still die after u use it most of the itme since u have to give up your condition removal for it.
Wait what? Ranger have the lowest survivability? The lowest?
A class that was designed as sustained dmg dealer aka a good dmg dealer with nice survivability and was nerfed some balances ago for the reason of “a bit too much survivability” has the lowest in game?
All our blade weapons just have a low cd evade, a signet and a shout for each 6s dmg invul (so many have no other class). Alone 6 in WS makes it for us quite easy with a bit skill to survive bigger combats.
Rangers are great in sustain, i mean look at all or past metas in wvw/pvp: spirit, shout, BM, trapper, all work with 6 in WS and work as good functioning bunker and sustainer so… i cant see any reason for your sentence
God instead of crying for a whatever nerf just bring this one
Change. It. Back.
Problem solved? Maybe
People will still see some power ranger but qq people love to qq. When qq people cant find something to qq because the qq lead to the desired nerf then we have some possibilities:
1) qq people see they cant qq anymore on x class and continue to qq on y class
2) qq people get a nerf for the said qq theme but they get still be outplayed because some player who played, for example pewpew power ranger long before it was the new “ohmagawdsoOPwhatanoobclass” and continue to qq. Its just a qq people thing u understand?
3) qq people are pleased and stop being qq people and start playing the game instead of forum.
Its the new name for “of the knight”
Dat stats already existed since ascended came out but it had no name
Idk how you feel. But that was unbelievable annyoing for me before anet renamed it to “captain”.
This is a cool idea. I will pitch it to the team. What other things would you see going on this track? They all have a theme leading up to the end goal.
When we think about a theme for a track just for a bag..that will be difficult. It would be better to have a different theme with a 18/20 bag as a side reward like the 7th or such.
When we get a crafting track i want some ectos and at the end a guaranteed random exo. So that this track would be a track for player who hope to get precursor via pvp
A reward track of melandru and kormir with new backpacks
#angel wings
The wvw reward track seems okay
Normal blueprints while completing and at end we can choose some superior blueprints, 1 omega, 2 trebs or 3 of the others.
Fractal skins would be nice but i see the reason why not. Maybe instead of the skins pristine relics and the mist items. The skins could be a really rare drop from the coffer drops. Same rarity like in fractals.
Reward tracks of the citys
With a t3 cultural weapon skin as reward with small drops of the t1 and t2 skins.
for halloween candy corn, ToT bags and the special halloween items while completing and at the end something cool as reward. A mini king thorn, the 20 bag from last year or…hell something cool
Skittles idea seems legit.
I would prefer to just add a proc to gain retaliation and Regeneration.
Rangers have no access to retaliation and a GM would be okay to gain some seconds
While LB and GS synergize quite good, in PvE LB/S-A is a rly good choice.
Sword AA makes good dmg, but it is difficult for starters to control it. The Axe offhand is and was always a great power weapon. #4 is a nice burst and relative short cd and the #5 reflect is a semi-cleave and good for utility inside the group (Lupicus, Caudecus) when a experienced Guard isnt available.
AND my main argument: Frostfang is ugly. Really really…ugly…
Why do people ignore facts?
Thief is a confirmed rework of the assassine class.
the Guardian is lore wise a Fusion of A paragon and a monk. Guards have some of the same abilities like the monk.
The derwish used the Power of gods. Currently the gods have less influence and the class extincted in tyria. And the fact that we have 5 races, each believing in something different would make a derwish unlogic.
The only class that could make a comeback is the ritualist. The ability to summone spirits are possible for all classes. Only Problem: it was unique to Cantha
i am against the petless option. I choosed the Ranger coz of this pet.
But in last time i run with my guild few dungeons and sometimes can understand why a lot of ranger want a petless option.
The current problem is that when we stow our pet and get infight the pet comes out.
No big problem, but it is a problem when we use AoE Stealth, i take Fall dmg and the pet pulls a lot of mobs.
So i think a BIG QoL change would be when the pet doesnt come out when we get Fall dmg. That would cause that Dungeon ranger have an easier time.
Thats my opinion
i hate it to see that SUDDENLY all noobs dig out their dusty rangers, they quitted months ago because they were soooo underpowered and useless. and now? rangers…rangers everywhere…in pvp of course.
The happy lil hunters who run around, dont even want to 1v1, just shoot from far away or from above in others 1v1 and feel like a boss.
I hate all “rangers” who think they are a ranger just because they have one they dig out when the ranger seems to get the new op class. A short look back at old BM times – times when every 2nd player was a ranger.
Enjoy it all wanna-be-rangers. Enjoy it until the other classes know how the average comeback hunter plays and reflect ur RF and u have no plan wherefrom the dmg comes.
But at all its nice to see a freekill when i see another power ranger who thinks he is a pro and i nuke them with a power build i play for weeks or months.
the trick of of guards is, that they teleport to you, use WW and smite condition and deal heavy dmg, they burst u down.
My bro invented that off guard build with bullet punch and i know that the best way to counter med guards is CC and…RANDOM DODGES
it sounds awful but when he rages, then because a ranger random dodges and the whole burst (a burst u cant really predict cause of teleport and such) is wasted.
Then the guard has a problem, his burst is on cd for 30-40s. He goes on sustain.
When u got it to survive his burst with enough hp YOU need to make more pressure than him. Med guards gain their survivability from engaging with their meds (2K heal each med – after patch the elite too). They are walking targets when they have everything on cd and average guards do that.
In short:
- use cripple, chill, immob – guards have bad mobility, u hurt them a lot when they cant get to you
- try to random dodge the burst or survive it with prot and weak
- most guards enter the fight with the burst, when they are close enough they port and start the combo.
. i think 6 in WS and NM is the best way to counter them hard. its a bit skillless coz semi bunker but it works quite good against them
remove a bit swift duration
add a slight chance to gain a bit quickness and its a new rune that can be more useful.
we have enough might runes out there
bring stability against a nec seems first of logical…but try to run as ranger with RaO into a nec in skyhammer.
he just smiles and converts your stability to fear xD
Let them be cowards.
To live on as a warrior who retreated from a fight he started is the biggest disgrace he can gain. A bigger disgrace than to be finished…Except you use a bunny or a llama as finisher. Then its a much bigger disgrace…or you down him and just let him live and sit down somewhere near…just to disgrace him again when he stands up…
#SadisticRANGER
First, personally i think the spiders are absolutely good how they work.
Sure spiders are condi pets, nevertheless the only dmg condi of spiders is poion, and in my opinion Poison should be seen more as a control condition than a dmg condition. So stat change would rather hurt the family than improve.
But the stat change could rather help the devourer class as they do the most bleed stacks i think.
Secondly the F2 is imo the best of all pets. What some ranger dont know is, that the f2 spider poison works like the thief poison. We activate and it stays. thats awesome and the duration stays 30s. Right timed i can use the poisons two times in the first seconds of a fight.
Similiar it works with SB#4, A#3 and GS#5…sidenote.
With your change idea spiders would work like semi-traited-Venom-Share-Thief. I dont think that would work well in general.
BUT
the stat change idea would be great if spiders would apply torment. Then my pants would be wet 24/7.
Is that real or a troll? Because it looks OP as kitten.
the quickness could be the real quickness or haste or maybe swiftness or maybe some new buff because the chinese word is hard to translate. Maybe 3s of QZ. with that we need to time our traps and our heal
Rune of traps
(1) +25 condition damage
(2) condition duration increases by 10%
(3) +50 condition damage
(4) Gain 3 seconds of quickness? when using a trap skill
(5) +100 condition damage
(6) Gain 3 seconds of stealth when using a trap skill
to make #4 viable for power builds i suggested to make it a chain skill
first cast let u swallow the flame and gain some stacks of might over short time, the second cast is the normal throw torch skill.
1) guards – the biggest problem for med guards were disengages. guards are slow and a teleport as disengage is a huge buff imo. the elite as meditation is really strong, invul with 2K HP back is quite good
2) rangers – when the community is smart enough to create good builds rangers could see a comeback to tpvp. bunker builds like BM will see a big buff in defensive as SoS is available without power traiting and offensive with might stacking on Axe. 25 stacks might on pet inc.
3) Mesmer – its rarely seen that classes gain a buff and the most are against it. the torment spam is broken and “only 5-6 stacks” like karl said is just…wow pls..karl…come on. Almost 100% uptime sword torment of war was too strong for balancing and they just moved the nerfed torment time to the mesmer to gain the REAL 100% uptime. against a class where movement is important. but the PU nerf was in an intellient way thats okay.
the search function never worked for me
So the argument to search the forum before we make a new thread is a bit brazen in my opinion when cant even search something since…ever.
First skill is a sword ability, second skill is dagger, third skill is a 2 sec poison..
???
All 3 are poison skills. It doesn’t matter if it’s a bow skill or not (apply poison could be used with all weapons). And Poison Volley is a 10 second poison without condi duration increases when you use it correctly (at point blank range) and it has a 9 second cooldown without traits. This actually makes it more efficient at applying poison compared to Apply Poison since there is no cast time associated.
But the point is you said only “rogues” (lol) had access to poison, when it’s pretty clear that rangers have tons of access to poison in GW2.
My list didn’t include traps, pet skills, or even the master trait that makes poison more effective.
lol…
Point he was trying to make is that rangers have plenty of poison, much more than a “rogue”. We can keep 100% uptime on poison with one skill if you trait into marksmanship, like 80% uptime if you don’t. Saying rangers can’t poison is pretty false when we probably have the most in game, maybe a necro beats us. Not only that but we have a trait that makes our poisons stronger.
Except by using a “Bow”. Which is why most people picked the class to begin with. (FOTM Meta Sword Rangers dont count). Now this is the part where my opinion is my opinion, but I am a ranger who refuses to pick up a sword because that is not the class that I rolled.
I mean I was a huge fan of HE-MAN, but he was a warrior.. not a ranger..
So because you refuse to use better weapons they don’t count? Well if you want to hurt yourself by using only bows then complain about poison, what do you expect? Rangers have plenty of poison, you simply refuse to use it, so instead of wanting more poison on ranged weapons, perhaps you should branch out a bit and play the class to it’s strengths.
Sword is not a better weapon, its barely a rangers weapon. Lore matters, in Guild Wars Lore Rangers used bows. If you prefer other weapons more power to you..
However, I do not choose to accept it and play the class for its so called “strengths”. I will play it as a RANGER and maybe in time it will be fixed. Until then, I intend to use the forums for the purpose they were created. To discuss my concerns, to the community and to the game Developers.
Ranger =/= Archer
Your disconnect with the reality of class design is striking, young one.
inb4 you copy pasta that horrendously outdated pre-launch description – yes we are the best ranged damage users. That still doesn’t mean that our ranged option is the best performing weaponset. Not even remotely so.
This goes to the above poster as well as warriorjrd.8695…
Yes, clearly I am the one in “disconnect from reality” as you say..
i wish i could post an old post from the first days of my forum experience.
A ranger posted interesting facts about the “ranger”
But some examples
Prysin mentioned Legolas, the real Ranger of LotR was in fact aragorn. WHAT? he is a sword user but in the legends of tolkien ranger were trained in using bows AND swords.
In Past rangers were men from kings in order to secure landscapes and forests of their kingdom. That explains the German name of “Rangers” – Waldläufer – “Forest walker”.
the problem with old armor skins is, that each class had a different ones. That makes it difficult to bring an armor set back because one set contains 8 skins
EU is unkillable with tage as best bunker guard and sizer as best thief.
it will not be close, it will be a win for EU with over 100 points difference.
If you’re going to wtfnerf black powder (about the only defense a thief has against ridiculous damage warriors do with an axe for example) at least decrease initiative cost for it.
the only people who should use nomad are commanders in WvW.
in PvE its not useful, in WvW zerging u bring nothing for the fight. u are just there. Nothing else. U will survive and do ur bit dmg that is enough to gain ur bags and so on, but thats it.
Commanders can use it, they dont need to do the dmg, they need to lead and should be the last who dies.
