Curse

Sulgurth · Sep 17, 2006, 03:57 AM // 03:57

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Still sad that they left the "spam keys 1-2 as fast as you can" build that is touch rangers. I was really hoping they would make SOME change to make them take an ounce of skill to play, or make them counterable either as caster (make vamp touch/bite spells) or as melee (make them "attack skills" that can miss.)

A Touch Ranger is a suicide build as it is, with its most effective location being in free respawn zones such as AB, Aspenwood, and Jade quarry. Besides just takes a player with any form of snare to make them useless. Even with a little degen or spike dmg they can only pull off so much healing before energy runs out, OoB is only good for short encounters

The fun side of your post comes with changing the vamps from skill to attack, add the animation of a ranger trying to grab a warrior and bite its neck. This could also help bring in evasive stances to help the happless warrior who would dare wonder into an alliance battle hold up against the mighty undead ranger thirsty for its blood.

This was a good update without over nerfing anything, although I don't get why Tigers fury was nerfed, the other skill in its potentially abused combo was nerfed as well. My problem lies in the excessive streaming download that goes on after guild wars loads, I've been waiting ages for it to finish. Well over 300 megs later it continues to DL, why don't they actually tell us what they are "Loading" on the back end. I wait for this every time they make an update as I greatly dislike waiting to load each town as I jump around looking for things, so wouldn't we already have all the graphics and such already downloaded? As for the core game operations that comes before they load the game. What am I "Downloading" on the back end, I just hope its not Uploading.

xiao1985 · Sep 17, 2006, 01:09 PM // 13:09

/signed....

though /sigh on the reduction of boon heals....

brawnylad · Sep 17, 2006, 05:20 PM // 17:20

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Originally Posted by gr3g

So how much did Anet pay you to post this?

... just kidding!

I am not!

WLlama · Sep 17, 2006, 06:17 PM // 18:17

It's been mentioned that ANet has been a bit slow on these balances. What you have to remember is that they likely didn't want to change the skills during the tournament. Thus, this skill update was rather timely.