Curse

Redvex · Jan 01, 2010, 10:49 AM // 10:49

Next month will be ( i suppose) a skills balance.
I wanna know your hope about nerfing skills or hopes for buffing skill.
I am a pve player so i hope to see buff to spirits and traps to make those skills viable in pve (not farming) and i worried about my favorite elite Marksman Wager and Glass Arrows.
I wanna see a use for equinox and lacerate etc etc.

upier · Jan 01, 2010, 11:23 AM // 11:23

Let's be honest - until Strength Of Honor only applies to melee there is very little point to ranged physical damage dealers.

Jair · Jan 01, 2010, 12:15 PM // 12:15

OT: Erm, I'm hoping for something done about Nature Rituals, honestly..perhaps change their casting time as they did with the Binding Rituals. I fear that Glass Arrows may take a hit in PvP, while honestly the skill isn't half as broken as other things in the Meta.

Artisan Archer · Jan 01, 2010, 12:36 PM // 12:36

Either Lignting Reflexes nerf, Glass Arrows nerf or both. Better would be Power Shot nerf, but not gonna happen cause Anet's a little dumb.

Yuna Matsumarui · Jan 01, 2010, 12:46 PM // 12:46

I'd like a buff / skill change on wildernis survival. seriously you can barely use that if you'd want to use a bow as well.

traps being easiliy interruptable doesn't help when you want to active trap stuff, while the attribute spread doesn't allow your traps to be effective when you want to wear a usable bow as well.

nature rituals are indeed pretty useless, unless you want to go /Rt for summon spirits.

maybe a change to Laceration, Equinox, Greater Conflarigation, Burning Arrow in pve. (seriously, BA sucks in pve, even more in HM), maybe add some + dmg to punishing shot)
archer's signet still hasn't found a use for me. crippling shot. 6 second cripple, nuff said.

Ferocious Strike, maybe change it to gain 2 adrenaline..
Heal as One, yeah... you don't wanna take an elite pet res/heal with you when you can finally ditch charm animal when taking comfort animal.
melandru's arrow < Glass Arrows
Practised stance.. yeah
quicksand. seriously, draining pve energy is lame as foes have almost unlimited energy in HM.
Scavenger's Focus, Smoke Trap.. (energy gain that can only be mainted 50% of the time is pretty lame, for AoE blind I'll go with Smoke Trap and save my elite skill. AoE daze is pretty useless your running a barrage ranger to interrupt them all, which you can't as your elite is smoke trap.

and maybe a general change to most bow attacks.

but then again, who actually reads this post

lilondra · Jan 01, 2010, 02:47 PM // 14:47

Glass arrows,power shot,lightning reflexes and co need to die so thats what is not going to happen.I'm guessing they'll nerf savage shot.

Fay Vert · Jan 01, 2010, 02:54 PM // 14:54

Spirits, traps and PvE bow damage need a serious look at. The most over-rated useless skill in the game, BHA needs to be made useful as opposed to just seeming to be useful to noobs.

upier · Jan 01, 2010, 04:05 PM // 16:05

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Originally Posted by Yuna Matsumarui

quicksand. seriously, draining pve energy is lame as foes have almost unlimited energy in HM.

The problem with QS isn't the effect. The effects is pretty darn insane.
The problem is the mechanic of nature rituals.

Aldric · Jan 01, 2010, 04:07 PM // 16:07

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Originally Posted by Fay Vert

Spirits, traps and PvE bow damage need a serious look at.

Pretty much agree with these suggestions.

As for specific skills , i'd like Ferocious Strike to have maybe 1..3..4 adrenal gain to give more of a reason to use a different BM elite over Enraged Lunge

Tenebrae · Jan 01, 2010, 04:39 PM // 16:39

"I am a pve player so i hope to see buff to spirits and traps to make those skills viable in pve "
Thats a good wish , i hope they do something but ... i dont think they´ll do. For the rest , "heal as one" should be modified and some BM skills. Also the pets attack rate but pfff .... i dont think they are in the mood.

Xsiriss · Jan 01, 2010, 04:42 PM // 16:42

No,they already said what the update would concentrate on. PvE Tactics and Hammer Mastery.

Anyway nothing needs to be nerfed with rangers right now.

Desert Rose · Jan 01, 2010, 05:37 PM // 17:37

Increase recharge of Lightning Reflexes to 45 seconds, remove fast activation time of Power Shot, Precision Shot, Sundering Attack and Penetrating Attack (all changes PvP-only).

lilondra · Jan 01, 2010, 06:30 PM // 18:30

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Originally Posted by Xsiriss

No,they already said what the update would concentrate on. PvE Tactics and Hammer Mastery.

Anyway nothing needs to be nerfed with rangers right now.

lol Dealing 150+damage on spikes is perfectly fine

PuppyEater · Jan 02, 2010, 04:30 AM // 04:30

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Originally Posted by lilondra

lol Dealing 150+damage on spikes is perfectly fine

Then they might as well remove bow damage all together, since the only solution anyone can come up with is to gimp bow damage skills so much that they become useless in pvp, including informal, just for fun pvp.

The Mad Addict · Jan 02, 2010, 04:55 AM // 04:55

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Originally Posted by Artisan Archer

Either Lignting Reflexes nerf, Glass Arrows nerf or both. Better would be Power Shot nerf, but not gonna happen cause Anet's a little dumb.

Why not just nerf frenzy and healing breeze while your at it they have been in the game since the beginning and now they are going to nerf them?

Gennadios · Jan 02, 2010, 05:01 AM // 05:01

The only thing announced were buffs to Tactcs and Hammer mastery. Considering ANet's been working on other nerfs, I wouldn't hold my breath for any Ranger love.

lilondra · Jan 02, 2010, 02:53 PM // 14:53

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Originally Posted by PuppyEater

Then they might as well remove bow damage all together, since the only solution anyone can come up with is to gimp bow damage skills so much that they become useless in pvp, including informal, just for fun pvp.

I was talking on spikes.Just kill Glass arrow,1sec activation skills and Anthem of envy and co and rangers would be fine tbh

Tenebrae · Jan 02, 2010, 10:23 PM // 22:23

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Originally Posted by lilondra

I was talking on spikes.Just kill Glass arrow,1sec activation skills and Anthem of envy and co and rangers would be fine tbh

Still pointless , rangers arent the only ones that spike targets on pvp and they are not at the top of the chain. Not gonna happen .

lilondra · Jan 03, 2010, 08:15 AM // 08:15

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Originally Posted by Tenebrae

Still pointless , rangers arent the only ones that spike targets on pvp and they are not at the top of the chain. Not gonna happen .

It isn't pointless tbh.Just because the next meta will still be very broken and OP doesn't mean its not a good change.

Shure MoI and co need a huge hit aswell but yh so do alot of skills.

You are right though,its not going to happenb.

reaper with no name · Jan 03, 2010, 09:24 AM // 09:24

As others have stated, it's very unlikely that rangers are going to recieve any love this update.

If they were to, however, it would really nice to have nature rituals stop affecting enemies. The main reason they tend to be so useless is that they tend to help the enemy as much as they help you (or hurt you as much as the enemy).