Originally Posted by super sinep

I have nothing against touch rangers. It is a good build. The problem is that now when playing in the pvp team arenas i have to play touch ranger or anti-touch and it just gets boring. In truth touch rangers have destroyed pvp play in places.

Originally Posted by GuildWiki

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Use anti-spammer strategies, such as Blackout or Diversion.
Even mild energy denial (eg. Malaise or Wither) coupled with Signet of Humility causes a lot of problems for Touch Rangers.
Snare the ranger and run away. Ward Against Foes and other area snares are highly effective against groups of Touch Rangers.
Focused damage and health degeneration. Life stealing is slow and inefficient healing relative to pure healing spells.
If timed properly, Meteor Shower should keep them down long enough for them to be taken down, as they can only heal by touching others.
Crippling Anguish can slow them and cause health degen, two things that the build can't handle.
Water Elementalists can be used to slow down a touch ranger and deal damage before it can reach its target; Deep Freeze is particularly effective.
Vampiric Spirit, if correctly timed, and with a high energy pool, can overwhelm the healing the Touch Ranger gains from their skills. On average, a Blood necromancer with 16 atrributes in Blood Magic can steal approximately twice the health that the Touch Ranger can. Although not commonly enough to kill the Touch Ranger, it is enough to either panic them, or frustrate them enough to break off.
Binding Chains, makes a touch ranger moves 90% slower while you run away. In this case, make sure they do not take damage or Binding Chains will end. Note also that touch-skills do not count as "attacks", so touchers can still use those.
Generally, just try to slow the toucher down with hexes or any ranged crippling attack (see also Pin Down, Crippling Shot for Rangers) and kill them with degen-hexes or damage from a distance. The danger with the Cripple-condition however, is that they can use Plague Touch/Signet/Sending to get rid of it prematurely.
Any fast, repeatable interrupt, such as Spinal Shivers (generally with an IAS buff such as Flurry) or Incendiary Arrows (generally paired with Tiger's Fury.
As this build doesn't deal spike damage, but has extremely high DPS (260 DPS with 4 touch rangers, as compared to a spiker team which generally has over 500 spike damage with 4 members), any monk with high HPS can counter this build.
Hex spells can be effective against touch rangers, since they have no hex removal. Spiteful Spirit can negate much of the health stolen as well as damage nearby foes.

Originally Posted by Evilsod

Touch Rangers destroyed PvP? Lmao, as if. IWAY destroyed the ranking system. Dual smite/Boreway destroyed TA. Touch Rangers just get Faction, they don't win anything major.

Originally Posted by chaoticmadness

99.9% of the people flaming you for suggesting a solution have touchies that they use themselves. And i havent seen any of you beat on the part where he said an ele spamming flare.

Originally Posted by chaoticmadness

99.9% of the people flaming you for suggesting a solution have touchies that they use themselves. And i havent seen any of you beat on the part where he said an ele spamming flare.

Originally Posted by chaoticmadness

99.9% of the people flaming you for suggesting a solution have touchies that they use themselves. And i havent seen any of you beat on the part where he said an ele spamming flare.

Originally Posted by dargon

Many builds can take down a toucher without being designed to take down a toucher. I kill them all the time in Aspenwood with my assassin and she's not exactly designed to specifically target touchers, though I'm thinking of tweaking my build in general with a bit of anti-stance hate (rigor mortis)

Originally Posted by chaoticmadness

99.9% of the people flaming you for suggesting a solution have touchies that they use themselves. And i havent seen any of you beat on the part where he said an ele spamming flare.