Eurantien.4632

> @"Trevor Boyer.6524" said: > This kind of already exists in the format of ATs, but they really should make ATs more frequent even if they lower the rewards when doing so. > > In my opinion they need to remove ranked mode completely, and start doing monthly seasons for ATs. Then they can tie old ranked rewards to unranked for the pve grinders, and transist the rating/badge system to AT matches per monthly AT season only. I think this is a solid idea.

One Wolf Pack is just a worse version of Impossible Odds with a CD and a duration of 6s. No.

@"Supreme.3164" I said nerf sustain on Wilderness Survival. What that means is running a build without wilderness survival inherently has little sustain. You could take windborne notes and/or resounding timber, yet running NM and BM to get those traits + another line that isn't WS would make your build inherently low in sustain. You would have poor healing, weak access to condi clear, and would likely have a hard time dealing with burst damage. You could take healing spring or bear stance to bolster your condi clear without running WS but using your heal to negate condition damage leaves you insanely vulnerable at other times. I would define a build such as that to be inherently low in sustain. When I say nerf WS i mean what I have said since the beginning. Rugged Growth should never have existed. We need condition clears in other lines. WS provides ranger with protection on dodge - very strong. That protection heals more than regen - even with the nerf (and low healing power). It also provides ranger with some of its only condition clears and CD reduction on ranger's (arguably) best heal and stunbreaks. People complain about Ranger DPS and whatnot, but the problem really isn't that ranger does too much damage when it is glass in return (that's a good thing), it is that ranger can still do really solid damage numbers while running a line that carries ranger on its own, WS. I think the game would benefit from super strong lines like WS being nerfed across all professions - where instead of having "do it all" skills and builds you have to build in moments of weakness. Builds that run 3 lines without WS have inherent weaknesses. Especially if you run 3 dps traitlines. You have little condi clear and clear windows where you have nothing available. And that is how I believe the game should be played. What ranger truly needs is to be free from the pigeon-hole that is WS. It has always been there, some nerfs to the line and some love to some other lines/utilities to provide ranger with some more condi clear options besides our heal skills and ranger would be in a much healthier spot. As an aside, Bunker ranger in sPvP works just fine and is quite strong. Unfortunately, it is that it is currently overshadowed by things much stronger, such as Kalla Renegade. There are also other ranger builds that work decently well... that being said it is by no means anywhere close to optimal for sPvP - other professions are simply better. Again, even though WS is the root of ranger's problems and the sustain it offers needs to be shaved, it cannot be done until condi clear appears somewhere else for ranger and/or other professions are nerfed as well.

Hmm given that ranger is one of the weakest if not the weakest profession in top tier sPvP right now. I would disagree with most of this. Greatsword for example, has been overnerfed - and imo is too weak to see true competitive use. Yeah, yeah. I know. There is not really a competitive scene. But balancing for anything other than top tier just means that ranger will stay underpowered. Things that really need to be changed: Lower some GS CDs a little. They're too high right now. Nerf sustain on Wilderness Survival (and sustain across the board for other professions). This is the main problem with ranger being too powerful. It is not that Soulbeast has too many damage modifiers now. If you run soulbeast dps without WS you are just as glass as you deserve to be for the damage you do. Nerf Jacaranda immob or damage. Axe if fine. There are no "good" ranger tank builds. Many other things side node better than ranger. The era of side node tank ranger is gone and will stay gone for quite some time imo. Druid is trash and needs all the help it can get. As long as it doesn't have stab, it will forever be a build for memes and nothing truly good. Nerf Trap runes.

> @"anduriell.6280" said: > > @"Eurantien.4632" said: > > Live Fast with Essence of Speed does increase the duration of the Fury from Live Fast by 2 seconds. Works the same way for similar applications such as Zephyr's Speed and Unstoppable Union giving 2s extra of protection and vigor (but not quickness). > > Then i'm sure i'm mistaken and the skill is bugged. Please open a thread in the Bugs subforum ato see if Anet fix it. That trait makes sense if it can trigger with quickness as well, otherwise it does not make sense. I think you were partially right before, it only works for boons you already have. BUT it also works on other boons you get at the same time as quickness - just not the quickness itself.

Live Fast with Essence of Speed does increase the duration of the Fury from Live Fast by 2 seconds. Works the same way for similar applications such as Zephyr's Speed and Unstoppable Union giving 2s extra of protection and vigor (but not quickness).

Does any other class have skills like this that work against the profession? Signet of renewal not cleansing when merged for no benefit to the ranger. Signer of renewal having a range for the ranger transfer (despite being a 50s cd). Guard not working when merged. Etc. These and the LR damage just work against reactive play. Shouldn't have to wait for a window of opportunity to stunbreak effectively. LR doesnt work in rings already, weaver mudslide, doesnt stunbreak taunt *(taunt is not removed by stunbreak with cast times)*, or work against shocking aura or the shield stun on engi. Asking for it to remove damage to not proc blocks or shocking aura would be a nice start in some QoL changes that ranger has missed out on for ages.