Jeremy.2804

Hey yall, I have seen a lot of negative feedback and thought I would like to share some positive feedback to offset some of loud voices in the community. Recent Balance I am very happy with most of the recent changes. I enjoy the new sword and its abilities, I really like having two different leaps, it opens up a lot of combos field options especially pared with Untamed unleashed for 3 leaps. The power coefficients are nice and the damage is good. I like the shift from spamming ranger spirits for alacrity, that iteration of boon spam has been very stale and boring. I do believe the devs have more work to do on the CA spam now as that is not fun either. I am confident that a good solution can be found. Fervent force : I am sad to see this go but I understand that this was not good for the spec. This GM brought some amazing gameplay at times but at a huge cost(insane APM). Weapons master training I had a blast trying all kinds of builds. There is so much potential for ranger to shine with this crossover. The beta was an absolute joy to play. With the new rune and relic rework I can already see many more options. Overall I really love how ranger plays, all three especs and core. I really enjoy untamed and its hammer mechanic, it feels so much fun to smack things around with my pet and going in and out of unleashed when I need too. Thank you devs! Does anyone else have any positive feedback they would like to share?

I don't think anyone considered untamed to be pet focused. Mechanist is a pet focused class. IMO, untamed is supposed to be about you and your pet going back and forth with skills and fighting in tandem. And don't get me wrong it works great in open world. Between 2 pets there are 9 skills you can command the pet to do. You can mismatch pets to suit your needs. Between different types of cc and combo fields you can do with your pet it feels great. I think I just want a reason to play untamed in instanced pve instead of soulbeast or druid. More damage? Quickness or alacrity? Spirit rework? Go all out on WvW?

Here are a few thoughts on this subject PVE wise. Specializations: Beast Mastery The beast mastery traits (Pack Alpha) don't seem to reduce the cooldown of the unleashed pet skills. This trait line feels like the one you should pick but the damage you gain is meh. No idea how to fix this without impacting soulbeast. Skirmish: This one is alright no issues with this one. Slots in nicely. Marksmanship: This has good synergy with Untamed and the whole cc and then do cool stuff. Very fun in open world. But the damage does not translate well to strikes/single boss encounters. Pet: The unleashed pet skills do less damage then most normal pet skills. I feel like when I unleash my pet there should be a bigger payoff. Right now all of the pets have the same unleashed skills, there definitely could be at least one different unleashed skills per pet sub type. For example ferocity pet would just do big damage, etc. Again not all three F skills should be different but maybe the unleashed F3 can be changed depending on what pet you are using. Or if that is too much work just give different boons/conditions based on what pet type you have. Hammer: I like the hammer. Unleashed: All of these have good coefficients. It would be nice if a one of them had boon share with you and your pet. Some of these do increased damage to disabled foes which is great in open world and pvp but doesn't translate to bosses. Pet unleashed hammer skills: I only use the 3/5 to trigger traits then swap out. I feel like the other skills are okay in pvp for the weakness and cripple. No issues with this to be honest. It is nice to have access to a wide range of abilities even though some of them you don't use often. Overall damage: I can't find it. I feel like this is a core ranger problem. 1) None of our elite skills do strike damage. And Untamed elite does not do strike damage. 2) Make the pet skills be able to have auto cast. This would be a nice QoL change. 3)We Heal as one is used without needed it just to share boons to our pet to make it do more damage. Feels a little bad. But great for soulbeast. 4)If untamed is going to have support dps 30kish then give it some support options.

I joined WvW for the first time this weekend because of the event. I managed to get my Gift of Battle by running a heal scrapper and healing and cleansing people in big battles. A few observations: It sucked not having warclaw and gliding so I was left in the dust quite a few times. Not much of an issue as I have constant superspeed. Every one says to follow a commander tag but a number of them are hostile and cussed me out the instant I rolled up. In hindsight it must have been a private guild group. I did manage to find one that sent me a party invite and I stayed with them for several hours learning a lot about what the game mode even is about. Again just healing and cleansing while grabbing supplies and assisting building things when I could. It is a fast paced game mode that I ended up liking in the end and will become a regular activity I do.