Sarision.6347

I still don't understand why they don't make the basic pet stow permanent.

It will get nerfed sometime down the road because of the pet.

I won't be surprise if the new espec gets nerfed soon after release because "AI builds have no place in PvP and WvW".

^THIS. "I wanna play Ranger to shoot at people. If I wanna swing a sword, I might as well go back to Warrior."

Or maybe we should just remove the pet mechanic and rework the whole class. It has been almost eight years and we still can't get the pet balance right. Or at the very least, rework the mechanic. We can start with giving more control over pet skills and limit the pet's damage to the autoattacks.

So now that the trade-off is in, is it reasonable to ask for Soulbeast version of the pet F2? Might as well give us full access to pet skills.

I would rather they take out the range gimmick and keep the auto simple, but it's not a big deal. What triggers me is the general lack of support for making people giving the class a second glance for large-scale combat.

Ranger in roaming: NERF IT. Ranger in zergs: Move on; nothing to see here.

Pistol just so axe can stop being a hybrid weapon. I could see rifle as some sort of ranged AoE weapon like Engi Mortar.