Debaros.1635

Only tangentially related: The number of posts saying the warrior wouldn’t be able to solo the bounty or that it was silly to expect baffle me. How do you know? Poor warrior has their reputation being dragged without even being given a chance. if they were a celestial berserker, a life leach power bladeesworn or something they probably could. Legendary bounties are very solo able with the current power creep and I for one would love an audience - it would be like the Bozja duels in ff14. My ego cannot be contained

This wasn't meant to be a balance discussion. I just wanted to duo with a bird pet because I feel like most ranger players I run into are dead weight. Thankfully the bird wasn't touched at all itself, so I may just get to duo with the champ yet!

As some of you may know the topic of Core Ranger is a hot debate at the moment, so I want to preface by saying I don't play ranger much and won't be making a comment on balancing it. That isn't my area of expertise. Instead, I wanted to make a request for a simple but I think effective quality of life change. Please ANET allow us to duo Q with the Bird Pet independently. Firstly, I think it's a bit unfair that a Platinum 3 or even Legend rated Bird pet is being hampered by Gold tier Ranger players thus skewing their Winrates dramatically. Secondly, I would like to be able to party up with these Bird Pets as they tend to be the best teammates. They +1 better than most Revenants I run into, they spike at better times than most Thieves, and their kiting skill is ungodly. Plus, most crucially, Bird pets are always calm and collected. I have never seen anyone flamed by a Bird Pet, where as their toxic Ranger 'owners' are another story entirely. So ANET, please let us duo Q with bird pets and ditch the Ranger, as I imagine even the Rangers would be happy at this point. I would hate to be overshadowed by what was meant to be my pet, but is now my keeper.

"Class defining" is down to class primary mechanics which tend to be default keybinded to your F1-F5 or something involved in them. The engineer's is toolbelt skills, not turrets. It is a defining feature because no other profession can slot a utility skill and get a 2nd skill in their F1-F5 corrresponding to that skill with a different effect. Outside of mechanics, the Engineer is also defined by being the only profession that doesn't use any form of magic, and is highly distinctive in that manner. In fact, the lack of flashy overbearing skills in core, make it stand out in a crowd of bloated and oversaturated "look at me!" Classes. Saying Engineer is defined by turrets is like saying, Ranger is defined by shouts, or Thief is defined by traps etc... To define a profession by 4 of their utility skills which are optional to take, where no primary profession mechanic is (neither is the toolbelt), is misguided. What is more accurate, is that your very valid dislike for engineer stems from your interest in the turret concept but your dislike in its implementation, and there is nothing else in the Engineer theme or skillset which interests you. Even if the turrets were to your liking, I would advise you reconsider playing a class you only like 4-5 utility skills of. In addition I would disagree with the "fixed rotation" assessment. Engineer is actually one of the most reactionary and make your own combo professions out there, filling a Swiss army knife concept. Ele is far more rotation centric, having a rhythmic pattern in how it ties together attunements, while engineer is about creating your own melody based on the situation out of disjointed tools. It is why it has some of the most finishers in the game, and can as many posters have said "feel unintuitive". It requires the user to fill in that intuition gap.

For what it's worth I hate the dreamer and think your armor combos aren't bad at all. Way better than the eye cancer aura stacked lightbulbs people think is fashion nowadays.

According to this thread, eye cancer shinies just splashed on any slot you can is "awesome" and fashionable? Guess this will be easier than I thought.