Lan Deathrider.5910

You've missed the point entirely. Ranger is tied with elementalist with the most protection access in the game. You don't have to or even need to take that many sources to achieve 100% upkeep without BD. You're the only one meme'ing here. Others have already pointed out in this thread that BD is hardly needed with a ranger to attain 100% upkeep on protection, they have that many sources of it. Nor does one even need to perma upkeep it outside of zerg play or instanced PvE. I'll say it again, complaining about protection access or uptime on ranger would be like a warrior complaining about lack of self healing, or a thief complaining about lack of stealth access... It's the very thing Anet built them to be good at.

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Some would say that silence or lack of action on the dev's part is implicit allowance of the activity to continue. The devs should do better. They certainly do when it affects their precious endgame PvE instances.

would have been better with the base run animation.

5% of a whole build. Everything else is entirely optional. Only if you don't fill in the other 95% of the build. You do realize you are doing right here what I did above right? Nah, like I said I posted 5% of a build that is able to achieve perma prot, any joke is you thinking that is the whole of a build. There are other sources of prot that ranger has access to and doesn't even need to take the options I listed. It is simply an exercise in demonstrating that ranger indeed has superfluous amounts of prot already and is able to attain 100% uptime through a few sources without needing BD, and fewer sources if they take any meaningful amount of BD. This would be like me complaining that warrior doesn't have enough self healing, which in reality they have in spades.

Themes, mate. Themes.

This is fair, but Azure, you do know that Anet will give thief more blinds instead of more protection and blocks.

Its not like we haven't been asking for a core F2 to be added in and for some of the traits to be shuffled to F2 rather than all of them keying off of F1...

You don't even need 100% BD to upkeep protection on any ranger variant...

Watch GW3 have no competitive game modes.

I believe I did call that warrior going invis sus af. They still could have used BC up the ramp and retargeted though. My prior statement was on your global BC statement. You claim it is hard to counter, so play with it and better learn how to counter it. That's competitive play 101.

I think this last part only requires you to spend time playing with it directly to know it better and thus know how to react to it in more skillful ways.

Point of interest. Bulls Charge can be retargeted, so the warrior can use it to go up the ramp without having targeted you and then target you one you are in the LOS and pathing is correct to redirect to you. So, takes more skill than a shadowstep or teleport in the end. Still, him disappearing like that is sus af. It's either bad internet involved or someone began their villain arc with a cheat code.

Oh, look I got 100% upkeep http://gw2skills.net/editor/?POgAkmlZgFCmgZEpB-DmSI9CoEIjFCA-w And there is still 2 whole traitlines, any two pets (I just threw smokescale in for fluff), another weapon set, runes, sigils, and gear stat selection to pick out still... You can drop NM if you go Soulbeast or Druid though and take the right traits/utilities and take a more aggressive traitline in its stead.

Great for Alt accounts 😉

IMHO: Aquatic Headgear is needed more than the others for completeness. Legendary Infusions so that we can change the stats would be great, though I suspect those would be 1k each so very costly. A Legendary Enrichment would be nice, but not really that important. I do not see legendary lures, rods, or gathering tools coming into the game ever. I don't see legendary Jade Bot parts every happening either, though it would be nice to have other components released. Like cores with other stats on them.

GW3.

Still, NCSoft West is apparently losing money even with that considered.

It was in a NCSoft meeting release that was translated by teh googlez. It has been 'greenlit' but only that far. Also, their NCSoft West holdings have all been consolidated into ArenaNet, but have not been turning a profit. Despite not turning a profit they are happy with the consolidation.

Unless GW3 is a substantial overhaul of both the system, graphics, and story telling then I will be hard pressed to try it.

You're not adding a leap, you're moving it around. Where would Rupturing go? Having a 600 range AOE is nice on the base kit, especially since it can be trained to immobilize the targets.

For pve. Leave it the way it is now for WvW/pvp.

They add those 16 unique skins, bringing the 3 UW skins to land means they'll need to do 19 skins moving forward.

I think it is more that they do not want to commit to having to create more models in the future, which they would have to do if they ported UW weapons to land.

Forum mod must be a ranger main then right?