Ranger needs traits to fight the reflections creep in game.

[Substance E.4852]

On 6/13/2021 at 5:40 AM, frareanselm.1925 said:

Well, the reason why ranger is relegated as a skirmisher-roamer and has no place in megazergs is the overpowered reflections of ele, guard and scrapper

Getting rid of reflections wouldn't change that though

Hammer Rev just spamming CoR into a zerg does more damage and their auto pierces by default

Killing retaliation made it safer to drop a barrage on a zerg but we're still not going to be a top pick compared to other options and especially not when you need to go full Bm/Mk/Sb glass to pull off the kind of numbers that actually have an impact

at best, we'd become incredibly good single target burners to the point that we'd probably just get our damage nerfed into the dirt to compensate when all the Necro and Ele players come on here to kitten about getting sniped in the center of the zerg ball

[anduriell.6280]

11 hours ago, Substance E.4852 said:

Getting rid of reflections wouldn't change that though

Hammer Rev just spamming CoR into a zerg does more damage and their auto pierces by default

at best, we'd become incredibly good single target burners to the point that we'd probably just get our damage nerfed into the dirt to compensate when all the Necro and Ele players come on here to kitten about getting sniped in the center of the zerg ball

Remove reflections is like removing downstate: It makes the game dumber and less interesting. 

 

The rest of the classes don't have the same issues as ranger being a single target burner based in projectiles. As such the correction should be placed in the ranger for the moment, and with the traits i suggested i think it would balance out, giving the shortbow a role in zerging and the Longbow less puninshing if used properly and a good opportunity to use a trait to teach the game mechannics as to recognize an trigger combo fields.