Ranger deep dive wish list.

Mouser999

What is on everyone's wish list for our deep dive. I really hope we maintain some group utility around outdoor travel. An aura with invis, see invisible, sense magic, and SoW all baked in would be awesome. This would help when picking up a replacement at the zone line for pugs. Or getting set up for a group camp from town. Just one idea that would nice for Rangers to have.

Gildas

Adding the block skill (with shield) and a gap closing skill would be great.

wizard

i posted this in another thread about ports but a form of 'portals' with a Pathfinding ability where zones have shortcuts that only Rangers can guide other players through. not as expansive or covering the same distance as a portal and mostly focused on outdoor zones.

in my mind it would probably just be zone-to-zone, like if you could imagine a zone that's technically next to another zone on the map, but there isn't a connecting zone line which would otherwise require you to go through like 2-3 other zones, the Pathfinding shortcut would cut all that out.

Brettanomyces

[unknown] gap closer? We have arrows!

2tubes

Something that allows rangers to split pull groups after the unity nerf.

Xyshina

Gildas why do you need a gap closer when you can also swap to bow?

Gildas

[unknown] Ranger's best damage seems to be melee, so shoot a couple shots, root, then jump in and melee. Needs a better way to switch between the two styles and a gap close would be nice. Probably dont need a jump-away ability since archer has that.

Gildas

Rangers also need better dps. Right now they seem to be on the low end of dps classes with dual wield weapons as their highest dps with a small damage proc (e.g. ice/fire). I am only a lvl 21 ranger though.

Hackman

Brettanomyces we are the ultimate blend of range and melee. We should be able to pounce into melee not jog.

Meister

I am all for a boost to damage. I would like more skills to use. I would like some fast cast, low cost nukes so I can actually use them in combat and not run out of mana in 3 minutes or less like I do with the latest dot I have. I have a decent nuke on the horizon, but as usual, 3+ second cast times ruin it's usefulness. Other than that, I am basically happy with current ranger. Well, one more thing, that 3600 second refresh timer is ridiculous on our current 30 second self buff. I am currently lv 45.

Brettanomyces

Hackman Stride. We stride into melee

Lurex

3 mutually exclusive stances

A tanking stance with bonus to AC. Useful when off-tanking.

A DPS stance with bonus to melee and ranged damage.

A traveling stance with group run speed, group root and snare resistance, group water breathing and group bonus to healing spells and metabolism

tuesday

SoW

Hackman

[unknown] can we meet at long stride?

Hackman

Brettanomyces

can we meet at long stride?

Gildas

[unknown] I like this stance idea a lot. I would maybe add the block to the tanking stance. would be great.

2tubes

@Lurex #p2329 that sounds pretty bad having a "traveling stance" that you don't want to have on in combat?

No movement speed or enduring breath unless your damage suffers?

Do you want to clarify that somehow? Is that really what you meant?

Brettanomyces

I'm not big on another class with stances. Don't really love having to stance dance.

Some more bow skills, some more melee skills, and round it all out with our awesome breadth of utility. Campfire bonuses, outdoor movement speed bonuses, a good range of snares and roots, hopefully we keep some healing utility and I'll be a happy camper.

Would love to see cons show up in tracking too

Lurex

2tubes
How useful it is in combat depends on the situation and environment. The way I see it its mainly a utility stance, while also touching on combat. Fighting under water can happen, saving on food can matter during long sessions, and regarding the heal, I would make it a group boost on all healing received (healing spells, bard songs or bandage). All heals on any group member is boosted by say 10% or so. The root and snare resistance is also big in some combat situations. So much so that it sounds a bit overpowered.

I think all classes should be quite good at their specialty, and I think this stance reflects an interesting aspect of the LOTR character Aragorn.

The reason I suggest stances is that we can't expect to get it all at once. I'm not sure how I would go about switching stances, but personally I think it makes sense that it takes time to switch, so you typically won't do it during combat. You have to plan ahead so that you are in the right stance at the right situation.

I agree that the idea of "stances" is a bit questionable, but if it can be done smoothly it would give us a nice toolkit.

edit:
Maybe the DPS stance could be dropped and the extra DPS added permanently. That's basically just a balancing question

Ulf

I would love some sort of damage shield or extra evasion of some kind to help us with pulls. Dps has also felt lackluster even when overgeared (lv 29)