ArenaNet:Skill feedback/Ranger/Alternative weapons to bows

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Napalm Flame Issue -- 16:44, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

Issue

Rangers using other weapons? They're lame to the point where it's boring. This includes R/Ps, R/W thumpers of any kind and most importantly, R/Ds (LOLSWAY)

Spearchucking splitters in HB are just urgh, but then again so is HB in itself. Thumpers are just lame and as gay as GW PvP gets, and every player who wants to keep skill in GW's frontlining thinks it should go. As for R/Ds, sway is the most overused generally hated piece of crap in existence. Can we please stop this crap from being run so that it's easier to get a decent, balanced team together for HA? Here's the biggest issues with sway in the paragraph below.

Why is sway such an issue? We now have probably r9s who are complete and utter noobs, thanks to running sway to farm much fame the pathetic, low-skill way. If there are lots of r6 noobs about, what can be said about r3s? Back before sway, we never had this many idiots. That's half of the problem. The other half is the sheer decrease in PUGs wanting to run anything else. Remember the last HA event? I'd say 9/10 of teams participating were sway. Doesn't sound like a problem, right? Roll through sway with your nice r6+ pug strong like bearway team? Not quite. How many people DIDN'T want to run sway? About enough to scrape together 2 or 3 teams. Bearing in mind half of those can't run the build you want to run, and a further half don't want to run it, we have enough for about, say, half a team? Pathetic.

Suggestion

Nerf the effectiveness of foreign weapons on a profession, so we don't see as much of this in GW.