How bout some changes to the way rangers use barrage.

I'm not sure if other rangers share the same sentiment as me, but being a barrager can be dead tiring. It simply causes my fingers to hurt due to how we have to use it: Pressing it over and over again...
I would like to suggest something like how cold/fire arrows work in games like WC3 where you rightclick and the skill replaces your normal attack, draining mana etc. with each shot as you would if you were to manually invoke barrage, but saving my fingers from RSI. I would think there won't be much balancing needed, it just makes spamming barrage abit easier

/signed

I'm having trouble with that in B/P groups that I just completely stop pressing 1. This would be nice.

Yea... It doesn't make rangers anymore powerful... just makes it less painful to play.

forgot to sign meself,
/signed

No pain, no gain.

Use your skills like the rest of us.

lol i've played every other class and ranger is the only one that requires you to hit the same skill over and over and over again without delay... i don't see the point in that

elementalists have flare... at least in the early game they do.

I have an elementalist too and you're not required to spam it over and over again. And Flare is an instant recharge spell... in the sense that when you use it you don't have to wait before pressing it again, it'll just queue it automactically, with barrage however, since you barrage to recast the moment you can you have to hit it continuously because of the 1s recast time on the spell. Besides, Flare doesn't form the basis of elementalist dmg. Its just a spell that comes in handy here and there

I've just started playing as a B/P and this was one of the 1st things I was thinking.

/signed

i think spamming a skill repeatedly is just dumb and painful.

/signed

/not signed

come now, stop whining, if u can't stop playing long enough to avoid carpel tunnel i think u have a problem... Also, Barrage isn't a ranger's main source of damage, look at everything else it can do (like 104 dmg in one shot, 3 shots in a row). To think that barrage is the only elite worth using on a ranger, for shame......

I spam Quick Shot which is even faster than barrage and I'm not dying.
so /notsigned

A/R critical barrage, i use it all the time. no ct for me yet. Like any other spamable skill its a no pain no gain kinda thing. Toughen up or change proffesions.


~the Barraging Rat~

In certain areas barrage comes particularly useful, lets and easily over 104dmg with each use... esp. areas that are mob infested.

you try using it for 16hours in a row : )

Or... maybe YOU should try sleeping. Or doing anything, as long as it's not playing GW for sixteen hours straight. o.o

It was for the sake of my precious armor besides i did get ample sleep, over 8hours... i'd never go a day without sleep lol

Wow what a bunch of wusses... I refuse to believe clicking a mouse would actually cause anyone pain. Start getting some exercize or something you frail bastards.

/signed for them getting some exercise.
/signed for not spending 16 hrs straight on ANYTHING


~the "see i can agree with stuff" Rat~

/signed but right clicking can't be the only method, there needs to be a key (CTRL maybe?) that u hold and use the skill to set it on auto. I play some RTS games where the unit construction is like this and it works good.

I agree with "find something better to do"

If ALL you do as a ranger is "click" Barrage I pray I never have you in my PUG as your are totally under utillizing the Profession.

/not signed you wuss bag smack tards