A complaint to GW development team

This is a letter addressed to the GW development team, all player are welcome to comment, thx. Mushin


Dear Guild Wars development Team

I am writing on behalf of my guild, questioning the recent update, in which the skill for profession "Ranger" has been modified, or more specificly, weakend.

The skill I am refering to is "Energized Wind" under Beast Mastery. My friends and I are loyal fan of GW and we play a lot with the ranger character, especially we are enlighted by the trapping skill of ranger and it's strategic application. Energized Wind is a key skill for a ranger specialized in trapping and enables him to survive under extreme dangerous enviroment. Previously, with lvl 6 in Beast Mastery a Ranger can create a spirit for 52 seconds. We are under shock to find out that after the recent update, it has been reduced to 9 seconds for lvl 6 beast mastery. I am sure GW team has a reason to update it that way. But i had a long discussion with my guild member and here are the reasons why we consider this update as inappropriate.

1. In my opinion, compared with its application in PvP, the real distinguishing strength of a Ranger lies in its strong PvE usage. By weakening some skill such as "energized wind", it penalized dedicated ranger player, who invested a lot of time and effort to acquire skill and study skill combination.

2. When a game developer starts to mess around with the preset skill, it creates uncertainty and confusion when we choose character. Even worse, my guild member start to question the reputation of ArenaNet as it almost seems like selling a product to a customer with promised quality but then changed it at discretion.

3. We suspect that the reason for the update is to add the difficulty for some ranger player to solo/duo trap in area such as underworld in order to raise quick cash. But here are my questions:
a) It seems you have already made the game harder or the reward less attractive for player that don’t take quests in underworld. But why penalize all ranger player for what some of us have done?
b) By doing the modification, you effectively reduced the degree of freedom in the game for player, as some of us sometimes want to play solo. Now we cannot … which is a disappointment. As being able to playing in team and solo are both important aspect of a game.
c) Can you blame player for trying to getting gold? Since the elite armour are so unbelievably expensive. I don’t like to farm but sometimes we just feel financially squeezed … I have seen player begging for gold in towns, is that a nice gaming enviroment?

With all those said, I am an absolute GW fan. But we are very disappointed with the recent skill update - as dedicated ranger player. Please take a second thought about those updates. Thank you for your effort in advance.


Best regards

Yours sincerely

Mushin Oni

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In before close.
No.

*grabs a torch*

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1. What iridescentfyre said
2. ArenaNet does the stuff, not PlayNC, so I don't know why you're bringing them up. PlayNC is just the distributor IIRC.
3. You suspect wrong.

Rangers weak in PvP?

what?

I killed an Ele today by interrupts and poison alone!

Weak.my.ass.

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1. Ranger is relatively weak in PvP
AB they are probably one of the only class that can survive without dying...



EW is now at 15 that means (if my math is correct with 16 expert) you now have to wait till your energy is at at 5 to cast it...



since they change EW I am still trapping in UW with no problem...