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Originally Posted by Ugh
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Nature Rituals suck in PvE because they're mostly focused around condition-spreading, degen, damage conversion, heal reduction, +health, and ENERGY DENIAL. These are bad because most conditions suck, are already easily spreadable, or wound be devastating if they got on your backline. Degen is just terrible. Damage is converted to elemental, which sucks. Heals are used by humans more than mobs. +Health just makes fights slower. Energy denial in PvE is counterproductive, useless vs. mobs, and slow. Nature Rituals suck in PvP because they are the epitome of Build Wars. Traps suck in PvE because they're stackable, so they have to suck. Traps suck in PvP because they're slow, easily interruptible, and have long recharges. However, they're okay in HA because HA maps suck. --- Faster cast times would only help out rituals like Winnowing and FW. The rest are too broken to be helped out by number reduction. Faster cast times wouldn't help traps at all. Dust Trap and Smoke Trap might see use with short cast times, but they require investment in a shitty attribute and still have long recharges. Also, Smoke is elite and Dust costs lots o' energy. --- In a way, I'm against making rituals only affect one side, since the possibility of backfiring adds a layer of strategy. However, it really only causes build wars situations, so I'm kind of for it at the same time. An alternate strategy could be just making rituals less build wars-y. Nature's Renewal, for example, is one of the most build wars skills in the game. While it can be killed, its effect completely eliminates certain styles of play and a team with NR can avoid its downsides with the correct builds. Winnowing, on the other hand, is not a build wars skill (though its effect is still too minor to be good, IMO). It might give one side an advantage, but it doesn't destroy certain teams. I would love to see traps more like their GW2 counterparts (more powerful, but non-stackable). --- Rant: And rangers do need a buff (though realistically, they probably won't ever get one). In fact, they need a buff more than any other PvE profession. The only things they're optimal in are useless in PvE. Pretty much all of the super-para-fans in the aforementioned thread are mildly retarded; half of them think paras should have awesome single-target damage, AoE options, awesome party healing, and awesome party defense. Hell, there were even some super-mesmer-fans who were saying mesmers should have nuking capabilities a while ago. Dervs aren't even underpowered, W/Ds and A/Ds are just overpowered. IMO, all eles need is an intensity buff, but Anet disagrees apparently. Paras have Imbagon. I know it might get boring, but one overpowered build is better than nothing. Eles have ER. It doesn't fit their role and doesn't work in some areas, but that's also better than nothing. They also have blindspam and wards, which are actually pretty good (better than anything rangers have). Dervs have nothing optimal, but that could be easily solved with an AoHM change. Their dps is still better than rangers in almost all situations. Rangers have spike builds (that's it), which have significantly less synergy with party buffs and have significantly lower dps than melees unless you're in an area with shittons of snares and really spread-out mobs. Anyone who thinks rangers don't need a buff either doesn't play ranger or gets carried by their heroes and just thinks they're doing something effective. /catchbreath |
