Touch Ranger - Overpowered?

If it were up to me, I'd simply make it so that Expertise does not effect non-ranger skills. This would cutdown on the end-season thumper spam (OMG, I wanna get top 20 by then of the season... THUMPER TYME!!2!!!) and the RA touch rangers. Expertise would still be the single most overpowered primary attribute, but atleast it'd see SOME attention, as far as balancing goes.

Good thing I'm not a dev, huh ranger fanboys? primary attributes are designed to benifiet any secondary class, not just the primary class. or else, all primarys would be much less useful

Good thing I'm not a dev, huh ranger fanboys?
Correction: Touch Ranger. R-spikers have a really bad time with this build, even with their interrupts.

If it were up to me, I'd simply make it so that Expertise does not effect non-ranger skills. This would cutdown on the end-season thumper spam (OMG, I wanna get top 20 by then of the season... THUMPER TYME!!2!!!) and the RA touch rangers. Expertise would still be the single most overpowered primary attribute, but atleast it'd see SOME attention, as far as balancing goes.

Good thing I'm not a dev, huh ranger fanboys? Ok, so lets see....A Primary profession's attribute shouldnt be useful on secondary skills?

So essentially you want to destroy the flexibility and build synergies that makes Guild Wars unique?

So an elementalists' energy storage cannot be used on non-elementalist skills.
Mesmer's fast cast cant be used on any spells outside of mesmer spells.
Warriors cant gain adrenaline except with warrior melee weapons.
Necromancers cant use their gained energy from soul reaping except for necro spells.
Assassins can only use critical strikes with daggers.

Why even bother having a secondary profession? Why not just disable that? Its obviously too powerful!

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Ok, so lets see....A Primary profession's attribute shouldnt be useful on secondary skills?

So essentially you want to destroy the flexibility and build synergies that makes Guild Wars unique? Exactly how would this be any differant from how Divine Favor works???

Anyone with degen and/or a crippling/slow hex > touch ranger. The above means a warrior is pretty much screwed when confronted with a touch ranger. Either we cripple the touch ranger and start running away OR we attack him and die. I know a warrior should also run when times are bad. But does that mean we put our tails between our legs and run whenever we see a touch ranger?

Also, I think an appropriate nerf would be making those touch *skills* as *spells*. That way expertise wont be useless with ALL secondary profession skills, just these 2 or 3 overpowered spammable ones. Or atleast increase the recharge on them.

Exactly how would this be any differant from how Divine Favor works??? blessed signet works off of an assassins maintained enchantments. haha!!!!!!

Exactly how would this be any differant from how Divine Favor works??? Did you notice my list didnt include Rit and Monks intentionally?

Support characters reverse the synergy, taking advantage of secondary. while still relying on their primary to still maintain use of the build.

Attack characters who use a secondary build rely on that primary to make their build different (like touch rangers, fast cast elemesmers, echo nukers), as opposed to a character who uses the same build, but has the actually primary attribute.

TRs can be countered with exactly one skill if you put a little thought into it (left as an exercise for the reader). Would you be talking about Wild Blow by any chance? Too bad in RAs you need very generic build that kinda works against all types of classes/builds. I gave Wild Blow a serious thought but it just gets used too little in RA.

i've been screaming about a nerf to touch rangers since day one.

G G G G G G G G G G Unit. i am a touch ranger maniac so no i dont want them to be banned

and anyway its almost like saying ban IWAY..not quite but a little bit......

also its very very ez to defeat any spike group or touch rangers.

Did you notice my list didnt include Rit and Monks intentionally?

Support characters reverse the synergy, taking advantage of secondary. while still relying on their primary to still maintain use of the build.

Attack characters who use a secondary build rely on that primary to make their build different (like touch rangers, fast cast elemesmers, echo nukers), as opposed to a character who uses the same build, but has the actually primary attribute. Rits Affect Minions and ranger spirits
Blessed Sig affects assasssin maintained enchants

TRs can be countered with exactly one skill if you put a little thought into it (left as an exercise for the reader). Backfire right? Might be wrong but it's the 1st thing that came to my mind.

Edit: the vamp stuff is a skill, not a spell. Diversion maybe. It would cut one of them for a while