[merged] Touch Rangers

I whacked on SS + Empathy + Isidious Parasite with my Necro (first time I really put some sort of build with it, never use him) - It seemed to cause the Ranger trouble. I don't know if all those skills stack or whatever, I was in the heat of battle :P

But yeh, those 3 skills pretty much shutdown Warriors as they'll kite coz of the hex's. It's not as effective Vs Touchers coz they heal more, but when I kept the hex's up he seemed to kite so he must of not liked it.

Please excuse me if those skills don't work fully, I was testing. Having used touch ranger many times. I have to say SS "alone" does absolutely nothing to stop me from doing what I do.

Btw being knocked down does nothing since I usually get right back up and heal myself anyways UNLESS I'm being spiked by everyone.

Wild Blow on my poor ass? So I lost 1 stance. Oh well I got more. Wild Blow on me again? Got another one or my first stance has already recharged. Time management is what I call it.

Ice snares? Lots of Touch Ranger hate? I'll keep you occupied long enough for the rest of my team to do what they gotta do while 1+ people are focusing their time on me.

Kiting? The longer you kite the less of a problem you are to me and anyone else since you won't be doing very much but dodging me. Should you decide to cast a spell, attack etc... I'll swarm in for some nice touching.

OK we can sit here and spit out a million variables to counter everything I just said and then we'll have another million counter-variables counter those variables and so on... Basically there are ways to counter these counters depending on the situation.

Btw critique this all you want I won't be reading anymore of this wasted thread anyways. It's your time not mine after this post.

Peace

all you need is 1 skill on your skill bar.........VIRULENCE!!!!!!!!! Does nothing! Only if someone uses crippling shot or some other condition attack will Virulence do anything.

I do believe Touch Rangers do carry Plauge Touch, so you will be on the receiving end of those conditions.

I wonder if Tainted Flesh will affect a Toucher (anyone striking in melee - does it work with Vampiric Touch/Bite?) If so, then no fear of plague touch, as you are immune to disease

Just throw Soul Barbs, Wither, Malaise, Life Siphon, Rigor Mortis, and Parasitic Bond. Adding Crippling (ranger shoots from behind the grassy knoll) so the TR can't get to you before you unleash your hexes or just cast Ethereal Burden.

Cripshot.Savageshot.Punishingshot and Pindown may slow them down.You could put 1 or 2 traps in as well. Cripshot and traps are the only reliable ways to slow them down, since they usually have quite a few stances available that allows them to avoid attacks. Cripshot rangers generally have no trouble with touchers...

....that is uncounterable except by builds built specifically TO defeat touch rangers..... See it's posts like this that have made these types of threads irritating to read.

If you've read any of the million or so pages of this thread, you'll realize that alot of the counters listed are things already COMMONLY used in PvP. They are builds that work well against ALOT of different situations. You DO NOT have to build to take down a touch ranger....

Seriously... Saying that a CripShot ranger is 'built to counter touch rangers' is like saying my Physics book was meant to be a fly swatter. While it easily serves that purpose... it's hardly the measure of its creation.

And, worst of all, they take NO SKILL to play. NERF THEM! Maybe we should go through EVERY SINGLE class and NERF EVERY SINGLE COMBINATION OF SKILLS that require ZERO skill. I can name "at least" a dozen or more per class. IWAY, 55, 605, Touch Rangers, etc... Or better yet, delete every single one of your characters and play Mesmer since it's the only class that probably requires the "most" skill to use. Heck there are days I play my Monk and I only need to spam 2-3 skills to keep people alive. Maybe we should nerf the entire Healing line for Monks too?

Cripshot and traps are the only reliable ways to slow them down, since they usually have quite a few stances available that allows them to avoid attacks. Cripshot rangers generally have no trouble with touchers... There are a few more, like Water Magic Snares, and Water Trident to keep them knocked down, that should slow them. Touch rangers=not needing a nerf. I can kill them with almost every one of my builds, my fc air ele literally pwned them, too bad it was nerfed *grumbles about anet*. My hammer warrior kills them, obviously my cripshot works, and a series of other builds im too tired to mention.

Does nothing! Only if someone uses crippling shot or some other condition attack will Virulence do anything.

I do believe Touch Rangers do carry Plauge Touch, so you will be on the receiving end of those conditions.

I wonder if Tainted Flesh will affect a Toucher (anyone striking in melee - does it work with Vampiric Touch/Bite?) If so, then no fear of plague touch, as you are immune to disease

Just throw Soul Barbs, Wither, Malaise, Life Siphon, Rigor Mortis, and Parasitic Bond. Adding Crippling (ranger shoots from behind the grassy knoll) so the TR can't get to you before you unleash your hexes or just cast Ethereal Burden. you dont like Virulence? ok try diversion!!! now thats pure evil.

diversion: next time target uses a skill that skill is disables for ~40-50 seconds more