stope21
Dalayan Elder
I'm sure this has been discussed before, but i would like to bring it up again as other changes to the game have been made regarding rangers.
In the recent past, rangers bow dps has been nerfed twice. The first one was a small nerf, and the second was rather large. As a result, rangers are doing considerably less damage.
When the topic was being discussed, rangers we're being compared to rogues as far as DPS was concerned and the fact that they were doing comparable or higher damage then rogues was the key arguement. In the same light, i'd like to compare rangers to rogues and bards.
To make a bards life easier on SoD, they were given the ability to click and play songs without having to continually and repeatedly click the songs they wish to play over and over again. But although bards were priveledged with this, rangers were neglected, as that would make their class overpowered and not require human input. Well, rangers are definatly far from over powered now that they took such a heavy nerf to their bow dps. Furthermore, they would still require human input, as to jolt ever once in a while (which is the same for rogues, they have to hit back stab every once in a while).
Now lets look at bowing ranger to a rogue; Rogues have to duck out of combat and stance, rangers have to jolt, stance and have other spells they are required to cast as well. Where a rogue can fail his duck out, a ranger can have his jolt resisted. Overall, see very little difference in the player input levels between rogues/rangers if rangers were to have auto fire, yet the rogue is going to now dominate the ranger in dps -- which they should considering they can only attack mobs that dont ramp/ww, even on ramp/ww mobs a good rogue can still dps these mobs, they wont clock full out dps but they can still do decent dmg (and no, im not talking about throwing), but I'm not here to tell people advanced stratagies.
In short, rangers are doing far less dps then rogues for a lot more work if using bow. I understand rangers can engage mobs that rogues 'cant' (a good rogue can at reduced dps), rogues deserve to do more dmg when they can fully engage and this is fair. But i dont think its fair that rangers have to do much more work to do the less dps that they do, when compared to the job of a rogue and the abilities of a bard.
In the recent past, rangers bow dps has been nerfed twice. The first one was a small nerf, and the second was rather large. As a result, rangers are doing considerably less damage.
When the topic was being discussed, rangers we're being compared to rogues as far as DPS was concerned and the fact that they were doing comparable or higher damage then rogues was the key arguement. In the same light, i'd like to compare rangers to rogues and bards.
To make a bards life easier on SoD, they were given the ability to click and play songs without having to continually and repeatedly click the songs they wish to play over and over again. But although bards were priveledged with this, rangers were neglected, as that would make their class overpowered and not require human input. Well, rangers are definatly far from over powered now that they took such a heavy nerf to their bow dps. Furthermore, they would still require human input, as to jolt ever once in a while (which is the same for rogues, they have to hit back stab every once in a while).
Now lets look at bowing ranger to a rogue; Rogues have to duck out of combat and stance, rangers have to jolt, stance and have other spells they are required to cast as well. Where a rogue can fail his duck out, a ranger can have his jolt resisted. Overall, see very little difference in the player input levels between rogues/rangers if rangers were to have auto fire, yet the rogue is going to now dominate the ranger in dps -- which they should considering they can only attack mobs that dont ramp/ww, even on ramp/ww mobs a good rogue can still dps these mobs, they wont clock full out dps but they can still do decent dmg (and no, im not talking about throwing), but I'm not here to tell people advanced stratagies.
In short, rangers are doing far less dps then rogues for a lot more work if using bow. I understand rangers can engage mobs that rogues 'cant' (a good rogue can at reduced dps), rogues deserve to do more dmg when they can fully engage and this is fair. But i dont think its fair that rangers have to do much more work to do the less dps that they do, when compared to the job of a rogue and the abilities of a bard.
. Bards by far have the most utility, but also have the least amount of dps for this work, rangers on the other hand have this great range dps aside from their melee dps which offers it's own benefits ASIDE from the massive dps.