Well, this style is pretty much obsoleted by AAs. I don't know if any other classes have styles that, like this one, become less useful as you advance your character.
Alternatives? Well there's two categories, changes to the basic function vs. adding new capabilities.
Some options for additions that scale with the power of your character:
1. Increased Proc chance
2. Decreased chance for mob to riposte/parry
3. Stacking additional haste (as in style 2) based on your dex/agi or current worn haste or atk or level or whatever the staff wants.
The first two don't really make any kind of sense with the description but who knows, the third actually sorta fits with the description and wouldn't be made obsolete by AAs.
Options for completely replacing it:
1. Increased damage, accuracy, triple attack rate or whatever with 2h weapons.
2. Change it from a swing-chance style to a damage and accuracy style like the Bard one, useable with any melee weapons.
3. Something really original, like a big boost to spell damage and healing.
4. Pancakes?
As much as I, personally, would like a 2h stance, they are already better dps than 1h'ders and this would only increase the gap,probably to the point that dual wielding for rangers would be solely for tanking. Which honestly is lame. As an aside I already think the gap between 1h damage and 2h damage is lame but that's another thread.
The second is a clear improvement to the class, if useable with all weapons, but that may be overdoing it. If it was changed to a style like Bards have it but remained dual-wield-only, it would be a much more niche improvement that would increase a Ranger's ability to dual wield without really changing the class that much.
The third, i.e. changing it to something completely different, well, that's complicated. Probably would need its own thread if the staff went in that direction.
Now, to address some responses I know are coming. Yes, there are other classes that get styles that are mostly useless. But why should that be in the first place? Why bother having styles that don't get used? Plus, rangers get two styles that are (in my 3 or so years of experience) respectively, eventually useless and almost immediately useless (5 and 7).
This style and, any other styles that other classes have that don't get used, should be addressed. This post ended up being a lot longer than I intended it to be :dumb: