Dolgan wrote:
To all our fellow rangers out there,
To change the world we must stand by our convictions and maintain civility while we do it. If we complain and then go away nothing will change. However posting in the forums will not change it alone. Every 2 or 3 days I send a PM to the class Dev. In the message I enclose this:
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All rangers have some issues with a couple of our spells. Some of our spells are completely useless to us. Some suggestions have been made on different forums about some of these spells.
1: Summoned arrows - Age old tale about crappy arrows sub-par with TS arrows. To appease the TS peeps some suggestion was made to add a crit modifier to TS arrows, flame damage, temporary adornment, etc. Or instead of increasing the number of arrows for app1-master, keep the number the same and increase the damage potential so AD3 would be slightly less than TS arrow and Master would be superior to TS arrows. That would make the Masters more desirable.
2: Repeating arrows - Dazes? remove the dazes and allow for auto attacks. This would make ad3 more desirable from crafters, and masters more desirable as well. not to mention the AA lines would be reworked to accomidate for this aa skill we have but don't use.
3: Coverage - remove the distance requirements or take it down to 5m. this allows Rangers to utilize it when fighting in sweetspot with mythicals to maximize DPS.
We, the ranger community, implore you to look into these issues and allow us to have the 3 spells usefull to us. Please restore our faith in the developers realm in regards to Rangers. We feel as though we are the only class to have 3 spells that are uterly wasted and non essential to us.
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I suggest we all as a community take this fight to not only the forums but also to the inbox of the devs. For those of you with indepth ACT parses I suggest you put that data into both the forums and private messages. If we remain strong and join together the devs will have no choice but to listen. Flood all the devs with our requests and they should be able to see the need for change.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I think this is a very good way to simply annoy the devs and get anyone who tries this put on ignore (not to mention this call to arms is probably a violation of the Forum Rules).
It has been well documented that the Ranger community has concerns over arrows and dislikes Coverage and Repeating Arrows. You simply have to scan through the top posts to find what I'm talking about. If you think "the class Dev" doesn't know what we think by this point you are simply not giving him enough credit.
The lack of changes on these spells could be anything from a disagreement of opinion on usefullness (which this "PM Campaign" will not change) to a matter of not being a high enough priority compared to other classes who have "role" problems or maybe even more than 3 "useless" spells (which again a "PM Campaign" will not change) to not as easy to balance as you think (again flooding with PMs is not going to help).
I completely agree that we need to be polite and continue to post our thoughts and concerns. But I know from personal experiance that if someone pesters me continually (which this flood of PMs would be) about something that I can't do right now due to priority, time, or rescource constraints I'm not going to change my mind and go do it, I'm simply going to tune them out. That's just human nature. Don't lose your voice and chance to effect things by being impatient.
My guess is that these items will be eventually looked at but that other higher priority items such as Fighter "Re-Balance" will have to be addressed first. And before you say well we should be next, don't forget that there are also complaints about healer inequities (Druids usefulness in multi healer scenarios) and utility vs DPS balance. I think all of those are more important to the game than "our three useless spells". But that's my opinion.