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There is only two encounters and one at-will that make the ranger class feel like a ranger. The encounters are Marauder's escape and Fox shift and the at-will is Split Shot. The other hunter ranger skills look and feel like fillers in completing the class. The animations for some of the encounters are too long were suppose to be class that do hit and run tactics. Where is my bow attack encounter thats similar to fox shift in style and presentation.
The encounter binding arrow needs to be change to a range PBAOE around the enemy in delivering the strong grasping root, i don't see the difference in using this from hindering shot, remove the condition from it.
Marauder escape rank 3 needs to be able to break cc effects on the ranger, there is no other reason to rank this up past rank 2 unless you want more melee damage for Marauder rush.
Boar Hide and Oak Skin should be combined together. I prefer an arrow attack that cause knock back. Some of the Hunter rangers passive powers need rework whats the purpose of having a duality power set and having passives like aspect of the falcon, aspect of the lone wolf and blade storm.
The animation on Commanding Shot needs to be quicker or replace. The at-will rapid shot needs a combo attack to it, for eg. for every third arrow you shoot, you shoot three arrows at the same time at the target or make it like the cleric divine mode at-will ability with charges.
The daily steel cold hurricane is horrendous and doesn't fit the description in player's handbook, the daily should be change to something similar to the GWf ability come and get it with the ranger flaying at the enemies for a set duration.
The encounter binding arrow needs to be change to a range PBAOE around the enemy in delivering the strong grasping root, i don't see the difference in using this from hindering shot, remove the condition from it.
Marauder escape rank 3 needs to be able to break cc effects on the ranger, there is no other reason to rank this up past rank 2 unless you want more melee damage for Marauder rush.
Boar Hide and Oak Skin should be combined together. I prefer an arrow attack that cause knock back. Some of the Hunter rangers passive powers need rework whats the purpose of having a duality power set and having passives like aspect of the falcon, aspect of the lone wolf and blade storm.
The animation on Commanding Shot needs to be quicker or replace. The at-will rapid shot needs a combo attack to it, for eg. for every third arrow you shoot, you shoot three arrows at the same time at the target or make it like the cleric divine mode at-will ability with charges.
The daily steel cold hurricane is horrendous and doesn't fit the description in player's handbook, the daily should be change to something similar to the GWf ability come and get it with the ranger flaying at the enemies for a set duration.
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This is what stands out most to me.
I would loooooooooove! A Fox Shift type Ranged encounter, as I am full Archery.
A feat that would reduce the animation time on Aimed Shot would also be amazing.
Like instead of the craptastic "Master of Archery".
They could change it into something like "On successeful critical hit, gain 1 Mastery Buff. On 5(or 10) stacks of Mastery, reduce the animation time on Aimed shot by 1.5 seconds(50%).
Hindering Shot btw is "weak" grasping roots..... There is a definite difference between Hindering and binding arrow.
I love, love love Binding Arrow/Hindering combo....makes players almost unable to move at all...its the ultimate lock down for movement.
We need 1 at-will that does comparative damage to CW Magic Missile / TR Duelists Flurry for single target. You can't realistically cast Aimed shots @Bosses when there's so many red zones on ground requiring to move non stop.
Speaking of which, what rotation do you guys use when dealing with a solo dungeon end boss? I can tell you what I use on my CW or TR, but for a HR it beats me, I can't find a good single target encounter like TR has or CW, heck even a good aoe encounter to use on single target.
But my basic array for my Archer (who lacks Lone Wolf) is,
At-Will: Rapid/Split
Encounters: Binding/Thorn/Fox's
Features: Stormstep/Twin blade
Dailies: Disruptive/Forest Ghost
When I know its a big slow boss with easily predicted attacks (Knight Commander in Dread Spire) I swap Aimed in for Rapid.
When I expect stupid amounts of adds swarming the place (like Pirate King) I swap Binding for Split the Sky.
That pretty much covers me for all situations for solo play.
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The encounter binding arrow needs to be change to a range PBAOE around the enemy in delivering the strong grasping root, i don't see the difference in using this from hindering shot, remove the condition from it.
This I agree with only because its so unwieldly.
Boar Hide and Oak Skin should be combined together. I prefer an arrow attack that cause knock back. Some of the Hunter rangers passive powers need rework whats the purpose of having a duality power set and having passives like aspect of the falcon, aspect of the lone wolf and blade storm.
I don't use aspect of the falcon because once an enemy reaches 9 feet from max range it does nothing so this I agree with. Aspect of the lone wolf is awesome nothing like having damage mitigation just for slotting it; and blade storm is for melee obviously. Twin blade storm is way better imo because it works for both melee and range.
I disagree wholeheartedly with this because it would wind up making it so two encounters in one slot are only buffs leading to only having four attacks and losing boars rush which is a prone. This would severely cripple the usage of nature tree which is actually pretty good despite what people say. It would make it more useless comparable to how some people feel about the MOA feat.
The animation on Commanding Shot needs to be quicker or replace.
I kind of agree it needs to be quicker; but it is a nice ability and it fits in with a buff/debuff standpoint its also pretty good to use on bosses and elites.
The at-will rapid shot needs a combo attack to it, for eg. for every third arrow you shoot, you shoot three arrows at the same time at the target or make it like the cleric divine mode at-will ability with charges.
I don't remember any class having charges on any at will; and doing this would make it no different from magic missile.
I'm full archer, and I use Disruptive Shot>Binding Arrow>Constricting Arrow>Hindering Shot>(melee)Aimed Strike>Hindering Strike>Steel Breeze(Oak Skin). Rinse and Repeat. I'll weave Split Shots in there as my main at-will, and Aimed Shots when the situation allows for it.
That particular rotation is the fastest burst dmg I have been able to do on my Archer.
Granted my HR is geared pretty well, but solo dungeon boss's die in a matter of seconds when I use that combo.
Many times I've gone back and thought about the article posted introducing the HR, a character designed not for one or the other but a combination of the two, a different play style. Though built as first an Archer, I made sure I had enough Melee to put the hurt on.
Split Shot, Hindering Shot, Marauder's Run(ranged) Split Shot, <melee>Marauder's Run w/Oak Skin, <ranged>Marauder's Run, Disruptive Shot. I'll change it up here and there, mostly some animations look too cool.
Deuce HR L 60 Archer Build+Melee
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TR - Cloud of Steel. They started with 12 charges, went to 8.
Good stuff. I'm with you on that combo as well. However, I really wish there was a way I could fit Marauder's in there. I just love that defensive ability and the melee rush.
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split shot or 2 to clear trash and get the agro + hindering (rnged) if i only had to split shot once -> rain of arrows at my feet -> hindering (melee) to root them over the rain -> fox cunning (to proc blood thirsty again) -> fox shift -> hindering (ranged) if they are not dead yet.
Could you please give a link to your build? Interested in powers / feats choices and ranks, thank you!
@Everyone: thank you for replies, this gave me a good amount of insight of what to expect and how I should think of my ranger for soloing, appreciated!
This is my current build. I doubt very much I'll ever switch to anything else...
http://nwcalc.com/hr?b=p6n:4odtg:a48j,13j3cki:6z551:60000:bu000&h=0&p=swd
This is a lengthy video of the build in many pvp matches.
The sound is awful I apologize for that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zbKk8ja5arI
Oh yeah, forgot about that one thanks for that. But I still disagree because rapid shot only having charges is a bad idea.
My archer also uses that string of attacks but with boar hide and rush instead of oakskin binding arrow but both are as valid as the other.