About Ranger balancing

Diamaht

People were emotionally reacting to Rangers during the latest live stream and the tears were wonderful. I didn't see anything crazy going on damage wise and we have no idea what gear is like or what they were wearing. Despite this, people were complaining that rangers were not balanced. In other words they saw a person holding a bow or casting a spell and hitting someone from distance and didn't like it. There is literally no context, so you can see that range classes instantly generate an emotional response.

Pretty basic. If you have more ability to lock me down than I have to get away, then I need to be doing more damage than you. If you are able to restore your HP giving you exponentially more effective HP than me, I need to be doing more damage than you.

People will always say range classes are not balanced. When devs listen and constantly nerf them into the ground, you get crappy range classes, which is what we see in most mmos that focus around pvp.

Now range classes can, and do, often require care when balancing and need to be changed as metas change. I'm not saying they don't.

What I'm saying is: While range classes can be statistically balanced, they can never be emotionally balanced. The latest dev stream was proof.

Enigmatic Sage

No real need to worry about balance in terms of numbers.

We've all seen people lose their shit when their favourite class gets a "nerf" and the doomer's say it's not playable anymore.
It was just a demonstration of the abilities and functionality of the archetype. Not saying balance isn't important but that will come with player feedback throughout alpha 2 and balanced/tuned with beta phases.

We havn't seen how all the augments affect it either and how it directly compares against every other archetype in group play as 1v1 balancing isn't the goal.