Rue.2061

Ranger pets are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overtuned and I dont think their pet damage was even touched at all in the big huge balance patch everyone was waiting for that turned out to be a huge disappointment

If you're going to use mantra as a comparison, dont forget that now the mesmer has to be directly facing you to use it. So if you see an about-face from a mesmer moving away from you then you can assume you may be getting mantra-ed.Eura I also feel you're biased as a ranger main because the ranger itself can be full tank and the pets still do 5k aa's and can just be swapped out before they can be killed in most match ups where we're considering not everyone is running a monkey symbol brand build with 5 million burn stacks and AoE's the size of half the map that last 12 million years that can insta kill the pets with a 50 million burn tick. Problem is ranger doesn't have to be traited for power for pets to hit like trucks while the pets themselves are unnecessarily tanky for how much they can do damage wise. You say that they dont do much damage...... oooooh how untrue that is. Then you have to consider most are running zerker LB so they can just sic the pet on you and range you down from 1.5k range so where's the counter play for most classes considering you also have stealth and mobility to reposition while the pet just aa's them to death?

I believe everyone is overlooking the fact that ranger pets can do 3-5k autos while being ridiculously tanky. Like you can say "git gud" and "JuSt dOdGe 5HeAd" but when you have something hitting you for 5k in mele while the ranger can just pewpew you from 1.5k range because they have the mobility and can just rapid fire you to death with their CCs....... Like there's a finite amount of dodges available. We'd also be having a very different conversation if say mesmer illusions were as tanky and hard hitting as pets (:

your issue isn't with duo queue, all you're crying about is being matched against two better players together. There was a system in place before that prevented you from being able to duo queue above a certain SR. So you basically want that system reinstated is what i'm getting, but also forum criers will be forum criers