Kajind.6195

What is the siamoth pet? Edit: ohh its the pig pet.

It defiantly would require a fundamental change where bosses had mechanics that targeted or were dangerous to ranged characters. I am also not advocating for ranged to be greater then melee simply closing the gap. Although my perception is that the gap is significant, however I have no evidence to back up the claim. The 2nd part of my suggestion was that the ranger felt weaker then the dragon hunter or deadeye in terms of fully ranged builds. Those 2 sorta compound on each other where i'm constantly not feeling viable or accepted. That said I have never been turned down by my friends for playing a longbow ranger build.

Thanks for pointing out We heal as one! I had forgotten about that. Although I would argue that (and this is an assumption) if the meta is skewed towards melee for the higher realistic output then perhaps the safety of ranged is being overvalued in the balance calculations.

Full disclosure I may be complaining about something that is not an issue. I feel like the meta skews towards melee characters because of how handing out buffs work. I would like to see the base ranger be able to have get boons when they are applied to his pet. I think this would make it more viable to sit back at max range longbow range where you don't feel left out.

This is not a meta build, but is super fun for me to play. Sounds I would tell your friend to give it a shot. There is a talent in the last row of the Skirmishing tree called Quick Draw, it reduces the cooldown when swapping weapons. Use 2 longbows and this tallent. Swap back and forth lowering the cooldown of barrage or rapid fire. Its a pretty fun build with surprisingly little down time.