First of all ranger has melee combos, in fact you can have 4 melee cc as ranger (knock, snare, root and fear) and there feats in tree and AA to buff melee. Therefore ranger is imagined to have melee and to make class more interesting it would be fun to expand on those.
Right now there are rangers that wants to keep class noob friendly and 1 shot clothies from 30 m.
@Suctum: sword and dagger is cool and more along the line as weapon of some scout than shield. But any kind of melee would be fun and they should expand on it more. If that is properly done ranger could become most fun class to play.
As is noted in the OP's quote, this is a PVP inspired change. Who amongst the PVE majority asked for these changes?
Here's a novel idea.
Have another server called, say, Fury.
Make it a dedicated PVP server so if the PVP community shout for changes to classes you can change them to your hearts content and these changes will be in the sand boxed Fury server and will not spill across into PVE servers populated by people who did not cry for change.
Does that sound so unreasonable or are we to have a situation where the PVP tail wags the PVE dog just because a minority shout loudest?
Soldiers have been op in pve too for too long. Dts and carnie conqs doing more dps then classes which the only task is to dps is just bad game design, why don't let dps classes to tank then? Good it will be fixed.
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In PVE, Rangers aren't really a ranged class any more. PvE performance depends completely on using the Master Trapper buff, which can in fact be made permanent, outperforms Advantages and other buffs, but which requires the ranger to be very close to melee range.
Ranger PVE was broken by the last round of PVP inspired nerfs, in other words.
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