Bloodwyne wrote:I really dont get why u even started playing ranger if u expected him to outdamage a Warrior in Melee Oo.. its like i would complain about Warrior being outdamaged by a Ranger using Longbow..
I started playing Ranger BECAUSE it out damage warrior in melee. I KNEW that based on what a closed beta player told me, and then my own testing. You seem to be basing what you think the balance state will be at launch off your impression of the names of the profession. Just cause ranger has the word, "range" in it, doesn't mean that it currently is not out performing every other melee comparing #1 skills.
Bloodwyne wrote:Also i dont really know where u can draw that much information from about DMG comparison in such a short time as i only saw you playing Ranger. Just taking the base dmg not including stats, skill effects, traits etc seems really wrong to me in this game.
There are not profession specific damage tables, the formula is across the board, so a comparison of coeffecients is rather accurate actually. What really matters is that you normalize the swing speed to 1 per second.
I take that comparison on paper, and then attack a dummy in the mists and see if Time To Kill Ratio between the two being compared matches the hypothesized Time To Kill Ratio that the paper predicted. It does, accurately. There is no reason to not draw conclusions based on that, in my opinion. What else would I use exactly?
And FYI warriors have very good ranged builds. The ranger just has less armor and hps so theyve given them slightly more damage. as it should be.
I 100% expect that Greatsword damage from Ranger will be BUFFED back up to match (or rather I expect exceed) Ranger 1H Sword Damage, and also Warrior Greatsword damage.
I expect that based on what I have seen so far. However, if what I expect them to do, does not happen (and instead they go the other way with the damage correction, brining 1H sw down to GS levels), then I may not be playing Ranger, that's all. I don't see why that's something to worry about, its just basics of picking a profession imo. Its unlikely, but something I am prepared for. I will start the headstart the same way I started every other beta, by testing the dmg (as I described above) immediately in the mists and making my decision based on the current available
data. its science.