I wanted to address two things, one being how arrows are useless against shields, and healing while not in combat.
First off, ranger is not useless against someone with a shield, but all the person has to do the whole fight is hold a shield up and use skills, ranger can only wait for a cool down for explosive shot or aimed shot, and perhaps use an axe, but even then barely anything happens. Shields should have like a 25 % chance of being penetrated for each arrow that hits, or maybe give arrows automatic punch when they hit a shield.
Also, healing while not in combat is the most horrible thing, I was pvping at spawn and I got some guy low and his buddy comes outta no where and just heals him while were still fighting and I tried to hit his buddy but he wasn't in combat, I can see this getting really abused if people decide to use this method. By the way, this "Strategy" may only be used in a no pvp zone such as spawn after being combat tagged in diamond or a hero gate after being combat tagged at a castle, all you have to do is run to a no pvp zone and a healer can heal you without being damaged. Just wanted to suggest a few things that could be not very fair. :/
First off, ranger is not useless against someone with a shield, but all the person has to do the whole fight is hold a shield up and use skills, ranger can only wait for a cool down for explosive shot or aimed shot, and perhaps use an axe, but even then barely anything happens. Shields should have like a 25 % chance of being penetrated for each arrow that hits, or maybe give arrows automatic punch when they hit a shield.
Also, healing while not in combat is the most horrible thing, I was pvping at spawn and I got some guy low and his buddy comes outta no where and just heals him while were still fighting and I tried to hit his buddy but he wasn't in combat, I can see this getting really abused if people decide to use this method. By the way, this "Strategy" may only be used in a no pvp zone such as spawn after being combat tagged in diamond or a hero gate after being combat tagged at a castle, all you have to do is run to a no pvp zone and a healer can heal you without being damaged. Just wanted to suggest a few things that could be not very fair. :/