Those Ranger buffs...

They seem insane. Restore shields on melee hit (rather than kill) is a big deal. And something a lot of people seem to be missing is this patch introduces several additional/better ways to allow Rangers to prime with their weapon and trigger tip of the spear more often. On top of that, 25% armor every two hits (rather than three kills) sounds insane on paper.

Consider a ranger with radiant fortress, the new masterwork that makes shotgun shots that land 7+ pellets prime acid, the melee vanguard masterwork, and tip of the spear. Melee into shot to prime both acid and lightning and restore 75% shields. Then detonate both primers with last argument, generating two combos, 80% armor recovery, and a shitton of ult charge. Dayum.

If everything works as described, rangers may well surpass colossuses. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Bioware didn't test any of this shit and rangers end up insanely OP. Of course, given how fucked the loot is, who knows what's "working as intended."

Tried out the new ranger. Insanely OP, clearly not tested at all.

No one tell Bioware - we'll get to enjoy it until one of the devs plays a ranger for ten minutes.

They are everywhere now, and they make GM3 trivial.

Guess I will take my MW Ranger from the mothballs and give him a Legendary makeover...if I ever stop getting Leg components for Storm in every other Javelin I play, rofl.

The thunderbolt of yvenia fix with some changes to masterworks has gotten me 50k procs with a lightning setup (ponder infinity being the key piece). It's now my best weapon(ish) damage dealer. It also now does decent crowd damage with the new mark of wrath or whatever it's called that procs a lightning explosion on combo. Overall some really solid buffs that let it do its job without being insanely OP like the Ranger is now.

I'm not sure, but it seems that they may have made some masterwork passives multiplicative rather than additive. I have a legendary pulse blast that makes my melee go from 18k to about 45k. Certainly shouldn't be that noticeable if additive. As mentioned above, my storm items also seem to be multiplying the damage of my yvenia procs. It's doing several times more damage with numerous masterworks and an epic than it was with a full legendary loadout on another javelin prepatch, which under the previous scaling formula shouldn't have been possible.

Colossus and interceptor feel mostly the same at first blush.

Patch provided about 45 mins of entertainment before loot fatigue set in and I just couldn't play anymore. All purples/blues from GM2/3 strongholds is just ridiculous.

Avenger’s Boon adds 225% damage now, so 18k to 45k after proc sounds about right.

this is not a pvp game. Overpwoering builds are fine, especially for GM3. I wlcome all the damage buffs on all javelins!

So give it that Divine Vengeance or whatever and we have Anthem’s TGI+Harrier, amirite?