Guild Wars 2

So everyone, I need advice on a toon to focus on, or to build up. I’ve played this game since launch, and bought the expansion, which I am having a reasonable amount of fun playing through, and helping my guild members with. I’ve taken breaks in the past and played different games, mostly from the “Survival Genre” and due to several bad run ins with “Non-legit” players, decided to come back here, been back at playing this game for a couple months now, and like I said, enjoying it.

So onto my dilemma(s) with my toons, or toon “Selection” I tend to build my toons “Power/Crit” based with bare essentials when it comes to “Survival/Stun-breaks/Condi-cleanses” ect. Preferring, “Big Ol’ CRITS” over staying alive, kinda like an “All or Nothing” kind of playstyle. But as of recently, I have found out that I possess neither the "Reaction Time’ nor the “Dexterity” in order to maintain these toons in areas like sPvP/WvW, and have decided to adapt myself to these two things (Poor Reaction Time, and Dexterity Issues.) and think of ways I could change my toons, or make a new one all together.

I was thinking of a class/build that centers around having good survivability, and wins it’s fights in sPvP/WvW through attrition, and not raw DPS, or a toon that is Condi-centric and has ways to deal with conditions, or being bursted, ect. Again, due to me two a fore mentioned reasons, I need to adapt my playstyle to something slower paced and having more survivability, ect.

In PvE, I would like to Raid, and do the occasional Dungeon/Fractal for mostly skins, or necessary income, ect. I am well aware that most any build/class can do well in open-world PvE, but I would like to be a “Go-to” class and be seen as an asset to my group, or feel like I am being trully effective in PvE in general.

In cases like sPvP/WvW, again due to poor reaction time and dexterity problems, I feel I need to be a little more tank and a little less spank, beating my enemies through attrition or they just plain give up, or get mad and make mistakes, ect. maybe a condition build would be good?

As with my current toons, I like my Herald the most, and my Daredevil the LEAST… my toons are in exotics, with some ascended items, mostly just trinkets though, what I would like to do is take my four level 80s gear, scrap it down, sell it off and create ONE toon to get fully kitted with ascended, and have a legendary weapon for both land and water, ect.

As always, I am very thankful to those who can help me out and I really appreciate the time everyone kittenponds, and reads takes, Thanks!

Ummm…. kinda difficult to think of what might suit all of your needs in one character but the best I can think of might be a warrior.

You seem to have 3 main criteria (correct me if I am wrong):
1. high damage for pve
2. survivability in pvp/wvw
3. easier to play

A dsp build warrior is always welcome in dungeons/fractals/raids; warriors are more forgiving if your reactions are not up there with the “1%” of players thanks to better vit and toughness; and, you can re-spec/re-gear your warrior to tank in wvw to soak up the damage for your party while they dps. Anyways, maybe someone else might have some ideas.

Silvatar.5379:

Ummm…. kinda difficult to think of what might suit all of your needs in one character but the best I can think of might be a warrior.

You seem to have 3 main criteria (correct me if I am wrong):
1. high damage for pve
2. survivability in pvp/wvw
3. easier to play

A dsp build warrior is always welcome in dungeons/fractals/raids; warriors are more forgiving if your reactions are not up there with the “1%” of players thanks to better vit and toughness; and, you can re-spec/re-gear your warrior to tank in wvw to soak up the damage for your party while they dps. Anyways, maybe someone else might have some ideas.

My only concern is from the communities standpoint the Elite-spec for the Warrior, and the class itself is low-man on the totem pole, or maybe their wrong, anyone have advice on Warrior builds, or I could look in the Sub-forum, thanks.

I was thinking of a class/build that centers around having good survivability, and wins it’s fights in sPvP/WvW through attrition, and not raw DPS, or a toon that is Condi-centric and has ways to deal with conditions, or being bursted, ect. Again, due to me two a fore mentioned reasons, I need to adapt my playstyle to something slower paced and having more survivability, ect.

That sounds like a condi ranger/cele druid, which are also wanted in raids.

Re: warrior in PvP, 0% of the players in pro league are using a warrior.

Fluffball.8307:

I was thinking of a class/build that centers around having good survivability, and wins it’s fights in sPvP/WvW through attrition, and not raw DPS, or a toon that is Condi-centric and has ways to deal with conditions, or being bursted, ect. Again, due to me two a fore mentioned reasons, I need to adapt my playstyle to something slower paced and having more survivability, ect.

That sounds like a condi ranger/cele druid, which are also wanted in raids.

Re: warrior in PvP, 0% of the players in pro league are using a warrior.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNMQNAR3fnUqANsg1CCuCCctglCBDurWWXrPdhZQAo5DMseBl8syA-TlREwAIUCKT9Hk7PkS3DAzfBV+RIgHLAA-w

Would something like this work for the Druid???

I don’t particularly like the build. Greatsword has zero damaging condis on it, so it doesn’t pair that well with a condi build. Also several of your traits are wrong, like you have a grandmaster that removes condis on the use of a survival skill, but no survival skills equipped.

You can check out the builds on metabattle.com for a starting point. Click on ranger and a ton of builds will show up, organized by game mode. There is also a great sticky thread on the ranger forum with a huge number of builds to give you some ideas (some are a lot better than others.)

If you want, post a build you’ve customized on the ranger forum, and people will give you good feedback. I’m a ranger main, and it’s a good subsection.