Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, I’ve got a question about my Ranger build. While I enjoy the way he’s built right now, I just want to know if I’m utilizing him to the best of his ability.

Right now he’s built mostly Condition Damage, Precision, and Toughness, with a few Ruby accessories thrown in there. Traits are 20 Power, 30 Precision, 20 Toughness. I mainly use shortbow/sword+warhorn, and I’m focusing more on WvW rather than PvE. I’ve heard things that high power can be really good, or healing can give rangers really good survivability, so I’m curious to know what you all think. I don’t necessarily want to be squishy, but I want to be able to hold my own and do good damage.
Basically I want to know if this is a solid build, and if you guys have any suggestions to make it better or have other builds that work really well that you enjoy. Let me know what you think, I’d greatly appreciate it! Thanks guys

Due to how Rangers have less damage on their weapons than other classes, a Power-build is still not going to out-DPS a well built condi-build. Healing helps very little, so unless you got some non-build reasons to go down those two paths, I’d stick with what you have and just perfect it. Condi-builds are very strong if built right, but drop by the Ranger forum for more advice.

Ask the ranger forums. If you go condi, completely forget about power. That means get rid of the ruby stuff. You can build an extremely tanky condi ranger with a 10 0 30 30 0 build. Use full dire armor and trinkets with Sw/T and Axe/D. SoS, stone spirit, and sun spirit. You have pretty much perma protection, 2200 toughness, 24k health, and 1900 condi dmg.

KyreneZA.8617:

Due to how Rangers have less damage on their weapons than other classes, a Power-build is still not going to out-DPS a well built condi-build. Healing helps very little, so unless you got some non-build reasons to go down those two paths, I’d stick with what you have and just perfect it. Condi-builds are very strong if built right, but drop by the Ranger forum for more advice.

Thank you! That’s really helpful. Glad to know I wasn’t completely off haha.

Don’t neglect underwater combat weapons and skills as a Ranger in WvW, even though they’ve reduced the deep water on the maps. I’ve seen plenty of cases where opponents who are very powerful fighting me on the land don’t do so well when they follow me into the water. Also, the underwater weapons can attack opponents standing on the shore if you target them while underwater. Have a stealth thieve you can’t take on land? Try to lure him into the water.

Also remember that your warhorn and Healing Spring can heal friendly Dolyaks making supply deliveries. You can use this to speed them up so they deliver fast and to help them survive attacks by monsters and enemies.