Guild Wars 2

So i am just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for some unique/fun builds that they can link me to or describe. i have a necro/mesmer/engineer/ranger. i have an open char slot for an ele or thief(no warrior or guardian though so no need for any builds for them.) I don’t like cookie cutter or “meta” builds and i like to have fun with my chars so just wondering if anyone has any ideas. thanks in advance.

Stick your engi into celestial gear, respec on the fly.

My advice? Give yourself a set of rules and restrictions based on a type of character (before you even create one), then try your best to stick to that. Don’t worry about builds and all that. Rather focus on creating a specific character. For instance,

1. In Baldur’s Gate, I decided to create a girl who had gone lost in the woods and was forced to learn to survive on her own. Naturally, a barbarian was a nice choice for her. But one day she stumbled into a cave and found a spellbook, so she tried to teach herself how to cast spells. In the game, that translated to multiclassing to a Sorceress. Wizards study magic. Sorcerors are born with it. The problem is a barbarian uses medium armor, and that doesn’t go well with magic. In the end, I ended up with a character who sucked at both close combat and spellcasting, but those two combied made her pretty decent – when she didn’t fail completely, at least. I mean, if she managed to cast a spell or two, the rest of the fight was usually easy. If she failed to cast the spell (happened a lot), she was just terrible. A lot of fun to play, if very challenging at times.

2. Sacred 2. I wanted to make a ninja, so I decided on a Dryad (quite stealthy already), using short swords in each hand, a short bow and light armor. That’s about it. I often foudn weapons and armor that would make me a lot better, but that would break the character. As a result, the first couple of levels were a major pain, and I died over and over even on weak enemies (due to lack of armor.) However, after a while, I started getting better, and to this day that’s one of my favorite characters in any game ever. It shouldn’t have worked, but it did.

The point is, it can be a lot of fun to create artificial restrictions and rules for yourself before you make a character, just to see how it ends up. Besides, in a game like this, what’s there to loose? In worst case, just get better gear and change up your skills a bit. You can’t really break a character so badly it has to be deleted.

What do you consider fun? I like my condition/crit ranger, which is definitely not a meta-build, but that might not appeal to you at all. I like it for the fact that it actually uses the pets, and does a lot of types of damage to a lot of enemies quickly, but I know it wouldn’t appeal to everyone.

meta builds are often very fun when you can play them. cele engi is a ball to play, and i adore double kit condi. actually double kit condi is just great for pvp, you can wreck almost anything.

I am thinking of going for a trap thief or venom thief. they seem fun.

venom thief is strong in WvW and pvp (seems best with carrion and s/d, but there are a lot of options). i have never seen traps work for thief, but you are welcome to try.

Best ranger is GS + Sw/x melee ranger. I prefer 0/0/6/5/3 with energy/battle on sw/x and energy/intelligence on GS (might also on pet swap, lower pet swap cooldown, and wolf/drakehound). Full zerker, TU/LR/SotH/SotW/RaO.

I like dagger offhand because you can seriously troll enemies with the stupid amount of evades, no one will ever complain or be rude to you about cheese (which I find ironic because evade spam is the ultimate cheese – more so than stealth or conditions), in fact you’ll mostly get compliments despite it being quite easy to play (remember to turn off autotargeting so you can drop target to fly around).

Once the pre-HoT patch hits we should be able to get zephyr’s speed with this as well as other goodies which will further buff melee ranger.