Guild Wars 2

Hi there,

I’m currently experimenting with my Ranger Power/Crit sPvP Build. (20/30/20/0/0) Especially with the weapons. Now one thing that I have never changed and will never change is using the Longbow as the first weapon for this build because I like doing heavy ranged Damage with the Eagle Eye trait. For the second weaponset however I’ve tried out almost all combinations and recently came to decide that I like the shortbow best here.
Even without the bleeding factored in the autoattack does decent damage with a Powerbuild. You have the built in evade on 3, a constant poison on 2 and most importantly with 4 and 5 a ranged cripple and daze/stun. Plus the shortbow also benefits from the Quick Draw trait, resulting in good syngergy with the longbow.

Now that may all seem pretty obvious but I kind of dismissed the shortbow for any Non-condition build in my head only to find out now that it actually works pretty well on a power build too. The main reason being: Once you blew off all your longbow skills, its autoattack is actually pretty useless unless you’re still at 1000+ range. So my second weaponset needs to provide a constant source of damage. With sword and greatsword I found myself so focused on chasing the enemy, that I found it hard to evade attacks simultaneously. A main hand axe actually provides that damage too but the shortbow has more single target dps and better CC. The only thing I still have to try out is Axe/Dagger but I doubt that it can be as effective as the shortbow.

So, what do you think? What is the best second Weaponset for a Powerbuild to go along with a Longbow and why? I’m curious to hear some answers!

Why using longbow if you can go like pretty much everyone’s going just quickness pew pew pew pew the kitten out of ppl with sbow? No skills required and pretty annoying….and probably more effective than exotic lbow spec.. (It’s like hs spam thief…but since it’s ranger it’s ok..)

If u want something really effective just go trapper, and let non scaling (Totally bs) pets and the kittenloads of conditions you can spam everywhere do the job for you…

lbow is horrible.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VGo-V-BF0FFu-e2gDV-0;9F5L;1TJ-J-27A39;245;25-F7-F04Ewk2Ewk26Bf

Here you go. Its a horrible spec though, there is no such thing as power ranger. You may change Signet of Renewal with whatever you want. You might want to drop 5 points from nature magic to pick 5 in beastmastery for quickness on pet swap.

If you wanna be effect Ranger go trapper or beastmaster tank.

Mhh is it really that bad? I mean I was aware that trap or BM tank are the Go To builds for ranger right now. But are they really the only viable specs in competetive play? If yes, does anybody have a reasonable explanation for this?
I did quite well with my Power/Crit build so far but then again I’m just rank 10…
Are there any experienced pvp rangers out there that don’t run trap/Bm?

PS: @IlJumperMT: The link doesn’t work. Possibly because of the semicolons.. try tinyURL

Simi.3254:

Mhh is it really that bad? I mean I was aware that trap or BM tank are the Go To builds for ranger right now. But are they really the only viable specs in competetive play? If yes, does anybody have a reasonable explanation for this?
I did quite well with my Power/Crit build so far but then again I’m just rank 10…
Are there any experienced pvp rangers out there that don’t run trap/Bm?

PS: @IlJumperMT: The link doesn’t work. Possibly because of the semicolons.. try tinyURL

The reason why BM-Tank and Trapper are the only viable specs is that you can dish out some decent damage while being quite tanky. Pets don´t scale with the ranger´s gear stats so if you´re going to use a power crit based build you lose tons of survivability. From time to time i dare to try out more power / crit oriented builds but it just pales in comparison in my opinion.

Varani.9207:

From time to time i dare to try out more power / crit oriented builds but it just pales in comparison in my opinion.

Ok just tried out BM (I had only tried trap ranger before) and you’re absolutely right. With all the heal/regen/toughness and dodge your virtually unkillable while still having insane pet damage (I especially enjoy double birds and their F2)
Looks like this is all because of non scaling pets… But I like it to be honest.. We’re the “pet profession” after all so it’s only fair that our pets dish out tons of damage when invested into..
Maybe I post my build here sometime.