Your build is ok, I used to run something similar but with dual ravens back when they could one shot shatter mesmers and thieves. However, power ranger lacks something, DPS, survivability, boon rip, condi removal, SOMETHING. To make it viable. Part of the problem is that power rangers damage does not scale well because their pets are also power damage and ANET though that would be imbalanced or something. Anyway, the only way ranger can do solid damage is to do condition damage because the scales equally regardless of class or to go 30/30/x/x/x zerker which leaves you with no condi clear besides SoR (healing spring doesn’t count when you’re full glass). I can’t see your build being very affective against many things anymore (as i’ve tried my version) and the lack of healing power makes it hard to sustain especially with that weapon set. Traiting into WS as a power build is just inefficient as you have 300 worthless condi damage you might as well just go condi.
Anyway, the strongest build is spirit ranger atm. BM was good, but the pet nerf has made it too weak. Traps are ok, but you can dodge through traps, you cannot dodge condition procs provided by the spirits and the body blocking they provide should not be underestimated. Now, when people say ranger needs a buff, they do. ranger cannot realistically do anything besides tanky condi’s and be up to par with the other classes. So i’d say nerf tanky condi’s, the healing, the evades, something, but buff power ranger somewhere to improve build diversity.
Someone said, some top team ran a power ranger. That was me. I was subbing in for Two Metas Ahead, and we played against Helseth’s team. The matches were very close and we did not lose because of ‘builds’ we lost because of rotations. That being said I pretty much got destroyed if their thief saw me before I saw him, although, it did go both ways. The problem being, once being seen and getting trained by more than 1 thing it is impossible to survive for very long if they want you dead.
End rant.
