Guild Wars 2

I’ve been doing some theorycraft and experimanting recently, and figured out some shout ranger builds with Natures Voice and Runes of the Soldier that actually seem to have potential.

However, for some reason the shout “Guard!” has a channeled cast of around 1s, not instant like other shouts. This holds the builds back a fair bit as making them work relies on spammming guard (which then needs a lot of pet micro as a result, but it’s workable) and trying to cast it with the channel during combat it pretty tricky, and tends to get inturupted a fair bit. Please make it instant cast, and I think we might start to see shout rangers seeing regular play.

The builds I’ve found most successfull so far (though they’re still very much work in progress)

Res Bunker – http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQJATRnEV0FcfFeWAaZAppIT0kniZJVcPGFSJETZFX5JJA-ToAgzCmIySllLLTWyssZN+Y9B

Hybrid dps (pet heavy) – http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRBHhx+1JRFdBXFkWQoWGQYKOEE5pYWUP3D/bUCxM+ZlXSA-TwAAyCsIySllLLTWyssZNqYVxWgZAA

Any suggestions for improvement greatfully recived.

Give em a try and see what you think. Be warned though, they require heavy pet micro, try calling to heal right after guard when moving to keep pet by your side (stealthed!), managing them in combat whilst keep boons up is trickyer, but doable. The bear can be stealthed via “Guard” befor using “Search and Rescue” for steathed res with stability proc if anyone trys to AoE inturupt! Doing the same with the other pets can make using their ‘F2’ a lot more reliable.

Should “Guard” be instant cast?

(Edits – typos)

I’ve been using “Guard” for awhile too. It’s actually a pretty good skill combined with the trait that gives your whole team perma swiftness and regen. Also good for setting up river drake burst + giving your jaguar more stealth.

Good to see this! I have been using it too recently. I agree the cast time makes it hard to pull off in combat, would love to see the cast time lowered.