Guild Wars 2

Just like scrapper traits look strong on standard engi.

I’m thinking about longbow gs or longbow s/x with beastmastery, wilderness survival, druid and marauder amulet.

From the adepts you get a condi removal.
From the masters you get a stealth that doesn’t rely on hitting a target (hunter shot) or rng (suine pet f2).
From the grandmasters you get a situational immobilize on a 10s cd.

Basically you just flash celestial form to stealth and condi cleanse and play like a standard power ranger.
As a bonus you also get some cool abilities to play around in celestial form, provided you aren’t pressured to leave it to stealth.

number 3 can be used to aoe proc the immobilize from the grandmaster,
number 5 is a strong cleave, remember that slow goes through stability,
everything else can be used to heal up if the situation allows it.

IMO it all depends on how fast you can generate celestial force but it has the potential to be good.

Yes, unless Arenanet realizes that Rangers’ only really strong weaponset at this point is Longbow, Druid will most likely gravitate towards power based Longbow builds with additional functionality.

Shortbow has been almost entirely left in the dust. Sword auto attack is dysfunctional. Axe Auto is worthless. Greatsword auto and maul do far less damage than a cele d/d ele.

The beam auto attack on staff might help keep it viable in some situations but otherwise it does not look extremely strong.

I dont like this healing focus the elite has, but Ranger needed a good elite so hard

infantrydiv.1620:

Yes, unless Arenanet realizes that Rangers’ only really strong weaponset at this point is Longbow, Druid will most likely gravitate towards power based Longbow builds with additional functionality.

Shortbow has been almost entirely left in the dust. Sword auto attack is dysfunctional. Axe Auto is worthless. Greatsword auto and maul do far less damage than a cele d/d ele.

The beam auto attack on staff might help keep it viable in some situations but otherwise it does not look extremely strong.

Now that Heal As One will copy the boons from the pet to yourself and vice versa, I can see Axe with Nature Magic being quite solid. Going to have to test that out.

Druid seems to provide us with a lot of mobility options beyond swiftness spam which could be really helpful. Staff has a 1,200 range movement skill that can basically auto position you in a good spot for a Rapid Fire.

Druid has a ton of healing, true, but more importantly it brings a TON of utility that can potentially compliment a lot of playstyles rangers already have but are just shy of being meta viable.

Ancient Seeds – Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, or launched foes summon roots to entangle them for 5s (immobilize + bleed).

Good luck dodging out of the pewpew now.

the options are looking pretty interesting. I’m excited about staff/GS personally. staff gives us a lot of survivability and mobility while its AA hits pretty hard from a long distance. GS is solid all around, and we wont have to use solely as a utility/defensive weapon.

since taunt wont be nearly as effective once the bug is fixed next Tuesday, I foresee a lot of rangers dropping the BM line entirely for the druid. I feel BW should be able to work through blocks, due to the insane amount of block spam out there right now. it shouldn’t work through dodging.

the druid line brings some serious utility and sustain. it can work very nicely both with the condi bunker, as well as several power variants.

the new pets are very strong on their own. the smokescale’s f2 did 9k damage on that heavy golem. not sure if these numbers are final o.O

Reikou.7068:

Ancient Seeds – Striking a stunned, dazed, knocked down, or launched foes summon roots to entangle them for 5s (immobilize + bleed).

Good luck dodging out of the pewpew now.

wat

Krysard.1364:

I dont like this healing focus the elite has, but Ranger needed a good elite so hard

Wat! Entanglement is one of thw best elites in the game.