I always wanted to play a “ranger” esque class in GW2. However, I never liked the ranger class in GW2. Due to you having to use a pet all the time (if you don’t your just hurting yourself.) Therefore, I was wondering about the Dragonhunter. I heard its what ranger “should have been”.
Also, how does it par with the warrior bow and thief bow. On top of that I thought it was be a cool idea too since Guards have good survivability and cool armor
, Thank you for the help.
My main is Ranger (Now Druid), but Im also now playing my DH as a ranged DPS/Support. To me, more fun than core-ranger.
Ranger – Pet is a large factor of playstyle. Ranger’s have a lot of mobility through auto-attack, and various skills.
Dragon Hunter – No pet
so you are more of a lone ranger. You have access to heavier armor and stuff like Aegis, protection, blind, retaliation.
For me, so far I think with a little skill, the DH is very survivable and can dish out some good DPS. The ranger is a little more “clunky”, having to deal with the pet, but it definately has its uses.
Lastly, I will also say that you could go Druid and go Staff/LongBow. You’ll still be able to dish out some good damage, but you’ll also be able to support with heals.
tl;dr
Go ranger if you want (or dont mind) pet, and want to be more mobile, with the option to switch to support through healing with staff.
Go Dragon Hunter if you dont want the pet, dont mind being less mobile, but more tanky, and may want to support through various buffs and blinds.
Lastly, Heavy armor usually looks better
if you pair the longbow with traps then its good. But bow alone will pretty much leave you helpless without any other utilities. maybe you can use shouts to help kite. honestly i feel super slow i might end up with runes of traveler and theres no getaway card with DH like with ranger
that depends entirely on the content you plan to do. If you go full glass on the bow and pick you fights right it is completly viable. If we are talking about open world pve I think DH and LB is absolutly facerolling in the dps area.
Just startet testing yesterday but the only challenge are defiant bar mobs in HoT everything else just melts away after five seconds.
doing 3.8k AA attacks and another 9k on a 4 sec CD with multiple ways to keep does at distance is just crazy and I fell it will get toned down.
and this is without any utilities DH lets you grab a crazy amount of damage modifiers. Our F2 is a great escape tool, simply because its enough to add in another true shot.
I do not know yet if it is my style because it might get rahter boring and I like taking 4+ enemies on at once (open world) but I have to play a little more with it.
Shhhh.