Guild Wars 2

I have a 30-20-0-10 terror build I am learning to use.

I was attacked in the open by a Spirit Ranger with a Black Widow pet and forced into a 1v1.

I felt completely defenseless. It seemed I had to stand there and just die.

Are they our perfect counter, or did I have something that would have let me win that I just don’t know how to use yet?

What exactly about it shut you down? You should be able to melt spirits (not sure of their HP values) by stacking condis on the pet and Epidemic’ing them, or just a spirit. If you don’t have Epidemic, DS 4/5, Staff 2-5, Scepter 2, Dagger 5 are all AoE attacks, and spirits are only summonable every 60 seconds, so if you cleave them down the ranger is a lot weaker.

Bhawb,

I am new at this. All I know is my health dropped like a stone, and his did not. It was all really fast. I had only seconds to figure out what to do.

His pet and himself was clearing my conditions.

I know I did not time my consume conditions to best effect.

I see the problem, 30-20-0-10 = 60, you have 10 traits left.

With the mix of evades, healing, and a blind ontop of other buffs and a res elite—it’s really hard to fight them. Even if you land signet of spite on them directly and with all of their other spirits, The damage they do to you while you set that up already put them in the lead. Good spirit rangers won’t summon all of them at one time either. And these passive no skill buffs work for them and their pets I believe. Spirit rangers need to be balanced. Their ability to remove 3 condis every 10s and protection every dodge roll along with self-healing makes them so hard to kill 1v1. You need to coordinate a cc then burst them down.

Some things you can do against them:
-If they run troll’s urgent, you need to make sure to interrupt their heal cast with doom or reaper’s mark.
-If you see a huge spirit, it’s the revival + healing spirit, kill it to stop the ranger from reviving if downed and also stop him from getting even more access to self-healing.
-Spirit rangers have no stun breaker (unless they trait for it, which is 1). Make sure you bait their evades and cc them effectively to land bursts.

Other than that, gl until the next balance patch. Pet + Spirits + Self-Healing + Evades + Protection + Condi cleansing. They have it all in 1. AI support + passive buffs + sustained healing, easy access to evades, easy access to protection, and auto condi cleansing. The only thing they lack is stun breakers, so if you can’t burst them down fast enough during a cc opportunity, it’s a shame. Or you can try bunkering? but I haven’t seen many necros do that in tpvp matches.

Tobbygnome.6793:

I see the problem, 30-20-0-10 = 60, you have 10 traits left.

Just a typo. I have 70.

Arc,

I suspected something like that was what was happening. I just knew I didn’t understand what was happening, nor what my best move was to counter it.

I hate standing there feeling like a slowly moving punching bag and easy kill.

Laserbolt.6731:

I have a 30-20-0-10 terror build I am learning to use.

I was attacked in the open by a Spirit Ranger with a Black Widow pet and forced into a 1v1.

I felt completely defenseless. It seemed I had to stand there and just die.

Are they our perfect counter, or did I have something that would have let me win that I just don’t know how to use yet?

Try my mm build o’ death it will surely kill them. XD

Laserbolt.6731:

Tobbygnome.6793:

I see the problem, 30-20-0-10 = 60, you have 10 traits left.

Just a typo. I have 70.

Then please tell me what your build is, i’d like to know

Tobbygnome.6793:

Laserbolt.6731:

Tobbygnome.6793:

I see the problem, 30-20-0-10 = 60, you have 10 traits left.

Just a typo. I have 70.

Then please tell me what your build is, i’d like to know

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNAoYWjEaN7ta2a07JkJFfD4A9oXkGQMSxxEMA-T0AAzCpIgRVkrIDMSnsONqYVxpipAvKA

Zelulose,

Your signature is very true. If you can pick up a build recipe and start owning everyone by mindlessly mashing buttons, it is a bit like winning a game because you used a cheat code.

Laserbolt.6731:

Zelulose,

Your signature is very true. If you can pick up a build recipe and start owning everyone by mashing buttons, it is a bit like winning a game because you used a cheat code.

That’s why I want everyone to have it XD. If everyone uses the same op build then skill must appear or a nerf must lol.

Tobbygnome.6793:

Laserbolt.6731:

Tobbygnome.6793:

I see the problem, 30-20-0-10 = 60, you have 10 traits left.

Just a typo. I have 70.

Then please tell me what your build is, i’d like to know

4-10-11
2-9-(25)
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1 (15)
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5 Krait, 1 Lyssa, Rabid amulet. Scepter/dagger – Staff

Hmm, you may find more survivability going 20 into SR tree, Blood Magic just like that kind of lacks if you don’t build around leeching. 20 in SR gives you a free Spectral Armor at 50% hp and either longer fear or LF gen on marks.

Also 25 in Curses is not that great, anything that is +% Damage, counts only towards direct damage and not condition damage.

Lemme know if you like this (Only look at traits) http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQNArYGmQge0L4CIGpgYCGKFlT6A

Tobby,

I don’t know. Looks OK to me. As I said, I am new at this and looking at the spirit ranger issue.

Okie, good luck