Don’t limit yourself to two weapons. As a ranger, one of the best ways to improve yourself and your team contribution is to know when to use what weapon. You could say the most important thing to consider after pet management, is your off-hand management.
Sword/axe is the default meta. Everything else depend on the situation. The meta build may have LB as a secondary weapon, but it’s only really there for the initial burst, and then an end burst when a boss gets low. Sometimes you want GS for cleaving trash, sometimes you want a second off-hand weapon to your sword.
Also, you’d definitely like to go for GS instead of s/x at bosses that are heavy AoE oriented.
Sword is going to make you lose precious seconds that may eventually lead you to sure death. In fractals there are bosses as such. And sword even with #1 unbound might pose a threat for it’s own wielder.
However, it is the superior DPS weapon. It will always beat GS on single target bosses. The only time where it won’t is a fight where you have to move around. With Sword – you are practically immobile. In order to move, you have to stop your attacks. That’s where GS will be able to outshine the sword. No other exceptions besides heavy AoE fights.
So i need to craft both weapons and switch for each situation … Thanks !
Good to know sword and gs fight specificity , you really help me !
Also sword/x or gs > Lb for dps ? But what’s Lb fight specificity then ?
There is no specificity in Longbow. The reasoning is simple. Any Ranged weapon in this game will stay inferior to any melee weapon in this game.
You’re gonna use Longbow at times where you simply have to fight with a Ranged weapon.
Apart from that – it offers the most initiative tunnel burst for the least time cast. Which makes it perfect for opening the fight – it will apply a high uptime of Slow (10% damage increase via traits), it will apply 10 stacks of vulnerability for anyone who attacks it (10% dmg increase) – and then you simply go for your highest damage output, which is a melee weapon.
Any Ranged weapon in this game will stay inferior to any melee weapon in this game..
Change ’’Any’’ for ’’most’’ and you are right. Staff Ele is the second best dps in the game, sceptre Guardian have higher dps against big slow boss like Lupi, nades are the biggest dps kit for engineer, etc. Most ranged weapons in this game will have inferior dps to melee weapons in this game, but there is clear exception.
I’ve just started to play dungeon and it was very fun to play , very nervous and i love ranger playstyle. First time i’ve play this way, and it’s awesome how i can survive during a fight.
My ranger will be my new main character !
I’ve just started to play dungeon and it was very fun to play , very nervous and i love ranger playstyle. First time i’ve play this way, and it’s awesome how i can survive during a fight.
My ranger will be my new main character !
Welcome to the club, then I have to admit that I haven’t seen many dungeons where a Ranger got kicked out for being ranger any more… But I suppose it might still happen occasionally, so just cheer up some other way and keep playing, don’t let it get you down
Unfortunately, in terms of maximizing personal dps, the great sword isn’t that good in PvE, however it has great utility with its auto attack evade and skill 4 block. You might want to use the greatsword in certain boss situations, such as lupicus in Arah. But honestly you are better using main hand sword, open with long bow 5 and 2, then switch to sword and melee until you go low hp. Then take a step back and switch to long bow.
I have to admit that I haven’t seen many dungeons where a Ranger got kicked out for being ranger any more… But I suppose it might still happen occasionally, so just cheer up some other way and keep playing, don’t let it get you down