@anduriell
Also, I gave your build a thought or two and … One thing still bugs me.
What does it do better than any of the already existing viable builds?
Also, it scared the hell out of me when I tried to figure out what kind of stats do you use and hovered over the items. That was scary, dude =D
Yes, i needed it a lot of reiterations (craft + test) to get it right. I end up with this numbers:
- as closed as posible to 2.2K power.
- as closed as possible to 1.5k armor
- as closed as possible to 50% crit. Preferably over 50%.
- Over 18K hp
- over 400 healing power.
If not you could become:
- too weak to do average damage compared to other classes (bags)
- too glassy to stay alive for long enough
- no crits means lack of damage too. It was for something why ranger had +10% crit chance before the nerf (some time ago)
- Heals to weak to sustain yourself.
Power/precision/healing power with enough vita/toughness to take the sting out of playing glass.
It would be better if build had traited warhorn or traited shouts for a good source of regen to take advantage of all that healing power.
I tried that build (WHaO, Sick’em, SotP) but although it has a good sustain it had a very bad weakness against conditions and it lacks the punch you need to take out tanky builds fast enough to not to be melted.
Also i tried the GS instead the Staff, although the damage was good it would have the very bad weakness of ranged projectile reflections, so sometimes you would find yourself fighting against an tempest and an engi with all the reflects they have and you could do no damage at all (obviously to get in close 2v1, and those 2, wasn’t an option).
Also Swoop had the very bad habit to throw me off cliffs in EotM or in the middle of the enemy zerg.
With this build you can keep easy >10 stacks of might that will make yours Rapid fire achieve >10K. The barrage will hit for 1K each so it’s also some support there. You have the needed mobility + blast for the smokescale (stealth).
The staff is very bad (around 900 crits) but at least is a weapon you can use if the LB is not viable you need a reliable mobility source with the flying stick to reset to the LB again.
+you get the benefits from the typical survival build.
The SIGIL of water in LB is a must, makes the AF build faster. Also if you equip Lingering light instead Ancient Seeds you’ll charge the AF faster.
Quickening Zephyr is a must. Not only to accelerate the channels from bad designed skills like Natural Convergence, but also to be escape from a hairy situation. Hunters Shot or Smoke cloud + Ancestral Grace and that extra superspeed can help you get you out.
If the roots from Entangle would be reliable it would be a good elite. Right now i use it only as another cleanse + source of fury and maybe an small annoyance (like Point blank shot) if the situation presents itself.
I find this build very nice in Zerg, sturdy and good enough in solo fights. I don’t have a serious disavantage against Revenants if they don’t focus all their fire on me (those 8K crits with sword AA are a joke) my problem is manly is with Zerker Reapers.
The Close To Death trait + Damage from the Reaper Shroud is simply too much damage, this build heals good, but not that fast.
Let’s see if with the balance changes we get the improvement needed in the ranger weapons so i can have other choices.
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