Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone! I recently hit level 80 with my ranger, and now it is time to update my gear to exotic.
I will be playing PVE/Dungeons/Fractals mostly so i was wandering what would be a suitable build.

I was thinking of making Condition Ranger, but I’m confused with what masteries, runes,sigils, rings, amulets and other stuff I should use.

If any of you own a link to Condition build, i would really love to see it! Cheers guys

I just hit 80 to and I’ve been using a condi build. From what I can gather, condi builds seems to suffer.

Reading some of the build threads in this forum seem to focus a ton on PvP, I just want to see what useful ranger build for PvE looks like :-)

Trapper with two spiders for immobilize spam works okay but still so much worst than what other classes can do.

Amen, i switched from my warrior to ranger and dear lord… what a change

Low level fractals you can do with whatever, mid level fractals you can do with whatever. High fractals you wont be able to do because noone will take rangers.

The reason why no one wants rangers in dungeons is because too many are using bad builds. Your flavour-of-the-month WvW / PvP builds are crap in dungeons, with condition and BM builds being the worst of the lot.

So, please, for the sake of the other players in your dungeon group, do not bring a condition ranger into a dungeon.

If you want to contribute something, then go power/crit. use ranged pets on passive, and make sure you can stay alive

Rampagers with torch/flame trap and drakes is pretty strong. Berserker/celestial is strong. I would say your best bet is points in BM and/or SotW or “Guard” because keeping your drake alive is a large part of DPS. Drakes do strong damage, blast finish, and cleave on most attacks. I prefer axe/axe and sword/torch with rampager armor.

So something like x/x/x/x/30 (natural healing) is very strong and why clerics armor is often a good choice. You won’t max DPS but for how tanky you are you can ressurect and put out some decent damage. I still think the build xsorsus made popular, 0/0/30/10/30 is probably one of the best builds but you can do stuff like 0/0/20/20/30 and still be in great shape (+5% vitality to power and just more vitality and boon duration…also you need fortifying bond if you want pets to get buffs in a party of 5. Note that I don’t always run traitlines in stats that match my armor. I pick traits, usually, because I want them for play than stats. But that’s hopefully going to improve with traitline work.

Again for more DPS you might start moving points North of BM. 15 in WS is usually a good choice and, well, the issue with this traitline is if you go 15 you might as well nust go 20 and get offhand training for your offhand axe.

When I solo Arah through crusher, personally, I prefer something like rampager’s though. You get a lot of crits and still decent condition damage with traps/torch.

My thinking is always evolving on this stuff because I don’t like to run numbers and optimize that way. I just play. Lately I’ve found rampagers with some healing rune or celestial trinkets pretty strong. You can go rampager trinkets too, the issue is that below 700 healing power, in my experience, pets are much harder to keep alive for simply a modest gain in DPS. Again, do not let your drake die or your DPS drops like a rock.

any 30.30.x.x.x build zerker gear, longbow / axe-warhorn. thats the cookie cutter spec.

once you get use of making sure you are at 1000 range from mob to max st damage and have the room to dodge

when you have to stack on boss in some instance sword become more damage than longbow

might want to change spec often depending on what you.

No 30/30…. Is actually really bad. Don’t do that. You will stand at 1000 range with a bow and contribute very little in terms of dps and survivability and aoe boons and your pet will die a lot. This isn’t the way rangers are optimal right now, beginning of june, 2013.

Chokolata.1870:

Low level fractals you can do with whatever, mid level fractals you can do with whatever. High fractals you wont be able to do because noone will take rangers.

That’s insane, I just beat level 48 fractals with two rangers in the party and one thief. It only took is one hour. That’s not so bad considering we did grawl and cliffside. With the rangers, guardian, and thief we could attain 100% reflection uptime. In any case, this composition works best with communication. You have to work together. PUGs can’t do that a lot of times. Failure is a failure of teamwork/ability not profession composition (unless your goal is a world record Lupicus kill :p )

Axe/AXe shines in pve

dae.1865:

any 30.30.×.×.x build zerker gear, longbow / axe-warhorn. thats the cookie cutter spec.

Chopps.5047:

No 30/30…. Is actually really bad. Don’t do that. You will stand at 1000 range with a bow and contribute very little in terms of dps and survivability and aoe boons and your pet will die a lot. This isn’t the way rangers are optimal right now, beginning of june, 2013.

This is what I kind of really hate about this class is that there is no agreement on what is actually useful in PvE. The consensus is that there are “ok” builds, but not any that really stand out. Kinda depressed that this is my first level 80, good thing my guardian is level 72.

I usually run a 20/30/20/0/0 when doing dungeons. Survivabilty is good and you have decent DPS with good chance to crit. I use all Soldier’s gear and trinkets with exquisite emerald jewels.

The soldier’s gear gets you to 21000+HP and about 2000 toughness (really helps). I run the shortbow with Superior rune of Fire as my primary because it fires quick so you’ll get off 1 1/2 shots for every 1 shot of anything else and the rune has a 30% chance to give off extra AoE damage when you crit. As my secondary I use an axe/horn combo with Superior rune of fire on Axe and Superior of Accuracy for horn to help with crowd control. This build is centered around surviving and staying out of direct contact while putting on decent damage. With this build I use bears because they have the most vitality and can stay alive longer than any other pet. It’s worked for me whether I am with guild mates or randoms.

link to build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlODbkoKuuvSwC1OQsUoHB1UwJzzew/C9oUe1USbF-jAyAoLBZySgICwZvioxW2KiGr6BTXSEV7PKiWNA-e

let me know how it works for you.