Guild Wars 2

I’m a level 80 Ranger and have crafted three ascended weapons the ones that I use most being the longbow and greatsword. In addition to this I’ve got a full set of exotic medium armour (I think that Rangers can’t use heavy armour but I might be wrong). My problem is that I enjoy the WvW scene but am still pretty useless at one-to-one combat in these areas. My question is should I now be looking to improve my set of armour or should I be looking at changing my trait (build?) allocation to give me better protection? My current trait allocation is: Markmanship 6, Skirmishing 0, Wilderness Survival 4, Nature Magic 0, Beast Mastery 4. On reflection 0 for Skirmishing sounds a bit stupid but I just don’t know. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

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Would help to know which stats your gear has, so we can help on how to change traits, runes, and so on.

Also, post this on the ranger sub forum would be a better idea.

The difference between ascended and exotic gear is not nearly big enough to save you from a bad build or playing badly.

Thanks for your responses. Belzebu in yours do you mean ‘Attributes’ as found in the ‘Hero’ panel or stats for the weapons I use?

I meant if your weapons and armor are Berzerker, Valkyrie, Clerics, and so on.

Belzebu

The main weapons that I use are Zojja’s Greatbow with Superior Sigil of Bloodlust, Sapphire Orb, and two +4 Mighty Infusions and Zojja’s Claymore with Superior Sigil of Intelligence, Superior Sigil of Bloodlust and two +4 Mighty Infusions.

My armour is a full set of Dwayna armour comprising Soldier’s Rubicon hat, Shoulderpads, Coat and Boots and Magi’s Rubicon Gloves and Leggings. All of these pieces of armour have a Superior Rune of Dwayna.

I hope this helps.

For 1v1 usually you go with condition build, but for that you would need to change every piece of gear, so I won’t recommend that.
Since you have ascended zerker LB and GS I’ll suggest you to look for a power build, also try to change those Magi’s pieces, those stats doesn’t fit the overall build at all.

I’m not good at WvW roaming power builds, but I would build something around Markmanship and Nature Magic.

You could always use the glass cannon builds, not viable theoretically, but you can always play dirty. Pick fights near your zergs/towers/keeps so you have something to fall back on, find terrain advantage, immediately run from fights you know you have little chance of winning.

The thing with roaming in WvW is that you’re almost never gonna get clean fights. The more viable condi builds are nice, but for power builds, you wanna hit hard and run away. Bottom line: play as dirty as you can.