Guild Wars 2

Hi,

So i was messing around with my ranger the other day and I thought to myself, i wonder how many bleed stacks i can get going if i really min/max everything…

And as it turns out, you can build your ranger to put out 25 bleed stacks in around 4 seconds, which just about melts everything. Ive mainly messed around in PvE and WvW with this build and it is a lot of fun.

With Rabid gear and full corruption stacks you can get around 140/tick bleeds. at 25 stacks, thats 3500 damage per sec.

This build mainly revolves around using sharpening stone, both from the utility bar and from traits, and using as many “on crit” bleeds as possible, and using the warhorns fury to boost crit (which in turn, adds more bleeds).

So enough messing around, heres the build and how it works.

TRAITS:

10/30/30/0/0

Markmanship: III

Skirmishing: II – IX (optional) – X (good for CD but also optional) (a friend suggested using the trap traits for the optional slots in this setup, havent tried or tested it)

Wilderness Survival: III – VI – VII

GEAR:

Armor:

Full rabid armour /w Undead Runes, Rabid trinkets-/w coral jewels

Weapons:

Rabid Axe /w Sigil of Earth – Rabid Warhorn /w Sigil of Corruption
Rabid Longbow /w Sigil of earth (optional)

UTILITIES:
Sharpening Stone
Lightning Reflexes
SotH

FOOD/MAINTENACE:
Rare Veggie Pizzas or koi cakes
Quality tuning crystals

BUILD IN USE:

Basically, you want to start out your rotation by popping Sharpening stone, followed by using Call of the wild for the extra fury (More crits, more bleeds). Immediately after, pop hunters call. Then wait for hunters call to use up all of Sharpening Stones stacks. Then Pop youre Axes Splitblade. By this time, youre second Sharpening Stone from traits should have procced. The tail end of hunters call should use up the second set of sharpening stone stacks. If not, switch to longbow to get rid of your secondary sharpening stone stacks by using rapid fire.

But basically, you should be able to hit 25 stacks of bleed using just the axe/warhorn… all in about 4 seconds.

so basically…. Sharpening Stone>Call of the Wild>Hunters Call>Splitblade = 25 stacks of bleed

Its important to note that Rare Veggie Pizzas are pretty vital to this build, as it extends the duration of your bleeds, allowing more to stack.

This build is a bit of a 1 trick pony, in the sense that, once you blow your combo, you have to wait for all the cooldowns to do it again, and it takes about 30 seconds to recharge… but it is a lot of fun watching theives melt with this build.

Side note: this build is quite good against theives since Hunters call and Rapid fire are both “channeled” attacks, which keep hitting the theif after theyve gone into stealth.

if you have any questions/comments about my build, feel free to ask.

Nothing to see hear folks. Move on.

Ummmm… Ok. Well that comment was kind of pointless…

Filterkat.2143:

This build is a bit of a 1 trick pony, in the sense that, once you blow your combo, you have to wait for all the cooldowns to do it again, and it takes about 30 seconds to recharge… but it is a lot of fun watching theives melt with this build.

This is the reason not many run a build like this. LR won’t keep you alive for 30 secs with rabid gear, and there are a lot of ways to get rid of 1 condition quickly. Trappers are strong as condi builds because they can constantly apply poison and burning as well. There have been bleed builds around for a while, and Xsorus also experimented with the new Sharpened edges trait so we already new you could stack 25 bleed stacks, no offense.

Also want to add, that I have tried longbow with condi builds and it just doesn’t work so well for me. I’ve popped a sup earth sigil in my rabid lonbgow and it was a bit lackluster as a condi weapon to be honest.

fair enough… i know its not an optimal build in any sense… just fun to use once in a while…. i usually run trapper or BM bunker for sPvP or WvW with A/D-S/T, so i know its good to have “blanket” conditions, which this build definately lacks.

This build does lack survivability as well… its kind of a duck in, combo, duck out kind of build. But anyway, theres plenty of “glass cannon” builds out there… some of theme with even longer cooldowns than this one… and people use them. I just thought id share a condition based burst build for a change, since most “burst” or DPS builds focus mainly on power.

It was just something i came up with theorycrafting, and it kind of surprised me that you could actually hit 25 stacks… and at 140 a tick… theres no denying kitten dies fast…

Obviously it’s easily countered by condi removal and reduction food/runes but the build was kind if for the lulz. You’d be surprised how many people you can catch off guard with it.

Yea, been doing this build for a while, I’ve tried it Rabid and it works alright, but I find that like most builds without healing power, I’m probably going to die anyway even with toughness

So I run with Rampager Gear, its glassy as hell, but its 60% crit chance base and I can get the bleeds up even faster cause of the higher crit chance.

Also I tend to go 30/20/20 Mainly cause I like having 1500 Range Longbow for Barrage applying a ton of bleeds.

But yea, you’re right about catching people off guard, I do it all the time..I’ve even beaten a few people in duels who I honestly shouldn’t have because they didn’t expect to have an instant stack of 25 bleeds on themselves

Honestly though, if a bunch of the zerging rangers started running this build It’d get nerfed very quickly.

I’d love to see a 3 Rampager Ranger/2 Spirit Ranger Combo for zerging also…. really make people cry

Xsorus.2507:

Yea, been doing this build for a while, I’ve tried it Rabid and it works alright, but I find that like most builds without healing power, I’m probably going to die anyway even with toughness

So I run with Rampager Gear, its glassy as hell, but its 60% crit chance base and I can get the bleeds up even faster cause of the higher crit chance.

Also I tend to go 30/20/20 Mainly cause I like having 1500 Range Longbow for Barrage applying a ton of bleeds.

But yea, you’re right about catching people off guard, I do it all the time..I’ve even beaten a few people in duels who I honestly shouldn’t have because they didn’t expect to have an instant stack of 25 bleeds on themselves

Honestly though, if a bunch of the zerging rangers started running this build It’d get nerfed very quickly.

I’d love to see a 3 Rampager Ranger/2 Spirit Ranger Combo for zerging also…. really make people cry

lol people already cry when 5 rangers destroy people in tPvP, it’s normally because most our damage comes from auto attacks, so it’s stuff like “Do you even need to play the game to win as a ranger?” and other comments of that nature.

@OP Oh look, it’s that build me and Xsorus were talking about that was all over the place in Beta.

Filterkat.2143:

Ummmm… Ok. Well that comment was kind of pointless…

I know it seems pointless…but I don’t want our bleed capability’s nerfed.