Guild Wars 2

Recently I’ve been working on how I can improve the current Spirit Ranger build, with recent nerfs and a bug fix incoming the Spirit build is more and more becoming only useful in team fights rather then solo.

There are two options you can go with I’ll link the builds below and explain the madness behind them.

Due to a bug I’ve found with 10% bleed duration sigil that isn’t rounding off and giving you extra tick of build which your meant to get. Or I would be running Forge with 10% bleed duration on the SB to give me 4 seconds of bleed on my auto rather then 3 seconds.

Build 1: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlYDbkoqsuryvC0OAsUIYgtHZqJmOFle6B/q9A-TsAgyCuIATBmDMDYSwsgNCZFyeBA (Recommended)

Build 2: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlYDbkoqsuryvC0OAsUIYgtHZqJmOFle6B/q9A-TsAgyCuI2RtjbHzOSYswMCZFyeBA (Recommended for skilled rangers)

I’m not running Nature’s Vengeance.
– Both Sun and Stone Spirit are anti-melee, melee skills have less range then the active on both spirits so you don’t require the extra ranger.
– On Death only effect’s Storm and Nature’s Spirit, but your not taking Storm Spirit anymore so it only effect’s your Elite Nature’s Spirit. Most good teams soon as you activate your Elite will target it and take it down. Very rarely are you going to get the effect from nature’s vengeance trait. It also doesn’t effect the range on your elite’s active skill.

Why 20 points invested into Marksmanship
– The extra 20% duration bonus.
– The extra 200 Power + Carrion gets you total of 1760 Power, now most teams are able to might stack rather easy in team fights, so good chance you will have a 50% up-time on 10-15 might stacks which gives you ruffly 500 more power/condition damage which really boosts up for team fighting power.
– Your never going to miss your target, I got sick of Supply Kit/Spirit’s/Body-blocks from other players getting in the way of me hitting my target, now I no longer need to worry not only do I hit my target but I hit everything in the way. I now stack bleeds with NO CD on every target I hit, E.g. my target is Spirit Ranger sitting behind a Warrior/Guardian + Spirit’s and a Supply Drop, more then 60% of my Auto Attacks will miss due to body-blocks. So do the maths I now hit everything in the way stacking bleeds + high base damage while stilling hitting my target. This makes up for loss of Storm Spirit.

Why Leeching Sigil’s.
– Your going to spend 80% of your time in SB, so when you need to heal up or add team support heals via Healing Spring, you can weapon swap get the extra heal from leeching + blast finisher + leap finisher and when your done swap back to your SB and get a extra heal again, and back to your SB Spam.

Why War-Horn.
– Many, well almost all Spirit Rangers use the Sword/Dagger combo which is very selfish and isn’t going to support your team to well.
– Fury/Swiftness/Might + Blast finisher is 10x better then your current dagger offhand, your a Spirit Ranger so team support is your roll so don’t kid yourself and think EXTRA dodge from dagger is going to save your kitten when your getting spiked.

I’ve been running this build allot in both Solo Que and Team Que and had great returns, vs other Spirit Rangers I’m winning almost every single fight due to simple fact I don’t miss my target no more body-blocks from pet’s or spirits I’m getting my 8-10 stacks of bleed on my target without a problem mean while taking down there pet’s.

I’m having allot easier time vs Engineers well ones that don’t run AR, no more Supply drop getting in my way.

I wasn’t going to share this build, I feel the current PvP scene is DEAD so theirs no point holding onto builds anymore.

Many say Spirit Ranger is brain dead build I believe its only brain dead in the wrong hands, there is allot going on like Pet Control timing of your interrupt when to use your cripple whom to apply poison to and when, timing is everything rotations are key. Also spirit active skill which every player that doesn’t play ranger seems to forget.

So that’s my build in a nut-shell rest is up to you in terms of tactics if the build isn’t for you or you don’t see the logic in my build, well frankly I don’t care. I’m open to improvement’s but until new Rune/Sigil balance comes out isn’t much you can do.

Hope you Enjoy, I call the build Saizo Sol’s DP Build.

Good to hear mate, I try to keep posting builds I find along the way.

I’ve just been running Forge Setup, waiting to see what bug fixes and changes will come down the track.

I can’t wait to see what Forge has become and what happened to Sigils, might end up having rather deadly build.

Not sure about warhorn. I’d run torch for perma burn. Piercing is interesting. I will have to look into that.

I think too that Spirit Ranger is in a good place right now..

I really hope that they will do the same with Empathetic bond as they did with Spirits unbound..

Both builds look solid. Offsetting the extra pet damage by taking 20 points and putting them into Marksmanship, a nice touch. Especially with Piercing Arrows and all those MM Necros and other various AI builds out there.

I like this build very much and I am a big fan of Piercing Arrows. People underestimate how potent it can be. Sun spirit – chance to burn every target the arrow passes through. You can spread poison to multiple opponents with SB#2 and SB#3-5 are automatic physical projectiles: get in a field, and proc a combo.

I’m going to try this out in some pick-up groups and play around.

Thank you for posting.

Piercing Arrows has become my new best friend.

But please remember this isn’t your 1v1 Spirit Ranger build, if you wanted that go run hybrid 0/0/30/20/20 with Spirit/BM Spec.

This build is my personal Team fighting spec and it’s been rocking. I would record me playing spirit ranger but its rather boring.