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Build question.
I’d ditch empathic bond for either poison master or even barkskin. But any of those 3 is fine, it’s just a personal preference.
Signet of renewal offers a lot to your team and is a stun breaker, so take a look at that in place of SoS too.
I’d ditch empathic bond for either poison master or even barkskin. But any of those 3 is fine, it’s just a personal preference.
Signet of renewal offers a lot to your team and is a stun breaker, so take a look at that in place of SoS too.
Carrion amulet leaves him pretty glassy, SoS puts his armor in a decent place and gives him an emergency “oh kitten” button. Probably wouldn’t hurt to run that until he gets a better feel for the ranger.
@op: You might also want to test out other rune choices. I prefer krait for the condi bomb.
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I’d ditch empathic bond for either poison master or even barkskin. But any of those 3 is fine, it’s just a personal preference.
Signet of renewal offers a lot to your team and is a stun breaker, so take a look at that in place of SoS too.
Carrion amulet leaves him pretty glassy, SoS puts his armor in a decent place and gives him an emergency “oh kitten” button. Probably wouldn’t hurt to run that until he gets a better feel for the ranger.
@op: You might also want to test out other rune choices. I prefer krait for the condi bomb.
This is 95% correct.
… The last 5% are about being glassy… Because having 25K hp cannot really be stated as glassy, since you are practically condi immune.
The problem is lack of Toughness – which is compensated with Signet of Stone. I wouldn’t swap it for the renewal. If I wanted a team support, I’d run spirit build which involves the signet.
Anyways, I did forget about the rune. Rune of the Krait indeed is a very good choice. If you find yourself in a need of extra defense – rune of forge is also a good one.
But yes, Rune of the Krait is Great.
“Observe, learn and counter.”
If I wanted a team support, I’d run spirit build which involves the signet.
It doesn’t need to be all or nothing. Any opportunity to help your team should be at least considered. There aren’t a ton of 1v1s that are settled as 1v1s, so building entirely selfishly isn’t needed or necessarily helpful.
If a necro condi bombs the first team fight, SoR could be the difference between winning and losing the match.
If I wanted a team support, I’d run spirit build which involves the signet.
It doesn’t need to be all or nothing. Any opportunity to help your team should be at least considered. There aren’t a ton of 1v1s that are settled as 1v1s, so building entirely selfishly isn’t needed or necessarily helpful.
If a necro condi bombs the first team fight, SoR could be the difference between winning and losing the match.
The same could be said about Healing Spring.
… Water Field? 6 Condi Clear?
And yet, I seem to be like one of the 5 rangers I see using that heal.
But if I’m supposed to duel and skirmish in a fight – and I build around this purpose – I expect someone else to bring the utility like cleanse.
But then again – I don’t really see a single problem switching one utility ability at the match start when I know what I’m facing.
But as I stated already – if I know that my build has a clear weakness of Power opponents and is practically condition immune already, why would I overkill it that much for another full-cleanse ? That idea is wrong. It doesn’t matter that it also helps my team. If I get myself killed in 2 seconds by a thief or a Mesmer, the team support is zero. You’d help your team much more by getting focused and surviving that, and dealing damage for a longer period of time.
Also, if my team runs no condi cleanse and I’m supposed to do it for them – then my job is to support them up. Which is not the purpose of this build.
If I wanted a skirmisher that gives my team this kind of support – I wouldn’t play ranger. And if I played Ranger – I’d definitely take spirit ranger as I stated already.
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I guess I’m coming from the fact that condi ranger is one of the most survivable builds around, so SoS is a bit overkill. I also would pick rabid or cele over carrion.
At any rate, the OP has seen arguments for both and can consider both.
The rotation always depends on your enemy.
There are some, that you want to pressure.
There are some that you want to “bait out” in terms of blowing their cleanses like Eles, Necros, Warriors.
You’d always like to start with Axe. You chill them down, you throw some bleeds, you kite around. In this mode you are basically burning them down slowly. You can keep your distance and throw some damage in case they get close. Once they get close > You blow “2”, swap to sword > throw Bonfire > and this baits the cooldowns most of the time.
Here is the time to throw your torch “4”, Entangle, apply poison, swap back to axe for the condi bleed bomb and Generosity Sigil.
I often ensure that the enemy blows his cooldowns by pressuring my Pet’s immobilize > swapping to Wolf for fear right after swapping to sword (2 sec immobilize in bonfire is the “OH SNAP” moment that enemies feel). After that, they usually used their evades and clanses – so entangle is pretty much a death sentense.
Of course it doesn’t work like this all the time, and every build / every class has it’s own ways of mitigating your damage… But this should help you with the start.
The standard way is to force their cooldowns – and blow entangle afterwards (for this purpose is Rune of the Krait so great).
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Rabid is better than carrion in my opinion. It helps a lot with the berserker meta, and opens up the awesome on-crit sigils. If you go rabid, you’ll almost certainly want to take the trait sharpened edges instead of keen edge, and signet of renewal to help with the condis.
So in general after hose changes it would be something like this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQRAnY8fjEq0waHLusQ1aADhqdLEsVNrAwd8+CX9FbUVF-TZhHwACOIAAeCAILDM+EAAa/BA
Looks fine. Krait runes will bump up your entangle condi burst, but you won’t reach 100% bleed duration without trying for it. That may or may not be important to you. I don’t even try anymore because the meta is so condi-cleansy.
The condi runes are mostly crap though, pretty much your only other choice is undead. Undead is actually pretty decent, just a little more on the defensive side.
But If im going for Generosity sigil i would need rabid amulet instead of carrion.
Jesus, I meant Geomancy, not Generosity.
kitten man, I’m totally sorry for this. My bad.
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Although his condi removal isn’t very high with his latest set up, so generosity actually make sense. Or sigil of cleansing for more consistency.