(edited by Viking Jorun.5413)
[Build][tPvP] Regalia's Power BM 0/30/10/0/30
your play isnt bad, but i just dont see how this build is effective. you cant spike anyone, you cant bunk. you couldnt take down a hammer monkey on your own and in team fights your damage output is mediocre at best. the longbow just doesnt feel right, i feel you would benefit by using a GS instead and playing the build kinda like the original cleric bunker.
that being said, survivability isnt too bad and u bring revealed, water field and blast finish for your team.
Pretty solid build overall, my only questions are why would you take Sharpening Stones? You do have condi damage, but sharpening stones isn’t that strong by itself and it’s not like you have sharpened edges or geomancy or any other condi damage to sort of boost it up, wouldn’t it be a much better idea to take either SotW or SotH in order to boost your pets already immense damage when needed and having the passive effect when it’s not?
Also, why take Agility Training? You’re running ravens who will already have 100% swiftness uptime, it just doesn’t seem like a good choice of a trait especially when you could take either companions might for more pet damage or sharpened edges for more condi pressure since you have 67% crit chance or so when you have fury up (which is quite a bit).
@mistsim: you don’t need spike to be useful for the team, what this build has is a lot of survivability due to the evades, healing (thanks celestial + BM), and the stealth + escape while the pet runs around dealing pretty significant chunks of damage. Additionally, the build is hardly unable to deal damage even when it’s just the rangers damage.
One thing you need to keep in mind is that NONE of those hammer warriors were squishy damage hammer warriors, they were all using knights, or soldiers or some other tankier amulet. They barely did any damage and didn’t take very much damage, so the damage done to them has to be looked at with a grain of salt.
EX: Against the thief the bird does ~3.4k damage crits, against the warriors it does ~1.2k damage crits, an absolutely MASSIVE difference.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
If you’re gonna bring an offensive power spec to the team, you absolutely need to be able to spike and preferably roam. If not, then u gotta have high sustain to at least hold home or something. Maybe this is just me, but I think power rangers are basically competing with roamers and tanky hybrids like hambows, something spirit ranger fulfills. I played a cleric bunker for over a year before going wvw fulltime, and I was able to fulfill that role as well. Then ravens hit really hard and no condi meta.
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If you’re gonna bring an offensive power spec to the team, you absolutely need to be able to spike and preferably roam. If not, then u gotta have high sustain to at least hold home or something. Maybe this is just me, but I think power rangers are basically competing with roamers and tanky hybrids like hambows, something spirit ranger fulfills. I played a cleric bunker for over a year before going wvw fulltime, and I was able to fulfill that role as well. Then ravens hit really hard and no condi meta.
The damage of this build is nothing to bat an eye at. As mentioned before, the video unfortunately shows a team of 4 extremely tanky hammer warriors who deal no damage and don’t die, while the fight against the thief didn’t last 30 seconds (including his run time) due to the burst capabilities this build has. Not even a lone thief can take down a hammer monkey in a respectable amount of time.
I don’t like condition builds. In fact, I loath being a part of the problem, so I simply don’t play them, which is a challenge in itself running a ranger. If you’re a zerk ranger, however, you’ll be the focus of any team fight, even higher on the to-kill list than necromancers, which in itself decreases your survivability by a landslide. Playing bunker just isn’t fun either, it’s a personal preference.
I think it’s just my preference that’s to blame. I feel the build is too hybridized and doesn’t excel at any particular thing.
I’ve just started playing a zerker in teamq rank 600 – ish and climbing. It’s not anything like you describe so far. I can dictate range at all times and I never feel focused.
Good stuff, i’ve been running BM for a long time now on my goof around spvp ranger alt (little bro is still lvl2 guess i’ll have to lvl him now).
Im glad they changed stuff around and the pets really feel useful. I run a different set up of this, mostly focusing on me being tanky/evasive while letting the pet bite people in half.
I run 2x cats with 0/2/6/0/6 (or 0/2/0/6/6 whichever has the condition based stuff). Troll ungent is pretty baller at least with running cats. There have been times where i’ve put on the stacking stat buff per kill just cause of how long i can keep one cat alive ( really sucks its just for THAT pet and you lose it on swap).
but yeah anyone ignoring the pet, dies. That is all, they can try coming after me but i run GS/LB as opposed to sword/dagger just cause the block/eagle strike combo has saved my supple ranger body more times than i care to admit to. I’ll probably play around with taking points out of the defensive stuff but i like being able to tank at least a little bit since it helps me duel/roam a lot better (and people tend to ignore the pet and go for me thinking im squishy). I just use soldier amulet as well, will give celest a day in court.
Bout the only criticism i’d shoot you way is the sharpen stones, i just can’t justify that over something like a signet to buff your pet even more for consistent dmg
I think it’s just my preference that’s to blame. I feel the build is too hybridized and doesn’t excel at any particular thing.
I’ve just started playing a zerker in teamq rank 600 – ish and climbing. It’s not anything like you describe so far. I can dictate range at all times and I never feel focused.
Actually, I can vouche 100% that you WILL be focused as soon as the enemy team figures out you’re zerker and is half way decent, the thing is if you build like I do, you’ve got plenty of evades and escape and peel from your team to just decimate them when they try it.
Not to mention worst comes to worst and you can play a thrilling game of “Chase the ranger!!” And lead multiple of their teammates on a goose chase.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
When you enter combat you could take full advantage of your longbow with quickness. Stow pet before combat. Call of the wild > switch to LB > Long range shot (you get quickness for entering combat as it is sort of a pet swap) > after 3 seconds pet swap. You basically have 6 seconds of quickness with LB which is enough time to get off rapid fire and barrage. I wouldn’t start with Hunter’s call. Since you don’t run off-hand training its rather short range and probably not that great damage. You can apply more pressure with LB at the beginning of the fight.
Khert Devileyes – Ranger / Mano Negra – Thief / Nagymbear – Warrior /
Elona Bonechill – Necro / Fionna Gymirdottier – Guard /// RoF
Elona Bonechill – Necro / Fionna Gymirdottier – Guard /// RoF
I ran a build very similar to this by chance today. 0 30 10 30 0 0. Pirate runes and zerker amulet. Won a couple 2v1 that way. I used the quickness sigil on my sword wh. The damage really stacks up with 2 birds hitting them and your auto attack while you have quickness.
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I ran a build very similar to this by chance today. 0 30 10 30 0 0. Pirate runes and zerker amulet. Won a couple 2v1 that way. I used the quickness sigil on my sword wh. The damage really stacks up with 2 birds hitting them and your auto attack while you have quickness.
I’ve always wondered if the bird summoned from pirate runes was on par with the ranger pets. Thanks for the confirmation! ^^
I don’t like condition builds. In fact, I loath being a part of the problem, so I simply don’t play them, which is a challenge in itself running a ranger. If you’re a zerk ranger, however, you’ll be the focus of any team fight, even higher on the to-kill list than necromancers, which in itself decreases your survivability by a landslide. Playing bunker just isn’t fun either, it’s a personal preference.
Glad to hear there’s someone out there with similar mindset! High5 fellow power ranger!
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I don’t like condition builds. In fact, I loath being a part of the problem, so I simply don’t play them, which is a challenge in itself running a ranger. If you’re a zerk ranger, however, you’ll be the focus of any team fight, even higher on the to-kill list than necromancers, which in itself decreases your survivability by a landslide. Playing bunker just isn’t fun either, it’s a personal preference.
Glad to hear there’s someone out there with similar mindset! High5 fellow power ranger!
Well, I look at it this way: Conditions are extremely passive, other than the application, and the fact that you’re able to build both defensively and offensively with Condi specs makes the use of them extremely effective. I’ve never liked having my hand held, and watching condition/tanky specs is more boring than a video where I dance while explaining a build, and doesn’t make for good video quality. Power specs are much more difficult to pull off and require active application in order to succeed, and overall makes for something more tense and exciting to watch, and you as a viewer know exactly what’s going on and how the enemy died. So I suppose, really, it’s not only my personal hate for being a part of the issue, but also me trying to make my channel more exciting in the end. I’ll talk eventually. XD