Guild Wars 2

Can some of you please share a good bunker build for ranger. A few guild members and myself are putting together a team for SPvP and I want the bunker build I see all the rangers currently using. Thanks for sharing!

I’m eating Bunker Rangers.

<- Crit Ranger LB/GS

Do you mean spirits? Or is there some other “bunker” build running around that I haven’t seen yet?

Personally for bunkering I’d suggest something along the lines of 0/0/20/20/30 or 0/0/30/10/30 or 0/0/20/30/20

Make sure to take Vigor training and vigorous renewal, I’d wear clerics gear with bears (probably brown and black) or a bear/Moa (any works) while running protect me, Muddy Terrain/LR/QZ(if you’re running GS) and SoR. I’d probably throw on Melandru Runes, with sigils of hydromancy or energy.

For weapons I’d use LB + Axe/Axe or GS or S/D (it comes down to preference really, just stay away from torch and you should be fine).

NOTE: if you’re running bears ALWAYS keep your bear between you and the target, this will effectively negate all ranged damage and can ruin enemy combos. If using Moas learn the Moas healing animation and stay near it when it’s casting the heal, it’s an AoE 3k heal and is not something to be ignored, it’ll use it if you’re in range around 75% health, if it drops to 50% health, or an ally is around 25% health and is in range of the heal.

There are other ways to build bunker too (obviously) this is just my personal favorite way, it makes it very easy to outlast people and wait long enough for help to arrive, also you can very easily cap and decap out from under people due to the KBs from LB (very short CD).

Only real flaw with ranger bunker as a whole is the absolute lack of stability, that’s why I suggest if you’re running bunker to consider RaO, you lose a lot of support from not taking spirit, but 20s of stability isn’t something to turn down easily when you’re a bunker with little to no access to it.

Spirits are the best bunkers for tPvP at the moment. They aren’t pretty, but they’re the best of any class, so use them while you still can. It may be the only time rangers are so absurdly OP in any format.

I combine the perma regen/swiftness shout build with the typical spirit build for a truly broken setup. Use your two favorite spirits, Nature Spirit elite, and “Gaurd!”

Edit: Just to clarify, take the trait that applies regen and swiftness to allies on a shout.

I’d go traps and GS/S+Dagger.

I like Zoids suggestion, but would go SB and S+Dagger. Traps ground targeting and 20% reduct CD. Survival Skills 20% less CD.

I am still a fan of old school beast master with birds. 0/10/30/0/30. Snow owl and hawk. Sb and sword torch. Settlers ammy with runes of the forge. Lots of staying power with that build, and the birds hit like a truck because I believe at least one if not two of their attacks are lunges or leaps.

Trapper or Spirits is the way, the regen bunker and the signet bunkers are strong as well but not as team oriented as the first two. Try them all if you like and see for yourself. If it was up to me I’d go with trapper as long as I am teaming up with someone who can exploit them or add to them somehow (like an ele would), similarly for spirits except I’d probably go with a guardian.

Someone said bunker ranger? Blast waters, perma regen, and basically evade everything tossed at you. I run this and it works quite well and is outside of the box from your typical condi bunker in PvP

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Bunker with Spirits? Hahahah if you want to die of Boredom. Go 10-0-30-0-30 beastmaster, take a dog and spider with the 50% condi duration trait and cripple on f2. For PvP go rabbid and take Shortbow + sword/torch(dagger) or axe/dagger and sword/torch. Destroy everyone.

I’m starting to think the ranger community doesn’t understand what bunker means…. Bunkers are the guys who sit somewhere and don’t die and keep the point as theirs/stop it from becoming enemies, they are NOT someone who “destroys the enemy” or “kills everyone” bunkers typically use Clerics, Settlers, Soldiers etc any gear set with 2 defensive stats and one offensive stat.

A home point defender is someone like a trapper ranger whose job is “kill the roamer super fast.” In which case you want to be tanky enough you’re not gonna die easily, but you still want a lot of damage to kill people essentially you want to be brokenly strong in 1v1 combat and usually not as good in team stuff due to no stun breaks or defensive CDs.