Guild Wars 2

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so this is what I’ve been using lately. I was bored and looking for something different and it’s been surprisingly successful. Your goal is to play smart and daze often.

There are a few synergies here. You have reduced cooldowns on both weapons so you can daze more often. The asura racial here actually triggers the GM skirmishing trait which is nice. I sometimes swap out the last BM trait for the pet specific ones; if I’m in a group I’ll bring some moas, you can give your party a huge vigor uptime with them. Solo I’ll sometimes use the spider/dog one with a cave spider and a wolf or fern hound, but you can easily use whatever pets you want.

Feels food to swoop on in, hilt bash someone and follow up with a massive maul. My only gripe is that the attack of opportunity granted by moment of clarity can easily be lost with the sb, it’d be nice if the effect lasted for 3 or so attacks or something. Your pet will always make use of it though. As should generally be the case with any ranger build, you’ll be hard to kill.

Anyways, maybe someone else will find this interesting. If you do try it, let me know what you think. Peace

As far as ranger Burst options go (pvp wise) I think Moment of Clarity wins. It offers a 150% boost to dmg for an attack, and it’s triggered off of short cooldowns. If you miss this burst you also aren’t entirely screwed.

I’ve personally been running with it in pvp, using sb and gs. I go for 0/30/30/10/0 with berserker ammy/jewel and runes of divinity. The sb is a bit disappointing in that you don’t have a big hitting ability on the weapons to use after your stun. Thats why I try and have my raven out to hit my opponent with the f2 while they are dazed.

Xsorus, I’ve learned quite a bit about the class from watching your videos. I actually run those same stats for pve/dungeons. I’m gonna give your version of daze build a try later tonight.

Probably works a bit better since last patch now that Maul got a buff in damage. that was pre that basically.

@Xsorus; I guess my build wasn’t so special after all haha. Never seen your vids before, great minds think alike

Unfortunately I don’t think this build works well without technobabble, otherwise I might try it myself (Sylvari).

I play Moment of Clarity since quite a while now and I like it. It isn’t like super strong because we just have 2 interrupts no matter what weapons we go for (+1 asura racial, I am human though…). It would become significantly better if we one day would get more interrupts like an utility skill or changes to a weapon.

Best case scenario you interrupt their heal and Maul them for like 5k damage. I love when this happens but it is rather hard to pull off. I love the idea of an interrupts based class. Generally it goes nicely with a BM spec so you can have a lot of fun with it, you just can’t count on it. It’s not that 30 into Skirmishing would be wasted stats.

I play a simular build on my Sylvari. It does look nice to have that extra interupt I must say, but it works fine without. I usually use signet of renewal or the grasping vines (the sylvari racial skill) in its place, both of which are very handy.

This is about to get a lot better if you can actually get the moa to successfuly daze post patch.

Chopps.5047:

This is about to get a lot better if you can actually get the moa to successfuly daze post patch.

Doesn’t work for Moment of Clarity and also wont be influenced by + daze duration. You thought there would be synergies? Hah!

I don’t know about all that, all I know is that dazing with a moa--right now--is next to impossible to consistently pull off.

Dojo.1867:

Chopps.5047:

This is about to get a lot better if you can actually get the moa to successfuly daze post patch.

Doesn’t work for Moment of Clarity and also wont be influenced by + daze duration. You thought there would be synergies? Hah!

What Dojo said.

Yea, you can daze with Moa after the patch better it’ll be interesting.

I might make another technobabble video after the patch if I see some improvement to it.

It wasn’t anywhere as powerful as BM bunker.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Dojo.1867:

Chopps.5047:

This is about to get a lot better if you can actually get the moa to successfuly daze post patch.

Doesn’t work for Moment of Clarity and also wont be influenced by + daze duration. You thought there would be synergies? Hah!

What Dojo said.

Ok, someone is running CC for their wvw team—running a daze build—but, apparently, dazing with Moa is a bad idea. Got it. Anything else I should take notes on?

Chopps.5047:

OGDeadHead.8326:

Dojo.1867:

Chopps.5047:

This is about to get a lot better if you can actually get the moa to successfuly daze post patch.

Doesn’t work for Moment of Clarity and also wont be influenced by + daze duration. You thought there would be synergies? Hah!

What Dojo said.

Ok, someone is running CC for their wvw team—running a daze build—but, apparently, dazing with Moa is a bad idea. Got it. Anything else I should take notes on?

All he’s saying is that the Moa daze won’t be affected by the duration increase from MoC, no need to get all prickly about it. Pet conditions are never affected by the ranger’s condition modifiers, unless they’re boons and you have Fortifying bond.

Hi, I have a question about Moment of Clarity.

Due to the unpredictability of the cast time of the F2 skill (I know the channeling times it’s just that sometimes they’re on queue or something), I thought maybe I’ll press F2 just before I daze, so the F2 attack will land right after the daze. Will that attack gain the damage boost provided by the trait?

I have been leveling up a Ranger the past two weeks, and decided to try this Ranger species (I hate mainstream class builds, just like how I hate oft-played Chess Openings).