Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been thinking of starting playing my ranger again. Atm I have lvl 80 mesmer and lvl 80 engineer. Recently I started playing thief, witch I think is lots of fun, but I feel that the only place I would wanna bring it is sPvp/tPvp or small scale WvW. So although I wanted to level my theif I decided I don’t want to use it in regular PvE game play.

One of the main reasons why I decided to starting playing ranger again is cause I want the legendary longbow (among all the legendaries it is the one I like the most!) and that doesn’t leave me with many other class options (I don’t want to play warrior).

Don’t get me wrong, Kudzu is not the only reason why I’m getting back to my ranger. I do enjoy playing it, but the reason I stopped in the first place (I only got it to lvl 42 though) is that the class felt sort of… inferior to other classes in PvP and PvE/Dungeons. Still I’m willing to give my ranger an other chance cause I feel like I would have lots of fun with it (I just love playing with bows).

So I’m looking for a dps Longbow build (shortbow as secondary weapon, or possibly 1h sword/greatsword) that would fit well in dungeons/fractals and WvW. I really don’t want to run a condition/trapper build outside spvp cause that’s what I’m playing in spvp now and I want to have the fun with Longbow that I feel is limited inside sPvp.

I wonder if Longbow berserker build (maybe mixed with some valk and knight trinkets) is viable in Dungeons and especially fractials.. Cause from what I hear people really hate the longbows for some reason =/

Hello, I’ m one of those people that dislike Longbow, but I have nothing against others using one. I’d really want to hear a lb build that out-dps’ sb from a pro (seriously, I do, not sarcastic or anything, if it might look like it).

For Fractals, full Berserker build works fine. I’m currently at lvl 27, and even with some survival stats you will die easily. So go glasscannon and do all the dmg you can before dying. Seriously now, it’s actually easy to survive in Fractals lvls 1-22-ish even with glasscannon (well maybe not melee players, but we’re rangers and we can survive! Just stick with a bow and if you want, you can go melee, if you know you will survive that foe). Just remember to get AR for lvls20+.