Guild Wars 2

Hi guise, my name is Pony Pony Run Run, been playing thief since release but since the 15/4 i lost all my lust to play it so i decided to reroll, and my first choice was the so supposed underdog the ranger!

After a lot of evolving from a pretty standard build i decided to give a try to shouts, and the result is amazing.

This is the build.

Eternal BeastMaster

So this build is about keeping 100% regen uptime, paired with Signet of the wild and alot of dodges. Bunker your enemies with a regeneration of 400/sec while your TWO pets completly wreck your enemies faces, your cond damage is crazy strong also. Plus you are pretty much inmune to conditions. You’ve got everything pretty much, dodges, condition damage, direct damage, tankyness and healing.

This can be the strongest 1v1 build i ever played. There is no way any kind of melee player kills you, they will never go through the regen paired with Troll unguent. As far as builds go there is only one or two real counter to that build and it’s phantasm mesmers and condiload Necro, you don’t have enough Aoe to be able to get rid to all those phantasms and necro will just kite yyou forver while spamming his kitten.

Let’s go really fast through all the elements in this build.

Weapons:

• Axe/Dagger = strong soft CC and good condition damage, extra dodge on #4
• Sword/Torch = Good access to burning and 2 dodges.

A lot of people choose S/D A/T over this setup but i feel like its better to have 1 skill dodge on every set that rather focusing 2 (or 3) dodges in only one set. Plus S/T makes Leaping into firefield alot more viable.

Sigils:

• Geomancy and Hydro: Geomancy for the extra bleeds and Hydro because combining Weapon swap with pet swap will let your pets get some free attacks.

Gear:

• Settlers Amulet: All you need, highest toughness, Healing power and Condition damage. Really stronk.

Runes:

• Rune of the privateer: The #6 parrot is really strong, AA damage ranges from 1,4k to 2,5k and its pretty sturdy which means you’ll have almost 100% uptime on it. The pressure applied by two pets is just insane.

Traits:

• Wilderness Survival: Pretty standard traits here.

• Nature Magic: Protecion when hit negates burst, Vigorous spirits helps you Renewal spirit not get instamelted (this trait is really optional) and The core of this build, Nature’s Voice which paired with guard will grant perma regen and perma swiftness to you and your allies (including the tropical bird).

• Beast Mastery: Shout cd, plain simple. Feel free to use this 10 points into another line if you think it works better for you, you have good options like sharpening stones in marksman or Pet Crt dmg in Skirm!

That’s pretty much all, crazy strong build, pretty sure some people are already running it and it isn’t something that new but i haven’t seen it posted anywhere!

Lots of my guildies and people i dueled are already running it and all the feedback is more than positive! so feel free to give it a try and give some feedback!

Keep it clean tho

Cheers :P

I run a similar build in WvW roaming, and it’s really strong 1v1 and 1v2. Never tried it in PvP though.

Works crazy good in pvp too, you are able to bunker points like a baws, thieves/warriors/necros anything will not ven scratch you while your pets and conditions melt them away, you can either play really agresive or be super pasive!

My guildie runs a build similar to this, he uses dwayna runes atm tho. The main problem he has is immobilise in group fights, 1v1 he’s very hard to bring down. Thanks for pointing out the runes, I’m sure he’d be interested in that (as am I) ^^

How do you remove conditions with this build?

Snorcha.7586:

How do you remove conditions with this build?

Empathic bond :P

You think sic em helps your damage that much for a 10 second skill? …it helps the parrot?
I just have a problem wasting part of it’s traited benefit.

You could also run runes for condition remove on shouts. That would be more passive, but better against condi builds.

Oak da Vite.9054:

You could also run runes for condition remove on shouts. That would be more passive, but better against condi builds.

Alternatively, HS over TU. With so much healing power, HS gives as much HP/sec as TU (cooldown time included), and it removes condis. And if you leap through it, then it beats TU. http://i.imgur.com/hFxaCeB.jpg

This build looks fun!

Shouts sux for me, you cannot get anything down in spvp.

poor to see that a thief sees the big potential of shout ranger and the most ranger not

nevertheless its after Beastmaster the most bunker build for ranger and not really viable, for tanking in pvp possible good, as BPD, but as midnight said, its hard to get someone fast enough down to be helpful for the Group, thats my opinion.
nevertheless a nice build, thanks that someone understands that one evade on each set is smarter then two on just one set

Going to give this a try tonight, with a few minor modifications. Will see how it goes. Usually play a more aggressive, selfish trap build over a spirit ranger. Will post some results, not sure if I will enjoy it.

I tried this build today. It was okay at first, then I hit a wall.

I don’t know how to deal with hambow warriors. They forever chain me with their CCs and I can’t get out of their megacircle fire of doom. With all the knockdowns, my pets couldn’t get in and do their stuff either. And scratching the warrior was impossible. Any advice?

Shout regen ranger isn’t anything new. Regen only works well against people who lack abilities to spam poison and/or stuns/cc

SafiMoyo.5130:

I tried this build today. It was okay at first, then I hit a wall.

I don’t know how to deal with hambow warriors. They forever chain me with their CCs and I can’t get out of their megacircle fire of doom. With all the knockdowns, my pets couldn’t get in and do their stuff either. And scratching the warrior was impossible. Any advice?

The simple answer is sword #3 and dagger #4. You have poison on each weapon set. Apply it at the beginning and the poison will eat the warriors healing. His first condiremove is his hammer CC or the megacircle fire of doom. Load him up with conditions, and he will die. Watch out for berserker stance (if he uses it, play defensivly and dogde a alot, untill its duration is over)

Greetings juston

And the most important thing is: dodge earthshaker (the stunning hammer jump)

SafiMoyo.5130:

I tried this build today. It was okay at first, then I hit a wall.

I don’t know how to deal with hambow warriors. They forever chain me with their CCs and I can’t get out of their megacircle fire of doom. With all the knockdowns, my pets couldn’t get in and do their stuff either. And scratching the warrior was impossible. Any advice?

To be honest i feel like this build counters Hambow pretty hard, i never had any problems with them, will try to record some fights and see if you can figure out something :P

MidnightX.6294:

Shouts sux for me, you cannot get anything down in spvp.

To be honest all depends on how agresive you play, Condi burst + weapons swap + weapon swap + f2 deals a lot of damage on demand (if the pet feels like attacking lmao)

Sons, can you say something about your pets choices. Why for example owl instead of wolf?

Schmir Noff.7953:

Sons, can you say something about your pets choices. Why for example owl instead of wolf?

I use Owl exclusively. The reason I would take it over Wolf is for the extra 60%+ damage or so along with the 3.25 second chill every 20 seconds and the 14.5 seconds of AOE swiftness to allies in a 1200 range. That, and it compliments my tourny build perfectly.

Is it better than Wolf? That’s up to you to decide. It comes down to whats needed. CC and decent damage? Or, little CC and lots of damage.

Schmir Noff.7953:

Sons, can you say something about your pets choices. Why for example owl instead of wolf?

I choose owl because it has the best dps and is the burstiest of all the pets (is that even a word?) 3s chill on demand is great, the only problem i can see with birds is that sometimes their attack speed is a problem against highly movile enemies.

On swap i use jaguar, why? Stealth is great for undetected damage, and i can Owl f2 and weapons swap for 5 secs chill then swap to Jaguar which is a feline those having the biggest dps (overall, a lucky crit on a canine will do more dmg). Plus felines work fairly good, good atack speed and steady dps!

I tired others, kyrtan drakehound being my second favourite for the Aoe root, which really helps landing some skills ( could go spider too but spider dps is meh).

Wolf is cool too, but again i dont need the fear all that much.

Birds are bursty, but cats have higher dps than birds.