Experienced PvE Rangers!
(edited by TurtleDragon.3108)
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Ziggs Ironeye – Engineer | Madame Le Blanc – Mesmer | Mentor (PvE) | EU
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBMhF6koiqKjswKIWLDELF7Z/cGHKReGl6UZ8TJyeA-jwBBYfERjkfgUBDRLzsIasFXFRjVXDT5iIqGA-e
or
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84268-the-perfect-dps-ranger-guide-for-real/You’ll need to change your weapons, utilities and even your pets for the content you are doing. There are times and places where it’s appropriate to use a Longbow, but usually never when you’re stacking (because why use a ranged weapon when you’re in melee range anyways. Since ranged weapons are almost universally across the board lower damage and don’t cleave which makes them bad for trash). Sword will take a while to get used to, as it has a steep learning curve. GS is fine when you’re still learning how to melee encounters. Pure sword > pure GS > pure LB should be your priority when picking weapons.
If you want to be the most useful you can be to your party follow this. I use the 20/25/0/25/0 exclusively outside of Wvw/Spvp (mostly cos im lazy lol) and only change a few traits and utilities here and there. For instance on the marionette lanes i would switch sic’em for muddy terrain to use on the spawning champs.
One thing i will mention is the pets. In the 20/25/0/25/0 build posted you will notice that there is the jaguar and river drake. The jaguar is excellent as it’s F2 attack stealths (deagro when health low) but also provides higher DPS and autocrits for the duration. The river drake’s F2 ability hits like a truck AND bounces around targets, this is excellent for groups of mobs like trash etc, it also has a blast finisher with its tail swipe (also hits hard) so its good in the stack.
However, depending on your party make up you may want to consider 1 or 2 other pets. This will depend on how well you know other classes and their builds as you may notice that your party is lacking in important (dps wise) boons such as fury or might. The stalker’s F2 ability grants 5 stacks of might which synergize well with the build, general DPS wise its the same as the jaguar hence why alot of people run the 2 cats. The Moa provides Fury from its F2 and this may be necessary when your not using horn or its party wide lacking.
So this is why people dislike the “bearbow” gameplay as not only is the weapon lacking in this type of content but also the pet and it’s F2 abilities.
Just remember, hater’s gonna hate…but they also gonna kick
Neo pretty much thinks the same as me about the ranger and his pets. I just don’t like the river drake … it’s so ugly
too ugly to be used xD I guess the other aoe drake (swamp thing however it’s called xD) is pretty much the same damage wise :P Oh yea, and I use the cave spider for ranged dps with weakness + vulnerability.
But seriously everyone, how do you keep the cats alive? AoE fields, getting aggroes often, places like TA (blossoms), fotm where they get almost instant oneshotted by some attacks. The terrible thing is that F3 doesnt seem to work fast enough, aswell the stupid pet is allways staying too far away from you. I want it right next to me
Ziggs Ironeye – Engineer | Madame Le Blanc – Mesmer | Mentor (PvE) | EU
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
Main: Warrior|Character counter: 16
(edited by RSLongK.8961)
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBMhF6koiqKjswKIWLDELF7Z/cGHKReGl6UZ8TJyeA-jwBBYfERjkfgUBDRLzsIasFXFRjVXDT5iIqGA-e
or
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84268-the-perfect-dps-ranger-guide-for-real/You’ll need to change your weapons, utilities and even your pets for the content you are doing. There are times and places where it’s appropriate to use a Longbow, but usually never when you’re stacking (because why use a ranged weapon when you’re in melee range anyways. Since ranged weapons are almost universally across the board lower damage and don’t cleave which makes them bad for trash). Sword will take a while to get used to, as it has a steep learning curve. GS is fine when you’re still learning how to melee encounters. Pure sword > pure GS > pure LB should be your priority when picking weapons.
If you want to be the most useful you can be to your party follow this. I use the 20/25/0/25/0 exclusively outside of Wvw/Spvp (mostly cos im lazy lol) and only change a few traits and utilities here and there. For instance on the marionette lanes i would switch sic’em for muddy terrain to use on the spawning champs.
One thing i will mention is the pets. In the 20/25/0/25/0 build posted you will notice that there is the jaguar and river drake. The jaguar is excellent as it’s F2 attack stealths (deagro when health low) but also provides higher DPS and autocrits for the duration. The river drake’s F2 ability hits like a truck AND bounces around targets, this is excellent for groups of mobs like trash etc, it also has a blast finisher with its tail swipe (also hits hard) so its good in the stack.
However, depending on your party make up you may want to consider 1 or 2 other pets. This will depend on how well you know other classes and their builds as you may notice that your party is lacking in important (dps wise) boons such as fury or might. The stalker’s F2 ability grants 5 stacks of might which synergize well with the build, general DPS wise its the same as the jaguar hence why alot of people run the 2 cats. The Moa provides Fury from its F2 and this may be necessary when your not using horn or its party wide lacking.
So this is why people dislike the “bearbow” gameplay as not only is the weapon lacking in this type of content but also the pet and it’s F2 abilities.
Just remember, hater’s gonna hate…but they also gonna kick
The build I linked is what I use in guild speed clears, where might/fury is never an issue and I just blast my WH in a fire field while stacking might. I use the Jungle Stalker instead of Jaguar in PUGs and I use Ice drake/Red Moa instead of river drake as the swap pet.
This is the basic pet guide I’ve posted a few times here.
Jaguar:Use for single target fights
River Drake: Use for trash and multi target fights or for blast finisher. Use ice/marsh/salamander drakes if you want chilled/poison/burning
Jungle Stalker: Use for single target fights and when your party is not reaching 25 might stacks
Red Moa: Use for singlet target and when your party doesn’t have perma fury for some reason
Birds do identical DPS to felines if you prefer those.
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBMhF6koiqKjswKIWLDELF7Z/cGHKReGl6UZ8TJyeA-jwBBYfERjkfgUBDRLzsIasFXFRjVXDT5iIqGA-e
or
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84268-the-perfect-dps-ranger-guide-for-real/You’ll need to change your weapons, utilities and even your pets for the content you are doing. There are times and places where it’s appropriate to use a Longbow, but usually never when you’re stacking (because why use a ranged weapon when you’re in melee range anyways. Since ranged weapons are almost universally across the board lower damage and don’t cleave which makes them bad for trash). Sword will take a while to get used to, as it has a steep learning curve. GS is fine when you’re still learning how to melee encounters. Pure sword > pure GS > pure LB should be your priority when picking weapons.
If you want to be the most useful you can be to your party follow this. I use the 20/25/0/25/0 exclusively outside of Wvw/Spvp (mostly cos im lazy lol) and only change a few traits and utilities here and there. For instance on the marionette lanes i would switch sic’em for muddy terrain to use on the spawning champs.
One thing i will mention is the pets. In the 20/25/0/25/0 build posted you will notice that there is the jaguar and river drake. The jaguar is excellent as it’s F2 attack stealths (deagro when health low) but also provides higher DPS and autocrits for the duration. The river drake’s F2 ability hits like a truck AND bounces around targets, this is excellent for groups of mobs like trash etc, it also has a blast finisher with its tail swipe (also hits hard) so its good in the stack.
However, depending on your party make up you may want to consider 1 or 2 other pets. This will depend on how well you know other classes and their builds as you may notice that your party is lacking in important (dps wise) boons such as fury or might. The stalker’s F2 ability grants 5 stacks of might which synergize well with the build, general DPS wise its the same as the jaguar hence why alot of people run the 2 cats. The Moa provides Fury from its F2 and this may be necessary when your not using horn or its party wide lacking.
So this is why people dislike the “bearbow” gameplay as not only is the weapon lacking in this type of content but also the pet and it’s F2 abilities.
Just remember, hater’s gonna hate…but they also gonna kick
Yeah ive always used the jungle stalker for its buffs, but I didnt know about how good the jaguar was. Im gonna try using that in my rotation.
(edited by Chokolata.1870)
(edited by TurtleDragon.3108)