Guild Wars 2

Hey Guys,

I was just thinking about the last years Haloween events and labyrinth farm, How do you guys tag mobs and use the best of rangers abilities to farm at these types of events.

Or should i go to my petless ranger guardian with famous farm stick ^^. (I know its ranger forum don’t be mad, its a joke )

For tagging, I’d suggest LB with Lead the Wind + GS. (Don’t forget quick draw)
You’ll be faster than a guardian and you have traps to tag as well.

That’s my opinion, at least.

Double LB Quickdraw Barrage. Barrage on a 8 sec cooldown.

Get in combat -> Swap -> Barrage -> Rapid Fire -> Swap -> Barrage -> RF -> Repeat.

I’d definitely recommend either staff or GS on swap so you can be sure you’re at the front of the pack. It doesn’t hurt they both cleave; you can always swoop maul 5 targets if they’re close.

Ranger LB is the best weapon in the game for tagging in zergs IMO.

I find staff to be the fastest and easiest to tag with tbh.

Staff is far better than longbow for tagging. You’re never routed, your auto attack hits 3 times in just over a second (3 targets) and unlike longbow, your foes don’t have to be in a line to hit them all with piercing. Also it’s better for moving (which you will be doing a lot of in the lab). And against guardian staff, it has double the range.

Lahmia.2193:

Staff is far better than longbow for tagging. You’re never routed, your auto attack hits 3 times in just over a second (3 targets) and unlike longbow, your foes don’t have to be in a line to hit them all with piercing. Also it’s better for moving (which you will be doing a lot of in the lab). And against guardian staff, it has double the range.

When mobs spawn and die in half a second after coming to the virtual world – having a weapon that cannot use sh!¤ without a target doesn’t do wonders. Staff is the best open world tagging weapon but that didn’t work for the event in my case.
Barrage on the spawn point stalls over any other utility (except for traps and melee cleave).

The one downside of staff is the range. A lot of people farm with rangers and enemies can explode before you get into staff range. LB is what, 1800 with the arc?

There is also the minor point that you might not get a tag with the low staff damage.. You can tag a champ with a quick RF; you might not get it with a couple staff autoattacks. Very minor point in zerk gear, but something to think about.

Axe/Torch + Staff. Trap utilities.
Use Torch 5 Bonfire + traps on groups.
Use Axe 1 Ricochet + 2 Splitbladefor casual tagging.
Use Staff 3 for mobility as needed.

It’s not very beneficial for teams but it’ll get you all the credit you need.

something to consider on barrage is it is persistent for quite a duration and will attack on .6sec intervals. Most AoE-DoT, large/long or small/short, are on 1sec intervals. In a many foes popping/many foes dying fast scenario it will give you a new target tag advantage of .4sec over your competition, mathematically anyhow.

thank you all for your answers

UnitedChaos.8364:

Axe/Torch + Staff. Trap utilities.
Use Torch 5 Bonfire + traps on groups.
Use Axe 1 Ricochet + 2 Splitbladefor casual tagging.
Use Staff 3 for mobility as needed.

It’s not very beneficial for teams but it’ll get you all the credit you need.

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I run except I use LB instead of Staff…. but I’ll be giving staff a go this year.