Guild Wars 2

Here’s a pretty fun, but admittedly rather gimmicky Ranger PVP set up I’ve been toying with. The main goal is to let the pet get off some rather sick damage while staying alive. I’ve landed pet crits as high as 9.7k usually in chains for 4-5 other hits between 3-7k. It’s very fun and does well in 1v1.

The build is:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlOD7koiqgzCSxCWLDEtHaSSYiV4QvHtaWtPl9kj3gA-TsAgzCtIuRdj7GzNybs3M+Y9xuAA
(copy paste into bar if it dosn’t work.)

Basically, you have a decent amount of vigor, dodge and healing power to keep yourself alive, and your pet’s damage is constantly rather high. You will want to get to a point in the fight for a final take down and this is where you will do a large amount of damage all at once.

Pets: Jaguar (main), Other cat as off-pet, I use snow leopard to chill, allowing max pet up-time.

Combo: Use Short bow (for fast attacks) After using Rampage as One,
Try to wait a few hits before activating:
Signet of the Wild, then immediately Jaguar Stealth (Making his next attacks for 6 seconds automatically crit) Then finish the combo with Sic Em. Total this is about a 60-65% increase in pet damage, auto crits and anywhere from 5-19 stacks of might on your jaguar, and they will land some very hard hits from a stealthed source with stability, and will generally be very caught off guard.

Warning: Sic Em is currently buggy/stupid and will turn off upon loss of target (including stealth) therefore the main burst is harder to pull off and is generally less effective versus thieves and mesmers, but I’ve still had good luck fighting them.

I’m not saying its an “OMG” build, but it’s pretty fun, and Yes I realize the similarity of it to the main Bunker Ranger build.

Good to know I’m not the only one to takes advantage of this. Btw what got nerfed? The wallclimb bug?

RaO + Hunters Call is 17 stacks of might. Faster than the shortbow can stack it for your pet. RaO + Barrage on 2 targets is 24 stacks of might.

I haven’t tested it but Splitblade should grant might for each hit, so that would be an instant 5 stacks if you can land it.

It is amazing how hard we can make our pets hit. Balancing pet dmg Vs. player dmg must be a nightmare for devs when you can run builds like this.

Yeah, no doubt. :S I’ll have to test what you said. I don’t really play ranger, i just wanted to try this, but it worked out better than expected.

Edit: Scratch this, I didn’t realize hunter’s call went away upon changing weapons even though it’s not channeled damage.

Yep, that’s pretty insane. So, instead: Use hunter’s call and a few auto attacks and half the time or less you can build more stacks faster. One test after getting it to work properly, I landed this in under 4 seconds with a 5k (well overkill) shot landing directly after.

haha yeah. Add a hilt bash for the extra pet buff and you pretty much leave only 2 options for your opponent. Die. Or, burn their defensive cooldowns leaving you with superior footing for the rest of the fight.

I have a screenie of it, just last night I hit a 10.7k with hiltbash timing just right with the pets special.