Guild Wars 2

i main a wonderfull and completely awesome melee power druid i spec with a bit more support type options in group pve, and so far in t3 fractals i sometimes get to be the carry imo:( Working on getting my ascended stuff for t4 tho ( im pretty close yey! )
As far as ive seen from raiders doing rotations on the dummy, its basically two skills of longbow – 2 and 5 – that get used, than immediate switch to sword warhorn, which is my second weapon set as well.
i really love my melee druid and would like to raid with him as it is if possible. i still have the glyphs/spirits that increase damage, and im not really sure that longbow 2 and 5 would be better dps overall than the 3 quick maul combo (using sigil of inteligence btw) and switch to sword. Could any experienced ranger test this on the dummy for me? im afraid id screw it up and get the wrong ideea about the dps.

yes… i have a GS fetish.. almost every single thing i play in mmos has one.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNBhYD7kSFoXQsVFwmVgrFswIYM+WBgHlgUHsraWtEhPG-TBRXABAo8r09HmRJYsq/AA-e this is what i use now for fractals and dungeons, but if get a team that wont break breakbars i switch to nature magic instead of skirmish and go full shouts and equality glyph so they stay alive more.

id really love any inputs you guyz might have on this #plstellmemeleerangerisviable

Do people use power DPS druids for raiding? I don’t know if you’d get into a PUG.

well, there is a dps/support power build on the sacred site of metabattle, or as i call it the hopes and dreams shredder.. so i cant imagine why they wouldnt let them in even if condi is better. im gonna get my full ascended and crap so.. one can only hope i guess:( but im still interested if my gs variant would be on par with longbow

There is a power druid build that makes use of sword/axe + greatsword to pull about 15-17k DPS (Video here). It’s only slightly behind the sword/axe + longbow or sword/warhorn + sword/axe variants.

Some quick feedback your build in raids:

• You’ll most likely want an axe instead of warhorn, as it brings quite a bit more damage and utility.
• You just want full Berserker’s stats for power Druid, ranger is pretty tanky already so you don’t really need any extra vitality.
• Scholar runes are great for power druid, you can run Monk runes too if you want more healing.
• Just take sigils of force/air on your greatsword for raids, you should be at 100% crit chance anyway so the sigil of intelligence won’t do anything.
• Marksmanship is a far better traitline for power-druid than beastmastery as it has +25% damage in modifiers.
• Ideally you want as many glyphs as possible, so this means taking both the elite and healing glyph. This is to keep GoTL (Grace of the land) stacks high when out of your avatar.

I’m not going to sugarcoat it though, right now it will be extremely difficult to run this build as PUGs generally look for a full healer (w/ Staff), and organised groups will generally only want the condition build. Here’s hoping the next balance patch will bring some much needed buffs for power-druid.

I use LB/GS on my power ranger and find it to be a handy mix of ranged and melee.

thnx a lot for the replies! yeah.. 17k is a bit low:( but at least i know that as power im not screwing up dps wise by not using a bow.
think ill keep my ranger for fractals and dungeons and use my warrior for raiding. not planning on changing all my zerk gear for healing or vipers (which also costs like triple, and im leather too so… double triple:( )
Anyhow, thanx for all the input guys, really appreciate it!

Polabare.4183:

thnx a lot for the replies! yeah.. 17k is a bit low:( but at least i know that as power im not screwing up dps wise by not using a bow.
think ill keep my ranger for fractals and dungeons and use my warrior for raiding. not planning on changing all my zerk gear for healing or vipers (which also costs like triple, and im leather too so… double triple:( )
Anyhow, thanx for all the input guys, really appreciate it!

Unfortunately it doesn’t involve a greatsword, but if you really really want to raid on Druid, a super cheap option is just getting some exotic Magi’s armour from the AC dungeon (Comes with free Monk runes), which you can then use to play a healer.

Nobody really minds if the healer plays using exotics, since healing power matters so little overall compared to just getting enough +10% healing effects.

as someone who has mained druid with bow staff since hot released i have never lost a 1v1, and own 4v1 often in wvw. I can say ive tested all weapons bar ax and short bow and staff bow is the way to go, only way mellee weapons are better is for escaping, but whenyou practice the invis and super speed is enough. Feel fre to messege me in game for duels if you wish me to show you.

You won’t get into a raid with a power ranger

Trepidation Lost.3469:

as someone who has mained druid with bow staff since hot released i have never lost a 1v1, and own 4v1 often in wvw. I can say ive tested all weapons bar ax and short bow and staff bow is the way to go, only way mellee weapons are better is for escaping, but whenyou practice the invis and super speed is enough. Feel fre to messege me in game for duels if you wish me to show you.

Do you have your build posted somewhere? I’d love to try it.