Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing one for a while now and I’m not doing that bad, I can actually win 1vs1 usually and the skills allow a friend and me to take a camp easier than when I was a SB ranger.

I’m running with the following stats: 2.9k attack, 62% critrate, 3k armor and 15.6k hp (all without any kind of boost) along with a 20/30/20/0/0 build. My damage is still inferior compared to other classes with greatsword, mostly because we lack high burst skills but I was wondering if anyone else runs a similar setup and maybe wants to share their experience around it? Always interested into improving my gameplay.

I do as well. Yea burst is pretty bad but if you stack glass cannon and trait for improved signet of stone, you can usually win most burst matches. Especially against thieves. Guardians are probably the hardest just because they can outlast me.

It’s a bit clunky, but if you turn off auto attack on greatsword, you can time the dodge on the third swing for some nice survivability, especially against monsters. You lose dps of course, on an already really weak weapon, but the dodges are not to be overlooked like that. Against a single monster it basically means you never get hit since you have an evade available every 2 seconds or so.

If you’re skilled enough I’m sure it can apply to pvp as well.

Tho tbh, I wouldn’t mind having the evade removed and getting better damage. Right now ranger greatsword is the weakest melee weapon in the game in terms of dps, even most ranged weapens do more damage.

I use both SB and GS extensively in my build. My spread is 15/20/20/0/15 (3k attack, 50% crit, 2.8k armor, 17k hp unbuffed) because I find the reduced pet swap + 2s of quickness to be invaluable.

I can take one thief without breaking a sweat, and I can outlast guardians by spamming conditions with the SB and traps, then switching to the GS once they’ve exhausted their big defensive skills. It’s an attrition build through and through. You won’t be bursting anyone skilled down in seconds, but you have the tools to drag the fight out long enough that the other guy just doesn’t have anything left to stop you.

People tend to ignore your pet when you’re using melee. You can focus on mitigation and let your pet do the DPS work.

People tend to ignore your pet when you’re using melee.

This is a pretty key point here, when you use swoop and get in tight with people they really are forced to deal with you. Of course the pets are not going to win the day most of the time but it helps. I use the greatsword and as melee and mix and match bows. I fair pretty well against well geared enemy.

Still I only switch to it when necessary as the DPS i can output from my bows is better. While I dont think its instictually wrong to use the GS as a ranger in WvWvW you can be brought down very fast if you into melee, so I attempt to stay ranged.

GS is best weapon for wvw. Swoop and root is masterful, especially when swooping through retaliation field.

Having said that, in organised wvw ranger is a waste of space.

Ranger + GS (pretty much any melee) = Death for Ranger

I love the mobility of our GS over the rest. I can usually run around people all the time.

My experiences: They suck, and I play my other characters in WvW. I kill kitteny players and do mediocre ranged damage with no utility.