Guild Wars 2

Last night a guildie challenged me to see if I could make a psychotic ranger build on the same level as my builds on other classes. Always being up for a challenge (and knowing that I rip every ranger I see in wvw) I grabbed my little level 13 and hit the mists.

When I made my Guardian, Thief, Necro and Engie builds there were always things in the skills and traits that really caught my eye as being essential to my builds stated goals, generally being very tough while maintaining good dps. I really didn’t get that on the ranger, there seem to be a bunch of “ok” traits and skills and some that seem downright pointless (Circle of life I’m looking at you)

What I ended up making seems….ok but not great. As a whole I don’t get what Anet is trying to do with this class, every thing seems to be rather meh. Ranger does not seem balanced with the other classes when just about everything it has can be done better by another class.

So again hats off to rangers that stick with it, you guys are a tougher breed than I.

For any one interested in what I made up, its not bad its just not as good as it could be. But if I ever get my ranger to 80 I will most likely use some variation of this build.

Gear, I would go AC P/T/V armor, full runes of the soldier, soldier or knights jewelry. Either dual P/T/V great swords or dual zerker great swords both with Superior Sigils of Leeching (best sigil for tough builds in the game imho)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQJARRnAVkFcVQKWgaZgo9QT9HTvCzy9AVjqTVMXN

Oops grabbed the wrong link…fixed now.

that link is to a Theif build…

With the heavy focus on Regeneration, it looks like you made an attrition build. With only 10 in BM.. I’m assuming this is a support build?

I gotta tell you, this is definitely unorthodox and I’ve never seen a build that was made that way until now. With everyone focusing on damage, a support ranger is definitely a welcome sight

What will you this build for, though? PvE, PvP or WvW?

EDIT: Also, thank you for the hat tip, but ranger aren’t really all that bad.

Yes they are, Jubs. Yes they are.

I would use this in WvW and PvE. My guild [FLOT] is quite small so we run as a 3-5 man havoc squad in WvW. We have found that do much more good for our server if we run tough builds with so so damage rather than our zerker spike builds, so this is designed to function as a tough raider.

I think that for a tough build regen is the 1# most important part, I call small rapid heals maintenance heals. When it comes to staying on your feet, big heals with long(ish) CD’s arent gonna keep you going for very long at all. Maintenance heals are why altruistic bunker guardians are so tough, they get regen buff they get there vertue regen and then heal for each boon they apply. On my guard at level 80 that adds up to about 800 hp a second without ever touching 6.

I wouldn’t call it a “support” build, it has team condition removal and the moas have a nice aoe heal but I think all builds should have some team support even if its small. I tried out some dps type builds but none of them felt like they did enough damage to offset the lack of survivability.

I don’t really think ranger is bad, its just……hard to love.