Guild Wars 2

I need a little help. I’m always giving advice and I have 3 other sets of gear on my ranger but having trouble for this 4th set and goal.

Somehow during the update to runes of strength, they also stealth nerfed runes of rage. It’s damage also went from 7% to 5%. This kittened me off. The damage drop was noticeable. I have enough furry anyway and I was using it more for the Damage.

It puts me back to square 2 on my knights WvW build I love.

Here is the base of the build. Traits and weapons non-negotiable

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I need some help figuring out Pets, My 3rd utility slot, and runes (since my set got Nerf, I would love it if the runes wern’t super expensive) Gear while negotiable I would prefer to leave alone because I have it already.

Anyone have ideas? Goal is 10-15 man wvw squad

To be honest I don’t really see where you noticed a 2% damage reduction looking at your build. If you hit with 1k-ish auto attacks with your sword thats 20-40 points of damage.

As for your build I’d only put 2 into Marksmanship. Since you have a nice crit chance and you have 15 points into Nature magic I’d put those 2 points into skirmishing. Thats some more precision, 10% crit damage, and you could take Companion’s might. Swap out sigil of force for sigil of strength for on crit might. Get food with on crit might and you will give some pretty darn good might to your pet.

If you’re happy with the amount of condi cleanse you have I’d go with quickening zephir, sic’em or signet of the hunt. If you have enough money for it I’d go for runes of speed, helps a lot with roaming in wvw.

For pets you can take a variety as you need. River drake for camps, wolf is pretty useful, but you could take felines or birds as well. Not sure whether you’d want spiders. They hit hard, but don’t attack that often, and they are mostly for cc. And you seem to be a melee build?!

I’d swap torch for axe, since you’re a power build. Not sure what the playstyle is, axe mainhand seems strange. I’d take that as a short range kiting weapon, but you are not a condi build, sooo…. what’s the deal there?

I’m an extreme advocate of the wolf. best pet for roaming imho.

the second slot I swap between krytan drakehound (in wvw) or artic wolf (with my chill-based pvp bunker build)

I would use signet of the hunt for the speed boost. it’s nice for getting around. QZ if you don’t feel like using it (or need extra condi cleanse)

I enjoy both runes of vampirism (extremely cheap) and runes of the ranger (bit more expensive but seems to have a bit more dps at the cost of some utility). I’ve never used them but runes of melandru are nice if you need more tankiness

Hi, so i understand you ant to ply as a firstline ranger in 10-15 man squad in wvw. I would go with the reccomondations above. offhad axe to replace the torch, missing utility= fire trap. You dont need extra speed, horn gives like 20 sec speed on 28 cd(offhand traning) group buffs will be more then enough to fill up the rest.
play 2 drakes for the survivabilty, aoe damage and blast combos in fire trap/HS.
“runes of vampirism” for the power, the heals and for the OMG i need the get out of here, mist bonus. Youc can also replace weapons for zerk and go with Runes of Sanctuary runes(same idea).

Oh I missed the last line. Forget about buffng the pet then.