Guild Wars 2

Hi

I somewhat newish to the ranger (Level 54), and have been playing mostly WvW and sPvP. And now that you can level in sPvP with tomes, this is where I am focusing, but will drift back to WvW now and then.

As of yesterday (after watching a few other ranges play) I have switched towards a trapper spec ranger, having been playing a longbow style ranger(30/10/30/0/0). The long bow was fun, but as soon as a class got close I was basically dead, or running for my life to get out of the focus zone.

I would consider myself an average player, though with the trapper build I was a top of the score board on most games I played, and able to go toe to toe with most classes except for a few hard counters, and come out on top 70%-80% of the time.

The build is
(0/30 (II,VIII,XI) /30 (III,VIII,XI) /5/5) which i think is a standard build and I am now using a SB and Axe/Torch or Longbow as my weapons. Runes are of the undead and I am using the rabid amulet. sigils are agony or 60% chance to bleed/burn.

Is there a better trait synergy for this build or better traits I could try to improve aspects of this build? or is there an overall better trapper build?

I’m new to this so any feedback appreciated

Thanks

Hey,

In your build you have some traits focusing on your pet while you mainly are using traps. I would suggest you change this traits to make yourself stronger or your traps. Also I would stick to shortbow/longbow. The cripple, daze/knockback and stealth of the combination of those two weapons should help you keep your ennemies at a distance making you able to place your traps with ease.
Maybe use the trait that ables you to ground target your traps in combinations of the cc-skills of longbow/shortbow.

I’am not a trapper myself but I guess it is easier to use your traps if you have the ability to keep your ennemie away from you

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlYDbkoquOuytC1OAsKIY7RmaiJ7hhO+IA-TsAAzCpIaS1krJTTymsNNqY9xeBA
trap ranger build.
For pets you should always have wolf its just to useful your secondary pet choose from this list.
Pets-Jungle spider, Black widow, drakehound, lynx

Healing skills you can choose between healing spring and troll unguent. If you use sword+warhorn healing spring would be more useful then troll unguent since you have blast+leap finisher which each heal for 1.3k + the condi removal from water field.
Reason for troll unguent is little less easier for you to heal just make sure you use it early on and careful of condi classes.

Utilities you can swap out poison trap for something else of your preference if you want to sometimes i swap it out with signet of renewal if other team has a lot of condi spike.

Something to remember when playing a trap ranger always have your traps down somewhere(usually on point) and lead your opponent to them. Always fight somewhere you have the edge and never really engage in combat in wide open areas because that leaves you at a disadvantage. Remember to kite your enemy down since you don’t have any kind of sustain like other builds people are running so be very careful. Never engage into 1v2+ you will not be able to tank all that damage so just disengage not worth giving team free 5 points.

Hope this helps you out in spvp. But just remember trap ranger really isn’t a top tier build and doesn’t have the luxury of high sustain like other condition builds have.