Guild Wars 2

I’ve mained an ele for awhile and I gotta say rangers need more love than we do. Its hard to have a good power build when your class is designed not to have burst and while being ranged means nothing with all the gap closers. I leveled a ranger to 80 because it was fun but man its terrible if you don’t go condi. Much love and keep perserving. Anet make pets better support for these guys. Open up some build diversity.

Amen to that…

What method of measurement did you used to decide power builds don’t work and that we have no burst?

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-F;5Fkx-c2kDV-0;9F9E;1EO;0T0;004;525A;9;5FvN4X0Vm

Just a suggestion, you have a few tools to keep target in place if he manages to run away from your sword’s OP chain. The axe 5 is meant to be used while the enemy has either cripple or chilled and always with the quickness up, you can even combine pet swap’s quikness with zephyr right away. You can have an 9sec quikness up, although if the enemy understands the burst beast you are, you’re going to be kited so It depends. The idea is for you To cast the signet right before sic’em, since the other way around the signet’s effect gets overwritten by the shout. Of course these incursions supported by a pre-cast Rampage as one buffs turns you in a wreacking ball of pain. Obviously this relies plenty in execution and timing and that my friend, is a never ending road to perfection.

You can also tweak some options in terms of weapons/traits/gear, i know for one GS synergizes well with this.

This is also meant for pvp but you weren’t specific to which scenario was disappointing you, other options take place.

Have fun with your ranger.

It’s not that bad. If you play power you will typically be avoiding 1v1 skirmishes unless you are simply better than me at that. So if that’s what you mean, I get it. But in practice, it kind of works. You run power with skirmishing and beastmaster, right? Because you want a strong, fast pet to pick at a distance while you harass with longbow. Then, during the battle, when the opportunity presents itself (or your team creates the opportunity), you go in, burst, maybe maul a few times, then get out and repeat.

Gotta find some way for us to take on guardians, thats my main achilles heel. Very rarely can win, like prob new to class lol.

As power ranger, to a lesser degree I’m finding some necros, warriors and mesmers are really tough and if they have good skills near impossible.

Thieves, eles, engies are good matches 1-1.

Ariete.6509:

What method of measurement did you used to decide power builds don’t work and that we have no burst?

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-F;5Fkx-c2kDV-0;9F9E;1EO;0T0;004;525A;9;5FvN4X0Vm

Just a suggestion, you have a few tools to keep target in place if he manages to run away from your sword’s OP chain. The axe 5 is meant to be used while the enemy has either cripple or chilled and always with the quickness up, you can even combine pet swap’s quikness with zephyr right away. You can have an 9sec quikness up, although if the enemy understands the burst beast you are, you’re going to be kited so It depends. The idea is for you To cast the signet right before sic’em, since the other way around the signet’s effect gets overwritten by the shout. Of course these incursions supported by a pre-cast Rampage as one buffs turns you in a wreacking ball of pain. Obviously this relies plenty in execution and timing and that my friend, is a never ending road to perfection.

You can also tweak some options in terms of weapons/traits/gear, i know for one GS synergizes well with this.

This is also meant for pvp but you weren’t specific to which scenario was disappointing you, other options take place.

Have fun with your ranger.

Common sense? But then again, aren’t you the ranger that said pets missing 25% of the time was intended because otherwise they would be overpowered? That it had absolutely nothing to do with [censored] poor AI pathing?

Feel free to go through all of the Ranger’s skills to find all the highest damaging skills. Maul and Storm Spirit is about it when it comes to what most would consider ‘burst’ in GW2. It’s far inferior to what every single other class in the game is capable of. While we’re at it, do a search for AE too. Again, far less than what every other class is capable of. Want to go one step further? Compare the utility this class provides too.

Now you’ll see why the only thing unanimously agreed upon in the WvW forums is how Rangers are ranked 8th out of 8 classes.

Did they ever fix the AoE cap of 3 on almost all ranger skills? If so that’s another strike against rangers in PvE and ZvZ settings.

Ariete.6509:

What method of measurement did you used to decide power builds don’t work and that we have no burst?

Maybe a method that read the whole sentence… “at range” comes before the period. Pretty specifically meaning ‘While armed with a bow, as encouraged by the class description’.