Guild Wars 2

I just made myself a set of apothecary armor, and got the settler trinkets and dwayna runes and…. playing a BM in roaming seems just sooooo boring. I played full rabid trapper with undead runes, and killing anyone just seem such a chore. I admit its survivable, but still. I’d rather play my a/t, gs trapper with no stun break and die a thousand times. At least that way I have some nice condi burst, and can kick some kitten . But then again, maybe I’m doing something wrong. Was running raven with 0/0/30/10/30. Must have been nice with the pre nerf jag and shortbow.

Don’t use Shortbow..

Xsorus.2507:

Don’t use Shortbow..

I still find that the SB is the best weapon when piercing for fighting inside towers and keeps since targets are rarely 900+ units away. (Plus t1 keep battles have so much lag that you can only auto attack most of the time so might as well go with the king of #1 spam)

But, ya for roaming, not even worth it anymore.

I mean for BM Bunker, don’t use shortbow

Sword/Dagger/Axe/Torch are the weapons you want

shortbow is better for other things

Xsorus.2507:

I mean for BM Bunker, don’t use shortbow

Sword/Dagger/Axe/Torch are the weapons you want

shortbow is better for other things

I was always a fan of Sword/Torch/Axe/Dagger, but it’s essentially the same thing…

Shortbow is not a weapon you’d wanna use with BM though.

Durzlla.6295:

Xsorus.2507:

I mean for BM Bunker, don’t use shortbow

Sword/Dagger/Axe/Torch are the weapons you want

shortbow is better for other things

I was always a fan of Sword/Torch/Axe/Dagger, but it’s essentially the same thing…

Shortbow is not a weapon you’d wanna use with BM though.

Ehh, gah I worded it that way cause I didn’t want to specify hehe

But yea S/T and A/D work just the same

You don’t have to use apothecary or settler to play BM, you should probably say you don’t want to use shortbow with such armor rather than just not as BM.

Thanks for the replies guys. My problem wasn’t shortbow though, but buffing my pet to deal damage. It felt like without my traps I don’t have enough condition pressure on my targets. I could survive a lot, which was a great change from running all rabid without Emphatic bond and stun breaks. I ended up changing back to a/t, gs, with 2 traps and SotH. I ran into an engie yesterday who wasn’t even hit by my pet I think. It was painful to watch my raven circle around the place even with RoA on. Maybe I will just remove the 30 from BM and get a settler/apothecary weapon, as I still ran with my rabid weaps. I could take those 30 points into MM or Skirmishing instead and run 2 canines instead. How much healing power makes Dwayna runes still a good option? I don’t want to be indestructible just to troll people, but being durable is awesome. I was thinking of smuggling my rabid trinkets back in, but don’t want to end up with 400 healing power sitting on my apothecary gear without it being useful. Did you guys experiment with that? Any suggestions are most welcome.

nagymbear.5280:

Thanks for the replies guys. My problem wasn’t shortbow though, but buffing my pet to deal damage. It felt like without my traps I don’t have enough condition pressure on my targets. I could survive a lot, which was a great change from running all rabid without Emphatic bond and stun breaks. I ended up changing back to a/t, gs, with 2 traps and SotH. I ran into an engie yesterday who wasn’t even hit by my pet I think. It was painful to watch my raven circle around the place even with RoA on. Maybe I will just remove the 30 from BM and get a settler/apothecary weapon, as I still ran with my rabid weaps. I could take those 30 points into MM or Skirmishing instead and run 2 canines instead. How much healing power makes Dwayna runes still a good option? I don’t want to be indestructible just to troll people, but being durable is awesome. I was thinking of smuggling my rabid trinkets back in, but don’t want to end up with 400 healing power sitting on my apothecary gear without it being useful. Did you guys experiment with that? Any suggestions are most welcome.

1. using s+t/a+d together with geomancy sigils allows for much greater condition pressure than shortbow so using shortbow with apothecary gear is a problem atleast to some extent.

2. Birds are kitten, kitten and garbage all they ever do is flippety flop around and then once in a blue moon actually attack it’s using a bird that is the problem more than having enough buffs on pet a cat does not have this problem even if moving targets is still troublesome for pets.

3. Dwayna runes are worth using at 0 healing power aslong as you have a solid amount of toughness to increase the value of the regen buff then it is always good for pvp.

I enjoy my BM hybrid with zerker knight armor/dwayna runes and cleric jewelry, 800 HP is about all i need. the survivability helps you when roaming solo or duo and you are fighting multiples at the same time, sometimes if you kite well and the players dont play well you can kill duos or trios with the survivability. You can do similar things too with traps too but its really whatever feels the best for you.

I honestly think rangers are in a decent spot right now because xsorus and i have played similar builds since the start of the game, the variety for the most part and still both like different weapons or slightly different things. Builds can be different for how you want to play it and can fit your personal playstyle and you can still win fights.

Manekk.6981:

nagymbear.5280:

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1. using s+t/a+d together with geomancy sigils allows for much greater condition pressure than shortbow so using shortbow with apothecary gear is a problem atleast to some extent.

2. Birds are kitten, kitten and garbage all they ever do is flippety flop around and then once in a blue moon actually attack it’s using a bird that is the problem more than having enough buffs on pet a cat does not have this problem even if moving targets is still troublesome for pets.

3. Dwayna runes are worth using at 0 healing power aslong as you have a solid amount of toughness to increase the value of the regen buff then it is always good for pvp.

Sorry, didn’t express myself clearly, I didn’t use shortbow, only mentioned of cause of the patch. I was using s/t a/d, but I like gs better, so I chose a/t gs. I’ll test how much regen ticks for with different gear compsition. I have 2k toughness right now, but my ragid trinkets have rabid crests, so the settler trinkets will be better there. Prolly gonna change the armor back piece by piece for rabid and see how it goes. I’m running River drake and wolf now, nice for taking camps. Still got killed with 2k armor and 1.2k healing power by some pesky thieves Today. Its funny ANet nerfed pet damage and shorbow range isntead of giving some counters to stealth spam, but thats that.

Xsorus.2507:

Durzlla.6295:

Xsorus.2507:

I mean for BM Bunker, don’t use shortbow

Sword/Dagger/Axe/Torch are the weapons you want

shortbow is better for other things

I was always a fan of Sword/Torch/Axe/Dagger, but it’s essentially the same thing…

Shortbow is not a weapon you’d wanna use with BM though.

Ehh, gah I worded it that way cause I didn’t want to specify hehe

But yea S/T and A/D work just the same

go A/T for condi burst. you can stack on some heavy condis within 2-4 seconds. switch to SB (if you still insist on using it) and fire off the #5 to interupt condition removal.