Guild Wars 2

For starters here is my build.
Full zerker gear. 117% crit dmg with food, 3,157 power, and 61% based crit chance.

The weapons are longbow and great sword.

The traits :
0/30/30/0/10

Bleed on crits (not much dmg but its some), longbow CD reduced by 20%, and moment of clarity.

Shared anguish, hide in plain sight, empathic bond.

Shouts recharge 20% faster.

Longbow = sigil of rage
GS = sigil of air.
(or vice-versa I never decided on that).

Heal as one,
Signet of renewal,
QZ,
“Protect Me”

Pets: Fear Wolf, Boar

The way I play it is to use QZ, hunter’s shot, barrage, point blank shot, rapid fire. At this point the enemy has dodged from your barrage or your rapid fire or both. The point blank shot keeps them off me while I get solid burst. If they are still far away then use forage on boar to either get rock (3s daze), bone (3s stun), skull (2-4s) fear. If they get close and I’m still in LB I use one of those items and wait for my CDs. I control my boar and land his 3s KD on my opponent. While they are controlled I use LB 4 -> 3 ->2 with pet swap to burst again. If they get close I swap weps and counterattack. I then follow up with a hilt bash. With the hilt bash the foe gets interrupted and I get 50% dmg on next attack from moment of clarity. So I follow with maul (or swoop if the foe ports). I use wolf to knockdown in that chain somewhere and fear after the combo. I then switch to LB and rupt my foes next skill which is usually a heal and then follow with 3 -> 2. If I get stunned, or hit hard I have protect me and signet of renewal as stun breaks and damage soaks. Sig of renewal helps with conditions.

Originally this build was designed for my pvp team and I would use the fiery GS with it. This is because with QZ, pet swap, and rage, I had 9 seconds of quickness and with fiery GS I was doing the same amount of damage as any other class would be if half of my damage wasn’t my pet. RaO kept me up, protect me did what is says, and the pet swap to wolf allowed me to fear everyone to prevent even more damage. I then adapted it to provide single target DPS and CC allow me to 1 on 1 and be more versatile in tourneys.

As you can see I greatly relied on pet swap F2 and Quickness to control and kill my targets. The combo allowed me to 1 on 1 very well and 2 v 1 decently.

As we all know. Builds such as this are no longer viable due to quickness and pet nerf. I have tried using it but in wvw I cannot win 1 on 2s as reliably as I cannot burst people down anymore. Before I could easily burst and cc heals to almost instantly kill a wvw noob. This just does not work anymore. There is less damage, less sustainability, less CC to protect my glassiness.

So now that you know my story and my style. It still works decently but it isn’t amazing anymore. With the GS update I can easily rupt a skill and then maul crit for like 6k dmg on average which essentially drops half of someones health in that combo. However, in open areas like wvw I can’t really keep multiple people off me anymore without LB and QZ or get them to use their o kitten skills before I burst.

BTW: I’m rank 44. I have almost 2,200 games as ranger and I have tried everything. I’m also a norn

Any ideas on what I should try? I’m open to any and all suggestions except re-roll.