Guild Wars 2

Guys,

I am newcomer to GW2.

While leveling my ranger I equipped a Greatsword on my fledgling ranger (lvl eight) just for kicks and giggles.

Surprisingly I am starting to like the melee aspect of ranger.

I never expected the melee aspect of ranger to be good in downing mobs.

I am loving especially the bear-hug (button 2 skill) which is awesome in animation and in damage.

Just wanted to know whether the melee aspect of ranger is a viable leveling spec all the way to 80.

Thanks for your time.

melee weapons on all classes do more dps then range weapons, except ele with staff. and engie

Okay hopefully these tips will help you.

Sword is highest dps for rangers combine with torch offhand it can be very deadly. The downside is sword forces you to leap towards target which can throw you off a cliff.

Great sword is about 20% less damage than sword but has much more defensive capabilities suck as a block skill and your last auto attack chain is a 1sec evade.

Longbow is your best ranged dps and it does more damage the further you are. It’s a good weapon to have incase you can’t melee such as lengendary boss battles.

For pve and dungeons where you stack it is always a safe bet to use drake as pet. Lots of new and experienced players don’t know that drake pets auto attack hits 3 targets at once! Plus their tail whip is a blast finisher!! They are also very tanky like bears but with slightly less hp.

TL:DR use longbow and greatsword for pve as you are starting.

P.S. Using both greatsword and longbow legendaries on full ascended zero gear with a dps calc longbow at Max range does more damage than greatsword for me.