Guild Wars 2

When I WvW with my guild
—I play a shout warrior.

When the border is empty and I want world rank
—I play a camp flipping spec’d Thief

The rest of the time (most of the time)
—I play a roaming, celestial, hybrid-spec’d regeneration ranger
—The Jack of all Trades and Master of Fun!

This build came about because I played power builds, condition builds, regeneration builds and stealth builds. None satisfied me because I wanted it all!

So I developed this build: !http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNBHhN6kRF6F02VwbFoaxA7B16AoAO7Xxh7o4gb6U+VIgyB-TVDFABop+DDnAApUS02RAA79H4VJEAHCAO0DYlylM0EogSwFeAAdZCKAACAbcjbcjbMpA0TZE-w!

Pros:
*100% regeneration up time for you and your allies
*100% swiftness time for you and your allies
*Great healing burst via Healing Spring + Call of the Wild
*Good long-range damage via Longbow
*Very good kiting ability via traps and stealth
*Very good at escaping to live another day
*Adequate at solo camp flipping
*Good in fights when supporting 2 or more allies

Cons:
*1v1 fights (at least at my level of skill)
*Difficult to follow the zerg into a “dense-pack” attack.
*Any situation in open field where you cannot kite

If anyone has interest in this “against the meta and common sense” build I can post additional info such as my skill rotations and so on.

I posted this build because someone asked me something like “what the hell build are you running?” I found I could not point to a common build nor could I explain it in a few sentences. Hence, I created this post.

Well, there it is.

Celestial trapper longbow is semi-popular, you’re not alone there.

You’ve got some great team support but I see why you might lose 1v1s. If you’re going out by yourself, you might consider a more self-supporty build, like dagger or axe offhand. I don’t think you’d lose the flavor of the build by having an empathic bond variant for solo roaming, with one of the signets in place of guard, and troll unguent in place of spring.

Looks like a fun build though! I’m in the long process of making some celestial ascended armor myself.

Fluffball.8307:

Looks like a fun build though! I’m in the long process of making some celestial ascended armor myself.

Side question if you will. I thought celestial was a bust after this patch, or that was the intent?

I haven’t crafted a single piece of ascended mostly out of ignorance and the fact I have 4 sets of gear on my Guardian and can’t find any common ground with my Ranger either. Never seem to stay into a single build which is why I’m probably average…

Crapgame.6519:

Side question if you will. I thought celestial was a bust after this patch, or that was the intent?

The celestial amulet was too strong in PvP because eles and engis and to some extent a few other classes used might stacking to buff themselves. Eles got all the healing and defense of celestial while still having the damage of a berserker amulet AND a rabid amulet. They toned down might slightly, which is actually quite a lot if you were a profession that could reach high stacks of might.

You could mix and match gear to reach exactly the stats you want, but celestial is just an easy way to have useful gear for any number of builds, and I want another set of ascended gear anyway since it can be used by the entire account. I plan on using the celestial on both my ranger and engi. Rangers and engis both have skillbars that have large amounts of physical and condi damage on them.

Our shields may be down, but our maser beams are set to max!

Fluffball.8307:

Crapgame.6519:

Side question if you will. I thought celestial was a bust after this patch, or that was the intent?

The celestial amulet was too strong in PvP because eles and engis and to some extent a few other classes used might stacking to buff themselves. Eles got all the healing and defense of celestial while still having the damage of a berserker amulet AND a rabid amulet. They toned down might slightly, which is actually quite a lot if you were a profession that could reach high stacks of might.

You could mix and match gear to reach exactly the stats you want, but celestial is just an easy way to have useful gear for any number of builds, and I want another set of ascended gear anyway since it can be used by the entire account. I plan on using the celestial on both my ranger and engi. Rangers and engis both have skillbars that have large amounts of physical and condi damage on them.

Thanks. Appreciate the information.

Also, it seems to me the celestial ranger can still do a kitten load of damage with celestial when using both air and fire sigils on the LB. I really think celestial ranger is a better choice for PvP kind of scenarios. Don’t get me wrong, the pure zerker melt-my-enemy builds have their place as well.