Guild Wars 2

Hello folks!

I’ve been away from GW2 for awhile and recently came back with the desire to dust off my old ranger. She’s a typical GS/LB build with 6/5/3/0/0 as the setup. I’m trying to make a “sniper” but not be a total glass cannon at the same time. With that in mind, I was toying around with knights armor (P/T/P) and then mostly zerker everything else. The base armor was right around 2.6K and 59% crit with 2.8K power. The armor looks low which is why I was wondering if I should change out some of the zerker for more knights gear.

The other idea I have goes against the plan completely and that’s to just go all out zerker + assassin gear.

People run both, and they both work. It depends on your personality and how good you are with your melee/dodges. I personally find damage extremely lacking if I’m not full glass.

Context is important too. If you’re always on your own, glass becomes more and more viable. If you’re doing guild fights like 5v5, it might make it rough when you have 5 people discover you’re 1000% glassier than your teammates.

What part of the game are you intending on using it for? Pve (solo, world events, dundgens) or WvW (Zerg, havoc, Roaming).

IF it for any pve content i would just go full zerker

If its for WvW then I would get full sets of zerker, Knights and Pvt and find a blend for the situation that you are in

Why are you sticking to the same weapons and traits all the time? variety is the spice of life

Oh good point, I assumed the OP was talking about WvW. For PvE obviously it’s full berserker.

I tested a glass build a moment ago in PvP and it was a crap-load of fun. For those who are wondering, a crap-load is just slightly less than a butt-load. Just reference there…

Anyways, I’m a WvW play and will only do PvE when I’m crazy bored. In WvW, I tend to run solo or with 1-2 friends so I think the glass may be the best way for me to go.

@Eggyokeo,

I’ve been looking at the other combo’s too and think I may test them out some more. I just love the look of my GS (it’s the blue flame one) so that’s why it’s hard to part ways with it.

when i play glassbow in wvw solo, I use full zerker/ranger runes but use a more defensive trait set up 6/0/2/6/0 SotF or 6/0/6/2/0 Bark skin and signets.

full Glass is great with 1 or 2 others including glass traits because you can use you range to survive and you get you pals to mark targets for you and you drop them.