Looking for a usable Axe/pet build
Not the most optimal, but with this build you should have something quite useful and reliant.
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Are you talking competitive or for dungeons? WvW/PvP, axes and SBs see a ton of use as condi or spirit bunkers.
For PvE, main hand axes and SBs are the two weakest weapons rangers have, so I’d highly suggest something else. They’re really just niche weapons like axes for clearly blooms in TA. Against the actual bosses, they’re complete garbage.
Celestial/Crit build, crits proc might on pet + sicem. Strong all around build. You could swap a sb in for the sword/torch for a different play style.
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I assume you mean for WvW and pve since you don’t “level” in spvp.
If you wan to stay in axe most of the time, I would look into getting Honed Axes in the skirmishing (second) line. Also, I would take a warhorn to blast fields and ally fury, might, and swiftness to peeps and yourself.
You’ll also probably want 30 into survival for either bark skin or emphatic bond. IMO they’re pretty even on their usefulness (very.) but it of course depends on the situation.
So you’ll end up with a x/20//30/x/x build with 20 pts to put wherever. Shove em in beast mastery if you really want a “pet” function to your build. If doing that, take bark skin cause condis can kill your pet quickly. And CC it.
Kal Snow – Norn Guardian
I love having Axe/x on swap because of the access to chill and weakness. Awesome debuffs! It also helps a lot when you need to AoE (tag, especially) stuff in pve. I mean, you can still have a sword or whatever you run for pure hacking and slashing, in the other weapon setup.