Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone!
I’ve been kind of quiet when it comes to the forums about Rangers. I have loved the class for a while and with the recent patch I feel it makes us even better ( at least for the way I enjoy playing the class). So I ask you the wonderful ranger community to review this build and let me know any ideas you may have on how to improve it.

I’ve looked at some builds posted but haven’t really found anything similar.

I am not a fan of “meta” builds as I tend to like the quirky/weird builds that catch ppl off guard. I also like builds that let u be able to deal with a large variety of things. Before the patch I played a bunker regen ranger and this was a more offensive take on it.

The idea was to make a melee build that does fairly good dmg and is still able to take a few hits. (Pvp)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAR8XjEqQJL2yCWsAXLG+DqtIWgAo73aYH49Nfr9SGUFA-TZRBABwXGAjjAgGXEAAeAAKt/AA

Weapons
Greatsword
Sword/Axe or Sword/Dagger

Huge Gs fan, probably my fav skill set in entire game…
I enjoy axe offhand due to hard hitting POS and great utility due to Whirling Defense (Rapid fire looking at u!)

Utilities/Heal
TU-Great Sustain and condi cleanse when traited.
QZ- use when TU is on cd. Typically as a finisher or when u have gs for aa dodge spam.
LR- no explanation necessary I feel.
SotW- Passive regen and good dps (qz>sotw> maul= pain bear)
Strength of the Pack- great synergy with remorseless.

Amulet- High defense, attack and critical dmg, not much need for precision due to auto crit on opening strike.
Rune- been kind of undecided, tend to switch between dolyak, hoelbrak, or wurm.
Sigils- same as well. Not entirely decided on these either. I like energy, staying away from ones that do dmg on weapon swap due to wasting opening strike.

Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks!
-Count

If you are well trained with ranger melee setup, i would recomand you to use this build –
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAR8XjMqQLLWuCOsAXLG+Dq91zgAg/g8dD+j/HG+SWQXA-TZBHwAMLDU4gAA4JAM4CAMb/BA

When used right you can deal 10k+ mauls , have prema regen/swiftness/fury and huge heal burst with HS combos and quickdraw(2 swoops+ pet change for blast finisher).
You have 26k HP and SoS if things get realy bad. Spike trap procs MOC BTW, so maul on a poor guy that just stepped into your trap can end his journy.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAR8XjUqQDL2yCWsAXLG+Dq91zgAo73bfG+04HO6D+d6B-TJBHABA8EAyuMQZXEAY2fAA

I could barely tell the difference between the posted builds. It’s hard to go wrong with the new traits. Everyone has their own offense/defense/team support spectrum, and none of them are any better than the other. Just depends on your team.

Team support is the current meta, but if you’re all about side nodes, then that doesn’t relate to you does it.

Fluffball.8307:

I could barely tell the difference between the posted builds. It’s hard to go wrong with the new traits. Everyone has their own offense/defense/team support spectrum, and none of them are any better than the other. Just depends on your team.

Team support is the current meta, but if you’re all about side nodes, then that doesn’t relate to you does it.

Saying the builds posted are the same builsd is like saying Sol and Eura -LB/GS builds are the same. Every build got a signiture, a spesific way to play and to get out the max out of the build. Your “team support” argument can be applied to any build theory crafting discussion and donesnt help by much. Most ppl que up as solo.
Perheps its “hard to go wrong” but its still deosnt make it right. Finding the cooike cutter set up(with the asked restrictions) is what what theory crafting is all about.

Thanks for the reply folks,

I must say i never really considered using the new spike trap. I’ll have to give that a shot and see how it goes.

LughLongArm.5460:

stuff

You can make a LB ranger with really defensive traits, and that works great for someone who has trouble getting ganked by thieves, or only solo qs unranked and is looking for fights. Or you can go with Eura’s build where he’s looking to completely max team support. It really doesn’t matter which build you use if you’re going to play it the way you naturally play. Eura’s build is going to be complete crap for a lot of people. That’s all I meant. Any of the traits posted in this thread are fantastic, so it literally does not matter. Just pick the one you like.