Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I seldom post on the forums here, though I do browse it here and there. I can’t fathom the hate for this class sometimes, but ever since I gave up my Elementalist for mine, I’ve never went back. I love this class to death despite it’s flaws and can’t imagine playing any other class though I’ve tried them all.

I have been trying to min-max the Beastmaster build for the past few weeks and I think I found a sweet spot, at least in my opinion and play-style.

Synopsis of the build: This is a Shortbow and Greatsword build with your choice of pets, I personally like Jaguar and Wolf for 100% crit and fear, but substitute what you like to your own play-style. This build focuses on heavy CC and pressure so your pets can land their attacks. In addition it has high survivability, mobility, and sustain non-pet damage if your pet should be killed. It is great for solo roaming in WvW and does well in PvE. Melee rangers for the win!

WvW:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.3|1.1n.h4|5.1g.h17|1n.71j.1n.71j.1n.71j.1n.71j.1n.71j.1n.71j|1c.67.1c.67.1c.67.1c.67.1c.67.1c.67|0.k1a.u6ab.5.f5|3l.7|4j.4w.4r.4q.54|e

Sitting close to 20K health, 3K armor, 1.8K power, 50% crit-chance, 50% crit-damage. It allows you to do sustainable non-pet damage as well as giving you that extra breathing room from back-stab thieves to recover and put pressure on him or her. You can easily catch fleeing opponents with this build because the Greatsword allows you to close that gap and the Shortbow allows you to cripple-stun your opponent. I am having a blast with this build in WvW and with the right amount of skill chaining I surprise people.

I usually open with Cripple-Stun/Daze on Shortbow, close in with Swoop on GS, hilt-bash for another stun/daze at the same time unleashing Jaguar to do damage on top of your maul, this makes your enemy go on the defensive right away.

PvE:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.3|1.1n.h4|5.1g.h17|1n.71j.1n.71j.1n.71j.1n.71j.1n.71j.1n.71j|1c.67.1c.67.1c.67.1c.67.1c.67.1c.67|0.k1a.k6a.f5.f5|3l.7|4i.4w.4r.4q.54|e

For PvE I opted for something similar because I love the evade on the Greatsword and love being up close. I swap Troll Unguent for Healing Spring, best water field in the game and it helps my fellow melee party members. I also took out 10 points from WS and add it into NM to hit that Fortifying Bond trait, which sends all the boons I get to my cat. All that might from that warrior, that protection from that guardian, that regen from that elementalist is all applied to my pet. It is a great trait to have in PvE, imagine 15-25 stacks of might up time on your cat as well as regen to make sure it stays in the fight longer.

I know this is a quick write up and I don’t really have visual guides but I would just like to get it out there that this class doesn’t suck as some people make them out to be. If I have time later I will update it a little bit. Yes, about 40% to 50% of our raw damage is from our pets and hopefully that will be address in coming patches to make sure our pet doesn’t stand in aoe and dying in two hits in PvE but so far overall the class can stand its ground with others. I don’t deny we need a some attention but it isn’t as bad as this forum seems to make us out to be and scarying new players to the class to re-roll.

Constructive criticism and advice are welcome. Please do give.

If I were to make as little change to this as possible it would be to remove the 5 points in NM and either get 10% damage on flanking or bleed on crit for your jaguar wich would also boost shark or devourer wich are imo the 3 best water pets I use double devourers for the stun and the poison the stun is just fantastic for catching victims in a piranha school followed by a quick poison field even tough opponents will melt in it.

The other thing I would like to change is the runes, the divinity ones are good runes but I’m just in love with vampirism they have saved me so many times I lost count already and I only just switched to them, the 6point bonus is just like ele mistform and it’s just magical how often seems to proc just in time for your heal to go off CD (you can heal in mistform but you take no damage) plus it effectively adds another 1000health to your already strong heal aswell as doing the same in damage.

I’m only talking bout your WvW setup btw for pve I think one is better off in more or less full berserker armor instead.

Been looking for a new build for dungeon ranger, will check this one out thanks :P

I think they are fixing mistform so that you can’t use utilities (heal included) while in it…

… may need to get a second opinion on that though. I remember a tad on that subject from the SOTG interview.

Faux Sheaux.6179:

I think they are fixing mistform so that you can’t use utilities (heal included) while in it…

… may need to get a second opinion on that though. I remember a tad on that subject from the SOTG interview.