Guild Wars 2

Ranger is my 1st char and I spent almost 1/2 time on it when I WvW. Have tried almost all kinds of builds including Power/BM/Apoth/Trap/Spirit etc. However, any of those can be only good for certain situation (e.g. Power is not bad for zerg but sucks when roaming, BM/spirit rocks on 1v1 but useless during zerg, Trap/condition seems work on both but other classes doing much better than ranger) Then finally, I found my current Shout-builds the most viable(1 for all) build to play WvW.

Here is the build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBMhF6koiugLsQLIWLDIrHEy+NIvCzi7xo0JhYK35KrBB-jEyAoLBRKCABCkCBl9KiGbltIasKbMNMRUtQAyWAA-w

With this build,
you will have: superb toughness and HP;
you will have: 12 sec invincibility+26 sec stability;
you will have: pretty high direct damage = high power and super high critical chance (30% base+ 20% from perma fury+20% from trait and sigil)
you will have: superior mobility;

Also you have: good dodge+block from weapon skills,
Also you have: good condition removal (pet+shout+spring)

And you will give team(including yourself): perma swiftness + perma fury + perma regeneration plus ranger’s special healing spring.

It makes you become a rock-hard front line solder together with warriors and guardians during zerg fight, it also make you extremely hard to kill while you roaming.

Hope it helps. Enjoy.

with 0% crit damage, you only do 50% bonus damage on crits. Not much, but i guess it will give you Maul’s up to 3k on medium/glassy targets

Prysin.8542:

with 0% crit damage, you only do 50% bonus damage on crits. Not much, but i guess it will give you Maul’s up to 3k on medium/glassy targets

You can always modify the gears (e.g. replace some solder/kight off for zerk) to get better crit dmg by trading off toughness/HP. But in my exp, survival is the king especially in zerg fight, 3k maul is not bad at all.

i would use Clerics for trinkets. It would enhance your survivability by loads.
Forget the precision and the odd crit… add healingpower by the bucket loads, add power, and massive vitality and you got near immortality

Good advise, luckily I still have one exo set from my BM bunker build, will try it tonight. In fact just found that even if I use cleric , my crit chance still can be as high as 50%, that’s not bad at all.

Prysin.8542:

i would use Clerics for trinkets. It would enhance your survivability by loads.
Forget the precision and the odd crit… add healingpower by the bucket loads, add power, and massive vitality and you got near immortality

Hmm, I just think about it twice, I don’t think cleric gear is necessary. This build is a front line melee build, in zerg fight, a bigger Toughness/HP pool is more important than healing power since you gonna face the zerg burst. And this build already gives enough suvivalbility to escape, I can just run away and come back.
Healing power instead of HP may be useful for roaming (to over-stand other bunker classes), but same idea, I will just run away if things turn bad, since it’s pointless to win a 1v1 in WvW in most of time.

CRrabbit.1284:

Good advise, luckily I still have one exo set from my BM bunker build, will try it tonight. In fact just found that even if I use cleric , my crit chance still can be as high as 50%, that’s not bad at all.

Prysin.8542:

i would use Clerics for trinkets. It would enhance your survivability by loads.
Forget the precision and the odd crit… add healingpower by the bucket loads, add power, and massive vitality and you got near immortality