Guild Wars 2

Has anyone figured out how to implement this into a viable and competitive build yet? Please reply here with builds or ideas you would like to share. If you are going to share a builds please prioritize placing PvP focused builds first.

The issue is ranger has REALLY good access to swiftness. So this is only really useful in builds that either A don’t have ANY access to it. Or B is designed to fight against boon corruption and soft CC.

For the former. Most of those builds would find the stealth/superspeed on leaving Astral form or the condi cleanse from the glyph skills more useful.

That leaves a rather niche setup that can make use of natural stride. HOWEVER. NS is actually quite good as a backup. It helps mitigate the effects of corrupts in a pretty big way and goes a long way towards fighting condi reapers chill. Its up to you if thats worth it though.

Natural Stride frees up a utility slot. While resounding timber is nice to have perma swiftness requires you to use a utility slot. It also allows you to drop resounding timber in the bm line for Companions might.

If your not running a healing build or a lot of glyphs there is really no other choice.

it can be taken in a build that doesnt

a: use beastmastery (resounding timbre)
b: use traveler runes or pack runes (in combat swiftness)
c: use Signet
d: use warhorn

so for example, a good build might be ancient seeds survival LB/GS specced Druid/WS/NM

It is a must running through the jungle.

I feel that that verdant etching is too strong to give up for ns. I run staff / s+ wh for pvp so I have access to swiftness anyway. Seed of life being a light field makes verdant etching even stronger as I can use Astral grace or call of the wild to blast it for area retaliation.

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I feel that that verdant etching is too strong to give up for ns. I run staff / s+ wh for pvp so I have access to swiftness anyway. Seed of life being a light field makes verdant etching even stronger as I can use Astral grace or call of the wild to blast it for area retaliation.

Dont waste carion bound on that… Use it on Celestial form #4 for a heal, while healing.