Guild Wars 2

It is my understanding that the Ranger is supposed to be both the “hunter” type archetype and the “nature-magic” archetype.

I’m wondering what are the best weapons and skills to use to FEEL most like this nature-magic class?

I don’t care about how good it is, I just want to feel natury and magicy. xD

Sword and Greatsword weapons in a melee build help this, as half of the skills give an image of you attacking in the form of a nature spirit animal. Also the spirit utility skills help that, with 4 nature spirits following around (with the right traits in Nature Magic). Any of the elites accomplish what you want too, with entangle growing vines, Nature spirit as a huge monster, and rampage as one with you and your pet attacking together. Try some of those out.

EDIT: also warhorn or dagger as an offhand. Warhorn calls birds to help you attack, while dagger also has animal related skills I think.

The closest thing you can get to a druid-like hunter is, like Jazenn suggested, the Greatsword and the Sword. Especially the Greatsword, as it has two fabulous animal-spirit animations. A Greatsword isn’t exactly the kind of weapon a druid would wield, though.

As for utilities: Healing Spring just screams druid. The elite vines, likewise. Spirits are also very druid-like, but they’re utterly useless with the exception of the elite spirit, who in some occasions can be pretty good in PvE.

EDIT: dagger has no animal animations, Jazenn. It’s completely bland.

I’m in the exact same situation. I love the idea of a Nature Sprit Ranger, kinda druidy, but people keep saying that spirit skills are useless. They can’t be that bad surely, if you trait all the way with them? Not to the point of making the game unplayable, anyway. Right?

I just love the idea of these nature spirits following me around everywhere I go. I, too, love the great sword animations, but have decided to stick with short and longbows, since I can craft them both, and benefit from some of the traits like piercing arrows applying to both weapons. Anyway, I’m level 20 at the moment, and would love to be a spirit ranger. So heck, why not, huh?

MooCube, you can PvP and PvE just fine with spirits. But that’s not the point. You can PvP and PvE just fine naked. The spirits are simply way too weak. They’re definately at the very bottom of our already mediocre skill list. That is a great shame, considering they are supposed to be our number one credit-to-team skills.

Spirits are viable, some people make them work, they just aren’t as effective as other skills. They have uses, but not many have found a way to make them good enough for their purposes. And dagger does have animal related attacks, according to the name, they just don’t have the animation.

I’ve decided that I’m going to be a spiritual Ranger anyway. The spirit road may not be the easiest road, but it’s the road I want to walk. Walk with me.

MooCube.1450:

I’ve decided that I’m going to be a spiritual Ranger anyway. The spirit road may not be the easiest road, but it’s the road I want to walk. Walk with me.

Been there done that. Good luck man! May the spirits be with you (30 NM). Lol