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Posted by: Nicknobreak.7543

Nicknobreak.7543

Alright so for the longest time I’ve been looking for a good WvW build. One that can hold its own in 1v1 fights as well as working in a zerg when needed. The other night, I somehow wound up in Obsidian Sanctum. I pwned a warrior. They proceeded to jump on their mesmer and smack talk the crap out of me. They pwned my face.

“Mesmer is clearly broken.” Said Nick the Ranger.
“I’ll fite u on my ranger n00b” Said the jerkface.

And fight me he did. And pwn me he did… Again. On his ranger. Many times over. So I sat there, and I scratched my head for hours. How? When I have full ascended berserker gear, how did they manage to beat me? So I started to watch them duel a guardian. Anyhow, I managed to logically piece together their build trying to figure out weakpoints. I surmised they were using different gear than I was, with more survivability, because I was hitting them for about half my typical damage. Different gear and different runes. A Longbow with a Sword + X (Dagger?) for weapons, the sword being used for dodge rolls. They used bother a murello and black widow spider, both which use poison, plus the sword, leads me to believe conditions and most notably poison is important in this build. I know they were using skirmishing because they had spotter. They used TU, SoTH, SoS, Entangle. Marksman because Enlargement.

“L2P. ur bad n00b” said the jerkface

TL;DR Can anyone help me fill in the gaps to determine this build?

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-J;5F;1f2cDF-0;9V4S;1ZY_;13-03;9;9;4Fv;0w6g

P.S. If you’re reading this, Good Fight (Blackgate?) Jade Quarry Veteran.

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Posted by: Cufufalating.8479

Cufufalating.8479

Maybe?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAsYTjEqQLLWwCOsAVLGIEqdHCgqun3VIG449djgRsE-TRRSwAMVCKV9Ha6DAs/AGlfkCgJlWA-e

The armour is hard to guess, it could be a mix of many things, but those general stats are fairly typical of a “not-full-tank not-full-zerker” build.

In terms of traits, they may have gone for Remorseless over Lead the Wind, but I am not sure how worth it that would be without a GS. Could be though.

For weaknesses I’d have to say conditions. They only have 3 cleansing skills, 2 on fairly long CDs (and that’s assuming they are using Wilderness Knowledge and not Poison Master, which is possible given what you said). Maybe they had Lyssa Runes to help with this? Who knows.

Cufufalating – Ranger / Part-Time Mesmer
Gunnar’s Hold

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Posted by: LughLongArm.5460

LughLongArm.5460

1) Just to be sure? who are "They? from my understanding u were 2(you and the other ranger/mesmer)

2)Pls pot your build so i could compare.

3)Are you sure it was enlargment and not SOTW?

4)He had food on him? Food give lots of tells.

From the strange setup you saied he used, the pet you described and the extra survivability, I would say he was zerk/celc hybrid with bleeds and poisons, I also suspect he want for the poison master trait(thats why the poisonous pets). He went for signets build with “brutish seals” to make up with might for the missing power/condi damage. Hoelbark rune plays out with both might stacking and condi defence(His build might lack active condi defence). I would say somthing like that:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAT8YjEqQBLWxCOsAVLGIEqdHCgquDhWPr5C4dX9Tm1yYB-TVCFABFcBA8TJIAPAgCV/xhjAgVK/yT3wCHEgW2fgUAMp1C-w

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Posted by: Puck.9612

Puck.9612

You’d be much better off posting your build and asking how it could be improved instead of us trying to guess what someone else (that we’ve never seen play) was running

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Posted by: Nicknobreak.7543

Nicknobreak.7543

Cufufalating probably has the closest build to what I was having trouble fighting. I’m rather sure they traited into enlargement because in two separate fights SotW was activated the moment their HP hit 50%.

Since the patch, I’ve been getting dropped within what feels like seconds. I’ve tried swapping out QZ with SoS and tweaking my build but it doesn’t make a huge difference.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNEQJATRjEqQBLWyCusAXLGWEq9yDgjuL3OYE+X/EW9TeVlWB-TlRSwABUiNR5BNdBA2fAq6PiUCSKA9kaB-w

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Posted by: Puck.9612

Puck.9612

Might consider dropping marksmanship for skirmishing. You would have plenty if swiftness, which would let you swap the movement signet to stone, plus quick draw would up your damage.

Swap bear to a bird, dog, cat or spider. Personally I’d go with a bird and use wilting strikes in BM. You’d be blinding and putting weakness on your opponent every 5 seconds.

Also might want to work a little more toughness/vitality into your build when dueling.

I’ll take another look when I can get on a computer, I’m posting from my phone right now do its hard to take a close look at your build

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Posted by: Puck.9612

Puck.9612

If you decide to stick with marksmanship you should definitely run remorseless instead of lead the wind while dueling. Strength of the pack alone will give you opening strike a number of times, it will also work great with your pack runes, two hand training, and the fury from survival skills. But if you do that you should add in some valk/cav gear so you don’t get 1 shot.

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