Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I’ve just leveled my ranger with a single purpose of using him in WvW. I run only with big zergs consisting of at least 15 people. I also want to use Longbow preferably with 1500 range and piercing arrows, which means locking my build with 30 points into marksmanship. The reason is because every other class I play is melee to medium range.

The problem is I feel useless. I’m a big noob at playing ranger and I must be doing something wrong, cause with only 1 condition removal from Signet of Renewal (resulting with my pet dying in an instant) I can’t keep up the heals. There also seem not a single utility to actually contribute to my group. As I said I want to keep Longbow, willing to drop range to 1200 if needed. As a secondary I currently use Greatsword but don’t mind changing it.

I kindly ask you to look at my build and tweak it however you like, just keeping 20 in marksmanship, cause I’m that close to actually deleting the character and rolling necro or thief :/ Any help is much appreciated.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-F;4wEFx-d2kDF-0;9V8;2T-JJ-279;127-28;24-F6;9-OGGz0-w2;2VTVY0c1hYn3t48k0RN5a09cV19c;9;9;9;7kkkkkkU

dont delete. just shelf it and wait for future buffs to rangers lol.

Its true the Ranger is useless in every aspect of GW2 now…

By all means re-roll to play another class (I haven’t played my Ranger since I saw the official patch notes) but don’t delete the character unless you need the slot…

Hopefully, in the months ahead the devs will see the complete train wreck that the Ranger is and address the problems…

Xorus (I think) posted a bow-zerging build just the other day I’ll go see if I can find it…

But other than that a few things are that the type of build you are trying to make is not going to be tanky so if you find yourself at the end of 15+ charging you its game over regardless of your armour/condition removal. You’d be better off maximising your damage and just positioning yourself away from the main hammer-spam of the zerg as to avoid dying that way.

Use a ranged pet and possibly keep them on passive in zerg battles, its they only possible way they will survive.

You dont have the armour to be going melee in a zerg battle so forget the GS and move 10 points from NM to WS, and take the GM trait which moves conditions to your pet.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Shortbow-Longbow-setup-for-Zerging/first#post2300085

There we go.. maybe that will give you some ideas.

Thank you all for answers. Running with guardian, warrior and engineer made me pretty confident in zerg fights, guess the first thing I need to do is to change mentality and avoid doing things I normally do in a fight. I’ve seen that build from Xsorus, the thing is I run 1350 condi dmg on my engineer and I’m looking for more variety, but I guess it’s not that bad idea and I might try it. Once again thank you and let’s hope rangers will get some love in future updates

I’m zerging only on rare occasions, but if you don’t want to go condition damage, then full zerker with 30/30/10/0/0 or 30/30/0/10/0 is really viable. LB + Axe/Axe, SotW, SotH, SoS. Your life insurance is nature’s protection, rejuvenation, and SoS. Red Moa (fury) + a ranged pet. SotW and SotH should be always used when not on CD (Axe #4 crit + opening strike + signet(s) right into the zerg makes some really nice damage). Well, you won’t contribute much with this setup, except for healing spring, but you do a “good” amount of damage to many enemies. Positioning is very important here.
Xorus build is for sure more nifty, and this one is the more clumsy approach, but you have damage and enough survivability here…