Guild Wars 2

Hey all

I’ve played Ranger since launch but have been dropping in and out of the class. The problem I’m facing is that I just feel useless as a ranger. Now, I’m not calling the class useless, but I’m guessing I’m doing something wrong in my aproach.

I use a condition centered build, my gear has thoughness, prec and con damage on it and use rune of the undeath. The idea behind this gear is to have some survivability, while still able to do decent damage. I want to be able to take some punishment. I use a shortbow and sword + offhand (I have switch the offhands arround).

Yet my plans haven’t worked out. I have tried many different builds yet I always face the same problems that just make me not enjoy playing. I die almost instantly, my pets die almost instantly too (Unless I roll bear or something else). I simply don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

So I come here with a few questions, since I’m probably missing something. First of all, what kind of build do you guys suggest I’d aim for? I liked playing arround with traps, but I don’t mind other suggestions. What stats should I be aiming for so that I can take some punishment and with skillfull play can actualy survive quite a while (since I imagine you’d have to make use of dodging with skills and manage energy to acomplish this, which I like).

Thanks in advance ^^

Where are you feeling useless in? Large group fights, small skimrishes or 1v1-3 duels?

Mostly instances, explorables. I simply think that the rest of the group is having to put extra work because I’m just not efficent enough with ranger. ^^

0/30/30/5/5 is popular and easy to run with for condy builds and traps. Will provide extra toughness for you and gives you bigger, better traps.

the extra toughness in group settings will attract more aggro, It’s just the way the game is setup so be ready for that. Play it like a cannon build and kite everything you can dropping traps on the move and dodging when necessary. I find my ranger pretty survivable with about 2800 armor and traps.

it just takes some getting used to…

Well in dungeon instances, picking up a devourer or spider will help them stay up longer being ranged. As for yourself your stat setup seems fine, but in terms of utilities something like lightning reflexes or the signet that pulls conditions away is good to have. In terms of using traps, a good approach I have found is instead of dropping them and waiting for a mob/group of mobs to jump on them it is easier to throw traps at mobs to get maximum spread.

Thanks for the replies so far, I’ll look into these things later. And yeah, I’ve always thrown my traps straight at the enemies =^.^= and I should probably use the ranged pets but I just love my Mr. whiskers