Guild Wars 2

Hey guys , I wanted to share my thoughts on a new build i have been working on for the last few weeks . I am especially motivated by the last kick in the groin we got from Anet , but that was not so bad because rangers are far better now in dungeons then they ever were . The pet HP buff is really good .

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Without further ado , I bring you the PRO ranger bearbow….. JK LOL

Traits *

-20 into marksmen , beastmasters bond/steady aim and spotter

-20 into skirmisher , 30% extra pet crit , quickdraw

-30 into beastmaster , shout mastery(WvW roaming)/F2 cooldown (WvW zerg, PvE) , vigorous training , zephyr speed

Armor set
- Knights armor (toughness , precision and power ) , Superior runes of the pack ( 25 pow , 20% swift , 50 power , chance for swift/fury/might on hit , 90 power , 100 precision )

Trinkets
-mix of cavalier and berserker, cavalier and knight , cavalier and celestial . All 3 combinations work .

Weapons
-cavalier(toughness, power , critical damage) longbow with sigil of energy , cavalier sword with sigil of energy and cavalier warhorn with sigil of bloodlust .

pets
-for solo roaming raven/owl/hawk and brown bear .
-for PvE corner stacking and WvW zerging , fury moa and jungle stalker
-hard hitting bosses in dungeons use drakes . Spiders work wonders too

utilities
-Quickening Zephyr , protect me , signet of the hunt which you swap before combat for Signet of Renewal/stone/sick em/Kormirs blessing/signet of the wild….
-in hard dungeons where you expect huge boss hits equip both signet of hunt and stone .

The gameplay idea :

This build is by no means a glass cannon build and it is not a tank build . It is sort of a hybrid with its raw 3000 attack , 2800 armor , 40% critical chance . There is a lack of passive condition removal and vigor from not going into wilderness survival, but it is offset by the bear F2 and vigor on swap .
The strong sides of this build is the strong pressure from a full BM bird with both critical hit damage boost and spotter , generous offering of quickness , 2 stun breakers (3 if signet of renewal) , almost perma fury and swiftness in combat , and an invlunerability for 6 seconds every 48 seconds (for roaming ).
For dungeons it offers a lot of team play potential with spotter, boon sharing , supportive pets , quickness for resurections , etc..

So how would one play in a duel ? You would probably open up with attacking with the longbow and using bear first because as soon as you connect you would swap for a bird to get the quickness boost to rapid fire and barrage asap . Keeping the bird in combat until you get a small spike of conditions on you or you get stunned at which point you would swap to bear and use protect me or condi cleanse . Swapping between range and melee is dependant on the flow of the battle , but usually you want to do it when the bird is in combat to buff it for more dps .
The rest of the battle depends on the flow , but remember even after protect me you got zephyr from utils and swaps . This is by no means a low DPS build , on the contrary .

NOTE : Feel free to use berserker accessories for dungeons , but only accessories . Change up pets in dungeons depending on the path and boss .

HAVE FUN

You can’t rely on Bear’s f2 condition removal when going into any serious player vs. player. You’d get crushed quickly. Either SoR or EB is IMO mandatory and base for any pvp ranger build outside of 100% melee condi tank which can stay inside H. Spring for whole duration.

I run something pretty similar.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRAsY3XjEVR2FWCWsWCili9s/mCOZemiDVIXBUVyoqA-jgzAYLiIaEGGZJykIQiAQyDL7JkmAjYlsIas6FMlLq6Ny63g4NwAA-e

This is pretty much what I have been running for the past two weeks in zergs. It’s probably not the best dueling setup but I find it offers a great level of flexibility when going from zerg mindliner to running supply or killing a yak on the other end of borderlands.

When running the three sig setup I usually swap out knowledge for healer’s celerity. The bonus is pretty weak but faster rez’s are faster rez’s I guess.

I usually run spring for the obvious team utility in zergs but switch to renewal sig and trolls when out solo. Oh and when not in battle swap out one of your offhands for a warhorn for blasts and teams swiftness otherwise you’s a bad ranger…

It’s looking pretty good to me. Do you recommend food for endurance regen?

well, depends on the area a player feels he is lacking in , but i would go for power food

Not to criticise but I think that your build just looks like in the number with ascended. If you swap it to exotic, your trinket is just sub-par quality. Which don’t cover neither here nor there.

Your build is very focus in making sure that your pet remain alive(a typical BM). Troll urgent provide awesome regen but no condi cleanser and also if you use to keep your pet alive the regen maybe a bit slow if you are XvX in WvW or boss dungeon. If your pet is dead, you will have no cleanser at all. You should probably not advice people to take protect me since if your pet take your share of damage as well, they will down even faster. The major trait in BM allow your pet to be in active again 20% faster which is nice but once your pet down, your damage will just become pure raw. Your crit chance is about 60% since it’s ascended. But you are really not that bunker.

But overall is pretty decent BM (with the current AI for pet and the mechanic, thereis probably no BM build that can be called “Awesome”). It’s also not a very cheap build as well with these trinket. People might have to invest another set of trinket just to run higher level FotM.

Well, I don’t know about pet death being too much of an issue. Remember at least for dungeons the pets got a 71% health buff. I was running stalker the other day in HOTW with zero beastmastery points and it seemed to live for a good time without recall from boss attacks. I think I just swap and avoided most pet death. Pet will still die sometimes though but not as much as before.

How is the build working ?