Guild Wars 2

Hey Druid community!
I’ve been playing thief exclusively since I started the game when HoT came out. And now, after about 7 months of only one class, I’m finally moving on from it.

I made a Ranger/Druid for a few reasons:
1) Wanted a break from pure melee style
2) Wanted a class that can hold its own in WvW
3) I’ve already made it and am really enjoying it

With that said, can anyone suggest a good build to use for WvW roaming/small-group play? I don’t go outside of WvW much. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

I think the build will change slightly between solo-roaming and small group-play. And I would totally provide a build to help, but It’s been forever since I’ve visited WvW xD

I’ll let someone else help with this.

Razor.9872:

I think the build will change slightly between solo-roaming and small group-play. And I would totally provide a build to help, but It’s been forever since I’ve visited WvW xD

I’ll let someone else help with this.

Understood! I think I’m looking more for a solo-roaming build then Thank you!

This is what I run as a solo roamer with slight alternatives lately, going for more power and less armor. I have zero issues killing anything, and 1v2’s aren’t usually difficult depending on what it is.

staff and sw+d is also acceptable but I like Ancient Seeds with LB, even untraited LB is a great weapon.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATWnUqAVsilsC2CCctglOB7pFEqWYO9tAQhDelOT3pl8s0A-TFCFABsv/QTKPW4SAAwTA4R1fSTXgSKxwSJIpAqYkF-w

iZakari.1076:

Razor.9872:

I think the build will change slightly between solo-roaming and small group-play. And I would totally provide a build to help, but It’s been forever since I’ve visited WvW xD

I’ll let someone else help with this.

Understood! I think I’m looking more for a solo-roaming build then Thank you!

This is probably the most op solo roaming build out there. Enjoy.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATWnUqA1Ci9CCOsActglOBDelGT3pO9tAQh7pFEqWYl8s0A-TFCFABXpEsQ1fQS5H77PAwTAINdBLcIAU/CAQKgy1aB-w

LughLongArm.5460:

iZakari.1076:

Razor.9872:

I think the build will change slightly between solo-roaming and small group-play. And I would totally provide a build to help, but It’s been forever since I’ve visited WvW xD

I’ll let someone else help with this.

Understood! I think I’m looking more for a solo-roaming build then Thank you!

This is probably the most op solo roaming build out there. Enjoy.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATWnUqA1Ci9CCOsActglOBDelGT3pO9tAQh7pFEqWYl8s0A-TFCFABXpEsQ1fQS5H77PAwTAINdBLcIAU/CAQKgy1aB-w

This is nice, personally closer to what I run now, but, I’m a huge fan of glyphs, they save my life a lot, do great damage, blind etc. And I like to have at least 3k toughness on medium armor classes, but that’s just me. Also not a fan of the low hp pool. I just replaced all jewelry with soldier. Left armor/weps zerker, with perma fury, 50% is good enough for me.

Furajir.3815:

LughLongArm.5460:

iZakari.1076:

Razor.9872:

I think the build will change slightly between solo-roaming and small group-play. And I would totally provide a build to help, but It’s been forever since I’ve visited WvW xD

I’ll let someone else help with this.

Understood! I think I’m looking more for a solo-roaming build then Thank you!

This is probably the most op solo roaming build out there. Enjoy.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATWnUqA1Ci9CCOsActglOBDelGT3pO9tAQh7pFEqWYl8s0A-TFCFABXpEsQ1fQS5H77PAwTAINdBLcIAU/CAQKgy1aB-w

This is nice, personally closer to what I run now, but, I’m a huge fan of glyphs, they save my life a lot, do great damage, blind etc. And I like to have at least 3k toughness on medium armor classes, but that’s just me. Also not a fan of the low hp pool. I just replaced all jewelry with soldier. Left armor/weps zerker, with perma fury, 50% is good enough for me.

Hi,
This build got 100% protaction up time, so going for 3k armor is kinda a waste on this build. Regarding plyphs, guard could be swaped with GoE. WvW got so meny random buffs to hp so I dont bother but if you want the easy fix, jsut change weapons to marauder, thats will put you on the 20k hp mark in WvW.

Wow, thanks everyone! Really digging the builds that I’m seeing. I’ll be sure to try them out when I get home tonight! There’s so much to learn haha.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAWBnUqAdrgVsCctglFB7JKcCWdLXuAwgDeqmV/qlI9xA-TlCHABBcBAETXgSKx2V9H8UCSwTAAJlBOp0Qk9HA4QAEAAB4m3MbezA/8n/8n/8nN0hO0bO0hWKg+GDA-w

I’ve been running this for several months. It is a hybrid condi/power build with some healing. There is so much utility and comboing that you can do that it is never out of tricks. 2 gap closers/retreats, lightning/water/smoke/poison field, 2 blasts/a leap/projectile finisher, on demand stealth with weapon swap chill/criticals, 3 daze, a knockdown, knockback, a stun, a stun break, taunt on F2, and a 16sec cooldown heal for 7k+ regen.

It is very hard to take down. I’m not the greatest player, not a min/maxer by any chance, but I do very well with this build playing on a laptop and clicking my skills like an old schooler.

You can easily stack up 7-10 poison stacks, 10-15 bleeds, and it leaves an open spot for whatever your favorite skill is. You can swap around some to take signet of the wild for stability and go with Entangle instead of SoTP, but I enjoy the long duration stability and I take the glyph of alignment usually for added punishment.

Other options in WvW are:

Sic Em, 40% damage on smokescale + speed and reveals them for 6 seconds……. nothing like a 10k combo on a thief/mes thats trying to get away and you save your final skill to flat out demolish them.

Search and Rescue, haven’t used it since the ?nerf? but i’m sure it still has its uses

Sharpening Stone for more bleedz

Spike trap for another knockdown/bleed

Signet of Stone for burst negation

Signet of the Wild for regen and more damage burst

Signet of Renewal for another stun break and cleanse

For escape, you have perma 33% speed and swoop/ancestral grace. Not many things can catch you, if any.

I’ve fared very well against reapers and mesmers, but it can be tough. You have to know their burst and kite to avoid it. Reapers you just have to avoid the shroud and pressure them while they’re out.

EDIT: I’ll likely go with Viper armor and Celestial weapons eventually, try to keep a happy 2000 attack and 1000 condi damage with near 20k health in WvW

This would be the change

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAWRnUqAdrgVsCGsCctglFBDeqmV/qPRhTwqb5yFAGclcs0A-TlCHAB2r+jSKxQSZgTKNI4JAAwhAIOdBBcBAEZ/B8UCuZQAYCJAbbb9/5XKg+GDA-w

I run very similar build to the above posters. I like berserker trinkets and weapons, and cele armor just to round out my stats. I also have defender runes on my cele armor, which is insanely powerful. My zerk armor has the PvE ranger runes.

Some moderate toughness, vitality, and HP will allow you to effortlessly shift between solo, small group, and zerg. But if you’re just using thief armor transferred to your ranger, zerker is a good choice.

Edit: OH! And where I dissent from most of the ranger community, I would never touch LB/Staff without the quick draw trait in skimishing. If you’re not familiar it doubles up your first weapon skill on weapon swap. So if you need defense you get doubled defense, and if you need offense you get doubled offense. Skirmishing also allows me to make use of my “default level” condi stats from cele.