Guild Wars 2

Hello guys,

so the problem is… I looked up many ranger builds for competitive pvp and this of course excludes all the glass cannon builds, but still leaves a lot of options on the table. Namley: trap build, beastmaster build and maybe spirit build.

I dont really like the spirit build because its a one trick pony (although that may be some complex trick), and its heavily CD dependant. So that leaves trap or beastmaster.

For both builds I think this should be the core – as I want to focus on survivability:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmo9hGa0cRc

And from this point on I’m kinda lost…

For a BM build, I have a few possibilities in mind:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmo9iaGaxocRcVoq

As imho Agility Training is vital if you rely so much on pet dmg. However this build does two things: adds crit chance and crit dmg that are both useless for this build as the build’s dmg mostly comes from your pet and from conditions.

Other versions of this build may be:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmo9hxaxcRqcVoq – this one seems to be the most coherent, however it lacks the movement speed buff for the pet.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmo9iax0xocRqVoq – now your pet is fast, but you just have thrown out a huge amount of survivability buy dropping those 10 point from Nature’s Magic, moreover the useless crit issue comes again

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmo9iaGaxocRoVoq – maybe dropping the last 10 points from Wilderness survival…

And as for a trap build:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmo9ixxa0oRqcRqo – this one looks ‘nice’ when only looking at the skills and abilities that it gives you. But there is a huge conflict again between crit and condi dmg. You need those trap buffs from Skirmishing, but traps do condition dmg… -.-

As you probably have noticed already I’m leaning towards one of the BM builds, although I dont seem to find the right choice from the above. (Nature’s Wrath seems really cool as it turns survivability into power.) So any help would be appreciated.

Ty

p.s: Dwayna’s Runes all the way (They are the heal buffers, right?)

p.s. 2: Just for the sake of simplycity: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmo9hxaxcRqcVoq – is it worth moving 10 points from this build into Skirmishing to have Agility Training? If so, then what would be the most effective way to do that?

dont forget about the shout build which is very strong aswell.