Guild Wars 2

Decided to start recording again, just a little mash up vid of my Asuran Melee Ranger Ochit McGoogle in PVP over the last couple of days. Nothing high end but I don’t see many shout melee rangers so hey!

That tail move…too strong!

Heya Donee =D

Yup that Drake lol!!

Good stuff.

Thanks Fluffball =)

appreciated.

Nice to see something different from LB/GS ranger. Do you have a link to your build? I’d love to give it a try.

I’ll post the build when I get home, working now. =)

And yeah, that’s why I posted the Vid because its a power melee shout build and I dont come across many people spec’d this way. So if nothing else its a nice change.

Sardath.8524:

Nice to see something different from LB/GS ranger. Do you have a link to your build? I’d love to give it a try.

Clarion Bond, MoC and Remorseless, Oakheart Salve, Shared Anguish, Empathic Bond, Resounding Timbre, 2-handed Training and Beastly Warden (PvP clips, he had a different build for WvW.)

I think anyway, I don’t want to rewatch the whole thing to analyze it. :P

Fluff nailed it, I use cavalier/soldier runes and intelligence/energy sigils for the auto crit on swap for Maul and PoS

5:40 now that’s what you call, in the nick of time! love it when you just just make it there to save someone who’s got both feet in heaven when you yank them back xD nice video cheers

Too bad he drops like a rock as soon as he’s up and I have to pick him up again lol

I use the hound to root:taunt and get him up the second time

Very nice stuff. Shows you what Rangers are capable of!

I really need to level asura ranger for myself, look at those chubby little feet! Kicking some serious butts and stuff!

Ninjaeditwoo: What’s the second song called?

The song is How ya like me now by The Heavy

Ahhhh it sounded super familiar just couldn’t connect the dots, I have the album that song is in :x

Sarlack.4096:

The song is How ya like me now by The Heavy

1st time I have heard these guys, really really great song! And really great video, well done!

Have had a few request to post the build despite Fluff’s accurate analysis =D

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAR8XnUqAtCiVsA2CCctgh/gaf9MIA+04HG+ufrhZIlf8l3eA-TJBHABA8EA6Z/BlLDMwFBAA

Voila!

I ran something similar like this before, while its fun to see the large melee numbers, because it can deal those pretty good, it lacks so much over survival skills that against most competent players you will be easily dealt with due to lacking staple survival skills like lightning reflexes or signet of stone since project me is often lackluster at best.

With that said, it can still be a pretty fun build to run with.

Kitty.1502:

I ran something similar like this before, while its fun to see the large melee numbers, because it can deal those pretty good, it lacks so much over survival skills that against most competent players you will be easily dealt with due to lacking staple survival skills like lightning reflexes or signet of stone since project me is often lackluster at best.

With that said, it can still be a pretty fun build to run with.

The build has a ton of survival, Empathic Bond/Shouts removing Condi, 3K Armor, tons of evades. I would think the 2nd songs clips made that clear that its NOT just big burst but good sustain as well. I understand the SoS vs PM arguement. I just found PM fits what “I” am doing better is all. I think they both have their merits =D

Sarlack.4096:

Kitty.1502:

I ran something similar like this before, while its fun to see the large melee numbers, because it can deal those pretty good, it lacks so much over survival skills that against most competent players you will be easily dealt with due to lacking staple survival skills like lightning reflexes or signet of stone since project me is often lackluster at best.

With that said, it can still be a pretty fun build to run with.

The build has a ton of survival, Empathic Bond/Shouts removing Condi, 3K Armor, tons of evades. I would think the 2nd songs clips made that clear that its NOT just big burst but good sustain as well. I understand the SoS vs PM arguement. I just found PM fits what “I” am doing better is all. I think they both have their merits =D

Issue is that removing 1 condi per shout + 3 condi every 10 seconds (which you don’t control and can be really bad in certain situations) is much more limited than survivals 2 per when survival also gives you access to better control methods that you can further prevent condi from even getting on you in the first place. Toughness is nice against builds that rely on sustain, but the best classes atm all rely for the most part on burst dps, where toughness isn’t as good.

I think this build might really shine with druid though, I will be taking another look at this build on the 23rd, its a good base. Not saying its bad, it just seems to be lacking good enough sustain for staying in melee, which druid should fix it.

Mind you a lot of what I stated is a subjective thing.

Very nice, both the video and the gameplay!

OGDeadHead.8326:

Very nice, both the video and the gameplay!

Thanks much, appreciated =)

I tried the build, it’s really fun and nobody expects a ranger closing in

One question though, why are you using the River Drake? Seems to me that the Salamander or even the Marsh Drake deal more damage.

Sardath.8524:

I tried the build, it’s really fun and nobody expects a ranger closing in

One question though, why are you using the River Drake? Seems to me that the Salamander or even the Marsh Drake deal more damage.

River does really good damage with the F2 and it stacks might really well with SoTP too.

Sardath.8524:

I tried the build, it’s really fun and nobody expects a ranger closing in

One question though, why are you using the River Drake? Seems to me that the Salamander or even the Marsh Drake deal more damage.

River’s bolts bounce and have decent range so if there are enemies behind me and my prime target in front it will bounce off the guys behind me. I personally find I land it more than the Drakes, the Reef misses F2 all the time!

Also, I know it applies to all the Drakes but I have had bounces for 2500-2800 per bolt/per target so thats 10K AE if he’s enlarged/Sick em and landed an initial crit. I like to use whirling blades in harmony with it as enemies notice the Drake less when I flair my arms like a raving lunatic =D

Edit: For what it’s worth I saw a half dozen people running my build last night in PVP =D

Gave this a go last night. Very fun. Awesome for farming scrubs and plenty of sustain.

Only changes I made were SoS for sotw, and zeyphers over bw.

The drake tail swipe on pet swap/activation is awesome. I can’t believe I’ve never tried that in 3 years!

@Sube Dai

I would expect people to vary it a little to taste, it’s the concept that basically stays the same.

Yeah I have played with Zephyr and it lends VERY well with quickened Tailswipes instead of BW and it IS fun but I find I can provide a lot of utility to others with BW. I use it to Rez and pull target from the guy getting stomped all the time. Also I would have expected SOS over PM not SoTW =) …That enlarge!!

I uploaded another video just haven’t posted it yet