My gear: I’m using armor with Power/Precision/Condition Damage Stats. I use the Crest of the Rabid on all my armor pieces (20 Condition Damage/14 Precision/+14 Toughness) and Power/Vitality/Condition Damage Jewels. My weapon is Power/Precision/Condition Damage with Superior Sigil of Agony for 5% increase in bleeding duration.
The decision to choose Crests of the Rabid instead of Armor signets might sound kind of silly but they work quite well for me since I’m neither a condition damage build or a critical chance build. I’m something in between so Crests of the Rabid offer me a good amount of Precision and Condition Damage at the same time.
Let me know if this isn’t the right forums to post and I’ll remove it immediately. Hope you enjoy.
PS: Sorry for the bad video editing. First time I tried.
What type of armor / armor signets / weapon sigil do you use?
I’m using armor with Power/Precision/Condition Damage Stats. I use the Crest of the Rabid on all my armor pieces (20 Condition Damage/14 Precision/+14 Toughness) and Power/Vitality/Condition Damage Jewels. My weapon is Power/Precision/Condition Damage with Superior Sigil of Agony for 5% increase in bleeding duration.
The decision to choose Crests of the Rabid instead of Armor signets might sound kind of silly but they work quite well for me since I’m neither a condition damage build or a critical chance build. I’m something in between so Crests of the Rabid offer me a good amount of Precision and Condition Damage at the same time.
that video is before the sb nerf so just think that crap dmg you were doing there is even worse now. nice to see someone making ranger vids tho, gj.
This is false. All the fights included in the video are caught during this weekend, from early Saturday to Late Sunday. It was after the Short bow nerf, and honestly, I never noticed a difference big enough to damage the way I play in PvP.
What type of armor / armor signets / weapon sigil do you use?
I’m using armor with Power/Precision/Condition Damage Stats. I use the Crest of the Rabid on all my armor pieces (20 Condition Damage/14 Precision/+14 Toughness) and Power/Vitality/Condition Damage Jewels. My weapon is Power/Precision/Condition Damage with Superior Sigil of Agony for 5% increase in bleeding duration.
The decision to choose Crests of the Rabid instead of Armor signets might sound kind of silly but they work quite well for me since I’m neither a condition damage build or a critical chance build. I’m something in between so Crests of the Rabid offer me a good amount of Precision and Condition Damage at the same time.
Kinda interesting that you aren’t using Runes… And your link is a LIE!! you say you’re using a spider when there was no spider in that entire video! Sir you are a liar and a scoundrel!!
On a serious note though, you were pretty beast, and it pleases me that there are other rangers running around beasting it up!
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
that video is before the sb nerf so just think that crap dmg you were doing there is even worse now. nice to see someone making ranger vids tho, gj.
This is false. All the fights included in the video are caught during this weekend, from early Saturday to Late Sunday. It was after the Short bow nerf, and honestly, I never noticed a difference big enough to damage the way I play in PvP.
Thanks, I enjoyed making the video.
BOOM!! Owned! lol, it’s nice to know that i’m -not- delusional though and there wasn’t really a nerf… because i didn’t notice one on SB, ever really…
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
What type of armor / armor signets / weapon sigil do you use?
I’m using armor with Power/Precision/Condition Damage Stats. I use the Crest of the Rabid on all my armor pieces (20 Condition Damage/14 Precision/+14 Toughness) and Power/Vitality/Condition Damage Jewels. My weapon is Power/Precision/Condition Damage with Superior Sigil of Agony for 5% increase in bleeding duration.
The decision to choose Crests of the Rabid instead of Armor signets might sound kind of silly but they work quite well for me since I’m neither a condition damage build or a critical chance build. I’m something in between so Crests of the Rabid offer me a good amount of Precision and Condition Damage at the same time.
Kinda interesting that you aren’t using Runes… And your link is a LIE!! you say you’re using a spider when there was no spider in that entire video! Sir you are a liar and a scoundrel!!
Yep, that’s true. I like switching pets between Eagle, Raven, Jungle Spider and wolf depending on how I feel at the time. My primary pet is always my DPS pet which is either the Raven or the Eagle and my second pet is always the pet with a good CC skill at F2 (Wolf for Fear or Spider for Immobilize). In the video it just happened that I was using the wolf at that time.
What type of armor / armor signets / weapon sigil do you use?
I’m using armor with Power/Precision/Condition Damage Stats. I use the Crest of the Rabid on all my armor pieces (20 Condition Damage/14 Precision/+14 Toughness) and Power/Vitality/Condition Damage Jewels. My weapon is Power/Precision/Condition Damage with Superior Sigil of Agony for 5% increase in bleeding duration.
The decision to choose Crests of the Rabid instead of Armor signets might sound kind of silly but they work quite well for me since I’m neither a condition damage build or a critical chance build. I’m something in between so Crests of the Rabid offer me a good amount of Precision and Condition Damage at the same time.
Kinda interesting that you aren’t using Runes… And your link is a LIE!! you say you’re using a spider when there was no spider in that entire video! Sir you are a liar and a scoundrel!!
Yep, that’s true. I like switching pets between Eagle, Raven, Jungle Spider and wolf depending on how I feel at the time. My primary pet is always my DPS pet which is either the Raven or the Eagle and my second pet is always the pet with a good CC skill at F2 (Wolf for Fear or Spider for Immobilize). In the video it just happened that I was using the wolf at that time.
I was very impressed with the 1v2 fight you were in against the thief and ele, thought for sure you were going to wreck that ele and then claim the thieves soul (if you could pin em down, thieves are slippery kitteners)
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
What type of armor / armor signets / weapon sigil do you use?
I’m using armor with Power/Precision/Condition Damage Stats. I use the Crest of the Rabid on all my armor pieces (20 Condition Damage/14 Precision/+14 Toughness) and Power/Vitality/Condition Damage Jewels. My weapon is Power/Precision/Condition Damage with Superior Sigil of Agony for 5% increase in bleeding duration.
The decision to choose Crests of the Rabid instead of Armor signets might sound kind of silly but they work quite well for me since I’m neither a condition damage build or a critical chance build. I’m something in between so Crests of the Rabid offer me a good amount of Precision and Condition Damage at the same time.
Kinda interesting that you aren’t using Runes… And your link is a LIE!! you say you’re using a spider when there was no spider in that entire video! Sir you are a liar and a scoundrel!!
Yep, that’s true. I like switching pets between Eagle, Raven, Jungle Spider and wolf depending on how I feel at the time. My primary pet is always my DPS pet which is either the Raven or the Eagle and my second pet is always the pet with a good CC skill at F2 (Wolf for Fear or Spider for Immobilize). In the video it just happened that I was using the wolf at that time.
I was very impressed with the 1v2 fight you were in against the thief and ele, thought for sure you were going to wreck that ele and then claim the thieves soul (if you could pin em down, thieves are slippery kitteners)
It looks like he’s wearing “Knight” gear (power/precision/toughness), judging by the amount of damage he can take, the sub-20k healthpool and the amount of crits he has. As far as runes, perhaps Runes of the Undead (toughness/condition damage), but that’s just speculation. I can’t say for sigils.
It looks like he’s wearing “Knight” gear (power/precision/toughness), judging by the amount of damage he can take, the sub-20k healthpool and the amount of crits he has. As far as runes, perhaps Runes of the Undead (toughness/condition damage), but that’s just speculation. I can’t say for sigils.
He already said he was wearing Crests instead of Runes, which is odd, but still effective!!
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
It looks like he’s wearing “Knight” gear (power/precision/toughness), judging by the amount of damage he can take, the sub-20k healthpool and the amount of crits he has. As far as runes, perhaps Runes of the Undead (toughness/condition damage), but that’s just speculation. I can’t say for sigils.
My bad, should have made the post on my gear a bit more visible.
“I’m using armor with Power/Precision/Condition Damage Stats. I use the Crest of the Rabid on all my armor pieces (20 Condition Damage/14 Precision/+14 Toughness) and Power/Vitality/Condition Damage Jewels. My weapon is Power/Precision/Condition Damage with Superior Sigil of Agony for 5% increase in bleeding duration.
The decision to choose Crests of the Rabid instead of Armor signets might sound kind of silly but they work quite well for me since I’m neither a condition damage build or a critical chance build. I’m something in between so Crests of the Rabid offer me a good amount of Precision and Condition Damage at the same time."
Will edit the first post and the video description to have my gear too.
this video is kinda misleading, most players he was against were not lv80 (so most likely in crappy gears too), the only solid kill is VS that lv80 warrior, but you can always find some bad-skilled players even if they are lv80. At last the thief is not even lv80 too but give the ranger a real hard time, and once the lv80 ele came, fight ended quickly. I don’t think this video can change the fact that ranger sucks over all in pvp or wvw.
this video is kinda misleading, most players he was against were not lv80 (so most likely in crappy gears too), the only solid kill is VS that lv80 warrior, but you can always find some bad-skilled players even if they are lv80. At last the thief is not even lv80 too but give the ranger a real hard time, and once the lv80 ele came, fight ended quickly. I don’t think this video can change the fact that ranger sucks over all in pvp or wvw.
I love how whatever the discussion in this part of the forums is, it will always end up to whether rangers suck as a class. Maybe it was just that I wasn’t skilled enough. I messed up on several times in the video and had a lot of opportunities to turn the result of the battle.
But nevertheless, I’ll try uploading as many PvP videos on my ranger as possible, and hopefully they will only get better. Maybe then I can change the view that a lot of people have, thinking rangers are under powered. Till then, don’t take this video as the best results that a ranger can achieve in PvP.
But whatever, hope you enjoyed it.
PS: I’m not saying that the class needs 0 changes. As all of the classes in this game, this class needs a lot of twitching done. I am only saying that Rangers right now have equal possibilities to be good in PvP as other classes.
Before I gave up my ranger, he has near 9k kills in wvw, not exactly same build as yours, but close. I also used SB as my main wp. I think I have enough experience to say it. Yes I can kill ppl here and there. I can make a ganking video to show ranger power too by only showing my killing moment, but so what? Every class can do that simply becoz editting video is sooooo selective. It can’t change the over all feeling that ranger is underpowered. As you can see from the video, most of players he was against were quite below average skill level in wvw (maybe it’s server difference, but most of players I played against played much better than that, at least they won’t focus on killing the pet but leave the ranger alone shooting them down), the only one with some average skills is the thief at last and he is not even lv80.
Before I gave up my ranger, he has near 9k kills in wvw, not exactly same build as yours, but close. I also used SB as my main wp. I think I have enough experience to say it. Yes I can kill ppl here and there. I can make a ganking video to show ranger power too by only showing my killing moment, but so what? Every class can do that simply becoz editting video is sooooo selective. It can’t change the over all feeling that ranger is underpowered. As you can see from the video, most of players he was against were quite below average skill level in wvw (maybe it’s server difference, but most of players I played against played much better than that, at least they won’t focus on killing the pet but leave the ranger alone shooting them down), the only one with some average skills is the thief at last and he is not even lv80.
Okay, won’t continue the discussion on whether Rangers are good in PvP or not since that wasn’t the point of the video anyway and I don’t want to turn the thread into people disagreeing about it.
Hope you enjoyed the video nevertheless and that you will like the videos that I’ll upload soon. They will be much better than this one with better and more action paced PvP.
I would swap out “Hide in Plain Sight” for “Shared Anguish” but its pretty good.
I prefer Hide in Sight cause it also interrupts people. It basically removes me as a target, so when I come out of stealth there’s a pretty good chance they wont manage to target me straight away. Either cause of targeting the pet or just slow targeting. That gives me enough time to come back from the crowd control.
The build itself is nice, the video is not, sry.
You show many situations in which you finish people with half their health, dont see how that’s a proof for anything.
Not saying you are a bad player or something, but your video skills are really not good ^^
But hey, room for improvement ;-)
I suggest record in higher fps rate and putting in some slow-motion to show off some nice moves/evades.
Also some commentary would be nice, if not in speech at least in text form as video subtitles.
It’s always interesting to see the thoughtprocess behind the decisions you make in real combat.
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The build itself is nice, the video is not, sry.
You show many situations in which you finish people with half their health, dont see how that’s a proof for anything.
Not saying you are a bad player or something, but your video skills are really not good ^^
But hey, room for improvement ;-)
I suggest record in higher fps rate and putting in some slow-motion to show off some nice moves/evades.
Also some commentary would be nice, if not in speech at least in text form as video subtitles.
It’s always interesting to see the thoughtprocess behind the decisions you make in real combat.
Will keep in mind for the next video, thanks for the input.
