Guild Wars 2

What are the best choices of weapon sets for the Ranger in WvW small groups, solo roaming, and ZvZ respectively? I’ve been using Sword / Warhorn, Axe / Warhorn, Longbow, and Sword / Axe.

It’s cliche but it depends on how you play or what you’re doing. Everyone rants and raves over GS, but I refuse to use one. I like going mainhand axe for tagging, warhorn for blast and longbow for dat range. I typically run with the zerg and solo the occasional camp, and this combo works for me.

Greatsword can be really good, if you’re asura and really want to own roaming run GS/SB 20/30/20 the big thing is Moment of Clarity turns technobabule into a 5 second daze.

I do SB/LB—with the -20% cooldown on bow skills.
I’m not gonna list all the other stuff I’ve got to support this, but I’ll tell you how my game plays out;

In a group, the LB with Sigil of Doom and skill 5 combined with Zephyr and/or Sharpening Stone for massive AoE direct and condition damage. Skill 4 is great for saving allies from enemy finishers. Elite Skill Entangle—no explanation required.

Lone Roaming, The LB with Sigil of Energy, Skill 1 to waste enemy block skills, before using Skill 4 to maintain distance. Pop the Zephyr and Sharpening Stone then Skill 2 for burst damage as they’re recovering from the knockback. Hit Might on the Pet Cat, Switch to SB and it Skill 2 (Poison) also augmented by other gear to hinder their healing ability and apply the poison condition. Burn through the SB skills as necessary (only using Skill 3 to evade) before switching back to LB (Get energy from LB Sigil for more evades here) Skill 4 to knockback…. rinse and repeat.

My gear/runes and accessory stats lean slightly towards condition damage/duration but otherwise generally follow a Power, Precision, Toughness theme, the final result brings about a fairly balanced and solid damage output/survivability ratio.