Guild Wars 2

I main a power necro so when rangers got that buff, I despised them to no end. I even rolled a condi ranger build to counter the DPSers.

These days I mostly queue solo ranked and was really impressed at how power rangers excelled at the conquest mode. For organized teams, I think rangers are in a similar boat as power necros.

I’ve only played the power ranger build in 280 or so matches so I’d appreciate tips and combos you guys have with pets.

Right now I use the wolf and sometimes swap that with the bear for cleansing. The marsh drake with its aoe poison is in a permanent spot. I’ve seen it cut a thief’s hp to half.

The double doge is just to kitten strong imo.. Double kd, witht he aoe fear and aoe immob when you need it, and used properly is op in itself…

Jungle (I think) spider in place of brown dog is pretty great. White owl is also very potent in 1v1s. Always run the wolf, though.

Birds, felines and spiders -> High DPS, high maintenance.

Spiders, drakes, canines and moas -> Moderate – high DPS, moderate maintenance.

Moas, porcine, bears and devourers -> Moderate – low DPS, low maintenance.

Spiders, drakes and canines are our best species for a plethora of purposes. Felines are primarily for DPS and Moa’s have their uses for F2 ability as well as their “Harmonic Cry” skill which can heal you for around 3k.

Spiders, drakes and canines are versatile, have good utility, are relatively durable and have good – great skills of their own such as the spider’s immobilize and the canine’s knockdowns.

Drakes are our only pets with cleave, they have the highest precision and are quite reliable for blast finishers. They do good DPS, not high but plenty acceptable and are very tanky. Drakes are our most well rounded species and personally anyway, I recommend every Ranger to have one as their secondary pet. That’s just IMO though.

If you want to be really annoying in PvP, take Wolf and Pink Moa. You can chain CC people while in downed state for lulz and they also synergize quite well with each other.

Best pets: Jaguar, Jungle Spider, River Drake, Wolf, Krytan Drake Hound, Raven, Pink Moa, Siamoth.

Jellyfish or drakes for anything underwater

Yes, the owl does crazy damage plus chill. It works well with elementalists. It gets killed pretty fast in team fights but I love it in 1v1s.

Hmm I’ll try double dogs, interesting concept. I’m sure my drake wouldn’t mind a break

SpellofIniquity – glad you have love for drakes. The river drake is by far my favorite

BUT guys why no love for the condi cleansing brown bear? Are bears really that bad?

Depends very much on the build wich pet I pick, I will always have the wolf on swap no matter what though.

My condition shout build uses drake and wolf

Longbow builds will mostly have spider and wolf

Underwater I still go with devourers they are truly unbeatable there, one with the stun the other with a poison field, shark is pretty good with the fear and the jelly for the imob but I still prefer devourers they also have consistent dps on a target nobody gets away from them there.

I’ve tried a lot of things, but I always come back to Wolf/Drakehound. the fear on the wolf is too darn good, and it comes with a knockdown as well. and drakehound’s immob being on a 20s cooldown makes it super good as well (as well as a knockdown.)

I’ve been trying the fernhound recently. going for a bit more tankiness to counteract the large amount of “omgglassdps!” that is the common match nowadays

simply put I almost away use the wolf and something else. If i have poison on the weapons that I’m using (any condi build) i use Drakhound. if i don’t have poison on my weapons (power LB/GS) then i use a spider. if Im going a pet orientated bunker I will use snow owl and some time i will used two birds.

so
Wolf/Drakhound – Condition builds (especially with poison master)
Wolf/Jungle spider – power builds
Wolf/Snow owl – beast master builds.

anything else is for very specific reasons/builds

I usually run a very durable regen ranger/ bunker build. I try to either use wolf/boar for a lot of cc, or wolf/ jungle stalker for the added dps.

PBs judge the range correctly and time it with Pig charge or pet swap > get the pig ready > muddy terrain+RF/barrage stack up might on crits and that pigs going to hit and hurt hard.

so funny when i first tried this combo in a guild scrimmage most of the guildies could not believe what i just did to them not expecting a pig to hit that hard.

I’m new to the ranger so I’d like to thank the people who’ve contributed insight into this thread. I like the wolf for the CC but I find the fear a bit overrated at least for my purposes. For me, the spider’s combo of CC plus poison field is the thing that’s indispensable. A DPS bird might be fun or maybe a boar double CC…

Thanks for the tips!

Eagle/Hawk dispensing cripple for days with Intimidation Training.

It’s not top tier stuff and it will go away with the update, but it sure is fun.

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Eagle/Hawk dispensing cripple for days with Intimidation Training.

It’s not top tier stuff and it will go away with the update, but it sure is fun.

IKR, wish this wasn’t being changed to weakness for certain builds I liked to use, but weakness can be pretty nice to.

I still love the stealth jauguar kittenin. With Sic ‘em revealing your target and providing that insane damage boost (get the pet ferocity trait too), it’s not uncommon to watch a jag down dps builds/zerkers in only a couple shots.

It is a funny situation, the Jaguar stealthing and attacking a thief who now cannot stealth, lol. Gold.

Double K9 Wolf/Khound

Wolf and river drake. I keep the river drake on cooldown until I can get them to blow their cooldowns or do something silly like try to revive an ally or stomp a friendly. Then, quick pet swap and lighting balls to the face. Wonderful combo.

Pretty much always drakehound/wolf.

Sometimes I would consider spider for the longer, single target immob, but usually the group immob from drakehound is more useful.