Guild Wars 2

I recently went back to the old classic SB/LB berserker build, but then decided to sacrifice a bit of damage output for survivability.
Here’s what I ended up with~

Attack: 2939 (trying to bump it up to 3000~)
Critical Rate: 52% (72% with Red Moa’s Fury)
Critical Damage: 45%
Armor: 3066
Health : 15,682
Condition Damage: 360
Condition Duration: 20%
Heal: 60
The rest: 0

So heres the build (http://www.gw2build.com/builds/pow-crit-tough-pow-crit-tough-10058.html if you prefer pictures):

20 Marksmanship
I Steady Focus
VIII Piercing Arrows

20 Skirmishing
IV Primal Reflexes
X Quickdraw

30 Wilderness Survival
VI Wilderness Knowledge
IX Hide in Plain Sight
XI Empathic Bond (Nerfed, but still a viable choice, could switch to XII Barkskin. I still prefer condition removal)

Utility skills:
Heal as one
Quickening Zepher
Signet of the Renewal
Protect Me
Rampage as One

Pets (Always on “Avoid Combat”):
Red Moa
Wolf

As for gears. I use a full set of Knights/Emerald armor(Rune of the Divinity)/trinkets. Berserker backpack with Ruby jewel. Berserker Shortbow (Sigil of Air) and Longbow (Sigil of Fire). (Sidenote: these gears can be pretty expensive~). I haven’t bothered with Ascended gear yet. You can switch around the Knights/Berserker stat combination to your liking.

I’m a subpar player in terms of skill; I have bad timing and slow response time (I want to be like nerva.7940 so bad >_> go check out his “WvW Bunker Ranger Play” thread if you haven’t seen it yet), so I have traited and slotted easy-to-use skills/sigils/traits that either auto-activates/passives, or are very straightforward.

You’ll have:
2 condition removals (signet of renewal + empathic bond)
A few bursts (quickening zepher and LB skill2&5)
2 fury buff (rampage as one, red moa)
1 stability (rampage as one)
3 interrupts (wolf, SB skill5, LB skill4)
1 stun break (signet of the renewal)
1 invincible troll skill (protect me – lolol, okay, I’ll be honest here, with 3000ish toughness, I still feel a lil squishy without vit. Condition damage will still hurt you).

I didn’t bother putting 5 in BM coz pets can still die from AoE in WvW anyways and I don’t really QZ stake my victims, just strafe around the downed player and abuse piercing arrows. Besides that, if anyone has any ideas on how to improve this build, feel free to reply back 8D

5 in bm for pet swap quickness, essential for any ranger. and to not on top of it , its not about just staking victims on QZ with the pet swap… That’s just one minor little piece of awesome that comes with this sub trait… EVERYTHING is quicker… when you throw traps, when you cast f2 on pet, sword bursts (insane dmg output) , healing is instant.

you can coordinate combos around your pet swap w/ f2 …. do an insane quickness dmg combo followed by a fear with your wolf pet if you were to run him, etc.

so much to do with pet swap quickness besides just finishing people quick. i think QZ is a waste of a utility imo.

3000 toughness and 3000 power? That’s pretty cool, are you sure you mean toughness and not armour?

I think you miscalculated your armor.

Btw i’ve been running Toughness in PvE as well, mainly because, after doing the math, crit damage is very subpar on armor for a ranger.
Berserker jewels and Knight armor is a much better stat optimization then full berserker imho.

Problem is, in dungeons you tend to aggro ALOT, due to everyone running full zerker, and very is very little benefit against bosses due to oneshot mechanics.

In wvw i still prefer a bunker (heal+though) build, to survive 1v1

I run with knight set on WvW. Jewellery as well knight, but with berserker jewel. Stats quite similar. Traits are 0-30-30-5-5. With omnomberry ghost and fury (around 80% critical chance) you get spammed with 330hp recovery. Knight WvW build is amazing.

Whoops. Really sorry about the toughness. I meant armour =/

I was making this build while in WvW. So I wanted enough damage output to get registered kills during zergs and enough toughness to survive small group/solo combats.

@Ryan.8367 What would you sacrifice for 5BM then? and what would you replace QZ with? Thanks!

Lert.6287:

With omnomberry ghost and fury (around 80% critical chance) you get spammed with 330hp recovery.

Did you read last patch notes? Stop dreaming pls.