Guild Wars 2

Hi fellow rangers! \o/ ~
Just here posting a build that I have been having experimenting with since the patch hit and with the new WHaO! Just sharing, hope you guys have fun with it!

LINK TO BUILD
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNBMhNakSFqYxSWwTF4axAjQ5hepf6/TMstMHufbAcxHnMB-TxBBABScGAwa/R5HAHCg80HwwDAoS1fOTJIA-e

Disclaimer This is a support/power build. This build is not your min/max build. Or maybe it is as I did not do the math. However, it has proven useful to me through my playtime

Summary
This is a support/power build. Primary goal of this build is to provide buffs, spotter and to maintain decent damage in your party. You will be applying REGEN, SWIFTNESS and FURY on your party and thus, the build’s name. Fury might not have high stacked duration however, fret not, you are able to re-apply it easily with warhorn #5.

In addition, equipping Storm Spirit and using Longbow #2 will allow your party to maintain 25 stack of vulnerability on enemies easily. This allow faster clearing of mobs as well.

Pros:
*Support build with boons such as regen, swiftness, fury and might
*Can apply vulnerability easily with storm spirit
*Decent damage
*Decent Survivability

Cons:
*You will be constantly casting your shouts and warhorn #5
*Sword auto attack is your main attack chain and it is eeeky.
[Yes, they should have fixed it ]
*Weakness to conditions [You have no condition clear unless you bring Brown Bear along]
*Need to party set up to fully benefit from this build such as a cleanser role in your party or if there’s 2 rangers running this build, this build might not be optimal.

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Specialisation
Skirmishing -
2 – Primal Reflexes
1 – Spotter / Strider’s Defense [if there’s another Spotter ranger]
1 – Quick Draw

Nature Magic -
2 – Instinctive Reaction / Bountiful Hunter / Allies’ Aid
3 – Windborne Notes
2 – Protective Ward / Nature’s Vengeance

*Choose Bountiful Hunter for more damage, Allies’ Aid to be even more as a support,
Instinctive Reaction if you plan to run clerics for the extra heal and extra power
(as mentioned, this is not a min/max build)

*Nature’s Vengeance if you feel like it and do not like the 15s ICD on Protective Ward however, personally, I would suggest Protective Ward over Nature’s Vengeance as Spirits are immobile and they can die prematurely in fights.

Beastmastery -
3 – Resounding Timbre
3 – Natural Healing
2 – Zephyr’s Speed

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Healing and Utility
HEALING -

• “We Heal as One!”

UTILITY -

• “Signet of the Wild”
• “Quickening Zephyr”
• “Storm Spirit’

or you can switch out Storm Spirit with

• “Frost Spirit” [if pt has enough vulnerability debuffers]
• “Signet of Stone” [for extra safety]
• “Signet of Renewal” [for condi cleansing]

ELITE -

• “Strength of the Pack”

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Pets

• Feline – Jungle Stalker
  Vulnerability debuff and Buffs 5x Might.

• Canine – Fern Hound
  Regen Buff

• Moa – Blue/Red Moa
  Vulnerability debuff, Protection and Fury buffs respectively.

• Ursine – Brown Bear
  Condition clearing, tanking

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Gears / Runes / Sigils
Currently, I have only play it in Zerkers armour, rings and trinkets but with all the passive healing you can churn out, you are “tanky” enough.

Scholar Runes for more damage output but of course, you guys can experiment with healing runes.

Sigils will be Bloodlust/Fire/Accuracy for more damage output

Going Clerics can be fun as the healing can be pretty insane for you and your party members.

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Food/etc
Any power/precision boosting food for more damage
Healing power food for more healing :P

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Rotation
Here is some simple rotation that I did to boon share/stack:
-“Strength of the Pack”
-Warhorn#5
-Pet F2 – Jungle stalker – 5x Might
-“We Heal as One”

• Always try to use Quickdraw for Warhorn#4 or Longbow#2

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Conclusion
Feel free to make any suggestions or variation of it! Hope you guys have fun with it!

Edit : added Runes and Sigils
Edit : added Support / power build fact

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Not a bad build but definitely suffers from Math restrictions (because Math can only go that far)
1st of all, you sacrificed 20% of your DPS (MM) for Beast Mastery Tree. That only provides like 7-8% and only if your target is stationary and your pet is alive.

And you used instinctive reaction with 0 healing power. Which means you need to go below 50% HP to utilize any use out of it.
Sacrificing another 6-10% damage.

This build has flaws. Offers nothing that the build I proposed wouldn’t and still deals less damage while doing that.

NM is a weak traitline, you are much better off taking Marksmanship for 2x 10% dmg modifier and clarion bond which is pretty good now.

@TragicPositive – yeap, its not a min/max build anyway. Its a supportive/power build.
Instinctive reaction is primarily for peeps who want to mix in healing stats gears and to make up with the power stats lost. You can always grab Bountiful Hunter for extra dmg modifier.

@Stilgar – I wont disagree that Nature Magic traitline can be a bit lacklustre as compared to Marksmanship for damage modifier however, with the post patch to WHaO, it is mandatory for this build to take Nature Magic for Linger Magic as to maintain boons uptime.

I like Nature Magic for Protective Ward and Windborne Notes, the AoE weakness and warhorn spam for buffs can help team pull through sticky situations especially for fractals. Not forget Steady Focus is not that reliable as dodging is a must in order to mitigate dire damage.

I would say this build is more forgiving than the standard build

nobleroar.2078:

@TragicPositive – yeap, its not a min/max build anyway. Its a supportive/power build.
Instinctive reaction is primarily for peeps who want to mix in healing stats gears and to make up with the power stats lost. You can always grab Bountiful Hunter for extra dmg modifier.

The thing is that the build is inferior (in everything) to this:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/PvE-build-DPS-Booster-Ranger/

In personal DPS, in Party Support… Simply everything.

Tragic Positive.9356:

nobleroar.2078:

@TragicPositive – yeap, its not a min/max build anyway. Its a supportive/power build.
Instinctive reaction is primarily for peeps who want to mix in healing stats gears and to make up with the power stats lost. You can always grab Bountiful Hunter for extra dmg modifier.

The thing is that the build is inferior (in everything) to this:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/PvE-build-DPS-Booster-Ranger/

In personal DPS, in Party Support… Simply everything.

Did you just link me to your build o_O"" ? rofls I tried out your build and will give my 2cents over there soon after.

Anyway, edited disclaimer of build that it is a Support / power build.

I will not compare builds but just to share this forgiving build version that can be of help for new players or veterans who are bored of marksmanship spec and would like something different.

I would have to disagree on this build being inferior in party support simply because this build grants high regen uptime and your pet can actually survive more often with Beastmastery spec-line. TRY IT~