Guild Wars 2

PSA: The trait Verdant Etching combined with Grace of the Land causes each of your Glyphs to apply a 3% damage buff to all allies, including yourself, and your pet. You do not have to be in Celestial Form to receive this dmg buff.

What does this mean?

SUM DURIDS IS 4 ZERKING!!!!!!!

You trade off Spotter and Quick Draw to increase damage of you, your pet, and your allies.

-Traits-

Marksmanship: Clarion Bond, Steady Focus, Predator’s Onslaught.
Beastmastery: Companion’s Might, X, Zephyr’s Speed,
Durid: X, Verdant Etching, Grace of the Land

Skills: Troll Unguent, Glyph of Empowerment, Glyph of Equality, Frost Spirit, Glyph of Unity

Usage:

Use Troll Unguent outside battle to charge your Celestial Form.

Cast all your utility skills for Frost Spirit + 3x Glyphs for a 29% dmg buff for you and your pet.

Remember Seed of Life blinds foes, heals, and removes conditions to all allies, in addition to the damage buff.

Swap your pet for quickness and fury, cast Celestial Form #5 for approx 15k dmg, swap to sword/axe, throw your axe, and slash things until they die.

Use Axe #5 for projectile block.

If you’re not using Longbow, then Staff is your swap utility weapon.

- Staff as a utility weapon, a primer-

Blast Finisher: Staff #3.

Projectile Block: Your #5 is a projectile block on a low cooldown.

Mobility: Staff #3. Do not use this as an evade because it ends early if it’s not moving.

Quickly charging Life Shroud and Interrupting: If for some reason you need to quickly charge your life shroud, use skill #2 and skill #1.

Reasons for quickly charging Celestial Form: Celestial #3 is a spammable Daze you can use to quickly break a boss’ breakbar. Furthermore, you may need to use Celestial Form #5 for its immobilize. Sometimes, your heal is on cooldown, and you can use #4 to heal you and your team.

Emergency Interrupt: If you use the trait the trait Primal Echoes, Staff can serve as an emergency-daze you can use any time you swap weapons.

…… But most of the time, you’ll just be slashing foes with your sword, provided you do not fall off a cliff.

Pros:

- durid dmg buffs 2 stronk
- Lots of condition removal
- Possibly(?) the highest Ranger DPS^ Citation needed
- Glyph of Unity is retaliation steroids
- Lots of Projectile Blocking if Staff is your swap

Cons:
- Casting a glyph will plant a 1s Light Field
- No Spotter :’(
- No quick-draw
- Not much flexibility for utility slots
- Celestial Form is difficult to build and fades away too quickly, making it difficult to actually use for emergency heals