Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

I started GW2 at launch with a Ranger, but then i switched to a Thief for my 1st WvW experience.

So now i want to try and play my ranger again, after some reading I decided to try the Catmaster build.

I use Rabid jewels and 4 Carrion armour / 2 sentinel armour pieces with Geomancy sigils

Now i tried it out in WvW a bit, and i find it very hard to kill… well anything really…

The pet is usually not constant enough as the enemies get away from it very easily.

Im using SB/GS atm so i try and keep my enemies crippled, dazed, chilled but still… i find im not doing enough dmg against most classes with the condition gear…

Do i just have to L2P or is my setup just completely bad?

If it’s the setup, do you have any suggestions on what to change?

Thanks in advance

I myself play a condition ranger as well, and have to admit it takes some time to get the max out of the build of course.. For instance, make sure you’re always hitting your target from the side/back with SB#1: A bleeding stack each time you hit, it’ll hurt. I can easily keep up 10 bleeding stacks of 113 dmg on my target, resulting in 1,130 dmg per tick.

Do not expect to burst with a SB (or any other weapon), ranger just isn’t that great in doing heavy DPS in a short time. I crit (63% chance) for 600-650 dmg with a shortbow, so it takes no genius to realise that the bleeding is doing more dmg in time..
Also, add some condition sigil to your SB? I use a sigil of corruption on mine (increased condition dmg for each kill, max 25 stacks), but you can of course use a sigil of earth (chance to inflict bleeding on crit).

Overall: Hit, condition (bleed, poison, cripple), evade and keep out of range (use crowd control from your pet if it has – I use doggy (knockdown/immobilize) and spider (poison/immobilize). And just see your target’s health droppping insanely..

I see what you are saying, I think i want to step away from the cat probably…
This is my build apart from 2 pieces of sentinel armour

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|1.1h.0|5.1o.0|1h.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719|1b.62.1b.62.1b.62.1h.62.1b.62.1b.62|0.a1.u3ab.0.u57c|0.0|4i.4w.4q.4r.55|e

Any suggestions?

Wooli.1780:

I see what you are saying, I think i want to step away from the cat probably…

Always bear in mind that builds differ a lot.. You might feel more at ease playing with a cat pet and your playing style might be dedicated to this pet. So make sure that, when you change your pet, you interact differently in your battles. (for instance: swapping out a melee pet with a ranged pet -> keep in mind to position yourself behind the pet when getting aggro’d from a ranged character)

Wooli.1780:

This is my build apart from 2 pieces of sentinel armour

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|1.1h.0|5.1o.0|1h.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719|1b.62.1b.62.1b.62.1h.62.1b.62.1b.62|0.a1.u3ab.0.u57c|0.0|4i.4w.4q.4r.55|e

Any suggestions?

I’ll have to check later when I get home from work.. But I’ll check it out and give you some feedback..