Guild Wars 2

Hi, I’m new to ranger and I was just curious as to what the best way to level a ranger is at the moment. Information like Weapons, healing, utility skills, and pets would be incredibly helpful. Thanks!

Hey man. If your gonna do 100% maps (hearts n stuff) for levels your best bet is to take. Longbow and Axe/Warhorn. Use some tanky pets which you send first and then you just shoot them to death with your longbow.

Traitwise I’d probably start getting I’d go something like 0/20/10/0/0 for your first 30 points and go and go 30/20/10/0/0 after for another 30. With the last 10 in nature magic when almost done.

Utilities probably: Lightning Reflexes, Sic em and signet of the Hunt.

Elite: Rampage as One.

Leveling build = having a pet.

I’d recommend melee over the longbow so killing trash doesn’t take so long. Flame trap is pretty good for that even if you’re 100% power, and you can blast it with your warhorn to give yourself and your pet some quick might. I’d skip any single target long cool down things like sic’ em*. Pet options would be the highest DPS pets of jungle stalker, lynx, or jaguar, or birds for added swiftness. Drake pets have a little AoE, and they are tanky enough to handle champions. Skip healing spring and take one of the other two heals. HS is for group support. Master’s bond doesn’t scale down so that it a popular trait for leveling, the rest is pretty much whatever you want to do.

This is all with the presumption you’re not having any problems simply because you have a pet and are familiar with GW2.

*Edit: Actually I change my mind, sic ‘em wouldn’t that bad for trash. The uptime would be 25% which is totally reasonable, if you use it on a full health target you don’t spike down.

Yeah I guess greatsword would be better. But I’m lazy and just want to pew pew from distance lol.