Guild Wars 2

I’m looking to play around with a new style of play with my ranger other then short bow. Any good melee builds for World Vs. World or in general?

Shortbow is the new Melee

whitespirit.9734:

Shortbow is the new Melee

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Well soon in order to match the short bow range change, they gonna reduce axe range to make it melee

Tolytt.7963:

whitespirit.9734:

Shortbow is the new Melee

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Agreed.

Sword/Dagger or Sword/Warhorn with Greatsword.

BlusterWolf.2103:

Well soon in order to match the short bow range change, they gonna reduce axe range to make it melee

If it would cleave like the sword and not root the user in place, I’d happily accept the change.

Leave it to the ranger section forum goers to turn an innocent question into a spam fest for their QQ.

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I haven’t tested this yet but this is what I was thinking for a full melee build. (I can’t remember what weapons i put in there (the site is blocked at work), but GS + Sword/Warhorn or S/D should work fine with it.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|c.1c.h2.g.1c.h4|1.1c.h2|1c.7x.1c.7x.1c.7x.1c.7x.1c.7x.1c.7x|4u.0.2u.0.3u.0.2u.0.3u.0.2u.0|0.0.u4ac.u35c.a3|2m.1|4i.4y.4l.4k.55|e

Almost 2.4 power, 27k hp and 3k armor, with perma swiftness, perma regen, a condition cleanse every 12 seconds and 2 stun breakers and the pet will also get 83% protection uptime.

This is designed to be in the brunt of a zerg. Not sure how well the damage fares, but in a zerg, staying alive is more important than dealing as much damage as possible.

in old times i used a 30/0/20/20/0 GS build with signets. stone /wild /hunt. speed, immortality and extra dmg with the trait.
maybe now i will try it with 20/0/20/30/0 without signets, but guard and autism… sorry altruism rune
or 0/20/20/30 with traps prety kitten in zerg i think.