Guild Wars 2

Note: This thread is for discussion and theorycrafting. Please attempt to maintain professional and friendly interactions to limit “trolling” and keep discussion on point.

I have found after leveling my Ranger “Mr Cupcakes” on server “Fort Aspenwood” That the Ranger is a wonderful and interactive melee class. One point to be noted is that there are many ways to play a Ranger and all points should be considered when developing your own unquie builds and playstyle.

“IMO” I have found that Ranger “ranged” DPS becomes boring after a while. Which can be said about most classes if you don’t spice things up every once in a while. Recently I have been playing my Ranger as a pure melee dps build, though at sometimes squishy if you do not maintain complete fight awareness. All things considered I am sharing my ideas for a pure melee Ranger build.

This build focuses on reaching a Crit Cap @72 percent with Fury buff from ( horn, elite skill, and weapon swaps) while chaining pet swaps and quickening zypher and Sigil of Quickness procs to maximize dps speed.

Note: I am geared in full exotic Berserker and COF badge gear for Helm—>Boot. Two piece Ruby Exotic Amulet and Ring for “Power, Crit damage, and Precision” and 3 piece Beryl exotic “ring and earings” for “Vitality, Crit Damage, and Power”.

Weapon choice: Exotic Great Sword with sigil of superior strength, and Exotic Sword and Horn Combo with Superior Sigil of quickness and sigil of strength.

Pet choice: Eagle and Lynx “for the moment”

Let it be know that I am in no way an expert on Ranger Dps and have not played much with conditon builds, but i have found that this build not only supports massive burst damage, but has the ability in combonation with pet damage

For support and power increase I am testing the superior rune of the pack which has chance to buff nearby allies on attack with might and increases power and precision. Th superior rune of Strength on the weapons with the high crit chance ensures many stacks of might in combonation with timed horn blasts.

I am primarily PVE at the moment and test these builds in Dungeon.

Note: the build calculator is a bit buggy so make note it is “15 MM, 25 Skirm, 25 Nature, 5 BM” Trait talents " MM- “I” Skirm “V and I” Nature “V and IX”

The build focuses on increaseing power and vitality after reaching a crit cap.

Important info:
21 precision = 1% crit

Topical Questions:
1. Does anyone have any information on wether or not there is a crit chance cap. More precisely is there any crit percentage that once you pass Crit becomes unnessicary?

Looking forward to informative responses.

I don’t think there is a crit cap, but you want to strike somewhat of a balance between power and crit to get the most out of it. I’m guessing there is some kind of sweet spot, but math isn’t my strongest suit.

I think at 70% criti rate should be good enough, you will criti 2/
Out of 3 hits. Its pointless to push beyond that . But that’s my personnel preferences.

There’s certainly a mathematical balance between power and crit%, but the way that the game currently does gearing, if you’re going all out damage, the choice has been made for you.

Berserker’s armor has the highest overall DPS combo of power/precision/crit damage. Is it optimal? I don’t know, but it’s the only option if you are stacking that to the exclusion of everything else. Glass cannon really isn’t my style, so I actually like Valkyrie / Knight armor for some measure of survivability.

I personally use this build for single targets. I have a great survivability despite my low health and have great condition damage. Mix that with a sizable stack of might and Quickness to make up for some of the lost power, and you have a pretty powerful ranger, capable of taking or evading large amounts of damage.