Guild Wars 2

So this is the Longbow Ranger build that I have played since season 1 in PvP/WvW. I have had lots of fun/success playing it and constantly have people ask me questions about it. I tried to put a guide together that tackled those questions/concerns about this particular build. Also some people have a hard time understanding all of the CC this build offers so I put it all together to help out the new Rangers coming into the game! Enjoy and I hope this helps you guys out!

One more thing…This post is a follow up post to the last SNIPER RANGER in the ETERNAL COLISEUM. Again just want to help out those people that think Staff is the only way out…Before you quit or get bored try it and pew pew some people…..

~BalougaPOD

Interesting build. Fun to use.

I just want to say Thank you for the build. I absolutely love it.

I’ve been running a similar build for a long long time as well. My preference for PvP is to take Predator’s onslaught due to the fact that Ancient Seeds triggers the immobilise more often than not. To me, that increase in % of damage beats Lead The Wind. However. Lead the Wind is indispensable in WvW.

Personally, I have high difficulty in dealing with anything that has a high stability upkeep time. Warriors, Boon Rangers are two of those that I can’t exactly deal with. This is probably due to the fact that I can’t get my CCs to properly trigger. In addition, the warrior is excellent at closing gaps. Even by utilising my stealths (LB3, Smoke Scale Leap/Blast) I still find it difficult to deal with warriors. What’s your take on this?

Kilamod.1709:

I just want to say Thank you for the build. I absolutely love it.

No problem thank you for the post

Gannicus.4132:

I’ve been running a similar build for a long long time as well. My preference for PvP is to take Predator’s onslaught due to the fact that Ancient Seeds triggers the immobilise more often than not. To me, that increase in % of damage beats Lead The Wind. However. Lead the Wind is indispensable in WvW.

Personally, I have high difficulty in dealing with anything that has a high stability upkeep time. Warriors, Boon Rangers are two of those that I can’t exactly deal with. This is probably due to the fact that I can’t get my CCs to properly trigger. In addition, the warrior is excellent at closing gaps. Even by utilising my stealths (LB3, Smoke Scale Leap/Blast) I still find it difficult to deal with warriors. What’s your take on this?

Yea the whole build needs you to constantly out-kite and reset people.

ok…firts off…full disclosure…I pretty much suck at 1v1 and small group in WvW.

I had more fun playing this than I have had in a long time…and I actually got some kills in small group fights. (It was like 6-7 v 6-7)

I didn’t go all in, so I ran a combo of 4 zerker(Head, Body, Legs, Boots) and 2 Valk(Gloves, Shoulders) armor. With also combo Zerk/Valk trinkets(I had been tweaked for a heavy crit hitter). And it worked really well. So thanks for this…I had been looking for something to help with all the times I get locked down and steam-rolled. I used my current LB which is in the build below, but I plan to make an alternative for WvW.

Do you run this in PvE?
I kept the traits, but just swapped out the Wolf for Jaguar, the heal, 1 utility, and the elite and it seemed to work really well in PvE too. I went with this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNUQJATRnMqAtsgVsCuCCctglFBD+pmV/qLXuAwRrpc1BGBnsk0JB-TRTDwAg0Fc4BAETVBoKJeqcIxFAQhSQKHCAAmgUqEzgJmXq1I5IAAA-e

Any advice on refining for PvE would be most welcome, if you have time.

Thanks again, I enjoyed the video…you didn’t just throw the build out and show some footage and say “Bob’s you uncle, go be bad kitten .”…you described things, how things worked together, and what to look for…and that helped me a lot.(I’ve been playing GW since GW1, and GW2 since Beta Weekends…but I just can’t get the timing down , or see some synergies of skills/traits to improve in WvW. You have helped me to not suck as bad…:) )

Keep it up…I look forward to seeing your most recent Rev build/video for WvW. I encourage you to do a thread in that sub-forum as well(if you haven’t, honestly writing this before I even looked…lol).