Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, ever since the change to conditions i have been finding it more difficult to survive against some of the heavier condi builds even with melandru runes and -condi food equipped and the condi removal traits feel a bit weak when enemies can just keep stacking those condi’s and i don’t like empathic bond because it just kills our pets and becomes useless so i had an idea, what if natural healing was swapped with zephyrs speed and buffed up a bit then merged with empathic bond so the pet can atleast mitigate some of the damage it takes when it cleanses you and then to replace empathic bond with this, Natural Resistance: Reduces the duration of conditions applied to you and your pet by 20% on you and 50% on your pet while your health is above the threshold (50%) just an idea as i felt rangers should be more resistant to condi’s and the current system isn’t very ranger or pet friendly.

What weapon set are you running? One of the advantages of LB is the range it provides. Being able to attack from beyond where your opponents can hit you from means you can save cooldowns.

Beyond that you should be able to avoid a lot of condi application through evades, blocks, stealth, los, even using your pets to body block. If you cc your opponent they usually can’t hit you with condis, and it’s obviously much easier to land your own dmg.

yeah i just realized my traits had reset to a different build and i had no condi removal while 1v1ing the condi engi lol also i should’ve opened with hunters shot to prevent him/her pulling me into range, my bad lol

edit: there is one thing i would like to see changed, and probably everyone else too, either merge hide in plain sight to shared anguish or replace it, it was one of our best survival abilities against heavy stun builds and didn’t punish our pets while doing so.

You can get a shout build, with rune of soldier, and cleanse conditions super effectively

Kehlian.4380:

You can get a shout build, with rune of soldier, and cleanse conditions super effectively

Yeah i made a shout build with resounding timbre to stack regen/swiftness using a mix of cleric/zealot gear as a sort of power healing support build but it was alot squishier than my current build and the dps was fairly low and if i were to use the shouts/runes with my current build the regen would be pretty useless without healing power (not that its very useful even with healingpower since everyone does alot more damage after the patch), besides the only reason i got mowed down by condi’s in the first place was because of that bug that resets traits when you logout/change map after changing traits, as it is now i can run frontline or kill most power/condi builds easily in 1v1 so i think i’ll leave it the way it is, but thanks anyway.