Ranger Trait Respec
5 points in beastmastery is a must. The others really depend on your weapon choice and playstyle.
5 points in beastmastery is a must. The others really depend on your weapon choice and playstyle.
Why is 5 points in Beastmastery a “must”? It’s nice, but so is so much other stuff.
I figure its a must for pet survivability.
It’s a must because it gives you 2 seconds of quickness when you swap pets. That’s 2s of quickness on an 18s cooldown. Some classes wish they had that in a skill and you don’t even have to waste a skill slot for it.
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For simplification I’ll assume you have 35 trait points:
If you want to deal lots of damage with your bow go 20/0/10/0/5, traits are I, VII, VI.
If you want to try traps go 0/20/10/0/5, traits are I, VII, V.
I’ve gone for traps and they are fun to play with though I’m not sure if it would have been a better idea to wait for that until level 60.
It’s far from a must considering we have so many ways to get swiftness.
Hell, having an eagle out gives you 10 seconds of swiftness to you and your allies with a 20 second cooldown. You got your 3 seconds on evasive shot, you got your elite skills, horn, 5 points in skirmish gives you it on weapon swap, not to mention the buffs from allies anyway, and our spirit giving a chance for it. That’s a lot of swiftness in a lot of abilities/traits. It’s hard to NOT get it when you need it, and those 5 points won’t be saving your pet when needed (especially with good micromanagement anyway) so better to get a 10 point IMO rather than 2 5’s.
The only thing I am unsure of is the eagle in sPvP, I never seem to see it being cast, I’m wondering if it’s exempt from it, I haven’t really checked (though I like it for it’s F2 ability for more bleeds, as well as it’s cat like precision.
So no, it’s really far from a must. I’ve probably even missed a few.
Izziee they’re talking about quickness not swiftness. Two different buffs.
Yeah it’s quickness, which is ridiculously good. Best use of it imo is to pet swap immediately before staking someone, because then you are killing them in half the time, which is quite frequently before anyone can react with their downed state interrupt.
My mistake then, this is the same as QZ? Which while one of my favourite skills for sPvP, the 4 second buff isn’t long enough for me (well sure, it’d be way to overpowered any longer since I can drop some classes in that) but I wouldn’t warrant the 5 points still, I love my build far too much.
My mistake then, this is the same as QZ? Which while one of my favourite skills for sPvP, the 4 second buff isn’t long enough for me (well sure, it’d be way to overpowered any longer since I can drop some classes in that) but I wouldn’t warrant the 5 points still, I love my build far too much.
Yes, it’s the same as that, except 2 seconds instead of 4 seconds.
My mistake then, this is the same as QZ? Which while one of my favourite skills for sPvP, the 4 second buff isn’t long enough for me (well sure, it’d be way to overpowered any longer since I can drop some classes in that) but I wouldn’t warrant the 5 points still, I love my build far too much.
Yeah it’s the same as QZ, just 2 seconds instead of 4. It’s really useful imo because you have 2 seconds of half-speed action every 20 seconds untraited, which is of course much more often than QZ’s 60 seconds. And it’s only an investment of 5 points, which most people consider to be worth it. I don’t know if could go back simply for the staking in pvp alone.
5 points in beastmastery is a must. The others really depend on your weapon choice and playstyle.
I agree.
I’ll go ahead and disagree with the 5 points in beast mastery, the dps your pet can provide is pretty significant with 0 points in beastmastery, meaning if you choose to swap your pet every 18 seconds for quickness, you’ll probably lose more dps from your swapped pet having to run and restart an attack on your target than you will gain from the 2 seconds of attacking faster. If you are playing a melee primary then it might be wortwhile as your new pet will be summoned near your target but most rangers are running some sort of bow as a primary meaning you’ll be losing dps. It’s a great skill but not a necessary one and it runs counter intuitive to one of the best beastmastery traits(the one that buffs your pet for each kill it gets as long as you don’t switch it out). It’s a good skill but not an absolute must take.
It’s a great skill but not a necessary one and it runs counter intuitive to one of the best beastmastery traits(the one that buffs your pet for each kill it gets as long as you don’t switch it out).
Master’s Bond is a pointless trait. If you would get the Quickness trait after you could acquire Master’s Bond it may be okay.
Also, keep in mind that swapping your pet recharges all the pet’s abilities, so in the same time a Master’s Bond Ranger’s pet has used it’s F2 ability once a pet swapping Ranger has used two.