Guild Wars 2

Intro: Since most of the time you will be running with groups of people and fighting groups of people, your main source of damage will come from Barrage.

Glass Cannon

GEAR:
Full Berserker: Slotted Ruby Orbs

Accessories:
Berserker: Slotted Berserker

Weapons:
Longbow: Slotted Sigil of Fire
Shortbow: Slotted Sigil of Bloodlust (Unless you stack your Bloodlust stacks with a weapon you stash in your bags then use Sigil of Air)

Greatsword does more damage than Shortbow, but I would recommend Shortbow because of the distance you can maintain.

Hint: Always stash a Warhorn in your bags to use right before combat and while out of combat to run to places faster.

Pets: Brown Bear + Arctodus (Does DECENT damage, mainly used for sacrifice; all other pets will die.)

Traits: 30/30/5/0/5

Trait Skills:
i/viii/x
ii/iv/x

Utilities:
Healing Spring (Removes Conditions//Water Field) – Highly Recommended / Optional.
Sharpened Stone – Highly Recommended / Optional.
Quickening Zephyr – Mandatory
Protect Me – Mandatory
Rampage As One – (For Zerg Fights) // Entangle for small fights/1v1’s

Basic Zerg Fighting: Utilize your quickness with barrage + sharpening stone (puts 5 stacks on 5 targets). Also utilize piercing arrows (line up your shots to hit multiple targets). Barrage with Fury and Sharpened Stone with this build will hit easily 20k+ damage. (Pretty much guaranteed to push back the enemy/down 2-5 players.

Best combo: Get fury > Sharpened Stone + Barrage + Quickening Zypher > Rapid Fire (Line up your shot) > Weapon Swap to shortbow (adds more fury) + Pet Swap for quickness > Spam #1 > Repeat.

Barrage with Fury and Sharpened Stone with this build will hit easily 20k+ damage. That isn’t even counting your Rapid Fire and Shortbow #1 Spam.

Your key to staying alive is “Protect Me”, Dodge Rolls, and Distance.

Good info. Something to note, superior runes of the ranger are probably a better dps choice. Since the t6 bonus of 5% damage is added in multiplicative fashion. In addition you’ll be trading about 4% crit for 120 power. Which sounds bad but with full zerker you’ll will have more than 100% crit damage and both will be about even. The power will be slightly better but with the 5% damage added in, the rune of ranger becomes superior by 1-2% (even accounting for the crit damage difference). Also it scales better with might than raw power does, might being plentiful in wvw.

Thanks for the feedback! I will test out Rune of the Ranger. I just didn’t think it was as good because Ruby Orb offers more Power, more Crit Damage %, and almost as much Precision.