Rolling a Ranger and would like your help
this should help you out
Lv 80 Guard, Ranger, Ele, Thief, warr, engi
Currently @ some T1 server in EU
Currently @ some T1 server in EU
So I am looking for a Ranger Build that be great for PvE and WvW. My Ranger is only Currently 11 and I love her despite all the flames I see in the forums about how rangers aren’t that good. I tried Ele ,Guardian and thief, but Rangers seems to strike me the most. So it be my next lvl 80!!!
So any tips and tricks, or links to other post will be helpful.
I want to be able to play range but also be able to play close if I have to.
I am more of a Aggressive Offensive player(can be reckless at times) but I like to have defense so I can get away or get distance from my enemy. so I think imma need a Power/Perc/Crit mixed in with sum toughness?
I am also seeing alot of Rangers with GS now whats sup with that?Thank you!
Biggest tip I can give you is do what you like and don’t let other people talk you out of playing the class you like. Ranger certainly has issues, there are things that could use some serious work, but they’re a VERY fun class to play. I have a level 80 Warrior, Guardian, Ranger, and an Ele that’s in the high 70’s. The Ranger is by far my favorite to play and I’m quite powerful and versatile.
The link provided above has some really good build advice. I personally use a variation of the Hybrid Beastmaster which was detailed here. Rangers don’t actually have a ‘standard’ build or anything that most people run. Most Rangers I run into are all types of different builds with different pets and weapons. It really is a class that’s best left to your personal taste.
It’s a fun class, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. There are still things that need to be fixed, but the class is still fun to play.
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Use durzilla’s deep range condition damage build if you like bows, my build in pve, or xsorsus et al. for beastmaster builds. Use valroth’s guide for a hybrid build or gasmasks approach for a trap build. What playstyle are you interested in and I’ll give you the build with citations. All these builds have been extensively play tested by your truly and I can vouch for them.
Right now, to leave you with something concrete, read durzilla’s “shoot to maim boys” thread (should be easy to find since its relatively new on here). It’s easy because you can get carrion armor from CoF and the condition damage from range is sick! I’ve loaded my arrows and longbow with spider venom poison, superior sigil of doom, bleeding from sharpening stone trait/utility, and burning from sun spirit and I have instantly downed at least 5 players with a single barrage—I did that last night, it was a great moment. Read the post, he probably won’t suggest spiders or (gasp) Spirits Unbound like I was running (which I feel is a slight improvement over durzillas build in the circumstance of wvw) but ya its good dude. It works great.
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