Guild Wars 2

So i’ve always been a fan of this rune set, cause in wvw, you need your fast cleanses ready (it’s especially handy to cleanse roots). But the long cd’s, relative weak effects always put me off to use it.

But with these updates, what do you guys think? Is this another build, that can be added the list of viables ones (good if prefer)?

Well you’d need a group (i.w. 5) rangers to remove conditions that cause problems, like when necro pressures you its not 1 condition, and as far as I know shouts remove just 1 condition when used. But you could remove a good amount of conditions with emphatic bond, signet of renewal and a shout every 13-15 seconds. But you’d sacrifice lot for that and its not on demand. In team setup maybe it would be useful, on its own… I don’t think so.

I doubt it. Ranger shouts shouldn’t even be called shouts, they are more like commands. Guard even has a cast time which seriously hinders it from being used like other shouts.

Even with reduced cool downs ranger shouts are on a long recharge, a big part of the strength of warrior and guardian shouts is the on demand condition removal that is frequently up. Ranger shouts are very situational (unlike a skill like For Great Justice! ranger shouts need to be used in the right situations) with long cool downs.

The condition removal of the shout is the same whether you can trigger it every 20 seconds or every 40-90 seconds so you get less use out of it from ranger shouts than you would from warrior or guardian ones (unless you spam Guard – with it’s one second cast time and very limited use).

To bad. In pvp i almost always die due to condition pressure, burning here, poison there, bleed there, in a never ending sequence. Physical damage i can avoid with weapons build in evasion, however the non stop aoe condition blast overrule it. I tried ‘signet of renewal’ but for me it stinks.

Guess the only (sort of) counter is Regen Ranger. (Signet of wild passive, regen passive, cleric gear etc), lots of hp a second.

Especially the new 15 sec cd shout has me intrigued (half the cd of most shouts ingame, especially guardian). But like you say you can spam them, because the effects are situational. You must choose between removing condition, or well timed active. To bad. And that while warrior/guardian, just keep the active effect (boons).