Guild Wars 2

Fellow rangers,

I make no claim to be the epitome of ranger skill – I learn as I go along, as we all do. What I did want to do is share what I’ve learned so far. I’ve personally found the ranger a capable and enjoyable class, especially so in structured PvP.

Check out Seraiea’s Lament on Youtube!

Dude… you were playing against unskilled players.

Welcome to the world of recorded PvP
You’ve got allot to learn but everyone starts somewhere.

I’ll start with the build.
What you’re running just isn’t ‘in’ atm.
The only part I likeis the Lightning Relflexes, fantastic kiting stunbreak.
Other than that… sword/torch is decent, I can see that playing well enough, but really if you want to go condition dmg grab traps too, the kiting from sword works wonderfully with them (throw down traps, kite around with hornets sting, let the condi’s tick out ) oh and think about using axe mainhand instead (more a preference though).
I’ve actually, in the 2 canine CCs manage to get people to 10% with a dozen bleeds still up on them running an axe/dagger shortbow trap build.
It’s a mean setup.
Also you have an outrageous amount of vitality for a ranger, if you want to keep it that way, you might as well use healing spring. Troll ungent heals for 8.8k but that’s like 35% of your life, healing spring is at 25%, its not that big of a loss yet you get some more good condition removal.

Traits.
You are not running 5 points in beastmastery? you have to run 5 points in beastmastery ><
It gives you 2 seconds of quickening zephyr on petswap, absolutely brutal for stomps and rezzes, decent for anything else. On that note, warriors, you can stomp them while standing behind your pet and since its a projectile it will hit your pet instead of you, do it it gets them stomped the first time every time.
Also, if you didn’t, seriously consider putting 30 points into wilderness survival, it gives the best cleanse in game atm. Empathetic bond passively fully cleanses you every 10s.
Yes.
Single handedly ruins enemy condition dmg.

Pets, bear is next to worthless (from a competitive viewpoint) canines are fantastic, spiders are decent if you have a few hardhitting attacks (like quickness, sword and good power/crit or axe mainhand and good condition dmg) otherwise the immobilizes don’t help much and you might as well drop them for a canine (CC and a fantastic F2) or bird (best pet dmg in PvP since it hits moving enemies). Oh and felines… go to the mists and time how long it takes for a feline to kill a golem, then do it with a canine… the feline only does 15~% more dmg than the canine… the canine has almost twice the toughness and 3k more life and better abilities… it’s depressing.

Anyways, just was hoping to get you thinking, best of luck!!

Oh and your ‘in regards to ranger survivability’.
Yeah don’t…
Your fighting 2 bad spike dps setup enemies that have no idea how to spike.
Ranger’s don’t have all around bad survivability, its just based on dodging which gets progressively worse and worse as fights get larger.
In small small engagements, if played well, rangers have excellent survivability but as it goes up to like a v2 or more… if the enemies are decent… it just starts getting much worse.
Oh and combat, at least that people base balance calls like that on, tend to be based on ‘fighting on a BO’ which tends to give far less room to kite around with sword.

Very nice video Seraiea, I enjoyed it a lot. Hope you will make more in the future.