Guild Wars 2

I like to run both my jaguar and my snow leopard. My prefered weapon is shortbow with a 1 hander sword/torch on the side. Currently I’m very tanky with apothecary gear but as you know, it takes a long time to kill mobs. I’d like to speed things up. So I just switched my traits from 0/10/30/0/30 to 10/30/0/0/30. What is the best set of gear to pick up? I’m thinking Rampager since it has Precision/Power/Condition damage. I feel that is a good combo with my shortbow. Or do you think Beserker with Power/Precision/Critial damage is better? Or perhaps Soldier’s or Knight’s gear? I’m up for suggestions. This is strictly for PVE.

I appreciate everyone’s help.

Thanks!
iczek

http://bit.ly/10MBlwA

i don’t know, i love rangers but i just don’t seem to get it. I been trying to find a build that i feel happy with but cant (since release lol) for example days ago i hit 80 with my guardian and find a build i feel happy about and comfortable but i cant do that with ranger. I respec like 5 times a day. Only trait that i like is wilderness, nature magic mmm kinda useless, power meeh not much there other than piercing arrows, beastmaster well in wvw zergs pets dont last long plus there AI aint the best, trust pets with your damage when they are lacking might be a bad idea, tho i like BM on world PvE. I just dont know what to do, i have search multiples builds online, have tried so many things but nothing. Anyway lets see what people suggest, maybe i can get some ideas, IMO is always good to have some toughness, i see so much people always death in world events or die so easily, so Knights might be a good investment, at least thats what i am running mostly and planning to get more knights armor in the future.

I too was thinking toughness would be a good stat to keep. A little survivability would be nice. Knights is looking pretty good atm. I look foward to hearing what others have to say. I also like BM cause my cat is tanky, he soaks up the damage and deals a fair amount as well.

i want to go knights armor, currently have berzerker from and old build but crit dmg from armor is kinda a waste. Then hahave maybe 1 zerker amulet, some knights or cavalier depending on the crit chance

The Rampager gear is what I use for wvw I run a sb/gs trap build w/ piercing, so I can tag a lot of people for badges. Usually just Swoop to zerg hit entangle and run back to my zerg while GS block is up preventing dmg.

That beastmaster I posted is more a 1v1 where your pet stays invis most of the time dealing big amounts of dmg and any buffs on you apply to pet, condi removal on 12s cd and a nice 9.2k heal etc. It has a decent enough pwer to dmg and high enough crit to give pet might regularly and proc sigil. s/wh offhand is for buffing pet and defensive for getting away from melee(I put hydromancy sigil instead of energy recently since i don’t have prot on dodge traited). You can also swap out commanding voice for bond if you prefer and the 30% pet speed for pet heals on crit since horn/RAO will be giving pet swiftness. During day you could also swap out food for ghost pepper popper’s to gain 3 stacks of might to boost pet dmg up more.

For lots of damage with decent survivability (assuming that by “PvE” you mean dungeons), I’d do a Soldier’s/Knight’s/Berserker’s mix for sure.

If the Shortbow/Greatsword combo isn’t your thing, you can change up the traits without messing with the build too much. Also, the utilities are up to you. :P

Whether or not you go Power, Condition Damage, or a mix of both depends on the weapons you choose.

I went with Knight’s gear. Thank you for everything’s input. I can’t believe how much faster I’m taking down mobs. What a real difference spec and gear makes. I’m running around with 72% crit. It is awesome seeing how fast the mobs fall. I’m using shortbow and 1 hander sword/torch.