Guild Wars 2

Merry Meet to all who take the time to read this. I have a quandry and wonder if the gurus of Rangerdom could scratch their noggins and find an answer for me. The task is a simple one: Suggest a WvW spec that works well for both WvW (duh) and Instance/questing.

I tried the Spirit traiting, and found it lackluster.

I’m also interested in anything that uses either longbow or short bow, or both! Thanks for any help you fine folks can give.

30/20/20/0/0 will do both well enough.

10/30/30/0/0 trap build. Healing Spring + Frost Trap + Flame Trap + Spike Trap + Entangle as the slot skills. Enjoy as you find yourself helping the zerg while driving the enemies nuts with conditions. Exchange Entangle for Rampage as One when needed for Instances.

Used to run a 20/30/0/20/0 trap/condition build in wvw and pve. Most of nature was used for spike damage reduction, but If you are defending a tower you can swap over to (unmovable) spirits, to buff your team.

My longbow based power build is 30/10/30/0/0 with a knights/berserkers mix, and beryl jewels.

My shortbow power build is the same armor and trinkets, with 20/20/30/0/0.

The third build I run is the BM healing/roaming variant for WvW, with 0/0/30/10/30, apothecary armor, and settlers trinkets. The traits can easily be switched around to 10/0/30/10/20 or 0/10/30/10/20, or something else to suit your needs (my personal variant is 0/15/30/10/15 with full ascended apothecary+rabid mix trinkets).

Lastly, the PvP exclusive, spirits, 10/0/30/30/0.

Find any of those interesting? I’d be happy to go into more detail, I just wasn’t going to detail out all of them if there is something particular that seemed interesting.

I run a 20/30/20 build with a axe/warhorn and longbow build.
Kinghits armor with 5 guardian runes and a soldier rune and celestial trinkets.

Troll unguent, spike trap, frost trap and lighting reflexes as utility and entangle as elite.

You can play with the major taits to spec between bow/axe/and swords or go for traps.

Personaly i stick with the trap traits because i find them more useful in wvw.

5 15 30 20 0 is the best build i came to use (used all kind) either clerc armor or berserk armor + all jewelry in berserker or 1-2Toughness+crit/toughness precision unkillable in WvW, Sword/axe + GS

Just about anything can work for PvE So find the set-up (gear and trait wise) that is effective and suites your play style for WvW and its easy enough to adapt it to PvE.

Thanks to all who replied. With your aid, as well as input from Rangers on my server, I was able to secure a build that works for me. 20/30/20/0/0 with shortbow and Sword/Axe. Traited for traps and survival skills. Very effective in both PvE and WvW.