Guild Wars 2

Kimbald.2697:

2 questions for all with trap builds out here:

1. do you consider stun breaker a must or not? Given a trap ranger usually has high toughness and maybe a protection proc.
If so: which do you prefer?

2. How do you go for speed?
Some use signet of the hunt, some use warhorn. But neither of these actually synergise well with a trap build.
Warhorn has zero condition damage, at best it boosts crit procs.
Signet of the hunt takes up a trap slot, which means you can only use 2. While I find 3 sort of logical.

My own preferences:
1. Lighting reflexes because I do big WvW fights often.
2. warhorn for lack of better ways to get speed.

But I’m really curious how you solve these issues, and mostly: why you make the choices you make.

1. I’ve been playing trapper for a while now in wvw. I don’t use a stun break and neither do I use signet of renewal. Its not very survivable, thats for sure, can be very frustrating when you run into a bask venom thief. You need to condi-burst down your opponent before they kill you, at least thats how I play mine. Its not uncommon that I end up on the ground shortly after my opponent is downed. If its a 1v1 I win that one. If you run into an organizied group that utilizes stuns/conditions 1 condi clear, and 1 stun breaker won’t save your kitten . If you don’t have decent healing power and lots of regen you’re screwed anyway.

2. I use SotH to get around and if I see a fight incoming swap it for vipers nest.

I used to run s/t, a/d, recently been trying out shortbow with sharpened edges, sigil of earth with masters bond, companions might, rending attacks and a lynx. Opponents can go down quick, but cannot comment on it further, no proper pet UI, no visible pet condi damage for a while. In the past weeks I’ve been playing a/t gs. I dropped the trap traits altogether but shortbow was better to stack might on pet and bleed on my foe. I will need to change my traits around a bit. I am even considering droping 20 points from the skirmishing tree, and maybe adding carrion, and putting 10 into BM for quickness (traps have a 1 sec cast :/) but then I’ll need another pet instead of Lynx, maybe a canine, and will change Masters bond for commanding voice. And then I can take malicious training. Something like this. Instead of throwing traps, I aim to try and bring the traps to the opponent with swoop, or tell them to chill-axe and walk up to them. Its different, but seems fun so far.

Turns out greatsword is great for taking camps with trapper ranger. The evade on auto attack and the block are really great, as well as hilt bash for interrupting heals of the npcs. Aoe bleed on maul, auto-attack with sharpened edges and weaponswap. Than axe torch with pet swap quickness. Sweet. I ran this in small group as well, and did really good with it. Sadly Malicious trainnig doesn’t seem to work on canine fear/immobilize, so I took Companions might and fury on weaponswap instead. Currently run this