Guild Wars 2

I was messing around with the off-hand Axe and started crunching some numbers on some dummies and was pleasantly surprised by how much damage this little gem can put out.

Path of Scars was hitting people without toughness amulets for 3500 (one way!) then coming back and nailing them again for another 3500 (if it crit again)

Whirling Defense is very nice, especially so on ranged type’s of professions like other rangers, engineers, thieves (Though dagger storm isn’t reflected or deflected for some reason) elementalists and ranged warriors.

I wish I could either move while in Whirling defense or it would block melee attacks but overall I am quite happy with the damage it puts out. Pretty much like the ranger’s version of 100 blades, though not Quite as powerful but can be if you lock down a ranged class and open up on them.

Here’s the build I was using: (Though note, I only use x5 Runes of the Eagle and x1 Rune of Divinity to Maximize the Crit Damage)

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.6.3.4.15.21.5.4.20.16.133.143.145.301.152.2.2.9.378.0.0.391.392.396.411.412.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.10.30.20.5.5

And here is the Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtVo4f5zps&feature=youtu.be

I just thought I’d post up what a nice bursty combo this can be. (Just so you know the thief didn’t lay a finger on him, he tried too!)

Set up is:
Call of the Wild
Winters Bite
Hunters Call
Muddy Terrain
Entangle
Pet F2 Ability usually fear or immobilize
Switch weapons –
Path of scars
Whirling defense
Finish them up with auto attacks as necessarily.

I try to keep Hunters call and Whirling defense as close together as I can but keeping them within the damage of Whirling defense takes priority.

Hope this gives you guys some ideas. =)

-Crow

If you could move while using whirling defense that skill would become OP very…very…fast… you can put up to 12 stacks of vuln onto some poor kitten who is melee range with no way to interrupt or escape (or is just absolutely determined to kill you), as for the whole thief thing they changed that after these 2 awesome incidents in the beta 1) you and the thief would reflect dagger storm back and forth until their dagger storm ended and they ate the whole thing at once, and 2) the thief would eat their entire dagger storm through the duration causing them to 9/10 times die, seeing as how an elite shouldn’t be completely stomped by any reflect (for good reason) they made the bolts unreflectable.

Fun fact, path of scars will always go back to you, so if you throw it through 5 people in a vertical line, they panic and go into a horizontal one, you can quickly get it so the axe will boomerang around and hit them again, very trixy thing to do!! Btw the path of scars pull back will go through reflects and bubbles (such as the guardians sanctuary) so if you get good with aiming you can throw it to the left/right of the reflecting person, and then get it to angle around and go through them causing damage through their reflect!!

problem is if you are wearing full beserker gear, your going to die really fast in melee

in a more tanky dps setup, it hits around 500-800, which isnt bad, but not amazing

Thanks for posting this. I was thinking about trying the same thing just yesterday and never got around to it. Looks like you could surprise a few people that are used to standard ranger play in sPvP.

I’ve been having a great time with it in Tpvp and sPvp just because of the surprise factor, I just gotta be patient and not clip Whirling Defense like i do in the video’s.

And yes it’s very bursty with very little in the defense department, but then again you can put tons of traits and abilities into defense for the ranger and really have very little impact.

I think the ranger is much like the Elementalist in that the best defensive builds are the ones where you kill the other guy before he can hurt you.

Ranger doesnt do so good dmg as elementalist, I found that building tanky is the best option for ranger. Prefer greatsword anyways.

Path of scars definitely does not do that damage. You are confusing it with the damage numbers on other skills, or using it on a target under frenzy.

With 3.2k total attack and 71% crit damage modifier plus traits which maximize my damage, I could only deal 1.7k-1.8k crits to the light armor dummy.

At no point in your video does it show 3.5k crits either, those were numbers from other skills like Whirling Defense or the end-damage number from Hunter’s Call.

Highly exaggerated.

You must have your amulets and traits set up differently.

I easily do 2.9k each way to the medium dummies with no other buffs besides the fury, my video’s are accurate and I stand by what I said. In the heat of combat considering the stacks of might, buffs and other features hitting the 3.5k crits in combat is very doable even more so with 25 stacks of Bloodlust.

I wasn’t try’n to lead you astray.

I am using the x5 runes of the scholar and x1 rune of divinity, zerker amulet

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Dz4ZVYwBQ&feature=youtu.be