Guild Wars 2

The build is shown in the video, the enemy team were not the best in this game but I win most 1v1s and its great in team fights, especially when people are downed

take full advantage of the OP burning

Very similar build I run except i took quick draw over MDG…

MDG is too situational..

quick draw into bonfire and few seconds later, another bonfire + flame trap is just GG in my opinion lol. Bait out their condi clears first and just watch them burn… bonfire with 9 stacks of burning + another bonfire in 8 secs + flaming trap and entangle is just soooo juicy on point against ANY class.

As you said yourself, those enemies were incredibly bad. That thief and mesmer and necro, my god haha.

Condi ranger has some innate problems at the moment, the biggest being that axe/dagger will get you bursted down dead by a good power opponent, and SB lacks reliable condi application.

Another is amulet choice. Carrion has no sustain and a few bursts through your HP pool and you’re toast. Settlers has too much toughness (that doesn’t scale properly) and no hp, which means you’re also a sitting duck for a quick unexpected burst combo from either condi or power.

Also bleeding is just lol right now compared to burning. It’s just garbage.

So I run a pure burn build that does the job well enough, using balth runes, smoldering/geo sigils on both weapons and cele. Flame trap, sun spirit, and torch just annihilate anyone who dares fight you on point. Even with only 750ish condi, you can easily get to 3-4k ticks of burning. Higher with settlers and carrion, but again you trade off some survivability. I can’t be bursted down easily by a mes or thief with cele, and I also have the sustain to outlast them; something that carrion can’t do, and settlers may not give you the chance to do because a mesmer can get through that 16k hp before you know they are there.

Also beastmastery double birds :p Once you go peckpeck you never go back

I think our hardest matchups right now are cele ele and cele necro. Everything else can be dealt with if you play properly. Cele ele won’t be able to beat you if you use your condi removal properly, but you won’t be able to kill a good one either. Cele necros you have to be extremely careful with or you’ll have your burn back on your butt and be dead in seconds.

I like your build idea there, seems very interesting with burns being so powerful but honestly I can take almost all other builds in 1v1 with this, once they hit the traps you can easily pull off a bonfire and skill 2 on axe and have a good condi burst

sure cele eles are the biggest counter to this along with medi guards with all their condi cleanse but once you get used to this build its easy to stay alive just as well as they do and get them down

i like this the fact MDG works every time someone tries to speed kill you as you can just kite , spike Trap CC+entangle stay at 50% for a long amount of time untill healing spring is up , i’d rather have MDG for a higher Spike on the second and third set of traps while being focused than a Quickdraw which is only good for improving burst as this build already has more than enough Burst in that combination of traps+bonfire, Split blade quickdraw isn’t realy needed.

i just like you’ve found a purpose for MDG.

Can I get a link to the build on the buildeditor? :o