Guild Wars 2

Hey there.
Lately I’ve been thinking about doing WvW a bit, since PvE became kinda boring to me and sPvP doesn’t really interest me all that much. I’ve dabbled in it a bit with my guardian, but realized that I’m kind of a coward – I’m hesitant to go into melee range, a thing that would be kinda useful for someone who doesn’t like the scepter all that much. Anyways, since I already had a ranger as my second favorite class, I figured I’d go with him, but I’d like some advice on my (still purely theoretical) build first.

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I’m also running a 30/20/20 build right now, and much like you I run LB but with axe/horn instead. Unless they’ve fixed it, Remorseless isn’t working like it should so you may change that trait for now (maybe for Piercing Arrows). Personally, I would change your adept traits around to Steady Focus (MM) and Sharpened Edges (Skirmishing). Since you run warhorn, I would change to Healing Spring to help your group out. Entangle or RAO are probably going to be way more useful as well. As for gear, you’ve got a lot of zerk mixed with some knights. Your crit chance is already over 50% so swap in some more knights to get your toughness up (you really need toughness in WvW). Remember, when you fury your crit chance goes up 20% and you have fury on horn and RAO.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the help! Also, sorry about the late reply, I would have answered earlier but I figured I’d wait a bit in case someone else offers a few more hints.

Anyways, I tested my first build a little and yeah, your predictions were right – remorseless was really unreliable, and I tended to go down very quickly (though that may be inexperience, I still went for some more defense), so I switched out Troll Salve for Healing Spring and most of the berserker stuff, since I usually start out a fight with Hunter’s Call, Call of the Wild and then switching to the longbow anyways. I also exchanged the sword for the axe, and in turn replaced Martial Mastery with Off-Hand training, while replacing Artillery Barrage with Entangle. Finally, I changed out Pet’s Prowess for Sharpened Edges – I figured it would help to boost my pet’s damage output a bit, but it was still fairly unimpressive without any investments in Beast Mastery. So if anybody’s willing to critique the new build, feel free to do so, I’d appreciate it.

Chiming back in to try to get you going... your traits are there, but your gear leaves some room for improvement. Currently, you’re not really hitting either crit damage or condition damange very hard. Try swapping out more of your knight’s trinkets for either rabid/carrion for condition damage or zerk to bring crit damage up. Remember to get food that will help you as well. As a base, I wanted around 2700 armor for WvW with over 40% crit chance and as much crit damage as I could muster. I put my build in for you, not saying it’s the best but it’s suiting me well so far. I’m also on the fence about going back to a red moa for some more fury access....My power/prec/crit/tough build