Guild Wars 2

Hello community!

First of all, this build exists only on paper at the moment, since I dont have the money to get the equip for it. I wanted to do something different from the “coockie cutter” (like it has been called in these forums) BM healing build, but still involve the pet as it is a main part of our class mechanic. The main use for this build is WvW in small groups (up to 4 ppl) or roaming alone. Since I have not found a build calculator for pve stats, they are not right.
Build: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VGg-o-BFxEFx-r2cDV-0;9k23;1T9;0T03A0;659B5-V4-NW0LNW4LNW48BG (copy paste if it is not working)

For the equip: Full P/Prec/T armor; P/Prec/crit.dmg weapons and trinkets; runes are 6 superior rune of the ranger.
So this should bring you up to: Critical chance: 44%
Critical dmg: 59%
Armor: 2749
Health: about 17.000

So you can do pretty good dmg even if your pet dies or you cant use it (keep defense/offense (ok, guard is a solution here^^), but still have the class mechanic involved as heavy as possible through your traits.
Traits should be clear, but if you have any questions concerning these, feel free to ask

For pet choice: I choose the wolf for the aoe fear and the instant knockdown after pet-swap and the raven for the F2 burst ability (might swap to jaguar/lynx and adjust the traits).

Slot skills: lightning reflexes as a stun breaker, doge roll and vigor; QZ for.. well… “bursting” or quick stomping/ressing; and signet of stone for 6sec of no (direct) dmg for you and your pet. Healing spring as heal for the water combo field (might consider a different one here).

Weapon choice: the GS because I like it, and it offers a great mobility, a leap finisher, daze/stun, knockback, and a block. (this is your main weapon here, of course you gan change it so S/D or whatever you want).
The LB because barrage is a nice aoe and the hunter´s shot for the vulnerability (I also, might change these if I am roaming alone to axe/warhorn or SB).

If I missed anything or made a mistake, let me know
I´m excited about your feedback, thanks in advance

Viable build I’d say. I loved and now hate Longsword atm, but that’s just me.

Well, while I don’t think there are “cookie cutter” builds (well there are but I hate to admit it), right now our talents are a little all over the place, so there are some builds that are better for some things and some that are better for others. This is my PvE build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMUQNBlODbkoqwOwSxi1SAsUsXgdBsHHiIj/D0exUnMB

For dungeons I keep it the same, horn for a group buff and “Protect Me” for agony or bosses that disappear and 1 shot ya (moss man).

WvW is a little different. If I’m doing it for the evening I change things around to boost me and make the pet a siege attacker and use LB/SB depending on my group. If I WvW for extended periods of time I run more toughness and health and pay a few silver to run a traps build for CC.

For PvE I’d push your crit % and crit damage % higher by 20 pts each and keep that power high. Just depends on bosses, I keep extra gear with me to flip stats and be able to absorb some hits. Since many dungeon bosses have immunities, I just roll with lynx or stalker for bleeds and dps, solo I run them or a drake/bear depending on needs.

thanks for your feedback
Yeah, I use the GS for the style and I got used to it, if I try to play S/D or sth else I just cant play with it also I have almost 50% of my sunrise done, so I dont want to move away from the GS as main weapon :>
As I do WvW for 80% of my time, PvE content (like dungeons or fractals) is not that important to me, the only PvE thing I do with my ranger is a little bit of farming for extra money. I am running with P/T/V gear atm and it works really well with the regular glass cannon traits (30/30/5/0/5). I still have P/T/healing for backup, aswell as condi/T/healing gear for a trapper-beastmaster build.
For more crit dmg I could use ruby orbs for the armor, but I dont think that the 4% additional crit. dmg are worth to sacrifice 80 precision and a 5% dmg boost.
However, I still cant wait to test it, because nothing goes over testing