Guild Wars 2

Currently, I have full soldier’s armour and am using Zerker Longbow and Greatsword. For trinkets, I only have 1 ascended amulet: Mark of the Tethyos Houses. I have no idea on what or how to choose despite reading guides on various builds and on ascended trinkets.

Traits-wise, 30/20/20. Pets-wise, using lynx and ice-drake. I find myself getting killed very easily when confronted by thieves in wvw. Hoping to get some good advice from the experts here so I can enjoy using my ranger in wvw.

Was initially happy when I read a post that shows a rangers guild exist, but a few minutes later, discovered an update that it was disbanded. Would really appreciate some good ranger training (plus good advice on builds, weapons and armour) with people who use their rangers often in wvw.

A few tips:
Change your traits to 20 20 30 0 0. you will need the extra condition cleanse.

And change your stats to be a a little more offensive. a good mix of Valkyrie/knights/Berserker gear should get you to a decent spot damage wise.

As for utility skills, healing spring, lightning reflexes and signet of renewal are a must in my opinion. As for your third skill, against Thieves I would take sick em.

Use more defensive pets. Fern hound or bears are good, I personally like to have one spider as sick em works well with them.

Longbow/greatsword is good, but you should try sword/axe at some point. That works really well and has a lot of combo potential

I’ll be posting a full build that I’ve been working on for a while now when I’m home from work, that should be along the lines of how you like to play.

Heey Xymas,

I am the guy youre looking for.. Play much WvW, only ranger like 1000 hours+..

So where to start Ill gona take an better look on what ill use and discribe it below here.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNAV8YjAV51xV+Vs2BilCAtf2jExoH5U4/OVwpD-j0BBEIwUJAkBQpmFRjtMsIasqbY6YER1RBATA-w

Traits: some of them are very important such as Trap potency and Quickdraw
overall the traits gives you good dmg/defenses (and thats what you need in WvW)

Gear: WEAPONS.. ill use shortbow for main and sword/dagger as seceundary. the shortbow is for the cripple and the daze and for the flacking dmg. it gives you good ammount of bleed and conditions. the sowrd/dagger is for the close combat. this all in rabid stats.

Gear: ARMOR.. ill use youre armor mate!! ill love the soldier stats as an kind of base stats for survi. with the traveler runes its very good for you speed, boons and conditions.

Gear: TRINKETS.. ill use all rabid trinkets.. why shall you think? Survi. for the prec and for the condition dmg..

Gear: FOOD.. Koi Cake<— Look at it and you know why.. (and cheap to ;P)

Now i will discibe how i use this build..
When ill see enemy’s ill pop my elite, fire a couple of shots with my shortbow and let my pets attack so they get frosted.. ill use my nmmr 5 on my shortbow. BAM daze!! criplle them with my shortbow.. then ill leap to them with my sword/dagger combi.. drop the 2 traps BAM!!! chilled and criplled and lots of cc dmg.. Ill evade a lot with my sword and dagger combi and spamm crips and bloods on them! (even it sounds like an bad gang in LA).. Iff you think kitten hese to powerful close then swap to shortbow use skill 3 and you back on mid range..

Tips:
1. Use the ranger as scout
2. Use you sword as an escape weapon
3. Always keep koi cake on for massive cond. time
4. Try to roamme with 2-5 players.. ( spotter boost youre prec)
5. KNOW HOW TO USE AN RANGER!!

Hope ill help you a little with this.. iff not pm mee in game or leave one message behind here..

greetzz an happy Ranger

Pvt Frosty.6973:

A few tips:
Change your traits to 20 20 30 0 0. you will need the extra condition cleanse.

And change your stats to be a a little more offensive. a good mix of Valkyrie/knights/Berserker gear should get you to a decent spot damage wise.

As for utility skills, healing spring, lightning reflexes and signet of renewal are a must in my opinion. As for your third skill, against Thieves I would take sick em.

Use more defensive pets. Fern hound or bears are good, I personally like to have one spider as sick em works well with them.

Longbow/greatsword is good, but you should try sword/axe at some point. That works really well and has a lot of combo potential

I’ll be posting a full build that I’ve been working on for a while now when I’m home from work, that should be along the lines of how you like to play.

Hi Frosty, thanks for the tips.

Have been using signet of renewal, wild and hunt all this while. Am using Rampage for elite skill. But still like you’ve said, extra condition cleanse is definitely needed. Will try out the traits you have mentioned here.

Not sure what would make a good mix of Valkyrie/knights/Berserker gear. As written in the first post, the mix and match is what gets me feeling a little lost at the moment.

Can I ask you about using bears? Read that by using bears in WvW, you are making yourself an easy target. So perhaps I should go for fern hounds instead?

Yeh, will go try out the sword/axe. Not dispatching enemies fast enough with my current weapon choice.

Looking forward to learning from your full build.

kitten.8230:

Heey Xymas,

I am the guy youre looking for.. Play much WvW, only ranger like 1000 hours+..

So where to start Ill gona take an better look on what ill use and discribe it below here.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNAV8YjAV51xV+Vs2BilCAtf2jExoH5U4/OVwpD-j0BBEIwUJAkBQpmFRjtMsIasqbY6YER1RBATA-w

Traits: some of them are very important such as Trap potency and Quickdraw
overall the traits gives you good dmg/defenses (and thats what you need in WvW)

Gear: WEAPONS.. ill use shortbow for main and sword/dagger as seceundary. the shortbow is for the cripple and the daze and for the flacking dmg. it gives you good ammount of bleed and conditions. the sowrd/dagger is for the close combat. this all in rabid stats.

Gear: ARMOR.. ill use youre armor mate!! ill love the soldier stats as an kind of base stats for survi. with the traveler runes its very good for you speed, boons and conditions.

Gear: TRINKETS.. ill use all rabid trinkets.. why shall you think? Survi. for the prec and for the condition dmg..

Gear: FOOD.. Koi Cake<— Look at it and you know why.. (and cheap to ;P)

Now i will discibe how i use this build..
When ill see enemy’s ill pop my elite, fire a couple of shots with my shortbow and let my pets attack so they get frosted.. ill use my nmmr 5 on my shortbow. BAM daze!! criplle them with my shortbow.. then ill leap to them with my sword/dagger combi.. drop the 2 traps BAM!!! chilled and criplled and lots of cc dmg.. Ill evade a lot with my sword and dagger combi and spamm crips and bloods on them! (even it sounds like an bad gang in LA).. Iff you think kitten hese to powerful close then swap to shortbow use skill 3 and you back on mid range..

Tips:
1. Use the ranger as scout
2. Use you sword as an escape weapon
3. Always keep koi cake on for massive cond. time
4. Try to roamme with 2-5 players.. ( spotter boost youre prec)
5. KNOW HOW TO USE AN RANGER!!

Hope ill help you a little with this.. iff not pm mee in game or leave one message behind here..

greetzz an happy Ranger

Hi kitten, thanks for taking the time to write all this!

For the past few days, noticed a few rangers who choose opening strike/pierce and probably go for the 1500 range. Makes me wonder which is more useful, shortbow or longbow when it comes to dmg/def balance in WvW.

Will try out the sword and buy the koi cake. Never thought of buying food for Wvw all this while. I try to roam with others, but when most are with the commander raiding camps/keeps/castles, I find I usually have to make my way to the commander on my own. That’s when I would get ambushed sometimes.

Looking forward to talking to or meeting you in game.