Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

I’m new to the game and not quite sure how different builds stack up in different situations, just wondering if someone could help me out in what they think is the most effective builds in each of; sPvP, Dung and WvW, would really appreciate it!

Thanks in advance.

For PvE dungeons go full zerk with shortbow and sword/warhorn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGtY69tcek
That is still a decent build for PvE.

For WvW if you want to zerg surf a longbow build of your choice would be suitable and for pvp you will want to go with traps, regen, spirits, beastmaster or you could attempt the power builds which unfortunately handicap you.

WvW, small scale, many viable builds (trappers as x/30/30/x/0; shouts, as 0/0/30/30/10)
WvW, big scale, not much is considered really good, take spotter, healing source and entangle with, if possible muddy terrain and warhorn, for a mid-melee build, and your good to go. Some prefer to go zerk and do big damages from a distance, but it’s harder to play with fast moving fights without dying (imho, dead is no DPS, better do less and last the fight)…

Define “Viable”. Because if we are to listen to “the majority” ranger is not viable in the first place. So, again, define “viable”

I suggest the spirit build for sPvP; it is still the best for Rangers

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vMAQNAV8YjMq0ranKOrQ0agYVQQtHaq/Yy9oUniUHs6zD-T0AgyCpIATBmDMDYSwsgN8Y5xWgjHPPA

this build is very easy to approach with but really hard to master at 100% (landing finishers via sun spirit’s active skill; deal direct damage with F2 river drake’s skill and storm spirit’s active skill; timing spirit of nature’s active skill to auto-resurrect; just to mention some useful mechanics of this build)

guys, you don’t understand, it’s CHUCK NORRIS, asking. Chuck Norris needs no build. He’d just roundhouse kick any enemy. He has over 9000 power, toughness, vitality, condition damage, critical damage, precision, condition duration, boon duration and healing power without gear on.

Prysin.8542:

guys, you don’t understand, it’s CHUCK NORRIS, asking. Chuck Norris needs no build. He’d just roundhouse kick any enemy. He has over 9000 power, toughness, vitality, condition damage, critical damage, precision, condition duration, boon duration and healing power without gear on.

That aside… there are a lot of choices for you to pick. Dungeons you should have two gears choices with the same trait build. One for those ‘I am going to rain hell on them’ and one for ‘this boss will while the floor if we are not careful’. I suggest 30/0/30/10/0, with cavalier gear all around, you may combine the trinkets with berserker…. but as a ranger you will need a little extra health (18K+ in my experience is safe) so valkyrie in my opinion should be good to mix with.

WvW…. power or conditions, your choice. Make sure your health is no less than 18K and keep your armor as close to 2500+ or you are easy pickings. They key here is critical damage boost, you can get a lot of fury and precision boosts by running in groups (did I mention you can just throw on Spotter on your trait line? yeah). Condition build is best suited for roaming, but you can modify it for regen/condition bunker to provide you allies with some shout boons.

PvP? That’s where you litteraly experiment with the above, so based on that fact, don’t go buying gear or making it without first making a solid PvP build that you know will work outside PvP. It will work because without the total benefits of outside PvP play, the build preforms positively.

That’s the short version for you, ask for specifics below…