Guild Wars 2

Hello guys,

recently I’ve been seeing a lot more rangers in tpvp/spvp. Is this just a pre-rush of the september patch? And guys are just shaking off rust? Or has something already been implemeted that buffed rangers?

Up until now they were almost non existent. If I ever lost a fight against them, it was clear that the other guy had to be much more skilled and had to outplay me to kill me. When it came to same skill level matchups, I’ve won all no matter what. (I play thief, guard and warri.)

But what I’m starting to see is that the ranger class seems to be more balanced. And now its a fair fight on equal skill level too. Actually I’ve been killed by guys who had around the same experience in pvp as I do.

Its not a QQ thread, I’m not calling for nerfing them back down again or anything. It’s just that – according to my experiences – they have become a potent class again in pvp, and the time has come when I actually have to take a good look on the class to be able to kill it.

So it’d nice if you told me what that change was. Or more specificly – what is this longbow-trap build that I run into recently. The wolf hit like a truck, they have nice heals also. But thats all I’ve been able ti find out on my own.

So pls dear rangers, help me to learn how to kill you.

p.s.: If there was no change, then well… I must be sucking when it comes to dueling rangers. Funny I’ve never experienced this before.

After the April 15th update nothing has changed for any class, at least not significantly.
Well, there is a bug fix for mesmers on sword #2 that they got kinda mad, but just that.

Generaly people started to ignore the pets we have as a machanic, so they didn’t bother traiting for them.

the Release of Sotf , gave a rise to BM/power builds.
Trapper/Longbow is a Niche of a build , where the longbows Rapid fire is used to apply stacks of bleeds and Vun quickly for a short duration with the addition of Traps its easy to maintain while the extra Vun stacks and the random stealth from Longbow make it a all around Decent Pvp build.

vun stacks = more pet damage
Traps = more Cripple time(spike trap)
LB = more control of where you want your target e.g knock back into traps or a pets Fear area / f2 leap after a KB.

people have just noticed it wasn’t the Class but the players Not playing to the classes Strenghts, well thats what i’ve seen in the last few weeks.

and with the stigma of the SO called bad rep and Confusion about the class I bet many of the Rangers that Hanged up there Bows Or swords are now comming out of the wood works again.

would also like to know what that LB/Trap build was, sounds interesting.