Guild Wars 2

Who farms world events better, loot stick guardians or rangers? I have a loot stick guardian and he does ok at events like grenth but I was thinking of keeping him mainly speced for fractals and rolling a ranger if they are up to par with the guards in farming. Any advice and build tips would be appreciated.

If you’re talking about mob farming like in Cursed Shore events nothing beats guardians for tagging groups of mobs. If you’re talking about World Bosses where you tag a single target nothing beats rangers for afk autoattacking on a bow from 1200+ range.

anabasis.7346:

Rangers, on the other hand, lack ranged-low-cd AoE skills.

Main hand axe bounces between 3 foes, tags almost as much as a loot stick. Drakes have and AOE cleave and F2 ability and LB/SB can have piercing arrows and then there is fire sigils

tagging machine

The trick to farming lots of mobs such as Grenths is to make sure that you are in a party and spam tab and 1 with an AOE auto attack.

Why does being in a party assist in farming?

1. boon sharing priority
2. damaged delt
3. what is the benefit of not being in a party?
4. give you some ppl to talk rubbish with while you wait

explanation of 2. some times if you only hit something once you might deal enough damage to class as a tag and get credit for it (MH Axe bounce damage hits like a pool noodle) but if other people in you party hit it as well then you will get credit of the kill.

example go in Grenth’s or beacon 2 do it with out a party then do it with a party you will notice the difference.

I was not saying the ranger is better, nothing is better then a staff guard spamming 1 (except maybe an arrow-cart in a choke point) i was more rebutting the comment that rangers aren’t good. we are adequate.

I remember that vid

Use ground targetting traps and throw them on spots where mobs spawn + Axe 1 spam while tabbing around the whole screen to tag at will… not as good as guard staff 1 spamm but effective.

Thanks for all the answers guys and sorry for the late reply. It sounds like the ranger is only 20% less effective at farming the events than the guard so it may be worth it to gear one up and park him in whatever zone is the farm zone de jour. Keeps me from changing up my fractal guard build and running him all over the place.

Sounds like I need an axe/longbow build that traits into damage, piercing, and traps. Is there such a thing?

I know, Im weird, cause ill put in the work to level a character but I dont want to change up a build and waypoint on a character I already have. But leveling characters is fun for me and I like playing fashion wars 2 as well.

Savoy.6824:

Sounds like I need an axe/longbow build that traits into damage, piercing, and traps. Is there such a thing?

Something like 6/6/0/0/2 would give you the point spread to trait your damage/crit, and have traited traps for AOE.

Probably Axe/WH & Longbow so you can splash the fields from your traps. Zerk is probably required, since ranged damage blows and AOE hybrid ranged damage is just terrible.

I’d suggest AOE on crit sigils (fire, torment), and maybe Bloodlust/Geomancy to get a few more tags in.

Savoy.6824:

I know, Im weird, cause ill put in the work to level a character but I dont want to change up a build and waypoint on a character I already have. But leveling characters is fun for me and I like playing fashion wars 2 as well.

If you are just making a farmer only toon, that you will leave in the flavor of the month farming location. Why not just make another guard, they are the best choice for that purpose.

I’m not saying don’t make a ranger, rangers are one of the more fun classes to play. but if you want a pure mob farmer use a make a second guard