Guild Wars 2

Hey guys;

Thats a personal question for personal opinions.

What profession/build do you get more difficultty to kill 1v1 when u running the power build with LB/X?

My votes: DPS Guardians and some skilled mesmers.

How about you?

I don’t know, another pewpew ranger is pretty scary if they don’t completely suck. I find its a 50/50 kinda deal on who blocks first burst or who has signet of stone….

But that’s lame answer, s/f ele is horrible to fight. Immune, reflects, projectile destruction and mid-range. They don’t need to stick to you in melee and can kite you easy while you switch to melee.

S/D thief, non-glass warriors, condi rangers. LB is supposed to lose to those.

Edit: Oh, and condi thieves or other complete troll builds.

Condi Rangers and I used to play one.

MESMERS. Good mesmers are impossible.

Kelnter.7530:

Condi Rangers and I used to play one.

I’d have to agree.

As a power ranger, you lack the ability to burst down a well built condi ranger, the cc to control him/her, and the ability to consistently dodge his/her constant condition pressure. Condi engi is an extremely close second (but I haven’t faced a decent one in well over a year so things may have changed with that profession).

Razor.9872:

MESMERS. Good mesmers are impossible.

Hardly. If you know how a mesmer plays and build properly, you should be able to avoid his big damage, wait until his cds and blown, and then burst him. Just don’t frontload all your cds and dmg in a panic (like most people do).

Of course, all this will change on the 23rd. My condi ranger build looks pretty dead and I’m struggling to put something together that has half the synergy my old build had.

Being good at pew pew ranger is all about making right predictions/reactions, preferably before your opponent’s move impacts you. We have the pew pew, but as you know you need the moves to overcome opponent’s utilities. This is usually what gets me when i fail, regardless of class (though happens more often vs “quick” classes like thief, mesmer, mediguard insta tele burst, s/f ele). Other than that we dont have good condi cleanse so if you dont manage condi setups ull easily fall down flat on your face.

Every thief build, every condition build, every build with blocks and gap closers…

Of course this is in a fair /bow duel environment. In the gankland of wvw it’s even worse.

Probably condition ranger and condition engi is the worst possible match-up for power ranger. Basically if they don’t completely suck, they’d eat you alive easily. Dodge spam, Aoe condition spam, immobile, block, reflection, etc.

I mostly do WvW and I would say that there, where is no little circle to protect, the only things that I really fear are good DPS meditations guardians, S/F elementalists, and S/D thieves.

Full on regen condition rangers and PU mesmers are a problem for everybody, I think. They’re also very easy to get away from, though.

D/P-P/D thief with their macros. Assuming you are playing glassbow.

X/F ele, Anything thief after 4 shadow refuge and thats about it.

Medi guards can be quite horrible to face but I find worst is reflect warriors they are totally unbeatable with a longbow.

Usually a max range pew pew ranger that hides behind stuff to los you and uses a cc heavy pet. There’s not many good ones out there but you will find them eventually. As for condi rangers, they are only tough if you let them set up for it. they can’t spam that bleed unless you let them get proper positioning so staying mobile is a must- which you should be doing anyway but far too many rangers get lazy and just sit and pew.

And what state you guys think the glass bow build is on 1v1 duels?

Are we in a bad state at all? Or a good state?

Will HOT make we better for duels?

WilnerGW.3275:

And what state you guys think the glass bow build is on 1v1 duels?

Are we in a bad state at all? Or a good state?

Will HOT make we better for duels?

All depend of the terrain… No LOS, you have huge advantage vs any other profession. With LOS you have disavantage.

Assuming that a pew pew Ranger uses a LB and Power as main damage stat (i mean that i don’t especially talk about meta builds), condi builds are very easy to kill. One of my current roaming build include Generosity on LB, Cleansing on Dagger (LB, S/D), EB, TO and SoR. Even if it looks like an anti condi build (you can’t loose vs condi thief or engi etc) it’s also a very versatile build wich let you plenty of traits and utilities slots to also be effective against power classes.

Good S/D, SB thieves are just ridiculous, they just random dodges and evades everything and you virtually hit nothing (Bowl of Roasted Lotus Root or Loaf of Saffron Bread are good foods to use).

On a more personal note, i would say Mesmer and Ele cuz those are the two classes i never really tried. Otherwise i don’t have any troubles vs the other classes, no matter the build.

Manekk.6981:

Medi guards can be quite horrible to face but I find worst is reflect warriors they are totally unbeatable with a longbow.

It reminds me a duel where the War get the stealth for my HS at the worst moment and then stuned an bursted me do death from behind. Epic fail.