Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing around with my ranger in the testing area and i just noticed how insanely hard the jaguar can burst.

Apparently the stealth skill jaguars have is not just normal stealth. They can still attack without breaking stealth and in stealth they get guaranteed critical hits. If you can catch an enemy without dodges or escapes, activating quickness and jaguar stealth will do massive damage.

With a sword, a 0/20/30/0/20 build, knights amulet, and ranger runes i can burst down a heavy training golem in the span of 3 quickness autoattack cycles.

Cool beans.

this was always the case. unfortunately, the gimmicky burst build you speak of is way outclassed by something like 100b, d/d ele, or BS thief. why? because rangers dont have any stealth or gap closers. people see you coming from a mile away and no one in their right mind would allow you to burst on them for 3 seconds.

As good as a thief?
don’t think so

nerva.7940:

this was always the case. unfortunately, the gimmicky burst build you speak of is way outclassed by something like 100b, d/d ele, or BS thief. why? because rangers dont have any stealth or gap closers. people see you coming from a mile away and no one in their right mind would allow you to burst on them for 3 seconds.

I think it’s not about stealth or gap closers. This build requires very little investment into burst damage as the jaguar does 75% of the damage, so you don’t have to focus on it specifically.

If the ranger had a decent stun or knockdown i could really make this work.

Jay.3415:

As good as a thief?
don’t think so

Well not as good as a pure glass cannon backstab thief, but it is a nice quick burst that you can pull off with almost no risk to yourself and no real investment. If it fails you just go on fighting like you normally would.

u can use muddy terrain for the immobilize. or stuns from GS + SB. but pvp is never this simple.

I did a bit of a trial run. It’s best when used sparingly, but it does a lot of damage. I got a lot of people with it. I use a sword (which pretty much perma cripples characters), so if i catch them without defenses or by surprise they usually don’t see it coming.

Jaguar still dies pretty quickly though, which is annoying.

Jaguar is good. Actually if specced right pets can hit quite hard. My raven almost soloed a rifle warrior a few days ago, true story.

im actually more into the reliable bleed stacking with cats atm (see my condition assassin thread). think of it as “condition burst”. way better. i use lynx/jag.