(edited by Swiftborne.2650)
WvW BM/Condi Roaming Spec
Your lack of condition removal could be a big hindrance, especially poison since you have 1000 HP. I would swap out enlargement for Evasive Purity. Also rending attacks isn’t worth it on feline pets because you don’t get enough attacks in to stack bleeds with it, plus you already have good condition damage. Either switch it for stability training or pets prowess for some good burst. I also would swap out either your wolf pet for a fernhound or change offhand training to oakheart salve for more regeneration uptime since you invested 1000 points into HP. The sigils of renewal are not worth it IMO, they don’t heal you only your allies and having energy sigils will benefit you a lot more because of your passive health gain, troll unguent, and protection on dodge roll. This may be a bit contradictory but I personally would swap out the cleansing sigils for geomancy but thats up to you.
Your lack of condition removal could be a big hindrance, especially poison since you have 1000 HP. I would swap out enlargement for Evasive Purity. Also rending attacks isn’t worth it on feline pets because you don’t get enough attacks in to stack bleeds with it, plus you already have good condition damage. Either switch it for stability training or pets prowess for some good burst. I also would swap out either your wolf pet for a fernhound or change offhand training to oakheart salve for more regeneration uptime since you invested 1000 points into HP. The sigils of renewal are not worth it IMO, they don’t heal you only your allies and having energy sigils will benefit you a lot more because of your passive health gain, troll unguent, and protection on dodge roll. This may be a bit contradictory but I personally would swap out the cleansing sigils for geomancy but thats up to you.
Thanks for the input! Yea I should have added I was debating on which sigils to use on decided on those for condi removal and my high HP. Do you think w/ evasive purity that I would have enough condi removal? (considering I have the weapon swap condi remove and signet of renewal), or should I find more ways in my build to remove condis? I’m wary of taking 10 pts out of BM traitline, b/c then I would lose faster pet switching and pet attribute bonuses. And I was thinking about energy sigils too, until I saw the price for them in the AH O.O. Thanks again.
Using this for roaming:
Works pretty well for me, has enough condi cleanse (traited shouts grant you condi cleanse every 12 seconds plus perma regen and swiftness) and survivability due to boons and base stats.
I do not spend much time on my ranger, but when I roam, found this build interesting. Not a pro ranger build, but gets the job done (most of the times).
(edited by Tormentor.2508)
I don’t agree with the suggestion of taking a fern hound since you already have 100% regen uptime (or at least close to, I refuse to do the math :P), and fern hounds are not very good pets. Definitely don’t lose the wolf. A bird instead of jaguar would also help with the pet not having much swiftness.
If you try it and feel you don’t have enough condi removal you can always use the other condi removal sigils. I know generosity is extremely expensive, but purity is extremely cheap. ~3 condis per 10 seconds plus the big anti-condi bomb of SoR active should be plenty.
I have a feeling you’ll wind up swapping SotW for LR though since you don’t have a stun breaker that you can use regularly.
Not a fan of soften the fall, but it’s personal preference.
I don’t agree with the suggestion of taking a fern hound since you already have 100% regen uptime (or at least close to, I refuse to do the math :P), and fern hounds are not very good pets. Definitely don’t lose the wolf. A bird instead of jaguar would also help with the pet not having much swiftness.
If you try it and feel you don’t have enough condi removal you can always use the other condi removal sigils. I know generosity is extremely expensive, but purity is extremely cheap. ~3 condis per 10 seconds plus the big anti-condi bomb of SoR active should be plenty.
I have a feeling you’ll wind up swapping SotW for LR though since you don’t have a stun breaker that you can use regularly.
Not a fan of soften the fall, but it’s personal preference.
I’ll think about swapping out Soften the Fall. The main reason why I have SotW is for the extra healing, and since this is in-part a BM spec, having a dmg spike for your pet is always good. And I felt having an additional source of stability for stomps would be beneficial as well. Originally I was to have SoR act as both a condi-bomb remove and a stun-break, but I can see how problems can arise with that (60 sec cd, and if I use it as a stunbreak, I lose the big condi remove). So far these are the changes I’ve made to it, but I will almost certainly be making more changes to optimize the build. Thanks everyone for the feedback, and I will keep you updated with changes!
Made a few more changes, edited in the original post