Guild Wars 2

Season’s greetings rangers!

Slapped together another melee build and made some sort of montage…compilation…9k-10k Maul slideshow edited by a charr cub.

Das video: Melee Ranger Outnumbered Compilation – I hope you enjoy!

Das build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNEQNAR8XjEqUxaDLGsw1aA/gaZDEAtzhYoGY2vZQJjqC-T1xHwA9U+1R9nBXEAH6GA8EAEt/ATlgkBYZLA-w

As ever, constructive feedback/criticism is much appreciated.

Good stuff. When I play melee ranger I always go back and forth between axe and dagger. I find the pull pretty hard to land, but it looks like you used it mostly on people that aren’t strafing at all (trying to rez or run.) Do you find you consistently get more use out of it than you do with a dagger?

Also that poor ranger in the second fight was hysterical. He spent most of his time walking slowly backwards. I sort of felt bad when he went down.

All good, but im not impressed when we dont see how everything goes, just mostly the good fights. I will also note that your enemies did not seem aware of how to play vs ranger. they barely ever dodged your bursts, considering that you should be the only thing they focus on, they should have seen them coming miles away.

All in all, my personal impression of this video is just another frag movie highlighting the good, showing nothing of the average play.

4/10

That looks like pretty typical melee ranger play to me, Prysin. Between signet of stone, tons of stability, poison, and the number of evades he has, it’s just a matter of time against average players. Melee rangers are so relaxing it can lull you to sleep and mess you up when you run in to that crazy good player.

I find myself spending most of my time concentrating on my own defense rather than caring if anything hits the opponent; I barely even look at their health bars and just know they can’t eat berserker hits forever. Maul recharges very very quickly. He also landed the obvious mauls against rezzing or immobilized players.

Another awesome video Fox, its great to see you back on your ranger. I was quite suprised by your last build tech, always thought you dislike might stacking ranger, by the looks of it its not bad at all. I had just one thought in my head regarding your build, the ~-60%condi defence basically reduses the effectiveness of EB by ALOT, on this rare occasion it might be btter to use bark skin instad, or even go 4-6-4-0-0 with moment f clarity(with your GS- S/A setup can be alot of fun) if you chose this direction, experiment with fernhound or boar as a replacment for spider, you already got the pet speed trait hope to see your soon on OS ^^.

Nowadays Rangers are cheese to play? Attachment was a typical day in prepatch Gunnars Hold

Those are two guys that got slaughtered by rangers a few dozen times.

By the way, is it just me or has the LB buff a few months on now produced a huge amount of new skilled rangers playing various builds. I’m seeing a ton of melee rangers, condi rangers, trappers, all sorts of stuff.

Fluffball.8307:

Those are two guys that got slaughtered by rangers a few dozen times.

By the way, is it just me or has the LB buff a few months on now produced a huge amount of new skilled rangers playing various builds. I’m seeing a ton of melee rangers, condi rangers, trappers, all sorts of stuff.

I am also seeing the same thing.

Fluffball.8307:

Those are two guys that got slaughtered by rangers a few dozen times.

By the way, is it just me or has the LB buff a few months on now produced a huge amount of new skilled rangers playing various builds. I’m seeing a ton of melee rangers, condi rangers, trappers, all sorts of stuff.

produced no. It made average or good players (forcefully) recognize the class and trying it out. They then realized LB power isn’t the be all end all, and tried out more stuff.

Why do i think it happened like that? Cuz once you play ranger, you realize how much fun the class is and you cannot stop playing it.

Thanks all.

@Fluff – Tough question. Lately I’ve much preferred axe offhand for the damage but dagger is still just as good in its own right. I think you’re right to be switching between the two although I find dagger to be more useful when duelling. If you’re feeling risky then you could de-target, anticipate your opponent’s movement then use it without a target. As for the effects of the LB buff, longbow users are still the most common ranger imo, closely followed by condi and/or regen as well as some technobabble asura daze rangers (hilarious to see someone dazed for 6 seconds). Noticed a big surge in trapper rangers though that’s for sure and from memory I’ve only ran into one, maybe two melee rangers when roaming.

@Prysin – Fair point about including losses as I know some people get salty when an uploader leaves them out. I normally do show, I just saw I had a reasonable amount of footage and quickly put this together. I probably spent most of my time messing around on the overlay when it came to editing. Although when I watch compilations I do it to see what a build can do as opposed to what it can’t, that’s easy to work out just by looking at it. Plus it’s melee ranger, to think I’m trying to trick anyone into thinking it’s flawless is naïve.

@Lugh – Heh, well might stacking ranger is something I’d recommend now. Pre-patch it wasn’t really possible as you’d have to stretch your trait points far too thin to make it ‘balanced’. Very good point on the condi defence, 4/6/4/0/0 sounds like fun. I just have little options as SotF won’t work as I’m reliant on signets nor will cleansing sigils as I need the dodges & might. Signet of Renewal could but even that’s weak & outclassed by the other signets. And yeah tbh I’d been looking at what to use instead of spider, I think I’ll try double canine, boar sounds like a walk on the wild side haha.

@Vikkela – Hah, the rage is real!