Guild Wars 2

I recently dusted off my Ranger that I haven’t played for about a year now and tried the latest Zerker builds, Bleed builds and now I am playing with the following Trap build and enjoying it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNMQNBHhVakRlaWLYxcFqWDIIErCa/G2yOJbLllElqkA-TVSAwAYUCq4EAIU9HKHCgZ6DEr0AwTAg5+DjVmRKAYmDA-w

Does anyone have any suggestions to improve the build? The downfall of the build is no stun break and only 1 trap (if you don’t count the Elite).

I was thinking of replacing the Undead Runes with Traveler Runes so that I could drop Signet of the Hunt for either a stun break (Lightning Reflexes) or another trap however I am concerned about the loss of toughness, loss of ~300 condition damage and the loss of pet speed would hurt the build too much. Thoughts? This build is mostly for solo or small group roaming in WvW.

Secondly, I recently bought the new Dry Top Chef Recipe Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Beans that gives you +40 Condition Duration and 33% chance to leech Health on critical hit and was wondering if anyone else had good results with this food? I would lose 70 condition damage that my currently Koi Cakes give me but the life leech might be worth it.

Thanks.

edit – fixed missing sigil on shortbow

The first thing is to absolutely 100% swap Sharpened Edges for Flame Trap. Geting 5 bleeds every 45 seconds is nothing compared for even 2-3 ticks of burning every 12s, and with projectile finishers you should be getting a lot more than 2-3 ticks even if they avoid the field.

In regards to Traveler Runes and Stunbreaker.. Yeah it’s a pain. For me, I went for it and took Traveler Runes and then took LR as a stunbreaker (sometimes swapping to SoR if I am up against a particuarly good condi player). The condition damage lost is noticable but not crippling, and in my opinion is well worth it.

I’ve been using the new food on my trap build and I’d say it’s good, worth it over Koi Cakes, but not absolutely revolutionary or nessesary. They heal for ~330 with a 1s ICD. Overall with a 50% crit chance you’ll be procing it every 6 or so hits (purely an average, obviously it can vary greatly) which turns out to mean you proc it every 4-6 seconds. So 330 healing every 5s (very roughly) is 66 HP/S.

So yeah, if you’re up for paying for them they are well worth using, but if not then don’t worry too much.

You mean swap Sharpening Stone for Fire Trap, right? I’ll give Fire Trap a try. I was also thinking of swapping out one of the Sigils of Agony for Torment but now sure if that is a wise decision.

Signet of the hunt is not really worth it too. It is much better to carry a stun breaker to evade pesky CC. Also i would use Sword as main hand since you now run fire trap which can give a nice fire aura or a leap finisher trough your healing spring. You can also use torch or dagger as offhand instead of warhorn which is more condition related.

Overall i would use sword to avoir a static fight. Shortbow does not involve alot of movement and you usually want kiting possibilities. Thats why i would go sword. For those 2 evade and the possibility to kite well.

- Get Fire Trap
- Troll Unguent(preference because can negate almost all enemy damage for being a kinda of regeneration heal)
- Definitely an active stun breaker
- Swap that warhorn for a dagger to get access to evade, cripple, extra bleeds and poison. You don’t need Fury because with 45% crit chance you can crit every 2 sec and active your sigil.

I wasn’t sure about Troll Unguent being an effective heal with no healing power. I like Warhorn for the Swiftness and the Blast Finisher, especially into Healing Spring but I may give dagger a try.

I also don’t want to lose my 25% swiftness from Signet of the Hunt. I cant play WvW anymore without swiftness after playing a Mesmer for so long.