Guild Wars 2

Hi. Soon I will finish last story missions with my 4th char – Sylvari Ranger – and then I want to take him to WvW. (I usually level PvE first and do story a bit).

So far I have Engineer, Guardian, Ele and most of them are playing in zergs and damage or support focused.

Now I want to make the Ranger more into a roamer and try roaming. I noticed in Orr the pet can be tanky against NPC mobs – maybe this helps and makes it easier to solo a camp(if no enemy real player nearby).

I want some build recommendations. What should I prefer? Direct damage or conditions? (So far even on my engineer I prefer direct damage cause I use him in zerg and I heard zerg with guardians can easy defend against conditions so they are useless).

Can celestial gear be used? Always wanted to use that but haven’t tried it on any class and have a lot of charged quarz stored.

Which weapons? I think 1 ranged(long or shortbow) and then 1 melee set? I heard warhorn is good because of speed buff and stuff(and I got still a super skin cause of the fun sound and animation it makes). Maybe sword + warhorn?

Which traits? Just post some ideas if you have(and maybe with warhorn or celestial gear if there exist builds with that – if not recommend other stuff). I will try some own stuff later this evening when I’m playing more.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/My-new-BM-Bunker-Build-i-m-running

This guys also got several videos on YouTube, search xsorus

Ah that is looking interesting. I noticed in his build(and in other builds I saw) that they use a lot of healing power. Why is this? Always thought healing was only something for Guardian or maybe a bit Ele with water attunemnt healing stuff.

Is this mainly for pet passive regeneration? Or is there any other use? According to wiki most other stuff does not seem to scale that much but that Signet of the Wild seems strong if it really addas 0.25 of your healing power to heal per second.

Your best bet is to just look here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/New-To-Rangers-Looking-for-guides-CLICK-ME

There are quite a few possibilites and its really up to your preference, playstyle, etc.

In general though condition builds are the most common for roaming, largely because our DD is low compared to any other class on a comparible build, and also because our condition builds lend themselves nicely to working with regen and BM.

Condition builds can take the form of traps, spirits, full regen BM bunkering (with or without shouts), or some combination of the above. Spirits arent great in WvW.

Power builds can work but still often focus on evading and some regen simply because rangers dont burst well and arent naturally tanky, so in most cases its in your best interest to build and play to win in a drawn out fight, rather than expecting to charge in and have it over in 10 seconds.

This is all generally speaking and IMO but.. yeah. Look at the link, so good builds are posted there and dont be afraid to change them to suit you better ^.^

Never used spirits in PvE so far. I think back then when I started they even were weaker then now and you’d need a ton of traits(I did not want to use because if important trait points or other traits that could be used instead). I’ll look into that guide listing and some guides later, thanks.

Traps I thought seemd a bit slow on activation time(if you try using them while in combat). PvE I have used them so far and did not like it… always moving and kiting and always to fast with dodge or other skills and it already cancelled the trap cause I was too fast and the trap to slow and still not placed ha ha.

So I might try that BM with regeneration. Shouts you said? I have them on guardian and I know there also is a rune that removes conditons and I saw we have traits that give switfness and regenerations on shouts.

Interesting. I’ll try to experiment a bit later.