Guild Wars 2

Been playing this game since the three day head start on my ranger and have tried many builds. I’m just curious to see peoples opinions on what they think is the best build in 1 v 1 situations.

A lot of people recommend to run with sword but I found that the auto attack seems buggy and hard to get out of if you have to dodge. Maybe that’s just me though..

But anyways, leave your weapon choices and traits posted here if you want ^^ thank you!

There’s no “best build” m8. Depends on your playstyle. But yea as a ranger if you are not using 1h sword you are doing it wrong. The autoattack is not bugged, just the weapon is not that easy to master. Offhand choice depends on your build, usually warhorn and torch are best options imo. Secondary weapon can be 2h sword but in my experience a ranged weapon is good idea, i usually use sb. I don’t like axe at all as main hand. Axe offhand is garbage in pvp.

Fjandi.2516:

There’s no “best build” m8. Depends on your playstyle. But yea as a ranger if you are not using 1h sword you are doing it wrong.

/sigh

Nah man there is no right or wrong the play style is really just preference. You can be effective with many other weapons besides the sword. There is no clear cut “best”. I’m just looking for what builds people think are the most effective, that’s all. Thanks for your opinion.

Kreamciqul.4617:

You can be effective with many other weapons besides the sword.

Sadly not. Oh and not only that. If the ranger could do well atm, it’s also due to the 1h sword.

Taruvoyant.4318:

/sigh

It’s not like i’m happy with the situation. I remember anet said every class could be affective with every weapon set and playstyle. Clearly they lied. But tbh it’s not only a ranger problem.

Best 1v1 builds atm are condi trap builds and evasion tanks. Plain and simple.

Yeah I was sucked into believing the “OMG CLASSES HAVE UNLIMITED CHOICES YOU CAN BE EFFECTIVE WITH ANYTHING” although it may be true for some classes.. It isn’t the case with rangers. It seems like rangers do not have many options and have to take one of the very limited paths in order to do “their part”

From playing as much as I did, rangers just get flat out boring. Plain, same thing over and over again. Especially if you pick short bow. 11111111111 lol.

I appreciate everyone’s replies and is condition build for a ranger really good? It would seem to be fairly easily countered with condition removal. Maybe not. Thanks again for the replies.

Kreamciqul.4617:

Yeah I was sucked into believing the “OMG CLASSES HAVE UNLIMITED CHOICES YOU CAN BE EFFECTIVE WITH ANYTHING” although it may be true for some classes.. It isn’t the case with rangers. It seems like rangers do not have many options and have to take one of the very limited paths in order to do “their part”

From playing as much as I did, rangers just get flat out boring. Plain, same thing over and over again. Especially if you pick short bow. 11111111111 lol.

I appreciate everyone’s replies and is condition build for a ranger really good? It would seem to be fairly easily countered with condition removal. Maybe not. Thanks again for the replies.

so one place rangers shine is their access to all 3 dps conditions at once, thru both weapons and traps. for instance you can stack poison and fire damage from traps while spamming bleeds on shortbow (+earth sigil). plus the traps keep ticking and reapplying the conditions, so even with removal you can still maintain good uptime on all 3 (which is actually a lot of damage with all 3 when speccing condition, esp if the bleed stacks get high).

plus it’s pretty easy to gear for condition damage and still stack tanky stats as well

I enjoy LB/GS signet ranger. It is a pretty strong duelist while also being fairly defensive with only 2200 armor.