Guild Wars 2

hi i haven’t even played this game(in the process of downloading) but im looking to make a ranger for my first character and i was wonder what my best options are far as best race for ranger thanks.

Asura no question

Asurans are the master race Sadly, my ranger was my first char and a human before I discovered Asurans and all my other chars are now asurans. Pain Inverter is so good :P Using it on my mesmer and works great, but Xsorus has opened my eyes to using it on other classes xD

hmm well that helps me thanks guys i heard charr r good for rangers is this true?

Currently leveling a thief to play with my other friends thief, but I made it an Asura as well, and I do plan on doing a Pain Inverter video with her.

My Guardian though is Norn, and that would of been a real interesting Pain Inverter class to play.

doozer.1974:

hmm well that helps me thanks guys i heard charr r good for rangers is this true?

In truth any Race will work just fine on a Ranger, its just the Asura Racial is incredibly powerful for bunker condition rangers.

You can do just fine with Charr though.

Xsorus.2507:

doozer.1974:

hmm well that helps me thanks guys i heard charr r good for rangers is this true?

In truth any Race will work just fine on a Ranger, its just the Asura Racial is incredibly powerful for bunker condition rangers.

You can do just fine with Charr though.

what is a bunker condition ranger? and how could i find what the racials of the races are or do they tell me when im creating a char?

doozer.1974:

Xsorus.2507:

doozer.1974:

hmm well that helps me thanks guys i heard charr r good for rangers is this true?

In truth any Race will work just fine on a Ranger, its just the Asura Racial is incredibly powerful for bunker condition rangers.

You can do just fine with Charr though.

what is a bunker condition ranger? and how could i find what the racials of the races are or do they tell me when im creating a char?

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mco

Simply select the race from top left hand side.

Bunker Condition Ranger is basically

30 Wilderness
10 Natures (Or Skirmish for more offense)
30 Beastmaster

You can go to the videos in my Sig to see how I play it, It includes my Specs, and what gear I use ect ect.

alrighty thanks man u are alot of help

doozer, I would pick a race which you like the look of “Pain Inverter” will get its nerf soon.

And if you want to play the meta go Bunker or Power Rangers and take month of Sundays to kill anything.

Sol.4310:

doozer, I would pick a race which you like the look of “Pain Inverter” will get its nerf soon.

And if you want to play the meta go Bunker or Power Rangers and take month of Sundays to kill anything.

heheh, I honestly expected PI to get a nerf last patch, but i realized it probably won’t..Namely because most classes don’t use it…Cause they have something better, PI really isn’t overpowered, Its just Rangers Skills are kind of Subpar in comparison.

Sharpening Stones is a good example..Its the closest thing to a Condition Spec Ability similar to PI for Rangers.. and it blows…

If you look at other comparison abilities, such as Caltrops from thieves…you’ll see its incredibly weak

Spiked Trap is another example of something that’s basically a poor man version of Caltrops as well.

PI is mate. Racial’s are meant to be sub-par.

I can’t believe you said Sharpening Stone “blows”, for build like mine it’s a must.

Sol.4310:

PI is mate. Racial’s are meant to be sub-par.

I can’t believe you said Sharpening Stone “blows”, for build like mine it’s a must.

In comparison to PI it blows, and in comparison to example..Caltrops, it blows as well.

It honestly could use an upgrade, Either a Cooldown drop, or more stacks of bleed.

Look, lets not high jack this thread with a debate over SS. Just stick to what works best for you PI.

Sol.4310:

Look, lets not high jack this thread with a debate over SS. Just stick to what works best for you PI.

I feel you’re taking it personal that I think SS sucks compared to other abilities and it needs a buff….I’ve ran SS in my videos to prove that it can be done, but I also know that PI is better then it, same with Caltrops. It honestly needs like a 20 Second Cooldown instead of a 45 Second cooldown.

Na mate nothing personal, I use SS for whole different reason. For my build its perfect.

Asura have some cool animations as a Ranger imo !
Just not so fond of the axe ones especially the whirl.

Sol.4310:

Na mate nothing personal, I use SS for whole different reason. For my build its perfect.

Its probably better for a Bow Ranger then it is a melee ranger

Pain inverter wouldn’t be as useful for Bow because you’re trying to stay away from people.

Well, I only really use SS when I go into melee mode so my burst is bigger, SS+SE+QZ stacks allot of bleeds while I’m critical hitting them to death. Hunters Call stacks them as well so extremely easy to get 10+ bleeds in 1 second.

Sol.4310:

Well, I only really use SS when I go into melee mode so my burst is bigger, SS+SE+QZ stacks allot of bleeds while I’m critical hitting them to death. Hunters Call stacks them as well so extremely easy to get 10+ bleeds in 1 second.

Yea I could see that working, for fun I was running my old Shortbow gear earlier….I had 1973 Condition Damage and each bleed from SS was 1100+ was rather funny.

Wasn’t really using QZ though, was pet swapping then doing SS

Conspiracy: Norns suffer less obstruction because their bows are higher.

Norn has those shape shifting ones and the snow leopard one is actually really good as are the others depending on your build. Norn racial skills are meant more for gs/sw/axe rangers but the owl one is actually pretty good for rangers. I use that while im roaming PvE stacks bleed and hits hard and I think its better than SS.

I’s say human.
Sylvari females look cool as rangers, sylvari males are too effeminate.
Asuras are ok but they don’t fit the role imo.
Norns…their lore is awesome and i really like them, sadly norn males look like giant freaks. Also most skill animations look funny on them, imagine a norn ranger using 1h sword skills…nah a giant norn jumping around evading enemy hits looks silly to me. Last but not least, they are big. That means smaller races have an advantage: harder to spot them, harder to counter their moves. Norn females look better than human ones tho.