Guild Wars 2

hi guys i thought i would Share the build that is getting me out of bronze hell. before i made this build i couldn’t get past 950 but after making this baby only need 3 more wins i am sure it will not be everyone’s cup of tea but its working very well.http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAV8fjMqQ5K2tCOsAVLWcEM4l6UNr28tycVAmAw2qyVizrA-TphAABc/AA0vMAAHEgOOCAYcBAUf/BA i would go full trapper but SoS is great for theifs,long bow rangers, and warriors when they go ape kitten lol. i can get to home and get a two point lead before the other team is finished capping unless they have a thief capping home of course. it can also get to far at start way before they have far capped. the only real draw back on this build is not being able to use traps while capping unless a team mate is there. my favorite move is running threw mid laying traps without other team seeing me by the time i use my last trap i use entangled before invisibility is gone and i am behind them without them knowing and use bonfire on them. like i said i am sure a lot of you will not like it but thought i would share it maybe someone else will find it a blast

Try to go DC-CS, and change SoS to SOTW, this will give you more survivability and 8 sec of unblockbale with SB. just use camera rotate SB 3 for prema swiftness.

lol, I’ll have to give this a try. I used something similar back in the day and it was really fun as nobody expected it.

LughLongArm.5460:

Try to go DC-CS, and change SoS to SOTW, this will give you more survivability and 8 sec of unblockbale with SB. just use camera rotate SB 3 for prema swiftness.

just wondering but why do you think SOTW is better to have then SoS? seems like without SoS thief,warrior,longbow ranger would be much harder to deal with

SOTW can help you reg AF which is hard without a staff, also you invest in piercing shots for SB so stability and 8 sec of unblockable can be nice for some pressure. With DC and CS you’ll have much better time vs thieves and rangers, you struggle now because you dont have stun breaks nor stability, and your heal is your only on demand condi clear. Maybe i’m wrong , have little experience with traps builds but i think it will be better.

LughLongArm.5460:

SOTW can help you reg AF which is hard without a staff, also you invest in piercing shots for SB so stability and 8 sec of unblockable can be nice for some pressure. With DC and CS you’ll have much better time vs thieves and rangers, you struggle now because you dont have stun breaks nor stability, and your heal is your only on demand condi clear. Maybe i’m wrong , have little experience with traps builds but i think it will be better.

thank you i have a stupid question i do not use avatar much but when i tried i always die. is their anyway to stop it a few sec after activating it?

trunks.5249:

LughLongArm.5460:

SOTW can help you reg AF which is hard without a staff, also you invest in piercing shots for SB so stability and 8 sec of unblockable can be nice for some pressure. With DC and CS you’ll have much better time vs thieves and rangers, you struggle now because you dont have stun breaks nor stability, and your heal is your only on demand condi clear. Maybe i’m wrong , have little experience with traps builds but i think it will be better.

thank you i have a stupid question i do not use avatar much but when i tried i always die. is their anyway to stop it a few sec after activating it?

Honestly, I only use mine for the instant AoE interrupt/heal and then heal myself. After that, I hit my hotkey and go right back to normal combat.

trunks.5249:

LughLongArm.5460:

SOTW can help you reg AF which is hard without a staff, also you invest in piercing shots for SB so stability and 8 sec of unblockable can be nice for some pressure. With DC and CS you’ll have much better time vs thieves and rangers, you struggle now because you dont have stun breaks nor stability, and your heal is your only on demand condi clear. Maybe i’m wrong , have little experience with traps builds but i think it will be better.

thank you i have a stupid question i do not use avatar much but when i tried i always die. is their anyway to stop it a few sec after activating it?

Same thing happens to me. I know it has to be me and my lack of skill but I really don’t understand the appeal of being a Druid. I like Natural Stride and Ancient Seeds but there are much more appealing (to me) abilities in other spec lines. I would really appreciate someone telling me why Druid is better than the other spec lines.

Thanks,

Anela

First op sorry to say this but you might’ve been in bronze because of this build. I totally get playing stuff that’d fun for you (this is a videogame after all some peeps forget that) even so this build is kinda terrible man.
First off you have no stun breaks,

second celestial form when your not spec for healing is still fantastic for a full cleanse of which you have almost none. Just pop in and out, however a good rotation for celestial form is 2,3, 4 pop ur mushroom (member it cleanses too might take of a pesky poison that got applied after the fact) blast it for retal, it’s also an aoe daze so it’s great for taking pressure of of you or interrupting rez stomps, followed by 4 even with the healing nerf it still works. Also celestial forms skill 5 can be a game changer if used correctly the damage is eh but it’s pluses cripple, slow, and finally imbolbs, fantastic for helping lock people down in aoes, I love using it when I see a necro bomb enemy downs, played right and you can help reset a team.

Personally I would drop the poison trap for flame trap if your dead set on trap runes, first getting the burns out there and is were you can get some real damage, it’s a short CD (12secs) which also means you can stealth more.

Also I’d take shared anguish instead of the poison when your healths up cause you need stunbreaks.

I’d also take troll urgent over healing trap and ws reduction trait line for more cleanses lower cds and also is an awesome way to regen celestial form, the downside is you have to pop it as soon as you feel your going to get pressured.

If your dead set on trapper ranger your going to need to hug a good support or 1v1 oner, because of ancient seeds druid have amazing synergy with warriors. Stun lock fools for days.

And to anyone this thread you take druid form for the amazing major traits, I love playing base ranger and do quite often for duels and solo roaming, but the major traits in druid form are just so essential to contributing to your team in PvP and anything bigger than a 2v2 in wvw.

First off druidac clearity is a FULL cleanse every 15 secs if you regeneration celestial form right in the Condi meta not only do you have to cleanse from 1 person but from multiple people and cleanse a lot at once.

Second off celestial shadow omg it’s a short instant shadow refuge on demand that gives super speed to allies too!! If I got a dollar for every time a teammate said ty so much for the stealth rez or getting them out of kittening dodge, I’d buy a net and have them switch honed axes with empathic bond (and make it give Condi damage instead of ferocity)

Thirdly the ancient seeds! As a ranger period, being able to effectively cc and lock down your target is life, not only is it good against certain classes in 1v1s, it has sooooo much synergy with teammates as they cc and you just love tap your enemy’s for lockdown.

Also the skills in celestial form are actually really really useful even if your not a healer, aoe daze? Check moving water field that teammates can blast or you can if your running clarion bond and swap pets check, pulsing ape cripple slow and an ape imolb that can give you stab is you weapon stow. Check

Looks dope as kitten check kittening mate. (Minds me of the night crawler deer god from princess monoke)

Eleazar.9478:

First op sorry to say this but you might’ve been in bronze because of this build. I totally get playing stuff that’d fun for you (this is a videogame after all some peeps forget that) even so this build is kinda terrible man.
First off you have no stun breaks,

second celestial form when your not spec for healing is still fantastic for a full cleanse of which you have almost none. Just pop in and out, however a good rotation for celestial form is 2,3, 4 pop ur mushroom (member it cleanses too might take of a pesky poison that got applied after the fact) blast it for retal, it’s also an aoe daze so it’s great for taking pressure of of you or interrupting rez stomps, followed by 4 even with the healing nerf it still works. Also celestial forms skill 5 can be a game changer if used correctly the damage is eh but it’s pluses cripple, slow, and finally imbolbs, fantastic for helping lock people down in aoes, I love using it when I see a necro bomb enemy downs, played right and you can help reset a team.

Personally I would drop the poison trap for flame trap if your dead set on trap runes, first getting the burns out there and is were you can get some real damage, it’s a short CD (12secs) which also means you can stealth more.

Also I’d take shared anguish instead of the poison when your healths up cause you need stunbreaks.

I’d also take troll urgent over healing trap and ws reduction trait line for more cleanses lower cds and also is an awesome way to regen celestial form, the downside is you have to pop it as soon as you feel your going to get pressured.

If your dead set on trapper ranger your going to need to hug a good support or 1v1 oner, because of ancient seeds druid have amazing synergy with warriors. Stun lock fools for days.

And to anyone this thread you take druid form for the amazing major traits, I love playing base ranger and do quite often for duels and solo roaming, but the major traits in druid form are just so essential to contributing to your team in PvP and anything bigger than a 2v2 in wvw.

First off druidac clearity is a FULL cleanse every 15 secs if you regeneration celestial form right in the Condi meta not only do you have to cleanse from 1 person but from multiple people and cleanse a lot at once.

Second off celestial shadow omg it’s a short instant shadow refuge on demand that gives super speed to allies too!! If I got a dollar for every time a teammate said ty so much for the stealth rez or getting them out of kittening dodge, I’d buy a net and have them switch honed axes with empathic bond (and make it give Condi damage instead of ferocity)

Thirdly the ancient seeds! As a ranger period, being able to effectively cc and lock down your target is life, not only is it good against certain classes in 1v1s, it has sooooo much synergy with teammates as they cc and you just love tap your enemy’s for lockdown.

Also the skills in celestial form are actually really really useful even if your not a healer, aoe daze? Check moving water field that teammates can blast or you can if your running clarion bond and swap pets check, pulsing ape cripple slow and an ape imolb that can give you stab is you weapon stow. Check

Looks dope as kitten check kittening mate. (Minds me of the night crawler deer god from princess monoke)

Thank you for the explanation, Eleazar. Druid makes more sense to me now. Would you mind posting your spec? I would love to see it.

Thanks,

Anela

Eleazar.9478:

First op sorry to say this but you might’ve been in bronze because of this build. I totally get playing stuff that’d fun for you (this is a videogame after all some peeps forget that) even so this build is kinda terrible man.
First off you have no stun breaks,

second celestial form when your not spec for healing is still fantastic for a full cleanse of which you have almost none. Just pop in and out, however a good rotation for celestial form is 2,3, 4 pop ur mushroom (member it cleanses too might take of a pesky poison that got applied after the fact) blast it for retal, it’s also an aoe daze so it’s great for taking pressure of of you or interrupting rez stomps, followed by 4 even with the healing nerf it still works. Also celestial forms skill 5 can be a game changer if used correctly the damage is eh but it’s pluses cripple, slow, and finally imbolbs, fantastic for helping lock people down in aoes, I love using it when I see a necro bomb enemy downs, played right and you can help reset a team.

Personally I would drop the poison trap for flame trap if your dead set on trap runes, first getting the burns out there and is were you can get some real damage, it’s a short CD (12secs) which also means you can stealth more.

Also I’d take shared anguish instead of the poison when your healths up cause you need stunbreaks.

I’d also take troll urgent over healing trap and ws reduction trait line for more cleanses lower cds and also is an awesome way to regen celestial form, the downside is you have to pop it as soon as you feel your going to get pressured.

If your dead set on trapper ranger your going to need to hug a good support or 1v1 oner, because of ancient seeds druid have amazing synergy with warriors. Stun lock fools for days.

And to anyone this thread you take druid form for the amazing major traits, I love playing base ranger and do quite often for duels and solo roaming, but the major traits in druid form are just so essential to contributing to your team in PvP and anything bigger than a 2v2 in wvw.

First off druidac clearity is a FULL cleanse every 15 secs if you regeneration celestial form right in the Condi meta not only do you have to cleanse from 1 person but from multiple people and cleanse a lot at once.

Second off celestial shadow omg it’s a short instant shadow refuge on demand that gives super speed to allies too!! If I got a dollar for every time a teammate said ty so much for the stealth rez or getting them out of kittening dodge, I’d buy a net and have them switch honed axes with empathic bond (and make it give Condi damage instead of ferocity)

Thirdly the ancient seeds! As a ranger period, being able to effectively cc and lock down your target is life, not only is it good against certain classes in 1v1s, it has sooooo much synergy with teammates as they cc and you just love tap your enemy’s for lockdown.

Also the skills in celestial form are actually really really useful even if your not a healer, aoe daze? Check moving water field that teammates can blast or you can if your running clarion bond and swap pets check, pulsing ape cripple slow and an ape imolb that can give you stab is you weapon stow. Check

Looks dope as kitten check kittening mate. (Minds me of the night crawler deer god from princess monoke)

hmm interesting considering i couldn’t get past 850 before i used this build got from 850- 1150 in less then 2 days i like it and im zooming up. so to each their own if you do not like it thats fine works great for me

Anela.3867:

Eleazar.9478:

Thank you for the explanation, Eleazar. Druid makes more sense to me now. Would you mind posting your spec? I would love to see it.

Thanks,

Anela

Sure but which one (my solo wvw (condi or power) build or havoc, Pvp i switch it up depending on enemy comp) ? I run all the builds depending on what I want to do. I try not to fall in love with just one build ranger is super flexible and your nerfing yourself if you don’t bring whats best to the fight. the only trait line I don’t run in pvp is skirmishing because condi ranger is eh in pvp, if a condi ranger and power ranger got into a fight power should win (in the current meta) nine out of ten. (I’d be willing to duel to prove my point to any challengers :p) sorry to be so vague but I’m a bit of a ranger die hard and will literally talk my guildies ears off when it comes to build crafting

Eleazar.9478:

Anela.3867:

Eleazar.9478:

Thank you for the explanation, Eleazar. Druid makes more sense to me now. Would you mind posting your spec? I would love to see it.

Thanks,

Anela

Sure but which one (my solo wvw (condi or power) build or havoc, Pvp i switch it up depending on enemy comp) ? I run all the builds depending on what I want to do. I try not to fall in love with just one build ranger is super flexible and your nerfing yourself if you don’t bring whats best to the fight. the only trait line I don’t run in pvp is skirmishing because condi ranger is eh in pvp, if a condi ranger and power ranger got into a fight power should win (in the current meta) nine out of ten. (I’d be willing to duel to prove my point to any challengers :p) sorry to be so vague but I’m a bit of a ranger die hard and will literally talk my guildies ears off when it comes to build crafting

I would ask for your favorite but it looks like you don’t have one. I love to talk builds too and love to hear other’s explanations of theirs and how it works. I very new to being a Ranger and am still learning the intricacies of the class.

Anela

I’ve been toying around with something like this and it’s fun every once in a while, but I can’t seem to string together any consistency with it.

My biggest stumbling block so far is trying to find the right pets to run. I can’t seem to find the right pairing.

I will say the style is hysterical in team fights as soon as there’s a downed player on either side because people tend to group up for the rez/stomp and that’s when you can really lay it on with entangle, traps and CA abilities.

Starbreaker.6507:

I’ve been toying around with something like this and it’s fun every once in a while, but I can’t seem to string together any consistency with it.

My biggest stumbling block so far is trying to find the right pets to run. I can’t seem to find the right pairing.

I will say the style is hysterical in team fights as soon as there’s a downed player on either side because people tend to group up for the rez/stomp and that’s when you can really lay it on with entangle, traps and CA abilities.

i find that the bristalback pet works very well with short bow and wolf to get me out of a jam. one thing i did change on build was druid line i have it at 1-1-3 now. i just use short bow for perm swiftness and another thing the reason i have poison and not shared anguish is because my timing is horrible with thief dodge spammers so short bow 1 gets 4 codis on them and they have to run away or die now