Guild Wars 2

how is it done if so?

Sigil of earth, precision stat, sharpened edge, hidden barbs, sharpening stone, ancient seeds, madking runes or krait runes.

Its a gimmick build

Here’s the cheap version of the build I run on my alt account http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAWTjEqQJL2wCusAVLWMEMmAworB00BSdtA4u6YNtWi0PD-TlSAABBu/AFPBg2UCmpaOAcIAU4CA8iuAxUitpqBfp8IAACA7cnHdnH9olCYRpRA-w

If you enjoy playing it you might consider mixing in some viper gear and crafting some prickly pear pie

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Condi-Longbow-1vX-roaming-vid/first

That’s the last post of build/vid I did on condi longbow. It’s only a gimic if you arnt landing the longbow bursts.

The min/max version
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNMQJATWjEqCVqZ1sWy6Xxl1yCXrr1ihg18uSdtAmAworBA3VHrp1UCT6VgE-TVTFABrpDBgnQwSKpS4QAk8FQot9HNBHq+TtaIUSZADHIg+UCWlSFqPgABAQA25OTn7MbezduzDdoDdoDdotzduzduzdWKg7WWB-w

The food is probably something you will want to substitute with the wvw provisioner unless you use metabolic things.

kiwituatara.6053:

Sigil of earth, precision stat, sharpened edge, hidden barbs, sharpening stone, ancient seeds, madking runes or krait runes.

Its a gimmick build

What’s sad is that this is because Shortbow is so bad that people would rather pick Longbow as their condi choice…

roamzero.9486:

kiwituatara.6053:

Sigil of earth, precision stat, sharpened edge, hidden barbs, sharpening stone, ancient seeds, madking runes or krait runes.

Its a gimmick build

What’s sad is that this is because Shortbow is so bad that people would rather pick Longbow as their condi choice…

I originally ran it with shortbow because you could proc ancient seeds x5…. then they nerfed that and there was absolutely no reason not to run longbow over sh*tbow

roamzero.9486:

kiwituatara.6053:

Sigil of earth, precision stat, sharpened edge, hidden barbs, sharpening stone, ancient seeds, madking runes or krait runes.

Its a gimmick build

What’s sad is that this is because Shortbow is so bad that people would rather pick Longbow as their condi choice…

Whats really sad is that staff procs bleed sigil and traits just as fast as shortbow when not flanking.

i on the other hand main shortbow in spvp and hate longbow. Tbh longbow has only two real reasons to use it – hunter’s shot for stealth (and stealth stomp) and point blank shot for knockback off point + ancient seeds to keep’em there.

But imho longbow sucks. It hits like a wet noodle even in power builds, doesn’t have anything for condi and gets destroyed with anti-projectile skills just the same as shortbow. Except shortbow has real damage from condies, and far faster fire rate, making it far better for both stacking bleeds from crits and stripping away those near infinite aegis stacks guards have.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

i on the other hand main shortbow in spvp and hate longbow. Tbh longbow has only two real reasons to use it – hunter’s shot for stealth (and stealth stomp) and point blank shot for knockback off point + ancient seeds to keep’em there.

But imho longbow sucks. It hits like a wet noodle even in power builds, doesn’t have anything for condi and gets destroyed with anti-projectile skills just the same as shortbow. Except shortbow has real damage from condies, and far faster fire rate, making it far better for both stacking bleeds from crits and stripping away those near infinite aegis stacks guards have.

I agree with you – long bow just doesn’t really work with condi builds. Apart from most of the long bow skills being useless for condi, Point Blank Shot (lb) is o.k. but Quick Shot (sb) combined with Ancient Seeds works almost the same way and it’s just as good.
I suppose Barrage can be useful as well – use a trap, ancient seeds keep enemies in place and then barrage and then other AoE condi skills (traps in my case) to follow?
I’ve never tried that though.

Nevertheless I like short bows (freshly made my Viper’s Pearl Needler) more.

Longbow isnt for condi, that’s why you run it glass hybrid stat so you are still doing dmg aswell. Beyond stealth it’s largest advantage is its range and barrage.

i run condi lb.. its pretty good in wvw as it provides thief protection but its mostly just to cheese people.. basically run sinister armor/weapons and carrion trinkets/rings ect… use trapper runes and stack traps.. the traps do pretty solid damage.. ur autos arent great but they deal decent enough dmg.. where the build really shines tho is kiting.. if ya got 2 or 3 people tryin to kill ya (and you can outrun them) dropping traps makes them very unwilling to actually try and chase you down because the traps hurt like a motherkittener.. when im sitting back pew pewing from a distance ill stack 3 traps on top of me for when that thief decides im gonna explode.. he pops in and gets knocked around with condi.. has to bail out of his attack or he’ll melt in seconds which gives ya time to drop a healing spring (and stealth) and reset the fight to one where ya arent getting jumped.. ancient seeds (druid) and knockback/auto work well enough.. throw in a bristleback and ya actually have fairly solid damage output with ur rapid fire.. all in all i think its my favorite wvw ranger build.. not particularly good in spvp tho

No such thing as a cheese or gimmick build. Just builds.
Long bow ,with sharpened edges and hidden barbs .Yassith’s /Viper’s with some sort of ferocity rune.Rampager’s accessories . I’ve tried with Dire Armor and rampager’s accessories with some success. All depends on how close you want to be to your target.

Gankez.2731:

i run condi lb.. its pretty good in wvw as it provides thief protection but its mostly just to cheese people.. basically run sinister armor/weapons and carrion trinkets/rings ect… use trapper runes and stack traps.. the traps do pretty solid damage.. ur autos arent great but they deal decent enough dmg.. where the build really shines tho is kiting.. if ya got 2 or 3 people tryin to kill ya (and you can outrun them) dropping traps makes them very unwilling to actually try and chase you down because the traps hurt like a motherkittener.. when im sitting back pew pewing from a distance ill stack 3 traps on top of me for when that thief decides im gonna explode.. he pops in and gets knocked around with condi.. has to bail out of his attack or he’ll melt in seconds which gives ya time to drop a healing spring (and stealth) and reset the fight to one where ya arent getting jumped.. ancient seeds (druid) and knockback/auto work well enough.. throw in a bristleback and ya actually have fairly solid damage output with ur rapid fire.. all in all i think its my favorite wvw ranger build.. not particularly good in spvp tho

In all fairness, it sounds like traps did most of the heavy lifting.

I wish those worked in pvp. Traps are so much fun.