Guild Wars 2

hello guys, new at GW2, i’m roll a ranger so currently looking for good build for level, solo, pve. also any recommendation on what kind trait, craft best for ranger. any link to latest guide/build would be apperciated.

Don’t play ranger.

Arekai.5698:

Don’t play ranger.

why?. i’m mainly looking for ranged pve

Then play a Rifle/Longbow warrior.

weaponwh, I Will Not Lie, Deceive Nor Delude you by telling you rng class is what it is, it is *Not. I stand For Justice which is Truth. The Choice Lies in your hand.

I suggest playing as a Warrior. Pets are useless, we have zero utility and no one wants us in dungeons.

Levelling a ranger is fairly easy if you’re into the ranged aspect,your pet should tank whilst you fill them with arrows,trying to swap pets before they die.
If you want your pets to be anyway useful,put some points into beast mastery,otherwise put point in marksmanship and skirmishing for the longbow/shortbow and the other two trait lines are mostly about helping survival.
If you’re still not sure,try out some of the other classes see what you like best!

My ranger build is something along the lines of this, but I’m still tweaking:
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mVozmm0zMmomhMmovhMGGf0fcRMsoz

In combat, I kite enemies (usually running around in circles) while a melee pet helps out either by (bears or pigs) taking or (cats) giving damage. You can generally go against 4+ mobs and 1 veteran with this, although with the weapon set I posted you’ll have trouble if all of them are ranged.

I agree with the previous posters that if you’re looking for damage or otherwise speed-clearing a dungeon, look elsewhere but the Ranger can get some very forgiving builds that make it good for more relaxed play or taking on several mobs at a time. The issue with the Ranger is you don’t have good enough control of the pet against bosses, and since the damage and utility of the ranger is about 20-30% in the pet, then having a pet that isn’t contributing (or dead) makes you extremely weak.

I have three level 80s – Ranger, (offensively-trated) Guardian, and (shatter traited) Mesmer. The Ranger is easily the weakest damage-dealer, since I have to poke away with the axe or shortbow waiting for the conditions to set in versus my Guardian’s melee burst (greatsword 5-5-4-3-2) or my Mesmer that can kill anything not veteran or blocking/evading with two shatter bursts. The Ranger’s specialty is really in taking or giving sustained damage (conditions, constant weapon damage, and very powerful self-heals), but the issue is the metagame in higher-end PvE is leaning more towards ending the battle before the “attrition” battle can begin.

Do the smart thing and reroll warrior or any other class. Rangers are useless, broken beyond repair, do it before you get to 80, spend hundreds of gold in gear and everything for the ranger and later find out it is garbage, no one wants you in groups and you dont bring anything to groups. Do the smart thing and roll a warrior, they are better with ranged weapons than ranger, well any other class is better than rangers.

how to play ranger:
-go to character select
-hit “delete”
-enter name
-hit “create character”
-click on warrior
-have fun.

Seriously tho, I levelled a warrior to 80 and didn’t want to play him halfway through. Just had to use “endure pain” in real life to get him to 80 for the sake of having him at 80.
It’s boring and tedius, you just stand there, face-tank everything and lol100blades or autoattack it to the ground.

unless, you are some performance obsessed nerd who desperately needs to run level 70+ fractals in under 15 minutes, to get any sense of accomplisment, you can really roll a ranger. It’s loads of fun, just don’t be disappointed, when you try to do a dps race against a warrior. Ranger just isn’t cut for that.