Guild Wars 2

mainly with trats and skills.

i love the mobility of sword mainhand and dagger offhand, feels crazy good running around.

i enjoy aesthetics of greatsword as well, nothing feels more dnd to me then using a big twohander with my rangers.

is there any good builds that use these two? pvp, wvw, pve, etc…i dont HAVE to have both in a single build, but being able to use them in some aspect of play would make me a happy camper.

with such little experience with rangers, long time away, and with a new patch coming up, was hoping for help on this.

Sounds like you would probably love Exploits’ build, as shown in this video (there’s a link to the build and gear provided.)

Unfortunately, pet damage is about to get nerfed, so it’s uncertain how well this build in perform in the future, as it is among the most pet-reliant ranger builds.

ya i heard about that, but by how much? how much does that affect total damage? and does it get anything in return for that damage loss?

There’s a major patch coming that’s going to change a whole lot of stuff. All we’ve got so far on pet changes are unofficial notes so detailed analysis is going to have to wait until we can actually test them.

Beastmastery does appear to be getting flat-out nerfed. The useful level 5 adept trait is being swapped with a grandmaster trait nobody uses and apparently most of our pets are getting substantial damage reductions, which will reduce the efficiency of trait points in Beastmastery and the overall viability of Beastmaster builds. We don’t know by how much.

Our other four trait lines are all being buffed at least modestly. The most substantial changes are to the Nature Magic trait line (it needed them.) The ramifications of those changes are difficult to guess at this time, especially since every other class is also getting changes which will probably alter the metagame balance quite a bit.

hah hectic time for me to come back. guess i should avoid things like spvp for a while and just level up a bit.