Guild Wars 2

Hi Rangers,
For a while I have been seeing a few different players being quite successful running all melee ranger builds e.g. G’s/s:x builds. A few of the builds have been running full zerker which I don’t really think suits my play style, mostly running beastmaster builds in the past.

So just wondering if any body could suggest a starting point in terms of gear and traits which would provide decent survivability but also enable me to not just bore my opponents to death ????

Regards roeore

Try your berserker gear in 20660. Sharpened edges (counts as a survival skill for:), SotF, barkskin (or EB if you have trouble with condis), Two-Handed Training, vigor, prot, whatever, etc. LR, MT, Entangle.

You may want some soldiers or something in there, but I find those traits extremely surivivable. The number of evades and movement is huge, and you have a “float” skill to add whatever, perhaps Signet of Stone.

You can use a similar set up if wanted another beast master, that I often dueled using, 00626. SotF again, and Natural Healing or ZS are both quite good. A bird pairs well with that build if you take Intimidation Training.

Hopefully that gets you started. If you don’t want pure berserker, use it as a base and mix in valk, cavs and soldiers until you hit the stats you want.

I run with this http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNUQNAR8XnUqQLL2KI+rAXLGAToaPAFQAwKZfPDpaFXwkD-TlCFwANuAAy3fAwRA4qSQBHEAkKPQp+jVlYZ0Ns4BAQIgyjBA-w

Heal gets swapped for Spring if I’m running with friends and oh axe can be swapped for dagger or warhorn depending on preference.

The burst from F2 -> pet swap -> F2 while autoattacking with sword with sick’em active ( thanks to zephyrs speed ) is crazy – and thanks to multiple sources of vigor, your low HP is kind of mitigated ( can’t believe the forums filtered “kinkittenigated” ) by the amount of blocks and evades you have access to ( especially if using an oh dagger ).