Guild Wars 2

Thanks Daedraz, but everyone is telling me what i already knew. I can’t play how I would like because its not….viable. This illusion of making your own build is frustrating when everything always ends up with sites like MettaBattle. To do awesome dps…do exactly this. (even if your skill level isn’t to the level of the poster.) Just thought I’d ask. I guess ill have to spend what i have to buy and make condi gear again.

Daedraz.1650:

Fluffball.8307:

I don’t think of rangers or hunters as being ranged. It’s just a misconception of this particular archetype on your end.

Seconded. Its a ranger, not an archer. Whenever I think of rangers, I think of a sort of ‘rogue-ish/warden-ish’ archetype that uses a bow to some extent but also has proficiency with finesse based melee weapons, traps, tracking, handling animals, etc.

But to answer your question, if you are hell-bent on sticking with a range only build, power longbow is your option. But as mentioned by others, longbow and frankly power ranger builds are total jokes. There is a reason why every end game ranger runs condi. You can easily outdps a power build by close to 2 times with a condi build. In open world, dungeons, and low tier fractals, a power ranger will get the job done just fine. But if you ever want to join the ‘big boys club’ and do high tier fractals and raids, you’ll need to get condi gear. Trying to join a T3+ fractals or raid pug group as a power ranger will most likely result in an insta-kick.

However, you could circumvent this problem somewhat by playing as a druid. Most of the times druids run magi gear for max healing, but it is not uncommon to see druids running with berserker gear + longbow/staff depending on whether the group needs a lot of healing or not. Since a druid’s job is primarily healing and buffing group with grace of the land, spotter, and spirits, not many people will expect good dps from them.

Well for one when you say, Hunter or Ranger in any game the bow and arrow comes to mind. I think to be clear, I feel i am “forced” to play melee when i want to play ranged, but not having to be a caster as you pointed out here

Play LB/SB or whatever, which is utter garbage but if it’s fun for you then it’s fun for you.

Its not fun when you die constantly doing little damage.
Its like The bow is just to get the mobs attention and if your pet fails to hold aggro you in melee range or constantly running away.

I mean if i wanted to play something always in melee range i would have “chosen” a Warrior, or any of the Heavy Armor classes.

Looking for a strictly ranged….Ranger Build if one exist

Is it just me or is Ranger supposed to ranged? Mostly all the builds i find have the ranger in melee range. I like my Power build but i can feel the loss of dps when i stay ranged and not use my GS. (soon as i get into melee range, i die rather quick.)
I can’t seem to find a definite answer to the question, Power vs Condi builds.
I would like to do raids and fractals, but for now I just doing open world events.
I have just exotic Berserker gear. When i spent money on condi gear and weapons, i am not sure if i wasn’t “proficient” with it but i didn’t feel like i was kicking any kitten .

I am currently using or going by this
http://dulfy.net/2014/07/05/gw2-ranger-pve-class-guide-by-lorek-and-cell/

If there are answers to my question please link.

But once you discover it, the recipe stays in your list right? None of the other pieces are in my list of craft able items.

I can see the armor in Collections but i am missing shoulders. I went in to finish the set but can’t find how to craft any of the pieces.
This is the Rare or (yellow text) version
Armorsmith is 138.
Did something change since i was gone?