Guild Wars 2

Keep in mind that skills and traits on the builder are not updated to new stats. But I will try and explain how build works and its secondary rework to druid for people that want to stay druid. Deference between the 2 is Ranger will have more damage output faster while druid is more agile in combat with more healing. I will also explain how traits work for this build and how they interact with one another. All trinkets and armor is zerker, with rune of the ranger, all weapon are with sigil of force and sigil of air.

Ranger: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATRjEqQJLWwCOsAVLG+DqOFqhdYf9FIA+K4HO6SWRaA-T1RBABPcJAea/hrU+hnuAzUCSp6PA8EACAcAwv/+7v/+bpAMXYE-w

-How this build works is by dishing out extra 25% damage by renewing opening strike constantly and removing conditions. All your survival skills grant furry whits grants you opening strike on next hit and remove your condition. Your heal troll urgent will remove 4 condis because it will trigger soften the fall that will remove extra 2and granting you extra 2 furry for 2 more lead attacks. Your opening 1st attack or 1st hit on you (if you don’t see someone sneak on you will also remove 2 condis thx to lesser QZ from beast mastery trait and give you another lead attack)

- Entering Combat: Enter combat with your pet stowed down with Hunters Shot. This allows you to crit your 1st hit as your opening strike that you naturally get from your ranger trait as well as giving you stealth for 3 sec from much further away. Wait 2 seconds between your next attack because most players will use dodge roll right away fearing your rapid fire out of stealth, they will also at this point be crippled. Soon as your Hunters shot hits your pet will get unstowed and will trigger Lesser call of the wild/Clarion Bond, giving you another opening strike with 25% more damage and giving you supper speed lesser QZ curing condition if any on you and allowing you to cripple again on next hit.
Your next attack will be Point Blank shot knocking him down and cripple, then you will channel rapid fire and soon as that casts you will cast QZ and signet of the hunt. QZ. What that does is refreshes your opening strike from QZ removes any condis from you if you have any, and makes your rapid fire unblockable and refreshes your Remostless for another opening strike. If target is alive and in your mlee switch to GS, your GS skills will refresh your Remostless, start with Maul and Hilt Bash then Maul again, because Hilt Bash will refresh Maul. At this point swap your pet to to refresh your Lesser Call of the wild/Clarion Bond, Pop your Signet Of Stone if need be, that will also refresh Remostless again and opening strike.

I had lots of fun killing people with this. Same concept goes with Druid except your replacing Beast Mastery with Druid and GS with Staff. Instead of Signet of Hunt you can replace it with Lightning Reflexes. Gives you more survival adds more to condis removal and helps dodge more. You will lose unblockable attacks but gives extra root and snare.

Druid Version of same build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATWjEqQJL2yCOsAVLW+DM4zac9u2kCqB7glX3CIAUi0rA-T1RBABmpEkS1fA4BA8wFA4p9HuS5He6ACAcAwv/+7v/+bpAMXYE-w

All in all hope you enjoy it. I always have some crazy fun builds I make and people always ask about them but I’m to lazy to type and share everything I make.

Loop that ranger spike guild was TERRIBLE not even executed right. My guild and myself were 1 of the top guilds holding HoH legit every single time. yes we ran spike builds sometimes but we were coordinated way better then anyone of those links you posted.

hug a tree make u feel better

if this helps there is 2 types of jump. Forward/Jump then when ur holding forward key and jumping and Jump/Forward that when u jump 1st then hit forward right after. If you can remember that and figure out object distance from you or elevation its easy. I’ve done the puzzle like 8x in a row before I even died once. Its easy.

As of right now pvp in GW2 is toxic. There’s no strategy or skill other then bunker and keeping 2 points. This type of PvP was used in costume brawl in GW1 that had preset skill bar for each profession. Oh how I miss interrupting cast skills and how much more entire team was reliant of your team to do their part. It is called team PvP solo Q and paying for 1 guy you have in the party that has no idea what to do is not only costing you pip on the ladder but also causing toxic environment for rest of us. Balance of the game is supper bad. Split skills of PvP and PvE because skills in PvE needs to be stronger then PvP but at the same time those skills are OP in PvP. Anet did this and then changed in GW1 as well.

If ONLY 1 could dream and have GW1 PvP mechanics and different styles of map play with GW2 graphics this game would be PERFECT.

I love my ranger and I am not saying in anyway shape of form that we are useless but yes we are useless when it comes to raid! Druid healer for VG yey that is all we get. Our condis or DPS is nowhere close to meta damage on warriors and or engies. Our support is ok but you can do it with revners and get more dps out of the deal. Good luck trying to run anything else besides healer support in raids and there is room for only 1 for that spot. Why can’t rangers have nice things? I made a warrior and running dps and or condis and it puts everything we do to shame! I would like to see what is Arena Net bringing to the table to make rangers useful in raids. Once again this is based upon elitist builds and groups that your ether part of and get stuff done right and fast the 1st time or pugging and doing 1 area for 3 hours because group is just as bad to even know where damage is lacking.

So far I have lvl 80 with full ascended armors and weapons Warrior, Ele, Guardian, Revrent, Thief and Mesmer. Ranger being my main and most beloved but nowhere out of all those listed do they have DPS even close to any of them. Makes me sad

Miku once again what does ur crit chance do for u if u don’t have ferocity to deal damage u can crit all u want with 200 damage its pointless

Raid people tend to think that Zealots is a must for raid. I own both armors full ascended and monk runes on them. I even salvaged my Zealots because there was no use for it. Now hear me out.

Zealots: Power (major) Cleric: Heal (major)
Precision (minor) Power (minor)
Healing (minor) Toughness (minor)

Lets start with Zealots. only thing useful here is power being major to contribute towards some damage. Damage contribution is so small that its hardly noticeable while you are at higher risk of being spiked down then your useful to nobody if you cant stay alive yourself to heal. For Precision there is no roll of that trait there! What can you do with being able to crit hit something and no ferocity to deal that damage. Its like having a car with no gas to drive it so you end up walking anyway.

As for cleric. Now here is why I had such great results in raids with it. Lower your toughness accordingly based on your tank, by adding zerker trinkets. That will increase your damage output way more alone then Zealots will. Use instinctive reaction to convert gain that hefty 7% of ur 1700 healing power to power should be extra 119 power to add to it. Toughness should keep you alive though any attack from dying instantly that is where you use your Spirit of Nature to res people in hot zones of the raid. If your pro you as a healer could also tank adding an extra DPS in the group if you know what ur doing. I’ve done it and we successfully killed VG with over a minute left on the clock.

I would like to hear your opinions on those 2 armors as after I ran both and tested both I find that precision without ferocity is useless and your heals are suffering and eventually team as well if they are taking more damage.

With all the new stats in ascended armor, for example condition armor Vipers being one of the best option for that, I would like to change stats on my ascended Carrion with runes of perplexity that are fairly expensive. Please Anet give us a tool to remove weapons/armor upgrades without having to salvage the item.

yes what Stitch said. Coin purses are from chest but champions and completing the Breach and final boss as well as the end chest drop Heirloom champ bags. I just opened another 60 and nothing!!! Getting kittened because its the only thing I need for to complete my kudzu everything else is done!

I am on last kudzu collection achievement. Need compost from Heirloom bags. I have been stuck on that one for 5 days now and I have been farming SW and opened over 200 of them and didn’t get a single one. Are they in game and are they dropping? Has anyone gotten one? Anet can you conform this or anyone that has been working on them. Please I feel like they are bugged and I am just wasting my time.

I have them all done except for the Heirloom seed pouch that 1 is not dropping anything and I have opened over 150 bags. as for the garden trovel Gendarran Fields atop the Provernic Crypts ettin vet has it. For your seed collecting purchase the Consortium harvest Sickle from the laurel vendor and increase your chance into harvesting seeds.

I have been doing Kudzu precursor crafting and have everything done but 1 thing in tier 3. Cant seem to get the fertilizer from Heirloom Seed Bag and I have farmed and opened about 150 of them out of silver wastes. I wonder if anyone else is having this problem and is Anet could address the drop rate on those when you have collectible achievement going on.

Dear fellow rangers I tend to never give out my builds to anyone because I put a lot of thought into them and keep em a secret. Because we always get short end of the stick I will share a build I have made with new patch last night that keep’s everyone asking what the hell are you running! For this build to have full potency you will need! I will also explain how build works.

Full zerker ascended armor.
Ascended LB/GS zerker as well.
Full zeker ascended trinkets.

Traits you will use are Marksmanship, Skirmishing, and Beast mastery!

Marksmanship: Call of the Wild, Steady Focus, and 1: Remorseless or 2: Lead the wind
Remorseless is fantastic if your roaming and killing single targets but if your in a Zerg or attacking multiple enemy’s then of course lead the wind.

Skirmishing: Primal reflex, Straiders defense, and Quick draw

Beast Mastery: 1: Resounding Timble or 2: Go for the Eyes. ( will explain on witch one to pick) then you want Two handed training and Zephyrs speed.

Utility skills: Signet of stone, (must) Signet or Hunt (optional but highly recomanded )
Lightning reflex(optional) and Strength of the pack (must)

How it works: Key future is to make shore your pet is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, STOWED!!!!!
Can’t stress that enough! You have the option to keep perma call of the wild on you with fury and swiftness by attacking a creature and soon as you kill it stowing your pet and repeating it again. That way you can stack up to 2+ minutes of fury and swiftness.
Every time you do this your Zephyrs speed will also kick in triggering quickness for 3 sec and giving you instant spike with rapid fire. At this time you have 2nd option to unload your damage on the enemy and fast. You can choose soon as your pet goes out of stow to active to switch it for another Quickness charge and another call of the wild.
At the same time each and every time you switch a weapon or get call of the wild on you or fury (that is why Strength of the pack is awesome for this and Resounding Timble helping it recharge faster) but every 3 seconds your fury gets renewed giving you opening strike (if you traited Remorseless and 25% more damage on hit) as well as when you switch to GS your attacks have 50% chance to give you fury and do more damage.
As for pets you have 2 options here: if your dueling and or roaming WvW Good pets are raven and white raven ( gained via GW1 hall of monuments) and trait go for the eyes. Basically between you switching the pets gaining quickness and spamming blind on your enemy its very annoying. 2nd option if you decide yo do shout trait then you take drake hound and wolf. Have fun killing and dropping people like fly’s!

Some of the cons for this build is condi remove so bring healing spring. But you have plenty of utility’s to ether run away or kill them from far and fast.

If you like this build give it a +1 also PM me if interested into learning my GOD MODE ranger build that extremely hard to kill. But that build will cost you

Title says it all, Can we play beta with new stuff right now if we pre purchased?

You are not paying monthly fees for subscription so I wouldn’t be complaining to much.

I notice all of the ranged skills from Mesmer, warrior, necro, and any casting attacks have been increased to 1200 range. Short bow still staying the same at 900? And with penalty of having to hit opponent from side or back to get bleed off might as well remove the SB from ranger whats the point!

Just look at the buffs everyone else got! Rangers are so disliked by Anet!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/June-23-Specialization-Changes/

On the trait line its great that read the wind and piercing arrows are combined but anyone else noticed that there’s no long bow range increase anywhere. Unless we get auto 1500 range we are screwed with 1200.

Basically I’ve spent lots of money while back when powerful vials of blood used to cost 13 silver to make offensive infusions with +5 power and +5 agony. Is there any possible way or will there be in near feature to salvage those infusions out of the item?

not true I use venom thief in WvW and if you know how to trait it right its almost unbeatable 1v1. I have killed so many people with that build. Its almost crazy good. Only down side to it is no speed buff on movement and no stealth only 1 way to stealth but who needs that when your target just drops down. Oh and everything is recharged in 36 seconds.

Now all of us rangers can transfer ascended gear/weapons to a thief or engineer without loosing the precious time and money spent into decking out useless profession aka the Ranger.

Here is a thought. Since Ranger class is stuck with the pets and we are lacking damage because of them, why not have both hear me out here!

Divide pets into 2 groups. support/defensive and damage/aggressive.

Based upon what kind of build 1 wishes to play ranger damage will be based upon. Example if ranger chooses with supportive pet that pet will NOT do any damage to enemy’s but provide boons and survivability to the team and player, but going that rout player gains increased damage himself. That would solve the problem with solo players that don’t wish pets as their damage source and want to deal damage while having some survivability.

Players that choose to do aggressive pets would be divided on damage (like it is now) with the pet with much improved pathing /AI for the pets for that burst damage that rangers are lacking to par with warriors exc…

Once you hit lvl 80 and you want to stay glass cannon. I recommend few things.

30/20/20/0/0 u trait signets/longbow here and at the same time have some defense from dodge rolling and gaining protection. Use wilderness survival recharge faster trait, and other 1 is your option. reason for 20 in skirmishing is there’s nothing good for ur GM in there so ur last trait is to recharge SB/LB skills.

Although this is fun build to play because of dps its also very easy 2 die in it. My choice of weapons would be SB/SD or LB/GS.

With right runes and armor and trinkets you should be easily exceeding 105% critical damage with just 20 points in skirmishing. with all 30 your looking at about 125% with food.

If you want great survivability and good DPS in WvW and being able 2 kill almost anyone in 1v1 go with Condition damage builds I like to use Carrion gear and go with 30/0/30/10/0 using axe/torch and sword/dagger and signets all and trait em up. Your condition attacks with food last 70%+ longer and make your target just melt away and you have so many evades and survivability potential with entangle and signet of stone

So I have a few weapon chests and armor sets that stats I don’t use. Why is it that we cannot sell ascended weapons or armor. Would be great source of income.

Well I for one spent ton of money (thank god it was earlier in game when powerful blood was at 18s a piece) to create infusions for my ascended gear +5 power +5 AR. Now with Legendary gear coming out will we be able to salvage or remove that stuff to place it into better gear. That’s ton of money to be wasted for nothing.

Not if your doing fractals and tanking up AR = easy survivability

there are 2 offensive infusions on my legendary, my question is if I was to craft the 2 expensive ones that cost 100 powerful bloods each in mystic forge with +5 power and +5 agony resistance can I use them both on there?

I favor running signet/condition ranger build with carrion armor and weapons. My question and concern is why and will there be asended gear in those stats power/condition damage/vatalaty.

Yes. you get pass and active affects of signets when trait. I use those signets myself but they need to be buffed. Like for example sig of hunt is only for speed there is no good benefit to activate it so its complete kitten. Very disappointed on balance team and ranger profession

Ranger being my fav profession to play but why bother seriosly I got 4 armors and all weapon sets for all 4 armors and builds. Even a legenday. Because rangers r complete crap now get nerfed and not fixed I seriosly have no desire to play. I have nothing to play for beside doing some major events.

When it comes to WvW im a beast but when faced with eavenely skilled player thats usinga thief or guardian or ele or mesmer I just get my kitten handed to me. Esp. Thiefs with stealth using pistol/dagger combo. that gets swaped into sword/dagger its stupid. our skills r crap our traits are crap and are bugged and our utility skills well we got like 2 worth using and thats it. Signets are crap that makes u have to trait 30 power so i can be affected by the kitten signet activation. If I didnt get so many achivmant points and all assended gear I sware I would of deleted my ranger. I seriosly curse the day I selected this proffesion as my main.

Anyone else have the same problem?

•Transmuting weapons now preserves the higher rarity of the two items

Transmutated my Dreamer into stats that I want Carrion for condition damage everything is there but when you ping the weapon in chat IT SHOWS UP AS EXOTIC.
I didnt grid this whole time to make a legandary weapon and when people ask me to ping it to them to show as EXOTIC PLZ FIX THISSSS.

It has been said that Legendary wepons will have thair stats increased. I just got my Dreamer and I am not looking or wanting the stats such as Power/Vatalaty/Armor. Would like something like power/vat/condition or power/precision/crit. I know some 1 can say transmutate it but I am afraid to do so if legendarys have thair original stats increased any my transmutation is form exotic. Would like an answer form game devs.

If all my armor and weps and lvl transfer yes in a heartbeat. I am kicking my own kitten for picking that class. Horrible DPS and choice of weapons and pets r more like anoying. Its like ur kid brother trying to tag along with u on ur date with a hot chick ur trying to nail. Id go with eather warrior or thief.

O I have used karma boosters b4 and there is no change in gathered karma for me I get the exact same 370 or so points per event. Ankittenep doing events over and over because thats how I farm my gold weps with my megic find gear.

Where do some of these people with legendarys already farm so much karma at? Do they sleep or eat? Same goese with gold. I play maybe 5-6 hours a day farming getting good drops salveging ectos and what not and am not even 1/3 of getting everything finished.

Hendge of Denvari is uncontested. I know this because I just did the event.

There is nothing I can do about it its making me mad. My screen looses everything on interface and will not come on unless I Alt Tab the game out and restart. And this has not ever happened b4 when i bought the game its a recent thing. I tried Ctrl+Shift+H nothing works. Plz help

I was wondering if this is a bug or maybe is entended that way becuase my ranger CoF coat prevents sholder pads from being desplayd. Reason im asking this is becaus if the answer is its supposed to be that way I would buy TA coat that would look sick but at the same time I am saving the blossoms for gift of thorns for my legenday. Anyone have any idea?

No that does enot fix the problem. all my commands dissaper and I have no idea what to do its very anoying. It happens every ttime I zone or use points to go form location to location. Is anyone else experiancing this?

Ever since last nights patch my screen attacks/skills and options all dissapear after I view vista or Tab out of the game for few mins. And there seems there is nothing to bring it back and some of the hotkeys will not work eather like trade posts and such by pressing O. Only thing that seems to fix this problem is closing down the game and restaring it but it happens again

Rangers pauldrons don’t display when you have CoF chest plate on. Made me so mad after all that farm my armor dont show my hard work…