Guild Wars 2

Parktou.4263:

Welcome to Tier 8 -_- where all but a small few (who probably don’t play at the same time as you) will not fight you unless they have 3-4 of their friends nearby and can spam as many abilities as possible until you are dead or run off. Also, try being an 80 thief and getting anyone to fight you, and my thief is the definition of glass, minus the cannon, lol.

If you see me running around, I’ll fight you, I’m usually in EB, look for the maximum sized Norn ranger with CoF shoulders and an invader coat, with your friendly neighborhood spider running alongside. I enjoy the challenge of fighting a thief. It’s hard to find one that will finish a fight though, much of the time I either get defeated or as soon as I have the upperhand they cloak and runaway.

Cempa.5619:

Hi,

Looking for help as I got my Ranger to 80 and have just enough Gold to buy one set -casual player. I came up with a build idea/design:

Ranged (SB) power build that has at least 15 in BM with strong (near perma) CC via Cripple+Immobilize chaining from pets+abilities to keep melee just out of melee range and enough power + CC to allow pet to eat away with me at ranged.

So I started out with the above idea to fit how I have fun playing MMO’s:

Ranged Control

I picked Ranger because it has a massive arsenal of ‘ranged control’ when factoring in pets (Wolf+Dog for example give 10 sec Cripple+4 sec KD+2sec Immob + 2sec Fear) rotate that with Muddy Terrian which lasts for 20sec on a 24sec CD and it looks like enough mitigation.

As for Conditions using -20% rune + -40% food so -60% conditions applied to me should be just about enough.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|5.1g.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.79.1c.79.1c.79.1c.79.1c.79.1c.79|1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c|k28.f1.a6.a5.f5|15.7|4j.4w.4x.4q.55|e

Effective Power 3243.59
Effective Health (EHP) 25834
Damage Reduction 23.12%

Gear thus far is pure Soldier and I am not sure if that is the right choice?

My first 80 was a ranger and is the main character I use for WvW. The build you have here sounds pretty interesting and definitely could work. What I’ve learned most with playing a ranger in WvW is that you really have to tailor the build to your play style and then whether or not you are successful with it depends on your ability. You have to play a little differently against all different classes when you get in 1v1 situations. Like someone above said, mesmers are probably the worst prof for a ranger to go up against. You can still beat them, it varies from mesmer to mesmer, but if they are spamming confusion, you pretty much just have to step back and stop attacking. Healing spring will get rid of one condition when you pop it but only one and then you have a c/d.

Thieves are the same way, I do very well against some thieves and others do very well against me. The tricks I’ve learned to use against thieves are first, switch to lb, if you get rapid shot off before they cloak it will stay locked onto them, then obviously a thieve is gonna try to get in close, use barrage on yourself and traps if you are using them. In those situations, as with mesmers, it all really just depends on the player skill, and the abilities and gear setups each player is using. Not all thieves and mesmers are OP but some are.

The build I use is a Precision/Toughness/Condition Damage build with some Power and Crit sprinkled in. Everything exotic of course with a couple ascended trinkets. All of my armor has Rune of the Undead, LB has Superior Sigil of Force and SB has Superior Sigil of Earth. For skills I use Spike Trap, Frost Trap, Signet of the Hunt and Entangle. I could probably switch Signet of the Hunt for something more useful in combat but I don’t like running slow. The biggest thing you’ll find playing a ranger in WvW is that in a group and when attacking/defending a wall/gate, rangers are awesome. Barrage does a ton of damage, running into the middle of a group and using entangle and then dodging out is great.

So my suggestion is test out your build, see if it fits with your playstyle and then tweak it from there, I’ve done a ton of tweaking to my ranger’s build from when I started and I still adjust things every so often. But I would say, especially if you are just a casual player, find the build that you have the most fun playing, I have a blast with my ranger in WvW which is why I haven’t really bothered using any other professions for it, although I am leveling a mesmer to use in WvW also.

Hope that helps some. Sorry for the wall of text.