Hello, everyone!
For a long time now I have had a level 80 ranger, but due to reasons we all know I have benched the ranger and the game for a while. So, recently I decided to revisit the game and dust off my ranger to see if it has gotten any better, but to no avail. I have been tempted to reroll a warrior, but I cannot bring myself to do it. The furthest I got was browsing the warrior subsection on the forums to see why they had so much more DPS than, what I thought should be one of the highest DPS classes, our ranger.
I came to the immediate conclusion that it was because the warriors would go full “zerker” builds for their equipment and trait loadout and being able to reach numbers in the 5k+ effective power, 22%+ damage, 73%+ crit chance, and 109% crit damage using a greatsword.
So I thought to myself “what if I applied these same concepts to our ranger?” As far as equipment and trait loadout this is the final result:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6|5.1g.a7|c.1g.a7.f.1g.a7|1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.cg.67|u16c.u5ac.a3.0.0|0.0|e
It comes out to 5.3k effective power, 21% damage, 56% crit chance, and 105% crit damage using SB/SW+TO. So it is fairly close to that of a warrior and because of this I want to believe that rangers can get somewhat close to the DPS or just plain damage output of a warrior to make us a viable choice for anything.
So I pose these two questions:
1. What utility loadouts would compliment the build I posted?
2. Is there a better loadout that could produce similar, if not better, stats?
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What would you change in the build that I posted?
Thank you for reading and happy hunting, Rangers!
