Guild Wars 2

Hi Holl,

I ran trapper for awhile and found it pretty fun… when the mechanics worked. Question about your build – I notice you run Rabid stats and was looking through your setup and the only thing that I saw which takes advantage of precision is Sharpened Edges. Considering this is primarily a condi build, it doesn’t seem like it’s worth it to run Rabid just to occasionally proc a relatively weak bleed trait. I know most Condi Rangers run full Dire to make them super tanky, I was just wondering what precision does for you in this build.

Echoing what Yams said, I eventually found myself way too susceptible to CC in my Trapper build and eventually dropped traps for Lightning Reflexes and Protect Me to break CCs and apply damage mitigation as trap stealth simply wasn’t saving me. Once I found out how much fun I could have with Sharpening Stones and Axe 2 into Dagger 5, I found a love for Krait Runes instead.

Keeps, Castles, and Garrisons all require breaching 2 separate layers of fortifications to access the Lord and his guard. If you’re playing against low pop servers where every siege is PVD, then yes, I could understand your frustration. If you crave serious competition, I would look into transferring to a higher tiered server where this sort of sandpaper sieging doesn’t happen often.

All it takes to stop a small-medium sized pug zerg is about 3-5 arrow carts, and some healthy AOE spam to watch that zerg run and regroup/retreat. After the first few minutes of a solid defense with losing people and supply, most pugmanders will take their zerg somewhere with no resistance like a tower or a few camps and leave you to your devices. Remember the smaller the zerg the smaller the supply, they may have to leave just to resupply if they want to fight you proper and that’s a waste of a pugmander’s time.

Oh and if the walls are too much like sand you can reinforce those walls you know. The gate too! The difference in upgraded structures is very significant.

The smaller towers and camps are meant to be flipped often. This is designed to allow a coordinated guild or zerg to build up enough supply locally to take down a bigger Keep/Garri/Castle. While granted the time it takes to do this isn’t a real-life representation of a months/years long siege, there’s quick action there for Havoc Squads to make an impact, and capacity for longer battles where entire zergs clash over fortifications for sometimes well over an hour to gain access to that prized location.

After spending over an hour in a see-saw battle between Black Gate and Tarnished coast over the weekend, it was amazing for us (Jade Quarry) to not only push them off our keep, but take the castle in the same fight… which we subsequently lost almost immediately, but for that one moment, it was ours.

Yeah I was pretty miffed about this too when I missed the 1st week due being away on a family emergency and upon returning, realized there was NO way I could make that week up. Give me additional achievements I could perform to add to the meta or something. ANet was lazy about setting up these achievements and that’s pretty unfortunate.