Guild Wars 2

I raged at portal initially but now find it really easy to deal with. I would definitely like to see the repair kit given a bit of a longer timer on respawn though.

The answer is yes, they are. The faster you roll one and learn how to play it, the happier you’ll be.

Longbow is kind of a garbage weapon. It’s too slow and all of its damage comes from hunters>rapid fire which is extremely easy to see coming and dodge. Greatsword suffers from a similar problem.

Winter’s bite is easy weakness and chill, which is huge when fighting both players and NPCs. Additionally, call of the wild and hunter’s call are both incredible abilities. Splitblade and ricochet are nice too. I especially like richochet against mesmers.

As for RaO, I agree that it’s one-dimensional. I run it when solo exclusively for the stability as the might stacking is unreliable. Entagle, however, is horrible against anyone who knows how to deal with it. All you have to do to get out of the immob is auto attack once or twice. That said, I use it a lot in hotjoin.

When I know I’m going to be in a group fight I just swap to spirit of nature. This occasion is somewhat rare, however, as all rangers are really good for at the moment is roaming. I sometimes swap to soldier/zerker and node defend if we don’t have a guard, engi, or mesmer with us though.

Its human racial armor. Sadly, its awesomeness lives in the shadow of "URGE TO KILL RISING"

I’ve been very successful running this in both free tournaments and quickjoin. This is the solo version of the build (in team play, change elite as needed and take healing spring if you’re going to be playing with others and not just roaming)

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Your (very) basic combo is thus: open with call>birds>winter’s bite. Pop spider’s venom then weapon swap>PV. The spider’s immob will hit as chill wears off. Once that happens, swap to wolf and unload crossfires while popping wolf fear. The fear will run them away from you, allowing you to pop QZ and finish the kill.

The odds of pulling that off seamlessly are slim but you have enough tools here to kite around and live long enough to make a kill happen.

Also note that, when downed, you can chain lightning flash into petswap>wolf fear into another lightning flash to give allies time to rez you.

Another bonus is that I can solo svanir, chief, and guildlord + all NPCs easily.

The nerf is in!

I think its fine considering you get to use your pet like normal. Thanks to quickness on swap, I can swap to wolf and fear between the cooldown on 2. Only problem I have is that 3 interrupts the cast of 4, which makes it hardly ever worth using unless, for some reason, I’ve been sitting there not bandaging for long enough for 3 to come up.