Guild Wars 2

I love my ranger to death!

The key is to pick a play style within the class that you really enjoy. Personally I sticked to the two bows (short/long) for most of my gameplay as that’s what I enjoyed so I will comment on those and leave the rest up to people who know more than I about the others.

Let me just first put some general advice. Quickening Zephyr is the greatest thing I use. I run a trap build and with my hotkey setup I’m able to drop all my traps on someonekittenfast and then still have time to smash them with rapid fire going double time before it ends. Even though that 4 seconds doesn’t seem long, when you’re moving that fast it is beyond long enough.

Anyway, out of the two bows I really enjoy shortbows. I would only recommend shortbows to someone who is willing to move a LOT. Without getting that bleed off your main attack which requires you to flank your enemy there is almost 0 point to using it. Also if you are going to focus on shortbow I would urge you to go with a condition/crit build. The long bows are excellent openers in pve, barrage then rapid fire followed by switching to the shortbow as the enemy charges in and roll around behind them and just bleed them out in short order.

As far as pets go you can’t go wrong with spiders. Their ability to stun or imobolize or poison is just amazing. Also the bears are great tanks in those boss fights.

Finally I would say that you really should look through all the traits you could possibly have and decide what looks fun to you and go for it and if you don’t like it just don’t use the same build the next time you use a book and reset your trait points.