Guild Wars 2

This is going to be a guide of sorts, covering what I used to level, and what I use in wvw, I do spvp with a similar build albeit I tweak traits, and am still experimenting. I guess some pertinent info might be that I have played almost exclusively ranger, and have played it to 80, I haven’t done all of the dungeons, but that is on my list of things I would like to do. That being said, I leveled to 80 with the shortbow exclusively, running 1h sword/torch as offhand (I often forget to switch weapon sets to make use of this however), figured what the heck another condition to dump on things. Pets vary. I used the brown bear (that I started with) for ages, I found the Arctodus to be a better tank though as it seems to regen/heal for more. For slot skills I’ve run Quickening Zephyr, Signet of the wild and Signet of stone for pve, heal tends to vary by mood or area, between Heal as one and Healing spring. For Elite I find Hounds of Balthazar to be in a good place in case of over agro. Trait set up I have been using is Skirmish 25, wilderness 20, beast 25 as my personal view is the 30 point traits are extremely lackluster.
WvW is a different beast altogether. While I’m to cheap/lazy to change weapons and traits I feel I do alright. I’ve been running Lightening reflexes, Quickening zephyr and signet of stone, and entangle for an elite. Going to try changing that up soon. Also pets for wvw I find the spiders to be the best, I’m currently using I think Jungle and forest spiders for the poison, and entangle.
Sorry for wall of text Just wanted to share what I’ve found works for me( and the forum deletes my hard indents). Your mileage may vary depending on play style and perhaps other unknown factors. Posted the main parts of this in a players helping players thread, prior to our class forums coming out. One last note would be, my trait choices, for the ones we get to chose will be added when I have a moment to log into the game and see what I took

I leveled with the shortbow exclusively, running 1h sword/torch as offhand, figured what the heck another condition to dump on things. Pets vary. I used the brown bear (that I started with) for ages, I found the Arctodus to be a better tank though as it seems to regen/heal for more. For slot skills I’ve run Quickening Zephyr, Signet of the wild and Signet of stone for pve, heal tends to vary by mood or area, between Heal as one and Healing spring. For Elite I find Hounds of Balthazar to be in a good place in case of over agro. Trait set up I have been using is Skirmish 25, wilderness 20, beast 25 as my personal view is the 30 point traits are extremely lackluster.
WvW is a different beast altogether. While I’m to cheap/lazy to change weapons and traits I feel I do alright. I’ve been running Lightening reflexes, Quickening zephyr and signet of stone, and entangle for an elite. Going to try changing that up soon. Also pets for wvw I find the spiders to be the best, I’m currently using I think Jungle and forest spiders for the poison, and entangle.
Sorry for wall of text Just wanted to share what I’ve found works for me, your mileage may vary depending on play style and perhaps other unknown factors. Also appologies for the wall of text, this forum deleted my indents