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- For Melee, start with a One Handed Sword and a War Horn for the sprint (#5). Not only that, the #2 makes a nice “avoid the aoe” skill. Take that Auto attack (#1), off auto attack (Ctrl + Right Click for PC).
I’m curious. Given the change to ranger’s sword auto-attack, why would this be necessary now?
This leaves the impression you haven’t been playing ranger all that much.
You are soooo right. lol. I haven’t been playing a ranger all that much. (as per that first bullet in the op.) The Taking sword of auto attack thing is actually a popular recommendation out there for the outdated builds I was able to find. Ironically I put the comment in there to avoid the stink, seems like it stinks anyhow lol.
To address other concerns, this is solely my opinion here: Messing with your build while leveling is a ridiculous prospect. Especially starting out, you’re stuck with what you’ve got until you can get enough Hero Points to get something better. Even then you would have to make up for those points now because you squandered them making up for your poor choice (queue my argument for skill resets, a dead horse for sure).
I typically turn to builds to get the best idea of how traits blend with each other, so that I can work out a path that can take me to eighty, with out buyers remorse every time I pick a skill /trait line that seemed cool at the time, but really doesn’t cut the mustard. This is pretty much why I recommended the Build Editor first…
Cutting myself off there… At the time of this comment, my ranger has reached level 55. The build I provided wasn’t law (as I stated), it was just a plan I made so that I can get through leveling without tearing my hair out. I’ve tried switching things out a long the way, just as I hope everyone else does.
Hopefully that helps =D
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Hello all aspiring Rangers out there! If you’re like me and my friend who’ve been leveling toons like crazy in Heart of Thorns, you may have noticed that there isn’t really much that is up to date, as far as leveling your Ranger goes. I am here because of this very same reason, and it’s this reason that I decided to post an answer for everyone to find.
So WHY is it so hard to find an up to date leveling build?! Because you can literally put together anything on your Ranger… ANYTHING! and still get through leveling with just your pet and a longbow. You can pick what ever utility skill you can imagine yourself using and make it all the way to 80. That being said, I’d like to encourage any aspiring Ranger to use the build editor!
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/
If that feels like way too much work, I have put together a build that I’ve been using to level. I want to throw some bullets down before the hate train starts running over my show and tell.
- I am by no means an experienced Ranger, or an experienced player for that matter. so this isn’t here to provide you with law, it’s here to provide you with help.
- I’m playing a ranger so that I can be effective at range. I’m going for
lazinesssimplicity.
- The swapping and stowing and all the stuff current Ranger/Druids do, feels ridiculous to me, and is clearly not designed to be played the way ANet meant it to be played. (Wtf, you can’t hotkey stowing your pet? Who really even knows what they wanted). On that note, Huzzah to all the now level 80 Rangers that muddled through that broken system.
- None of ya’ll recommend warhorn in your builds. and the signet aint shhhhhugar. when it comes to keeping up with the other sprinters out there (Beast Mastery trait makes your shouts give you sprint as early as level 21, if that’s where you decided to start.)
So without further delay, here is a build I’ve been customizing.
- Think of your weapons as Ranged / Melee.
- For Ranged, Longbow is the KING, all the way through. Keep it, learn it, love it.
- For Melee, start with a One Handed Sword and a War Horn for the sprint (#5). Not only that, the #2 makes a nice “avoid the aoe” skill. Take that Auto attack (#1), off auto attack (Ctrl + Right Click for PC), or don’t. It’s up to you!
- Once you decide it’s time to put points into Beast Mastery, switch your melee to Great Sword, you’ll find Two Handed Training in the second tier that will benefit. I went with Beast Mastery first, since using Resounding Timbre wouldn’t limit me to a warhorn offhand.
Great news!!! You do ~not~ actually have to stow your pet unless you’ve got a need to squeeeeeeeeze out every bit of “Might & Fury Juice” you can. but you’ll probably benefit from the might if you do, which increases your damage. Swapping them is just as effective when (if you’re using the pets i put in the build) you want a tank pet instead of a moar damage pet. You have many ways of generating might & fury. The practice of Min-Maxing can wait till you’re 80 and in elite spec.
I hope this’ll save players ALL the time I’ve lost looking for builds that focused on Open World Solo (or partner) leveling.
Edit: to emphasize the guidance vs. law point.
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