Guild Wars 2

KyreneZA.8617:

Due to how Rangers have less damage on their weapons than other classes, a Power-build is still not going to out-DPS a well built condi-build. Healing helps very little, so unless you got some non-build reasons to go down those two paths, I’d stick with what you have and just perfect it. Condi-builds are very strong if built right, but drop by the Ranger forum for more advice.

Thank you! That’s really helpful. Glad to know I wasn’t completely off haha.

Hey everyone, I’ve got a question about my Ranger build. While I enjoy the way he’s built right now, I just want to know if I’m utilizing him to the best of his ability.

Right now he’s built mostly Condition Damage, Precision, and Toughness, with a few Ruby accessories thrown in there. Traits are 20 Power, 30 Precision, 20 Toughness. I mainly use shortbow/sword+warhorn, and I’m focusing more on WvW rather than PvE. I’ve heard things that high power can be really good, or healing can give rangers really good survivability, so I’m curious to know what you all think. I don’t necessarily want to be squishy, but I want to be able to hold my own and do good damage.
Basically I want to know if this is a solid build, and if you guys have any suggestions to make it better or have other builds that work really well that you enjoy. Let me know what you think, I’d greatly appreciate it! Thanks guys

Edit: I posted this on the Players Helping Players forum as well, and they gave me some good advice. They said that a power-build wouldn’t out-DPS a good condi-build, and that I should just perfect what I’m already doing, or I could make a really tanky-condi build with traits of 10-0-30-30-0.

Hey everyone, I’ve got a question about my Ranger build. While I enjoy the way he’s built right now, I just want to know if I’m utilizing him to the best of his ability.

Right now he’s built mostly Condition Damage, Precision, and Toughness, with a few Ruby accessories thrown in there. Traits are 20 Power, 30 Precision, 20 Toughness. I mainly use shortbow/sword+warhorn, and I’m focusing more on WvW rather than PvE. I’ve heard things that high power can be really good, or healing can give rangers really good survivability, so I’m curious to know what you all think. I don’t necessarily want to be squishy, but I want to be able to hold my own and do good damage.
Basically I want to know if this is a solid build, and if you guys have any suggestions to make it better or have other builds that work really well that you enjoy. Let me know what you think, I’d greatly appreciate it! Thanks guys