Guild Wars 2

Actually the best thing you can do to understand the game is to play every class to level ~10, if you find yourself after playing with something beyond that level, then stick with that, what matters is that you have fun in the end.

Ranger is a nice class for pve and explore the world because of the pet, but you will need to learn how to control it properly, know when to attack or retreat it.

I got a ticket on my first crate, actually didn’t like the skins that much so just replaced one of my normal longbows, I know I was incredible lucky with this but is kind of a payback from F&F where I really wanted a fused weapon but couldn’t get a ticket.

Now for farming, I farm ~1 hour of skelks in SS for the T6 mats, I get around 2-5 crates in that hour, besides that one ticket and the mats I have got 1 shoulder skin and 1 axe skin (same from consortium chests from when SS was introduced).

My goal now for the crates are the minis and the apothecary jewels that will be introduced tomorrow, minis for the gold, apothecary gear to test some builds.

I guess this is why I get a lot of KD even when I don’t have the crab, anyway more than leaving is a good challenge to overcome.

btw, if you don’t know, I can use #1 skill (with and without crab) to make you drop your picked item

got it my 3rd try at the game, veterans knock everyone else except 1 guy, he comes to steal the crab and instead I hit him with it (skill #1) and achievement received.

also could have gotten it a couple more times in other games, use plank, wait for a moment where everyone is gathered near the crab or crab holder, hit skill #2, get the crab and hit #1 on someone else.

if you are correctly geared you can have even more survibality than a lvl 80.

a lvl 35 with lvl 35 MW armor and weapons that go for +vit +thg have more vit and armor than a lvl 80 in exotics with soldier because you also have points going to +pwr.

a lvl 80 can bring more variety of builds, but a low lvl with the right gear/stats can bring some powerfull builds to the table.

only changes I haven seen are monster orders in the mithril ore rooms, the mini boss after that (2 posibilities) and the order of the traps at the cage

easy to do in a couple hours using a guide, if your server is bugged just guest in another one.

The problem is how to measure, would be on wxp on every guild member? or how many places they take? or how many things they repair? or total kills? maybe an average per player to avoid ranking only huge guilds? but then with an average per player huge guilds would be left out because of many non active members.

Would also love to see some sort of guild ladder, but I don’t think WvW is the place for it because it could break how the game is played bassed on how the ladder would be calculated.

Barrage → cripple
Muddy Terrain → cripple and root
Entrangle → root

Rangers do very good at ground control, also they add damage while doing it, add a warhorn before atacking the enemy and you have enough fury for the fight.

Soldier armor and berserker jewels for max stats in power, soldier adds some nice numbers in survibality.

I run a build with that with lots of mobility (lightning reflexes, sword) and is great for GvG and fights between 10-25 ppl.

you can fully command your pet while downed, attack a specific target, retreat, heal you, F2, swap…

had lots of fun in ybbl at the reset, also was great farming, 106 badges and around 3 golds in 2:30 hours

We already have fire and water fields on demand without mobs triggering a trap

- water with healing spring
- fire with torch

also
- venom with different pets

read the wiki!
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo

Going to share the build that I have been working on, is a balanced ranger with crowd control.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.2|3.1g.h17|c.1c.h1j.g.1c.h1l|1c.7j.1c.7j.1c.7j.1c.7j.1c.7j.1c.7j|2s.e14.2s.e14.3s.e16.2s.e14.3s.e16.2u.e14|u687.k4a.k37.0.0|39.7|4i.4w.4x.4q.54|e

The idea here is to support your squad, cripple and root enemies plus doing some decent damage, food and oil is a must for this build for the damage.

To play this build before entering combat, cast horn 5 for the fury and swiftness buff (1 might is irrelevant and you should be doing might stack with the squad before going to battle), swap to LB before going to combat, throw the moody terrain, LB 5, check how the enemies move and decide if you should throw entrangle, LB 3 if a bunker enemy is in your group, LB 4 if a melee dps is near, LB 2 to a distant enemy if they are still all together or jump into the enemies and swap to sword/horn for chill plus some nice damage and dodge habilities.

Of course the key about this build is to look at the battlefield and make the right decision, is not breainded and not a spamming skill build, also turn off auto attack and auto target.

If want to buff the damage, I have an extra LB with bloodlust sigil, once I get 25 stacks I change that to my LB with fire sigil

If you just want to tag enemies for bags what I can suggest is LB, piercing arrow, sigil of fire, LB 5 to begin, LB 2 to the back of the zerg and then swap to a GS or Sw+Torch, of course soldier armor and bunker stats, also auto target must be set off, pet starts pasive and change to active when you jump inside the zerg.

If you want to become useful for your group in WvW play some sort of crowd control, this is what I believe where rangers excel (LB 5, moody terrain, entrangle and/or spike trap to give an example), also the +70 precision trait to self/allies is a must in WvW

I play 90% WvW and LB is a great weapon when used right, Ranger isn’t your huge DPS class, ranger is about crowd control/support and adding some extra dmg for your group.

LB 5 is great for crippling an area, most likely hits more than 5 people since they are moving, then you have other utilities like muddy terrain or entrangled to keep more people rooted/crippled.

LB 2 works great to keep people out of the edge of towers/keeps/castle since it does a decente amount of dmg, this prevents them spaming too many aoes to your group. Also is a great tool to fight thieves when they come for you, of course since you are a ranger that thinks you will never roam with a berserker build so thieves won’t be able to down you from stealth.

LB 4 works great to push away that warrior that jumps into your group, also is great to shoot someone down from a cliff.

LB 3 gives vulnerability and is faster that the other shots, so works very good to tag people when they are running away.

LB 1 is meh, but not that bad with the right traits or sigils, for example with piercing arrow and sigil of superior fire this attack can become in a very decent aoe hitting up to 9 people at the same time (5 from piercing arrow, first one again with fire and 4 more with the aoe blast).

Against large groups is a great starter, then swap to other weapons like greatsword or sword and jump right into your enemies to finish them all.

For us reset time was at 9PM before, last night we decided to start at 10PM and found no queques on any borderland, after a while in ours we decided to go to Yak’s where we were outmanned for at least an hour if not more time.

It was fun to defend serveral times SW Castle with a ocuple holes with only 15 ppl against yak’s severral attemps, sadly we lost it after taking a camp when no one was there.

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Strategy is dead in wvw the groups are so large you can’t play the game so who wins biggest zergs smallest wieners. Let me guess you also play bunker canguro.

Actually I play a ranger and have multiple builds like glass sniper, trapper, bunker bm and recently working on a balanced with ground control, all of them work for different purposes.

there is space for strategy in wvw, but it requires coordination from a least a medium group (~15 ppl), a coordinated group can easily beat another that isn’t even if they outnumber 2 to 1

In your second build, why you have Trapper’s Expertise when you don’t have any trap?

Also about the runes selection for the armor, wouldn’t be better ranger runes? with thief runes you are spending stats in condition damage which is already low, you could use them for critical dmg, your non crit dmg output goes a little lower but you get a nice boost for critical dmg and with an almost 75% critical chance can be a nice change.

Besides that looks like a nice build

if you don’t have a group to do WvW or your server isn’t organized with a common VoIP then you won’t be able to enjoy what WvW really is.

Sure there are tons of people running in the zerg and spaming 1, but this people don’t know how to properly play, but they can still have some fun.

When you are moving in a squad (15-25 people) if the team is coordinated and know how to play for the team, you could easily beat zergs that doubles your size, and fights against other squads that know what they are doing are lot’s of fun.

Your PvP build won’t work in WvW and you have to invest a lot to find the best build for you and your team, yes there are some builds that may look OP on small fights like ele d/d or thief d/p but when going on groups don’t add much.

First of all you have to keep in mind that player’s AoE is limited to 5 targets, so if you have a staff ele do a meteor shower it won’t hit more than 5 ppl at the same time, but more than killing it will make the other team move away from the AoE, you can start a strategy from that point.

The huge open field gives you tons of mobility as a group, also spells like mesmer’s veil help a lot to move around enemies, you disapear for a short period of time, but maybe enough to appear in the middle, both sides or the back of the enemies.

You can make the landscape work in your favor, you can throw people out of cliffs with the right skills for an “easy” kill.

To enjoy WvW you need to see a bigger picture, is not about me, is about my team winning, there is a lot of military thinking going on, move together, drop certain fields to stack might or cure the whole group without messing up, WvW in high play is a lot more complex than just zerg your way, but also is a place where pugs can enjoy.

I just run fotm 10 for dailies and rings, usually use 2 differente builds depending on my WvW build atm.

First one is full berserker, eagle runes, LB (stack power) and SB (bleed on critical).
QZ, Lightning Refelex, SoH

Second one is trapper with rabid armor and a mix of rabid trinkets with ruby jewels for exotic or berserker for ascended, undead runes, LB (stack power, mostly for aoe) and Axe(aoe Fire)/Horn(bleed on critical).
Fire trap, spike trap, SoH/venom trap/ice trap (depends on dungeon and boss)

Both work without problems, but one thing that will help a lot is to change pets according to dungeon and boss, for example one thing you can do is use spiders/devourer on arpies or bears for the poison boss on the same dungeon so he can tank while you dps from behind and activate the fan.

And as everyone already said, the most important thing is to know how to dodge, and always bring a sword for maw.

One skill that could be very important is search and rescue to revive allies, but I just use it if the party is getting killed in the bosses.

making your own equipment at low levels is not optimal, actually I wouldn’t brother much with equipment until lvl 80, I just equiped myself with drops until that lvl (and I took the lvling easy)

as a ranger, I have always loved underwater fights against other ppl (not much in pve though)