Looking good! So you opted for a x3 signet build? I see you lost the cleric armour also and halved your healing? You know we want to see you in action Ranger runes working now?
You got something against Elites? You slot ghost wolf -or whatever its called- and I couldn’t help but noticed the number of moments when a golem or plague would have been perfect!
The very existence of Moa Morph is, as far as I’m concerned, enough to keep me from seriously entertaining the idea of minions in WvW. And that’s assuming you could get past all the issues that currently hold them back to begin with (poor AI, dies to AoE, etc).
On my mesmer if I ever come across a Necro with a minion I switch elites to Moa just for the laughs and go straight for the necro.
Some builds keep Swiftness up pretty well and other’s do not. The ones that do not tend to keep bags open in the corner of the screen to swap a weapon in for Swiftness then swap it back out. So, why not just give us a 3rd action bar or allow us a way to do this tedious and game-experience-lowering action in a more ‘fun’ way?
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If the meaning of Up 2 date is this build can do well with current patch. Yes it is. Anet gave this build a buff past 2month.
For innovation. Well yeah i must admit i rarely change the trait or equip for past… 3month? Probably the prob lies from my WVW Party since they expect me to Shoot coz i;m the only Hitter in the P. Well it’s normal since GS Is sniping weapon anyway.
Most of the options are same with previous build except…
Confounding Suggestions
50% chance to cause a 1-second stun whenever you daze a target.
“It synergies well with Sword #4. Since Sword lacks of CC. Well not to mention too.. That’s Sword #4 is piercing?”
Pros=
- Better CC when using Dual Swords
- F3 become beast
Basically this Type Red Offers Good Phantasm damage from iSwordman since its atk every 4sec. Around 2sec faster from standard Phantasm and with 50% to stun trait Off Hand Sword offers good CC Also. Normally Using Pistol off hands give Mesmer insane CC from Pistol #5/ Magic Bullet, 2sec stun but the Phantasm atk every 6sec it’s kinda slow and it’s projectile. Can be blocked by anti Projectile. In conclusion using lv 30Power Trait, 50% to stun when Daze, hoping Dual Swords can provide good CC compared Pistol Off Hand while keeping insane Melee iSwordman damage and insane damage from Block Sword #4.
That is a great looking build, would love to see it in action against roamers.
Share your Minions are Amazing moments, here are mine:
1) At level 1 when I don’t have any skill points so I can’t get any other healing ability.
2) When I feel like taking a walk outside bird watching.
3) When I need to pull my hair out out of pure frustration at how fast a normal NPC owns my Elite minion as if it was made out of paper even after Anet supposedly buffed it.
Any way, I guess we can’t all be Vanilla Warlocks!
Used to be that if a stun is 2 seconds, and you add +10% stun duration, making it 2.2 seconds the bug kicks in and automatically bumps it to 3 seconds.
Let’s say that it’s viable for solo camps, 1v1 and zerg fight. It’s sligthly harder when facing multiple oponents or in small skirmish because this kind of build is way to weak against hard CC oponent. So it’s a matter of you being focused or not.
Thoughts on the build I linked? Dagger+Wells way to go?
Its a great guide well made and was fun to watch…pain in the ‘you know what’ I was actually laughing with your Asura.
But…
I know in WvW its a team game and running around solo is of little use when you don’t really achieve anything but we must accept a reality in that inside a zerg you can spec glass cannon and pretty much any way you want but most people want to ‘feel’ strong..As in they are able to solo camps and do well in small skirmishes!
I can’t stand game design that requires the player to keep bag open just to swap weapons out of combat for one buff….Anet have done lots of good things but the failed gaming experience with this..
I like A/S. As asked earlier though, what type of WvW. You will need to be grouped with someone in WvW with this build.
Any response you get means zero if they give you advice without knowing exactly how you plan on playing.
I was looking for some solo and some small group play, I was aiming at being able to solo supply camps!
As much as I like all the weapons I don’t think you can pull off solo with it. You have almost zero mobility…..no weapon movement and swiftness only 50 % of the time (if you use SoR).You won’t be able to catch anyone or run away from zerg….which is why I support the theory that Warriors need a 3rd weapon set !
I can easily solo supply camps with Ranger. Haven’t been able to do it with Warrior yet without kite pulling. A bit of a glassy build you are going to use. Be interesting to see you pull it off soloing a camp.
Got it, so the build could be ok duelling wise but out in the open in WvW others will run away and run me down with ease :/
By the way what build would you use to solo camps (warrior and ranger)?
Previous Guardian player here, don’t have a warrior though so please take this with a grain of salt:
Every pure melee warrior I ever fought in sPvP couldn’t win 1v1 with me, mostly due to constant retal + protection (which is just stupid) usually they died or ran, except for one. He had a rifle and axe + shield, and was very good at just kiting me around enough so that I had to pop my shouts and defensive skills to keep bleeds and cripple off me.
Once he made me burn a lot of my defenses he’d rush in a spike me with Eviscerate and really start putting major pressure on me with the axe auto.
Maybe not the best gameplan, but I do know guardians hate getting kited around. They may have 2 teleports at the max (unlikely), but pretty much 0 access to cripple or chill, and no reliable ranged weapon.
Sorry bro, I like to pew pew guardians. Not sure if it was me but I do run rifle + axe/shield.
Previous Guardian player here, don’t have a warrior though so please take this with a grain of salt:
Every pure melee warrior I ever fought in sPvP couldn’t win 1v1 with me, mostly due to constant retal + protection (which is just stupid) usually they died or ran, except for one. I had a rifle and axe + shield, and was very good at just kiting me around enough so that I had to pop my shouts and defensive skills to keep bleeds and cripple off me.
Once he made me burn a lot of my defenses he’d rush in a spike me with Eviscerate and really start putting major pressure on me with the axe auto.
Maybe not the best gameplan, but I do know guardians hate getting kited around. They may have 2 teleports at the max (unlikely), but pretty much 0 access to cripple or chill, and no reliable ranged weapon.
This may seem like a strange question, I’d like to suggest a specific build and ask for your views on what other Ranger builds could do well or even win against said build ceteris paribus.
Toughness (near 2k)
Power (near 2k)
Healing (between 8xx and 1k)
0/0/30/10/30 Dwayna Runes /w Mango (x4 regeneration)
x2 Feline (snare/cc —>switch to panther-->f2—->weapon burst add QZ
Power (2k) Toughness (2k) Healing (8xx – 1k) with x4 regeneration sources and stand still while using whatever weapon you want..Double bow nooo problem…Wanna sport a massive great sword go for it, like the 1h sword dance, knock your self out son!
Cleric Power Bow Regeneration is one of -if not the- strongest WvW builds the class has. Just keep in mind you might get board really fast from being so OP.
If you’re running Plague elite then consider Chilling Darkness from Curses rather than Master of Corruption; I swapped it for Haemophilia and had a blast with it last night when running with our guild group, it seemed pretty effective. The corruption skills are on quite a low cooldown anyway and are quite hit and miss these days so IMO it’s not worth building around them.
TBH its only for Corrupt Boon as its soooo important in PvP but I see your point, ofc its easy to change and I should change as needed!
Thanks!
So how condition duration works is the timer starts from the first application on ANY condition right? So, with 10% + 50% + 40% I have 50% condi and 100% fear duration, fear will always get 2 ticks? The burst on terror is soo much fun!
The Nightmare and Lich sets both used to give +20% condi duration upon having the 4pc bonus. I have really no idea why they changed it back to 10%. If you look at comparisons of other runes, these two sets are totally underpowered. You can get +10% duration from only 2 pieces of Mad King or Lyssa.
I was going for Fear:
50% Trait
10% Runes
40% Pizza
So the x6 bonus becomes a 2 sec fear which ticks twice? I want condition intensity and burst setting-up as a Condi and Terror/Master of Terror are really cool as well as a heck of a lot a fun!
Question though: Thoughts on a Giver Weapon (10% Condi Duration) + Pizza (40% Condi Duration) to get Fear up from 50% to 100%, is that worth the loss of stats from the weapon + 100 condo/70 prec food?
The link says you already have 10% on your runes, so no need for Giver’s.
Pizza vs Risotto: 40% duration or 30 cond dmg + 70 precision… definitely the pizza.
Indeed I forgot about the runes, thanks…An extra tick for everything is a big deal!
@ flow.6043 Thank’s for that, indeed the build is assuming players do cleanse and more than half of the time will be inside a zerg.
The build is an condition intensity build, so imagine that Warrior in you’re face and you just got done with Sceptre+Dagger rotation, switch to Staff and drop 2,3,4,5 and then switch to DS and hit’m with 2,3,4 and her HP will drop fasssst!
Question though: Thoughts on a Giver Weapon (10% Condi Duration) + Pizza (40% Condi Duration) to get Fear up from 50% to 100%, is that worth the loss of stats from the weapon + 100 condo/70 prec food?
Spite: 0
Curses: IV (Weakening Shroud) / VI (Terror) / VII (Master of Corruption)
Death Magic: II (Greater Marks)
Blood Magic: 0
Soul Reaping: IV (Spectral Mastery) / IX (Master of Terror) / XI Foot in the Grave
Ranger runes working now?