Guild Wars 2

did a little bit of tweaking. i love the result and my group kisses my kitten for the superb support

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMQQRBMhd+1JRFVW2FkiFoWGQWFEk2jMx8wE3D/rTCxDW95B-jUCBodDimcIQEIhOvrIasFhDRr6Ks6ZER1qGYeFYSBAxaA-w

that is why i love my german language. here ranger is called “Waldläufer” which means literally “forest runner”. so the misunderstanding that is has to be a “ranged” class is out of question. on the other side it describes the rangers relationship to the nature in form of the “forest” better then the english word does.

Siphaed.9235:

…Go do XXX content, get a “You completed XXX, congratulations!” …

my girlfriend never says: congratulations when we complete xxx content

the longer it takes for the other realm to complete the jp, the longer they stay away from the wvw zones. = you help your realm.

ryokoalways.3450:

Based on your subject though, I assume you put more weight in WvW? Thief is definitely the king of running away in WvW.

fixed

soloing full upgradet 82’ camps with more guards upgrade on my ranger. simply pull them all together behind a house and burn them down + drake pet for some ae dmg and pet survivability

Erro.2784:

Ins.7139:

Hehe thanks for all the solo fights in Deso BL Pikens, VII Ranger, INC Necro gave best fights, rest died pretty easy hehe. Warrior buffs are <3

Ugh man that was so embarassing, I forgot I was no longer in my signet build and only realised when I popped signet of stone wondering why the hell I was taking so much damage. Just stood there and took it…

Was good fight though Insane regen warrior.

i missed all the fun

2. day of testing. we did run with 2 guards ( 1 off 1 def ), bersi warrior and s/d thief. if the enemy didnt outman us with 3to1 we had absolutely no problems. i love the way the ranger feels now. also it feels very unique

ill see if i can record a video the next days.

Yaro.3251:

“The Slavs: Buka – little evil creature that lives in the closet of a child’s room or under the bed. Can only bee seen by children, and the children are who suffer from it, as Buka likes to attack them at night – grab the legs and drag under the bed or in the closet (its den). Buka is afraid of the light exposure which is fatal to it, and of the adults starting to believe in it, since if they do, they won’t have problems dealing with it.”

best definition ever thx for the nice read!

what exactly is the problem now? lets say 8.00 pm cet on the border of your choise with a 5 man strong team?

roaming around and find nothing more than dolyaks to kill ( and a lone deffer ). what would everybody else do? let the dolyak and deffer alive or support his server and kill them?

the other thing you can find are 25+ guild zergs(small scale groups^^) and 30+pug zergs. yesterday we just fough 2x a group of equal numbers ( we 4, them 6 ) ( dont remember the guild tag ) the rest of the night was attacking the tail of zergs, killing 4-5 ppl and then running away from the slow turning train or kill single and duo roamers with massive one by one adds until you are completely outmanned and have to fall back again

MistMirage.4706:

Therefore, if we run to take the tower with 20+ ppl and see one of the buka, we forget about the tower and will chase you across the all map.

time to set up some traps and ambushes

first test was a full success. with the nearly permanent fury uptime and the fire field with blast finisher horn 5 i support my group kitten good. i currently have 36% crit chance with fury and that is more then enough to stack up bleeds like hell with horn 4 ( 16 hits )

tha only downside is the missing dagger 4 which is a life saver. i have to play more caution then before but i’ll get used to it

today ill try something new. the patch did bring our beloved Re-Port331 condition build a pretty interesting new facette. with even stronger group support ability. i call it the “1330BF”

here is the theory craft:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMQQRBMhd+1JRFVW2FkiFoWGQaPyEzDTYFME3D/rTCxDW95B-jUCBodDimqIQEIhOvrIasFhDRr6Ks6ZER1qGYeFYCBsYNA-w

more easy to kill lb ranger around in wvw. love the patch

Cempa.5619:

Radmage.3741:

I’m new to ranger and have never liked being focused on pets (EG: I use a spectral power necro instead of minionmancer.) is there a build that uses great sword that doesn’t rely on pets, it is nice to have the pet for sure because it is added damage and is fun to have that extra threat besides just your character, but I don’t want to be totally dependent on it for my gameplay.

WARNING: This build will make you lazy and will cause EVERY thief you encounter to RAGE and just about every other profession to hightail it as far as possible away from you. As long as you learn to predict incoming burst you won’t get killed by any single player. When you die, it will be from multiple players and because they chained immobilise on you.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMQQJARTjAV91JWCWs2Bili9Eo2DN1fMxUwfGVwjE-jUyAotARfCU2LqJwhMW3KiGreBTXuoalKgLpIa1yAYOGA-w

with this build you are just a victim for any 0 0 30 30 10 condition/shout ranger. i can take on 2 power rangers at once easily

i’ll be there. lets have some fair and hard fights.

Oren.1736:

Coarr.3286:

Oren.1736:

If you ain’t at mill area on a BL don’t expect to 1v1 uninterrupted.
Some Buka ranger braved well killing two guys that kept running by our fight, getting grinded down by the 3rd joiner, can’t say i didn’t give him opportunity to run :P

i remember the fight. you were the first guard i encountered. the fight was great and i enjoyed the challenge. hope to meet you again on the battlefield. mayne next time with noone interfering

ps. i dont run from a 1on2 or 1on3, just try to wide the gap a little to recover from damage. the heavy cc gave me the rest at the end

I am always having good fights when [Buka] tag are there bringing the hardcore pvp to wvw. I handle myself quite ok, but i play group build not suiting for the amount of kiting you guys are quite heavily specced for got punished quite a few times for chasing too hard! (though i guess every roamer know’s that first hand)

movement is the most important thing in wvw and a life saver in small scale wvw. we usually run in group size of 5-8 ppl. i remember a few weeks ago we had 11 people online and split up in a group of 5 and one of 6 ppl because we just encountered 40+ zergs or random pugs with max 10-15 ppl which are easily killed with a fixed group of 5 ppl

Tsezar.6950:

…and btw nothing offended me. but writing “i dont run from a 1on2 or 1on3” means for me he thinks hes good and that stuff but forgetting that it is the build not the player…

i dont run because i want to improve myself

Tsezar.6950:

no u have nothing done wrong i play this kind of ranger myselfe but i dont brag with an easy mode build on forums lol

i havent meet soneone playing a build like mine

have i done you wrong tsezar? what class do you play?

Oren.1736:

If you ain’t at mill area on a BL don’t expect to 1v1 uninterrupted.
Some Buka ranger braved well killing two guys that kept running by our fight, getting grinded down by the 3rd joiner, can’t say i didn’t give him opportunity to run :P

i remember the fight. you were the first guard i encountered. the fight was great and i enjoyed the challenge. hope to meet you again on the battlefield. mayne next time with noone interfering

ps. i dont run from a 1on2 or 1on3, just try to wide the gap a little to recover from damage. the heavy cc gave me the rest at the end

0 0 30 30 10 and all your regeneration problems are solved. perma reg and swiftness with the “guard” shout for you and your group. i run very successful with this build in small scale 1-5 ppl in wvw. my guards and mesmers love me for the swiftness

- evasive purity isnt working atm
- remove 2x rune of altruism and change for monk/water for extra 20% boon duration. fury it the domain of your warrior
- change 2 handed training for 33% reg duration. infight it is hard to shout on cooldown to support your group
- remove masters bond for the 10% cooldown on attacks skill. as a pet use the drake. it will always explo finish your water field ( use this heal for group fights, troll urgent just for solo roaming )
- drop your heal power to the 800-900 range and fill up with knight gear + ruby for some extra dmg

that what i would change

thx for the intense fights tonight at the GH boarder near the SW camp.

good luck to our french and spain friends. lets have sone great fights. special thx to [VP] for the nice fights around the ruins!

cya on the battlefield

i tried your build and im impressed. only think i have changed is the rune setup. 4x altruism ( for the shared might 3 and 15% boon duration ) and 2x monk for another 15% boon duration. fury is buffed by our warrior perma so i have 8 out of 10 seconds protection up for me and my pet.

Zumy.6318:

That I am childish isn’t really a secret. I try to make the best out of it.

true story

sad that i have to fall in the back of my own guildmates, but zumy you are as childish as nealry all 99% of the active users in the matchup threads.

had a lot of fun on the deso bl the last 4h. thx for not giving up deso. keep the spirit up!

ill join the fun at sunday night. hope to find some fine small scale balltes!

cya on the battlefield

Cempa.5619:

Thing is we have some darn powerful builds right now, as we speak rangers are steamrolling players and dominating 1vX.

All day yesterday I did not lose a 1v1 and I spent hours going up against each and every build one by one they died. 1v2 I liked my chances but against good players I had to get away or find water.

same here. havent lost a singel 1on1 or 1on2 since the patch

i roam, kill dolyaks and switch camps. if every player on the map from my server would do as much points as i do we would tick 24/7 for max points. so dont takl nonsense

as a kodash player i can say it was really hard yesterday at the piken border but we had a lot of fun attacking your 30+ guild and pug raids from behind, killing some ppl and run. GH retalation train( time to fix the dmg on the border lands ) was a pain in the kitten for us small scalers but we hit you hard a few times and retreated then. and even if we died it wasnt that bad coz we were nearly 90% of the time under the u buff protection.

cya on the battlefield

sounds good to me. ill rebuild your spec for my wvw purpose

ranger is great and not very complex. pew pew sb1 and dodge out of the red circles

i still love my ranger in wvw

then dont play between 7am and 5pm. ^^

i dont know if he talks about someting similar to my build: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|7.1f.h5.f.1f.h1l|c.1f.h5.8.1f.h1l|1f.71d.1f.71d.1f.71d.1f.71d.1f.71d.1f.71d|2x.0.2x.0.3x.0.2x.0.3x.0.2w.0|0.0.u37b.a6.u56c|30.d|4j.4q.4r.4w.54|e when the sigil of coruption has build up 25 stacks i change my weapon set for one with 10% increased chill duration

ranger and thief and you prefere the thief? Oo

i miss all the fun this week. hope we will see each other soon, maybe in the next matchup? want to meet some of the praised baruch roamers

Grok.6714:

….
- cuddle up next to the sleeping wife and beg for saex @ 23:30
- saex finished and sleep at 23:35

5 minutes?! Oo

this is the setup i run with: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|7.1f.h5.f.1f.h1l|c.1f.h5.8.1f.h1l|1f.71d.1f.71d.1f.71d.1f.71d.1f.71d.1f.71d|2x.0.2x.0.3x.0.2x.0.3x.0.2w.0|0.0.u37b.a6.u56c|30.d|4j.4q.4r.4w.54|e

some pre pre pre patch gameplay. havent changed anything since then and still works vs multiple enemies. enjoy

Bredin.5368:

Chopps.5047:

Lert.6287:

You might’ve noticed that ranger isn’t top tier proffession, while mesmer indeed is.
In terms of dps, survivability and group support (throught few seconds boons) mesmer is much better.
I run basicly knight with berserker orbs/jewel so i can achieve 64% critical chance, 70% crtical damage and 2950 armor. Sb/S&Wh is my favorite weapon choice. Both pets are for CC: hound (immobilize) and wolf (fear). Traits 0-30-30-5-5
As ranger I’d say that almost anything ranger can do, mesmer will do better. It’s just that not everybody enjoys given proffessions. Check yourself movies. Mesmer doing 1xX is norm. Ranger doing 1vs2/3 is considered as unusual.

That’s an awful ranger build, no wonder you struggle.

This is very close to the build I run. I have 2000+power, 2000+ toughness (3100 armor), and 50% crit chance/51% crit damage. My traits are 0/30/30/10, so very close to Lert’s…just a bit more survivable. I use SB and S/D. I run wolf and jaguar.

The power/prec/tough ranger build is far from awful. It surpasses bunker/regen/pet builds in all circumstances (small groups all the way to zergs), except for 1vX. That said, this build can solo and beat or stalemate any class and pretty much any build.

It is more difficult to play than the popular regen builds…you need to be very active and you have no “set it and forget” defenses (like massive regen).

My prediction is that this type of build will be the next FOTM—the only downside is that it requires a fair amount of skill/practice to get it to work.

every regen/bunker/condition ranger will chew you up.

100% agree. its really refreshing and a great pleasure to fight you. overall jade and elona player quality was so much worse then yours! love you guys.

my duelling statistic as a bm condition bunker ranger so far:

vs elementalist: 90% win, 5% draw, 5% lose
vs engineer: 100% win
vs guardian: 100% win
vs mesmer: 90% win, 5% draw, 5% lose ( phantasm mesmer with melandurs rune and – condition duration buff food )
vs necromancer: 100% win
vs ranger: 95% win ( only 1 lose, same player as the mesmer player )
vs thief: 100% win ( all duells are organized, the random fights are 50% win, 50% thief run away or gets help )
vs warrior: 100% win

it is very hard to counter a bm ranger. things that work good vs me ( im not totally duel specced, i have around 1900 condition dmg, normal duel specc is around 1500 and 400 more heal power then me ):

- melandru runes
- condition – duration food
- conditions on me ( CHILL!!!! )
- stealth ( i know ^^ )

i think a heavy control build warrior with melandru rune and buff food could be a pain in the kitten hammer + axe / mace with 2x shake it off and a reduced cooldown on shouts.

pain inverter was nerfed for around 50% but it is still superior in small scale group fights.

i dont understand where the problem with ele, thief, def guard or mesmer is? ranger are 200% harder to fight if they are specced and played the right way.

had a lot of fun fighting you guys at the reset and this morning. i love the new matchup. jade blob isnt really a thread and sfr runs a lot in small groups. /wave @ [VG]

Amasius.9014:

Laceration.4290:

Hows the roamers on kodash or JS? Lots of ppl running alone or in groups of 5? Or bigger zergs?

Like everywhere in the top tiers most people run in a big zerg (sometimes two) but both servers have roamers, mostly to capture supply camps. I’m not sure if [Buka] is still on Kodasch, they lost a few guilds, but if they are expect good fights against a bunch of thieves and mesmers. And while Jade zergs try to avoid fights without superior numbers most of the time their small groups send for camps are pretty good, I had fun fighting them. Don’t expect many solo roamers though.

we [buka] are still on kodasch and will give the new enemy hard times like we gave you i always enjoyed the small scale and of course the roaming battles.