Guild Wars 2

Nice build, I used to run something very much the same with few minor changes mainly the runes and jewel and 2 traits.

I run something different now, found it far more effective.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlYDbEoquOuyyC1OQ0ewJJhJ2DD5oH5K4/SGVFA;TsAAzCpoGzMmYMbRuxkjt+YYxeBA

I run different sigil combo it has higher chance of getting the weapon swap to work. I run horn for the speed boost, I found it more effective then torch/dagger. I sometime’s change my bow, as I run 2 different sigils all depends on my mood.

I run Orrian runes, so I can keep up really good amount of poison, it makes up for loss of poison trap. Lets me take a solid stun breaker + I trait so my entangle recharges faster so LR+Entangle.

I like tier 3 just wish WvW had some roamers/duellers around. DB doesn’t seem to bad but Yak’s you guys only Zerg? surely there are some roamers/duellers on your server.

Nice video, PI murders lol wish rangers did have better way getting confusion.

Also you run healing spring if you ran SB entangle would almost be useless vs you, you could go as far as sitting in the entangle and not worrying about the damage.

But your different style close ranger which fits your PI and build.

Just take Horn, if you haven’t already…..

Serebus.7314:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHl-gYD1TLE

A little reset video of TG’s defense on the home BL

Great fights so far hope you guys can keep it up during the week.

Hey TG seems like there into there PvP, do you guys do duels at all… Not fan of big zerg fighting or big guild vs guild fight’s doesn’t seem like you get to show ya skills to well..

Do you even play a ranger…. This is one of stupidest ideas ever.

Vote #1 “KensaiZen” to be our representative for the “Ranger Community”.

Agreed right….

SPvP rangers are good duellers, WvW your better off going on of the better duelling classes if that’s what you into. Trust me rangers would have to be at bottom of barrel when comes to balance in WvW duels.

This won’t change due to fact game is designed for team play and not duelling which is same lol.

But winning as ranger in duels is really rewarding knowing your playing one of the weakest classes in WvW and winning. Allot scrubs have no idea how to counter rangers or are just plain stupid….

Out of all the post’s so far all I’ve got is KensaiZen has a cool name, agreed right!…

SPvP, duel there it’s allot harder and more balanced…..

ItIsFinished.9462:

One of the “many” pros of being a Ranger is having not lost to a Guardian or Necro yet in a 1 vs 1 duel since I discovered my new build.

Hey, I would like to duel you sometime, I’m from Maguuma so we can easily meet in WvW do some build testing.

Haven’t had chance to duel for while after Marjy went MIA from CD.

Chopps.5047:

Bri.8354:

Pretty much anything which breaks immobilize (which traditional stun breaks like lightning reflexes do not do), allows you to teleport somewhere while immobilized, or makes you go invulnerable will allow you to escape entangle.

I’ve found some classes like the thief break out far too easily while others like the ranger are basically screwed if they get caught in it as most builds do not have effective methods of escaping it.

No stun break in the game breaks immobilize. Why? Because immobilize is a CONDITION not CROWD CONTROL. Sorry for caps but the emphasis is needed.

And sol, pal, I’ve watched your duels on youtube. You have a lot to learn. And that’s ok. Everyone does.

Sounds like your just mad cause we had disagreement on a topic, real smooth mate..

The quickness changes, are really good tbh. You need to remember the other classes like Mesmer/Warrior that destroy under QZ, we now have chance to react and get away.

Means we can weapon swap to our sword and dodge.

Chopps.5047:

Sol.4310:

Entangle isn’t bugged or anything, it’s a condition based Elite, so any class with on demand condition remove and just walk right out of it in first second you lay it.7

It’s hopeless vs Ele’s/Thief’s/Mesmer, or anyone with on demand condition remove.

Only effective way to use Entangle is stack someone with conditions first wait till they clear with there demand condition remove, then follow with Entangle.

It’s a garbage Elite shouldn’t even be an elite skill. RoA is our only real viable skill when comes to PvP.

Nah, it’s not garbage. Entangle is a finishing elite. You just have to know when to use it (after wearing down their endurance and removal) and once entangled, you must stun/daze/fear your foe to make them eat the bleeds. Take some responsibility for losing a battle and/or misapplying entangle, right? Sometimes it’s the player’s fault as opposed to ANETs perceived poor design choices. In closing, use entangle with stuns/condition builds and use RoA for power/precision/crit builds. I’m glad they gave us a powerful condition based elite, ya know? As a player, I have to be able to recognize if an opponent is running tons of condition removal, right? Or else bring a physical damage player or someone on your team that can make up for you speccing in traps and conditions.

How well do you understand the mechanics of other professions, Sol? I’m not saying I’m awesome by any means, I’m just saying that the better you understand other professions and what they are doing to defeat you, the better you will perform in general.

Edit: Warriors tend to go down in entangle, as well as thieves, and elementalist mistform will get stuck in it, which is kind of nice and a good reason to have rangers around (everyone whines about how OP mistform is). Don’t use entangle right away. Don’t use it against a guardian (you can, technically its more complicated than this). Don’t waste it on mesmer clones—make sure you get the mesmer. Don’t use it on a ranger sitting in healing spring or a neceo sitting in a condition to boom well. These are things I think about when I run entangle.

There are so many things right now I would like to say, but you can dig your own holes……..

Entangle isn’t bugged or anything, it’s a condition based Elite, so any class with on demand condition remove and just walk right out of it in first second you lay it.7

It’s hopeless vs Ele’s/Thief’s/Mesmer, or anyone with on demand condition remove.

Only effective way to use Entangle is stack someone with conditions first wait till they clear with there demand condition remove, then follow with Entangle.

It’s a garbage Elite shouldn’t even be an elite skill. RoA is our only real viable skill when comes to PvP.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Have you consider using Superior Sigil of Generosity or Superior Sigil of Purity. Yes, You would be giving something up so you need to decide how important it is for you to remove conditions.

You also have the option of using the brown bear.

It comes down to which is more important: Killing or Staying alive.
With that said Sigil of Generosity is the closest thing to both.

Both aren’t really on demand condition removals, problem with running Brown Bear is you limit your damage output or CC for the cost of one condition remove. Seems rather pointless when there are many better skills our pets offer.

Signet is 50/50 sure it can clear all your conditions, but up against class that is condition spec’ed they can just re-condition you in matter of seconds leaving you with no condition removal.

I can’t see the sigil really playing that large of a roll, if you watch what order conditions are removed.

Just wait till the Mesmer update on there GS, our condition removal won’t be able to keep up at, vs a good mesmer we going to get destroyed in WvW once they add this update.

Lately at start of fight in WvW within first few seconds I can tell if I’m going to lose or not. Most of the time soon as I watch the conditions there stacking I know its matter of time before I fall, this is versus good players not your avg player.

Chopps.5047:

Have you tried a build that focuses more on vitality? Have you utilized evasive purity? How thorough is your testing?

Very, only effective way is using HS but in WvW that gets you killed more often then saves you and the CD is to large.

Evasive Purity is in the wrong trait line, there is no room in builds atm for that trait line. I can’t find any stable builds that are effective. Also I currently run 20k life on my ranger in WvW now just to stay semi in the fight.

Hi, I’ll try to keep it simple and direct and away from starting topic filled with QQ.

Question #1: I need to know will there be any improvements to rangers in terms of condition removal, it’s become extremely hard as ranger in WvW. I’m having real problem vs Mesmers and Necros using both our main condition removal.

One of problems I’ve ran into is vs these 2 classes they destroying my pet’s removing almost all my condition removal at start of the fight. The hybrid mesmer build that does both burst and conditions is major problem for any type of ranger build you throw at them.

Will our condition removal always transfer to our pet, vs these 2 classes we need different type of condition removal to stay in the fight in WvW, SPvP isn’t so bad as my team mates also bring condition removal but in WvW its allot different.

Question #2: Will you be improving Pet AI, I still feel if we had strong pet AI there would be new builds for rangers in WvW. AI currently and I’m sure your aware of it just isn’t cutting it vs a smart player.

And over past few months WvW has changed players are allot better and people have worked out more effective builds so the old AI system doesn’t cut it anymore.

Question #3: Will you guys answer my questions.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

These are just my personal choices for what to bring. I’m eager to see what you all bring, and why you do it.

EDIT:
Totally forgot about my underwater pets! In general I swim with the shark, and my rainbow jellyfish.

Hi, with the new WvW update coming, I was wondering how are pets going work in WvW with the GS update on Mesmer, won’t this effect our pets in a massive way seen as our condition removal transfers to our pets.

Shouldn’t rangers have better option for condition remove so we aren’t always forced to kill our pet.

Problem with fighting a bunker ranger is most of the time they only beat people who aren’t bunker and never really beat anyone who is bunker, I personally hate duelling with bunker builds they are what I like to call, “Training Wheels Build”.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I tend to use devourers frequently due to their better defenses and the retreat skill specifically. Sometimes they use it oddly, but more often than not they use it only when an enemy has closed distance and is hitting them, in which case they retreat and I am happier because of it since they can drop aggro and manage themselves a bit more.

Hi, I was wondering what pets you use frequently in WvW fighting zergs.

Ralk.7106:

Sol.4310:

Reason ranger’s seem better in SPvP over WvW go check past patch notes on class changes in SPvP, if they used half the changes they done to SPvP in WvW ranger might move back up little.

To my knowledge, there is not a single ranger balance change that wasn’t applied to both sPvP and WvW.

Even beyond the ranger, there’s only a few skills that are split.
Guardian shout “Save yourselves”
Guardian trait heal on evade roll
Superior Lyssa rune 6th ability (I think?)
There’s also 1 or 2 Elementalist splits

Also, FYI, rangers became popular in sPvP after pets started closing the distance before initiating melee attacks. This made pets more difficult to kite. But this was a minor effect. Trap rangers became effective at de-bunkering a guardian. The guardian nerfs may have spurred the popularity of trap rangers.

Class changes that effected SPvP only…………….

Nerva what’s your guilds name, I’ve kept eye out for you but yet to find you..

Reason ranger’s seem better in SPvP over WvW go check past patch notes on class changes in SPvP, if they used half the changes they done to SPvP in WvW ranger might move back up little.

Video contains Team Build v.1 I’ve upgraded to v.2 which is linked below and will record a new video once I’ve learned the build better and can get some good footage.

Video – http://youtu.be/ipi1PafhYPc

With the new version of the build it’s improved the general damage output and survival, when I designed the new build I kept in mind its a team build so I focused on what my roll would be and how my team mates would effect my build.

I’ve changed the tactics behind the build, I will be using shortbow as my main aoe damage dealer thanks to its attack speed and I’m going to use the Longbow as a target finisher.

I still believe Citadel runes are the best option to go, with the none stop fury upkeep and the bonuses to Power.

Team Build v.2

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.3|3.1g.h2|5.1g.h17|1c.74.1c.74.1c.74.1c.74.1c.74.1c.74|1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.8g.67|u18b.p2a.5.a6.0|2e.1|4j.4y.4q.4p.55|e

or

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.3|3.1g.h2|5.1g.h17|1c.74.1c.74.1c.74.1c.74.1c.74.1c.74|1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.1n.67.8g.67|k18.p2a.a6.a6.5|2e.1|4j.4y.4q.4w.55|e

Amadeus.5687:

I don’t agree with Goloith that bomb kit is best used with power, I use it for my conditio damage builds, and the burning/confusion is brutal, but they also work great in a power build (Carrion Armor is quite godo with i actually, or a mix of rapid and carrion)!

When that is said, I think it’s a fun take on the HGH, but in my personal opinion and in my experince Toolkit is better in any 1vs1 vs a good players, and in certain vs a good ranged player! mostly cause it’s just such a pain to land the bombs vs a good palyer that knows what he is doing! But on the other hand, how often is it we run into that haha?
Also, all the Boons (Protection as the most important) should help a lot in larger scale fights, making you able to actually run into larger groups and place the bombs! So all In all I think it’s a nice take on the HGH builds, and it should work quite well in roaming around a lone or in small groups, but I would never use it in duels vs good players ^^

Well I’ve watched him duel players what I’d consider allot better then “Good Players”, and only person I’ve seen able to beat them effectively was this Engineer build.

I like his build and its as solid as they come, I’ve seen allot good engineers come to duels and bring nothing different to the table.

I rolled Engineer after watching Ukune in action. After teaming with him and taking on massive amounts of numbers and winning its just funny.

Don’t worry Sebrent I’ve been trying to find Ikiro, but no luck so far lol.

Kinda funny build to watch, daze is real pain when it gets your heal. You could try and combo your Daze train with Wolf (Howl) add extra 2 seconds and then hopefully it KD’s you never know you might be able to keep them perma daze/stun/kd while you kill them.

I’m on Maguuma ill be hunting for ya

Welcome to tier 4 nerva, you will have to come say hi to the rangers here.

Khenzy.9348:

Sol.4310:

Also they need change #5 on the horn to give 10 Might stacks not 1 which is worthless.

I repectfully disagree. You only see 20+ stacks of ‘almost perma’ might on organized zergs.
Also adding 10+ stacks on Horn 5 would make the horn too strong and wouldn’t change anything in the overall scheme of things. Horn 5 is already strong as it is providing high uptime of fury. I’d even say the weaker skill is 4 even with great sinergy with ‘on crit’ bonuses or the bleed stone.
If anything, you should suggest more might stacking through trait sinergy like most other professions. That would help many more builds.
Also, defensive and offensive boon delivery is the job of guardians and warriors respectively, as is utility, chaos (group stealth), portal and confusion bombing the job of mesmers, condition cleansing support and field control for engineers, AoE condition pressure for necros and so on. Staff guardians are already there to provide huge might stacks. Rangers are there to provide water fields, although it’s little utility in comparision, to be fair. So we should start to think how Rangers could be of any use in group settings which is most of this format (WvW) based around on and where the Ranger is severly lacking currently.
Improving spirits and certain pets comes to mind.

Hopefully you’re not dueling all day, hence contributing to your world. Hopefully you have a hell of a lot of experience on group fighting. And hopefully you already know what needs to be improved for rangers besides “other classes can have almost 20+ stacks of might and we don’t” and “horn needs 10+ stacks of might”. So potential decline of credibility aside, and besides of suspiciously thinking this is a sneak attempt to call for buffs to your personal build, I think you may have some great ideas in your mind, I urge you to post them.

Not sure what rock your living under mate, but most people can stack might 15+ by themselves.

Most classes have no problem with the right boon build. I personally use my guardian in 3 man team and stack 20+ might stacks off my first leap into combat. I can upkeep 15+ might stacks while in combat. Its just funny how you think making skill give us 10+ might stacks OP when other classes are already doing it.

I figured 10 might stacks was big low tbh seen as other classes can do it themselves and almost perma up keep. I roam daily in teams I don’t PvDoor any more as its something I done to much of and its really un-skilful being a door basher.

Most of my team mates have Perma, Swiftness/Regen/Vigor/Protection/Fury/Retaliation by themselves no group help at all.

I’m sorry but your completely wrong.

Also they need change #5 on the horn to give 10 Might stacks not 1 which is worthless.

I tried to make build that would cover these problems but yeah, I am forced to change my build none stop to be effective, I personally hate roaming with a bunker build in small roaming groups due to fact we have little damage output, I do tend to run the 0/30/30/5/5 for both Zerging/roaming i carry 3 sets of armor that I can get to work effective under them traits.

Hi, Dev’s you need to start taking look at the major balance problem for rangers in WvW.

The meta has change for WvW, more bugs are fixed more skills are buffed. I believe I know my WvW fairly well when comes to rangers and builds. Almost 90% of my ranger game play is all WvW.

So I’ll get right to the point the heart of the major unbalance atm and I hope to god the Dev’s take the time to read this post and go and test it themselves to see what I mean.

This is for WvW, Not SPvP

Boons due to nature of how the ranger is designed we need to be able to boon stack to stay up with the current meta, sure we have many builds we can run but almost every other class can do it better and most of the reason is due to fact they can run around with boons. Sure there are classes that can counter boons, but rangers have no way around it. I’m seeing more and more classes able to keep perma upkeep on boons with almost perma 20+ might stacks. That’s just insane.

But I think this just one of them pipe dreams, Anet stop looking at SPvP in terms of balance and spend a solid 2 months in WvW roaming/duelling and zerg fighting talk to player base check out the builds and understand why us rangers are thinking we are under-powered class compared to other classes.

Rangers are about to become the trash class of WvW, I play fair bit of TPvP and SPvP lately and I love using my ranger there, but I will be packing my ranger up when comes to WvW until the Dev’s take good hard look at the balance problems rangers are faced with in WvW.

Bugs That came with the latest update.

1: When downed and you try to get your pet to heal you, most of the time it converts the heal into damage, I can record this problem if need be its happened to me that many times now. So atm rangers don’t ask your pet to heal you good chance he will kill you.

2: F2 has become extremely unresponsive in terms of use if the dev’s need me to record the footage of the problems I can, it used to happen but nothing like it does now. E.g. My pet swap takes 20 seconds before I can change pet, most of the time now I having problems getting f2 to work inside of that window it keeps disabling and the CD resets, its driving me insane I’ve lost so many fights thanks to my Fear not working.

3: F2 skill once you do get it to cast the effect is only working 50% of the time, I’ve never seen this happen till the latest update, my fear going off right in there face and they take no effect from it. Now I figured was lucky condition remove but its happening so often now that it has to be internal problem. 60% of the time now the effect doesn’t take place.

Now this is ok for people who don’t use cc pets, but I use CC pets as team support and drives me nuts when I pet swap to QZ my fear and nothing happens or he cancels fear on me and I don’t get to use the skill.

Now please don’t take this as a rant, there are just some of problems I’ve seen while playing the ranger in WvW.

So sad what duels have come to…. If your not a crap load of bunker you never win or the fight never ends.People need to take off there training wheels and learn to fight without bunker builds.

Skill comes from fighting and know your class not hoping your bunker is stronger…

Hi, today I finally got a chance to upload some new videos of Roaming & Duelling.

Video 1 – http://youtu.be/dktJqNVb2Kk
Video 2 – http://youtu.be/s3VIef9sn7U
Video 3 – http://youtu.be/ViLLZ0_R_6g

YouTube Channel – http://www.youtube.com/karlesigw2

I have listed all the current builds I run, they are effective at doing there job. Each build has its own combo’s which you will have to learn on your own. All my builds are normally designed around Critical Damage, I do have second armor set for my trapper build which is condition damage but that’s about it. I use Citadel runes allot in my builds and I’ll explain why, main reason gives me great amount of power which helps towards the base damage for my Critical Damage and the Fury upkeep acts like I have extra 200 Precision and yes it procs allot so you have almost 100% fury upkeep which rangers need for Critical Builds and the bomb also hits for 1k normally so it all helps.

Roaming Trapper Build – http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6|5.1g.h15|c.1g.h1m.g.1g.h4|1n.74.1n.74.1n.74.1n.74.1n.74.1n.74|1n.61.1n.61.1n.61.1n.61.1n.61.8g.61|0.u28b.u69b.5.5|1k.1|e

Skills:Trolls Unguent/Spike/Flame Trap/Lightning Reflexes & Rampage As One.

Pets: Wolf & Alpine Wolf or Drakehound.

2nd Armor Set: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6|5.1b.h16|c.1b.h1k.g.1b.h5|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|1b.62.1b.62.1b.62.1b.62.1b.62.8b.62|0.u28b.u69b.5.5|30.d|e

Taken Entangle as your elite if your running the 2nd Armor Set to get the bonuses from your conditions.

Both Great build lots of control with all your cc, heaps of combo’s big damage output and you can tank like no tomorrow. Also my duelling build currently.

Roaming Crit/Bunker Build – http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6|5.1g.h15|c.1g.h1m.g.1g.h4|1k.74.1k.74.1k.74.1k.74.1k.74.1k.74|1k.67.1k.67.1k.67.1k.67.1k.67.1i.61|0.p4a.u69b.a6.5|39.1|e

Skills: Trolls Unguent/Signet of the Hunt/Signet of the Wild/Lightning Reflexes & Rampage As One.

Pets: Wolf & Alpine Wolf or Drakehound.

Still a great build with less focus on traps and more on in your face damage with the 25% speed boost to keep you just out of range. I personally like this for roaming in small groups it helps keep you up with the pack. Also great for people still learning rangers it tanks fairly well and the regeneration is great.

Team Build: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6|5.1g.h17|3.1g.h17|1n.7o.1n.7o.1n.7o.1n.7o.1n.7o.1n.7o|1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.61.8g.61|k48.k2a.u69c.0.0|39.1|e

Skills: Trolls Unguent/Signet of Renewal/Signet of the Hunt/Lightning Reflexes & Rampage As One.

Pets: Wolf & Alpine Wolf or Support Boon Pets. (Set pets to avoid combat they are used as defensive skills)

Great for roaming with larger then 10 man groups, with all the buffs from other classes “Guardian” you will always have great amount of protection, regeneration, condition remove and fury up keep. You don’t need the 5 in BM for QZ on pet swap your pets will sit in the back lines doing nothing but offering support.

Remember to Copy and Paste links if they come up “Bad Link”

Helpful Tip: The reason I use Shortbow & Sword/Horn and Lightning Reflexes combo so much, most combo’s your going to face will start with you being Immobilized/Stunned so when your get stuck in them tricky positions use the following skills to dodge the damage, Sword #3 or Shortbow #3 or Lightning reflexes it will dodge there damage and your save your life, then follow it up with Horn #5 and get range. These 3 skills are your only skills that will dodge while your Immobilized.

kurtosis.9526:

Straegen.2938:

I hope Friday night hasn’t been an indicator of the week as we never found any skirmishes and finally joined in with commanders just to have a chance of a fair fight.

It’ll die down some after the weekend when everybody has work and stuff, usually does.

Also, we do Fight Clubs, which sounds like something Mags and DB are into as well, and I’m sure some ~5v5 type skirmishes could arranged if you guys want. Bring that up whenever the Fight Club planning starts, I’m sure you’ll have takers.

Straegen.2938:

That PINK/PiNK/Pink (whatever it is) guild hawking QL, Danelon, etc early on was just a big ole zerg bag farming DB.

PiNK. They’ll be tough, they’ve been squaring off against HB (one of Europe’s best PvP guilds), among others, the past few weeks. Keep working at it, nobody’s invincible, and siege can be the great equalizer.

Straegen.2938:

I really wish there was a tier full of DB sized servers. I like the no queues and skirmish fighting but that system simply doesn’t work well against TC sized servers it seems.

I think there are, but it seems the problem is the Glicko system tends toward stability rather than volatility, making movement among tiers difficult. At least one detailed thread about that .

Looking forward to fight club lets hope you got some solid players…..

Sovereign.1093:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzSt3297fIo

^.^ Fun fights yesterday.

Cool video, music went well with it, love seeing people run into zergs like mad men.

Strippling.3524:

Sol.4310:

Really looking forward to solid week of Roaming/Duels CD/Ebay seem really solid and friendly, was fun at duels today really looking forward to testing some new builds and idea’s out. Also was fun doing 5v5 very rare you get good duelling in team fights.

Think today OG was out in almost a zerg of just OG, was allot fun. For those that think roamers are useless, just remember one thing who do you think stands between you and your pvd goals the roamers, we are the ones holding back large groups from helping there teams mate stop you from capping. Today OG effectively did it for several HR’s.

We like to do it more often, so if any Commanders feel like they could do with some Roamers helping them just whisper one of the OG members we more then will to throw ourself’s at large zergs.

Do you even lift?

Random post but ill give it.

Really looking forward to solid week of Roaming/Duels CD/Ebay seem really solid and friendly, was fun at duels today really looking forward to testing some new builds and idea’s out. Also was fun doing 5v5 very rare you get good duelling in team fights.

Think today OG was out in almost a zerg of just OG, was allot fun. For those that think roamers are useless, just remember one thing who do you think stands between you and your pvd goals the roamers, we are the ones holding back large groups from helping there teams mate stop you from capping. Today OG effectively did it for several HR’s.

We like to do it more often, so if any Commanders feel like they could do with some Roamers helping them just whisper one of the OG members we more then will to throw ourself’s at large zergs.

Ok, OG has done there bit for the week, 1 of us helped cap a camp now back to roaming and duelling.

selan.8354:

Skyrmion.6478:

selan.8354:

Bunzy.8674:

Speaking of people loving us.

Why do FA and DB always try to gang up on me? 
Do you have a problem with Maguuma or OG?

erm, i personally have nothing against maguma at all. actually prefer them to DB’s NNK. OG though has a bad reputation and yes we are hunting u guys down. the reason for that is pretty obvious: u guys gank single targets on the street, wait infront of our spawn, try to attack us from behind when we are taking a DB keep, jump on our bodies after 6v1 and then  troll on the forums and even if u have a official duel(like u had with our commander Lady Sayrah) u get mad if he wins and attack him from behind out of the blue….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOPTTCtjYIo&list=PLqbVYxfA89UMv5OSa94FHbA2raTSkQIig&index=67

Lol so much hate for bringing out a video that shows a fight back when d/d ele earth skill 3 pre-nerf. I have friends in both PRO and OG and all are really nice people in game (except bunzy), so just chill out and have fun. Hating wont get u anything good.

erm check the upload date again yeah…that was very recent

And your just as bad as the rest.

Jerks.3172:

Skyrmion.6478:

selan.8354:

Bunzy.8674:

Speaking of people loving us.

Why do FA and DB always try to gang up on me? 
Do you have a problem with Maguuma or OG?

erm, i personally have nothing against maguma at all. actually prefer them to DB’s NNK. OG though has a bad reputation and yes we are hunting u guys down. the reason for that is pretty obvious: u guys gank single targets on the street, wait infront of our spawn, try to attack us from behind when we are taking a DB keep, jump on our bodies after 6v1 and then  troll on the forums and even if u have a official duel(like u had with our commander Lady Sayrah) u get mad if he wins and attack him from behind out of the blue….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOPTTCtjYIo&list=PLqbVYxfA89UMv5OSa94FHbA2raTSkQIig&index=67

Lol so much hate for bringing out a video that shows a fight back when d/d ele earth skill 3 pre-nerf. I have friends in both PRO and OG and all are really nice people in game (except bunzy), so just chill out and have fun. Hating wont get u anything good.

Pretty sure why people hate OG is just their attitude towards players some people want to be in bigger groups some wants to roam. OG think they are superior being cause they roam in small groups and pick off stragglers from bigger groups. If you want respect from players respect everyone else.

Your just like the rest, hate someone when you don’t even know them.

Nice video, I’ve never been fan of bunker builds on ranger but I think that’s just me. I might have to come up with a wacko build that murders.

Arekai.5698:

I love how people defend a godawful mechanic.
A mechanic that roots you in place in a game where mobility is everything.
The only reason you don’t complain is because you already know it’s never going to get fixed, so you close your eyes and pretend it’s not bugged.

Its not a bug and it doesn’t need to be fixed. Turn off auto-attack and there is no mobility problem at all.

Auto-attack is like training wheels if you need them then your still learning, I only recommend auto-attack on the SB and LB.

Like the music, maybe next time upload in better DPI as not so hard on the eyes. Cool build allot different what I run.

Also don’t listen to Arekai, good chance he one of them known it all QQ’ers who have no idea how to play a ranger.

I really like my 1h sword, I have no real problem with it. Saves my life it can dodge while imbo where as dodge can’t + its damage rocks under QZ.

I just got myself 3rd sword today with different stats.

@jkctmc, Yeah d/d ele’s I’ve been facing lately, all the bunker/rangers that I’ve watched try to take them down have no chance. Seen few come close but I think that was lucky critical from there pet. They just don’t have the damage output needed to break there regen + heals, maybe after the next update they nerf the bunker on d/d a bit so there not so OP in that department.

I have different ideas when comes to bunker ranger vs none bunker ranger in 1v1 in WvW I would give the win to none bunker ranger.. Maybe in SPvP/TPvP but not in WvW. I personally prefer full trapper build in TPvP but that’s for team support and not 1v1. Even know I’ve seen allot trap rangers destroy bunker rangers 1v1.

jkctmc.8754:

@Sol

I called my wife to give me my build, and stats.

Gear is; Precision, Toughness, Condition damage for all armor pieces, Power, Precision, and Condition damage for jewelry, and weapons. (I forgot to have her check, but I think I have one piece of Knights armor somewhere). This puts me at a raw 52% critical hit, without Fury. Throw in Sigil of Bloodlust on a secondary set of axes, and my attack goes from 2600, to roughly 2900, with a solid amount of armor sitting at 2700ish. Once you pop Rampage as One, you go to 72% crit, and your damage on both raw hits, and conditions climb rather quickly.

Using Rata Sum runes, coupled with Winters Bite (Pet causes weakness with the attack) you can keep Weakness up near permanently against most classes, which synergizes well with us applying Protection to ourselves. Couple that with Chill, and d/d Elementalists have a heck of a time switching between their elements. This works great against any non-critical hit build, which most bunker builds are not.

This allows me two choices on my traits.

What I’m running now; 30 WS III, VII, XII .. 10 NM VI .. 30 BM II, VII, XII
What I switch to about every fourth day; 10 Skirm II, 20 WS III, VII, 10 NM VI, 30 BM II, VII, XII

On my Axes I use Sigil of Purity, and Sigil of Generosity, though I’m considering switching to Sigil of Air, and Sigil of Fire. My Shortbow is sporting Sigil of Air for now. I sometimes run Axe/Torch, in place of Axe/Axe, and my Torch has Sigil of Fire on it.

Beat me to the reply, I see what your doing not bad idea. Good build vs Mesmers as they have stuff on condition remove. But say how would it field against a full bunker ele that has good amount of condition remove and can regen 9k heals every 10 seconds without fail really.

jkctmc.8754:

Sol.4310:

jkctmc.8754:

In WvW a BM build that also sports 55% or higher to critical hit, who utilizes Omnom Pies, with the right selection of Sigils, like Generosity, and/or Purity will beat all other Rangers every time.

Hey, what’s the build you use to get 55% in critical chance as a BM, I personally put my money on Trap’s, only reason haven’t seen many BM/Bunker builds do very good in 1v1 duel. They always lack the damage unless they get a lucky entangle.

It is in the gear choice. I’m not in front of a computer that can log onto my account, or I’d give you a full run down.

Basically I trait to get the utility I want, and use my gear to get to the stats that I want. Every bunker build I run, including my bunker Warrior, and bunker Guardian utilizes gear with precision, to get above 50% crit chance, to make better use of Omnom Pie, and the ungodly amount of sigils that benefit from crits.

I don’t think people realize how well Omnom Pie heals.

I eat other bunker builds up too, especially d/d Elementalist, and Guardians. The Shrotbow procs Omnom a lot, and at a very fast rate.

So basically your a Precision/Toughness/Healing Power build, or are you finding ways to get your Power up to 1800-2000 while keeping 1800 Toughness and at least 100 healing from your Signet.

I’ve been trying to find a good balance between the 2, and what pet’s, I’ve found almost all pets are useless vs a pro d/d ele they just never hit them, so I’ve been rolling with CC pet’s they seem to work allot better.

jkctmc.8754:

In WvW a BM build that also sports 55% or higher to critical hit, who utilizes Omnom Pies, with the right selection of Sigils, like Generosity, and/or Purity will beat all other Rangers every time.

Hey, what’s the build you use to get 55% in critical chance as a BM, I personally put my money on Trap’s, only reason haven’t seen many BM/Bunker builds do very good in 1v1 duel. They always lack the damage unless they get a lucky entangle.