Guild Wars 2

Cempa.5619:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-FV-g;2FFx-r2gDV-0;9V2O;2JT-J;109-58A;108-4-k6;2LNW4LNW46gD

0/20/30/0/20

SB+GS / Jungle Spider+Dog
Fantastic single target control

This is a good all round build that you can use any time and any place!

Immobilize: x3 (2sec + 2sec + 3sec)
Knock Down: x1 (2sec)
Cripple: Near all the time

Hey Cempa you should test out running the Wolf, I’ve now got my pet set to avoid combat in WvW, reason being is they die to easy and a new combo I’ve found to be extremely effective.

When I get jumped by group of players I get stunned/KD/Imbo normally you would die, or I need run into zergs to down someone. I petswap to my wolf and F2 and thanks to being on avoid combat he uses his Fear right away. And if you run 15 in Bm you have fear every 25 seconds the CD will reset on pet swap, so No 45 second wait on your F2.

To bad only PvP LARP does is on the forum’s, would be nice to see LARP leading a charge instead of standing behind a zerg.

Would be nice to even see a roaming LARP group, you guys only seem to roll behind zergs.

Sick of hearing how OP you are when you guys don’t really do anything besides “Forum Warrior”.

Why don’t you get out there and show everyone, who LARP is. Stop with the trolling and do some god darn PvP.

Drednyte.7601:

Just ran into Mag’s [OG]…found it hugely lacking. They had us on numbers, but we wiped em not once, not twice..but three times. Chased them all the way to their spawn where it took repeated spawn run backs to finally drop us. Before they up and go chatterin falsehoods…Pics are worth a thousand words eh. LARP…..i think i’ll just have to side with u all on this topic as the 5 man i was with wasnt even out to field fight and we typically dont do field fighting. So in that sense, u can call us nubs at it. =)

1 – OG wipe
2- they run to their spawn
3 – oooo….invulnerable
4 – oooo…invulnerable again
5 – another OG wipe

Good fights tho, was real fun. But now before one of u OG start the rant posting about “lets fight club 5v5” and such. well mate all i can say is this….we found u, we fought u, u ran to spawn to hide until u could get ur teamates back from spawn, u wiped again…back to invulnerable spot to attack from there. Again..another wipe…wasnt until u pulled in a nice near 3:1 odds that u got us.

All kiddin and ribbin aside though..was nice fights with you. Props to ur skills and teamwork.

If your going to lie make sure your screenshots don’t show you had 2-3x our numbers. Oh and you killed 3 OG outta 5 then you died we wiped you all took your camp, then we went to Bay took out your Zerg pushed you to Camp took the Camp then we pushed your zerg back to your Tower, Keep wiping you then we finally got over ran by about 40+ Oh I had Fraps on, SO DON’T even try to lie your way out.

frickers.8309:

Bunzy.8674:

frickers.8309:

Bunzy.8674:

frickers.8309:

Bunzy.8674:

frickers.8309:

Well you can read the text in the screenshot, not saying you guys are bad or anything so calm down. Bunzy why are you so rustled?

I am rustled because the so called gank squads on other servers brang more then 5 people each, that is not a fair fight at all. Sure OG could bring 10 and attack 5 mens but what fun would that be? If you are looking for a challenge that is not it. I guess its also a compliment that they felt the need to have to bring double our numbers in order to win.

Guess you didn’t read the comment on the pic but that’s cool. Your the kinda person that always has the last post and think you won an argument. You can’t acknowledge other good people, but its ok but deep inside you know what happen you can lie everyone else but you can’t lie to yourself. Just remember to open the windows to the basement every now and then or you will get pale.

You did not bring a 5 man, enough said. It’s okay to fear us with even numbers, I would if I were you as well.

You are lucky people even logged on tonight, we have not even been able to have more than 3 people on in the past 2 weeks, which i hope will change eventually. Enjoy fighting random pugs some of us may be in the next few days, I hope some noqq guys play because we have some fun groups.

Also why still keep ignoring the screenshot?

Screenshots aren’t valid anymore they can be easily edited, they also don’t show the whole story and can be often taken out of context. One of your guildies earlier even said it wasn’t a 5v5, check the forum posts.

You should become a lawyer, you will argue anything, but its cool man whatever makes you feel better. People know we aren’t noobs.

Also think id go through the time to edit a screenshot? lol k

Seems all LARP does it smack talk on the forums.

WaR guild, they seem like top guys. Looking forward to Duelling some War’s over next few days. Not sure I’ll waste my time duelling LARP they aren’t worth my time, we all know without fail they will smack talk if they lose. Even know I would like to duel all there D/D ele’s.

Leuca.5732:

Sol.4310:

NaturalPortman.9562:

Sol.4310:

Levetty.1279:

Based on your posts on the PvP boards I doubt you are as high up the ranks as you claim you are.

As for your build I don’t really like the look of it but I will probably try it out to see how it goes at some point before I make any comments on it.

Don’t worry its only good for dodging and holding points. It has near to no chance of killing anything.

I’ve beaten this build 1v1 with my ranger. I’ve watched D/D roll over it 1v1. Thief’s and Mesmers well you know the outcome.

And love it how you think your pets are you main damage. Let me tell you this at a professional level your pets are useless. Only classes it will hit are Necros/Guardians/Warriors, everyone else takes around 30% damage from the pet’s, there just to much cripple/cloak/chill/evade.

I recommend if your new a ranger finding build fits your play style. This build will not work in WvW, its strictly TPvP. Check out Bunker/Trapper builds they are better then this build.

Why are you lying to people? This build kills people easily. This build counters ele easily as well

Your the one lying here mate. This build might work less skilled players but doesn’t work against skilled players and that’s fact.

The player base is evolving these type of builds are done and dusted.

In a 1v1 a bunker ranger can kill most anything 1v1 given enough time bar tanky staff mesmers/pure bunker eles.

Keep telling yourself that………..

For WvW I would change the Sigil the life steal, isn’t very effective it has 2 second cooldown, I would go with something that improves your attack (Sigil of Battle 3 Might Stacks) on your sword and your going to need more Toughness/Vita if you want to run sword/horn I would lose Traits from Power use your items to make up the extra 200 Points and put it all into Toughness. Sigil of Battle will give you 35×3 more power in your melee attack for 20 seconds and you don’t want to be in melee for very long 10 seconds at most.

Also look into food there is food that gives you 66% chance off critical to gain 325 life with no cooldown and gives you more 70+ Precision.

In regards to your pets, some Tips for WvW set your pet to Avoid Combat, when you go into melee combat hit there f2 they will auto attack your target. Pets die fast in WvW even with Traits.

Raven/Wolf is very good combat, use the Raven for melee combat it will drop that blind which will help you tank in close combat allot better, when you need to escape/down people use the wolfs F2 has same skills as Drakehound just its elite is far better then the Drakehounds. Once you do go into melee Petswap on Weapon Swap to get your 2 seconds of QZ, then follow with QZ give yourself 6 seconds. Be careful this can sometimes get you killed.

Some tips when you go into melee combat, start the fight with your (4) horn skill followed with 1 full set of your auto attack, rest after that is up to you. Your under QZ so you can do all 4 attacks in 1.5 second. Once you have ran out of QZ use your Horn (5).

Hope this helps you mate.

NaturalPortman.9562:

Sol.4310:

Levetty.1279:

Based on your posts on the PvP boards I doubt you are as high up the ranks as you claim you are.

As for your build I don’t really like the look of it but I will probably try it out to see how it goes at some point before I make any comments on it.

Don’t worry its only good for dodging and holding points. It has near to no chance of killing anything.

I’ve beaten this build 1v1 with my ranger. I’ve watched D/D roll over it 1v1. Thief’s and Mesmers well you know the outcome.

And love it how you think your pets are you main damage. Let me tell you this at a professional level your pets are useless. Only classes it will hit are Necros/Guardians/Warriors, everyone else takes around 30% damage from the pet’s, there just to much cripple/cloak/chill/evade.

I recommend if your new a ranger finding build fits your play style. This build will not work in WvW, its strictly TPvP. Check out Bunker/Trapper builds they are better then this build.

Why are you lying to people? This build kills people easily. This build counters ele easily as well

Your the one lying here mate. This build might work less skilled players but doesn’t work against skilled players and that’s fact.

The player base is evolving these type of builds are done and dusted.

Levetty.1279:

Based on your posts on the PvP boards I doubt you are as high up the ranks as you claim you are.

As for your build I don’t really like the look of it but I will probably try it out to see how it goes at some point before I make any comments on it.

Don’t worry its only good for dodging and holding points. It has near to no chance of killing anything.

I’ve beaten this build 1v1 with my ranger. I’ve watched D/D roll over it 1v1. Thief’s and Mesmers well you know the outcome.

NaturalPortman I love it how you think your pets are you main damage. Let me tell you this at a professional level your pets are useless. Only classes it will hit are Necros/Guardians/Warriors, everyone else takes around 30% damage from the pet’s, there just to much cripple/cloak/chill/evade.

I recommend if your new a ranger finding build fits your play style. This build will not work in WvW, its strictly TPvP. Check out Bunker/Trapper builds they are better then this build.

Unsure why people think rangers are bad….. So many effective builds….

This build is only good for point holding, support heals. It’s a basic TPvP build.

I don’t recommend this build outside of TPvP.

OG would like to thank BP for there Omega Golem.

Zerg = PvE/NPC Slayers.
Duels = PvP/Skilled Players.
WvW = Open World PvP.

So while the zerg slays the NPC’s, us duellers will continue to PvP.

Black Scoutsman.5830:

Sol.4310:

@Black Scoutsman.5830 Hey mate I’m that ranger you can watch my roaming solo in WvW at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFRtYa9FPX8

Just so you know, I run a build that no one runs…… So no FOTM, btw I run 0 Power Traits… Figure that one out…

I’d be happy to fight you in SPvP to put my skill level to rest..

Looks very similar to mine. i use the torch or dagger offhand and I only run one power trait and only sometimes. And I have no need to test your skill level because i frankly dont care how good you are and i dont need to inflate my digital ego.

in all seriousness though props on figuring out a solid build on your own. also, try the greatsword as a second weapon i’ve found it quite useful even though it lacks a little in conditions, it can be great for escaping a zerg rush.

I would never use a greatsword until they buff the damage and I wouldn’t take a weapon to escape zergs isn’t my thing I’d feel like I’m letting the team down. I use the torch in SPvP, can’t get that stat’s I get in WvW which makes the Horn better + it helps the team with buffs.

One last thing please next time don’t get all raged up over a video, just seems stupid…. You don’t know us and we don’t know you….

idari.4273:

Bunzy.8674:

OG vs Ehmry Bay (No yaks were harmed in the filming of this video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7vgD8KFd-o&feature=youtu.be

Good vid, but u’re fighting pug, try to record fights against guild parties (i’ve seen some GH fighting you pretty well! w/e, keep visiting us, i like the fights

Cya tomorrow on Lowlands (i’m the Reaper of Grenth S/P Thief focusing you :P)

Was you that thief from last night that was roaming with GH. Don’t worry we recorded.

Duh the Rats running the Obstruction Build.

@Black Scoutsman.5830 Hey mate I’m that ranger you can watch my roaming solo in WvW at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFRtYa9FPX8

Just so you know, I run a build that no one runs…… So no FOTM, btw I run 0 Power Traits… Figure that one out…

I’d be happy to fight you in SPvP to put my skill level to rest..

I normally, roam for hours to try and get fight, but seems tier I’m apart of has fight nights where all 3 servers stand around duelling, and people are willing to accept the /invite so we can chat about builds and tactics.

I should start recording them, but I feel dirty recording fights between friends from other server.

idari.4273:

the PVP on EBBL was fun, cheers up OG!

Was fun got to test my new “Machine Gun Build”.

So when are those fight nights, is it good duels or is it all Copy & Paste Mesmers or d/d Bunker Ele’s.

I’d been keen to join in and and start duel’s video. Of the Night.

Looking forward, to seeing your WvW Video’s its hole different ball game in WvW.

@Serraphin Storm.2369 What are you basing your Fact’s on…..

This would be nice to see, biggest problem I still see is we lack damage, we have no chance of breaking a good D/D that’s bunker spec’ed. We have no chance vs the new Mesmer build Shatter/Confusion.

I spent hours today in SPvP fighting my friends trying to break there build. No matters what I tried nothing worked. I might get lucky vs less skilled players but verses someone good no chance at all.

And all the problems pointed back to my Pet, vs the Mesmer we found the pet rarely hit the target due to clones/cloaks, vs the D/D ele the pet just couldn’t keep up sometimes I got lucky and it hit on there turn around, but my pet couldn’t keep up even with the speed boost.

And to top it all off its even harder in WvW. SPvP is allot easier compared to WvW.

I really like the ranger, but its shame Anet’s idea of fixing classes is slowly and over time. Rangers need to be fixed faster and improved faster.

@Daemon.4295 the sword root isn’t a bug btw, its how they designed it.

I would like to see F2 skill work for once when pressed, the skill always goes off at big delay. Not sure if its a bug, but sure does feel like it.

Yeah but I can’t see all these bugs being fixed at steady rate. Sure would help being at 100% but in saying that it has nothing to do with what I’m talking about.

I’m trying to point out, the balance between the ranger and pet, its one of the major problems with builds. No matters how we look at it we still drawn back by being forced into focusing Points/Traits/Skills into our pet, which is hurting allot of builds players like to use.

I just want more options I want to feel like I’m helping my team. Currently in WvW I’m the weakest link on my team, there is no build I can try that will change that. Only way is to let me take damage from my pet.

This is just for WvW btw, I think SPvP has it allot easier when comes to balance between our pets and builds.

WvW has some major problems with viable builds, and they all point back to our pet’s being % of our damage output. It’s more less telling us to be Beast Masters in WvW, that just isn’t viable vs’s the current meta of WvW.

Sure rangers do well in 1v1. I’ve been spending allot of time doing duels in WvW Vs the current meta, FOTM, Ele/Mes/Thief builds make our pet usage more or less useless if we haven’t invested X amount of points/traits into improving our pets.

For E.g. say we wanted to use the Raven for our burst damage pet without investing in trait’s and utilities to improve our pet they get stomped, one burst from any class and they are dead. Now if we trait and invest utilities skills into our pet they are some what improved but at what cost. Puts big limit on ranger builds.

Oh and pets are more less useless vs Zerg’s and that’s the current meta, so we always on our back foot when comes to damage output.

@Electro.4173 I think your missing what I’m trying to say. I understand what your saying.

For E.g. if you take 1 object (A) and give it 100% power put it up against 2 objects (B) © with 100% power that would make things out of balance so you share the % between the B-C objects to brings it back into balance.

Now please remember I’m just using this are E.g. so you understand where I’m coming from.

So I can’t see why you can’t scale the balance between B-C objects. Even if they did estimate the balance between the ranger/pet, scaling the damage wouldn’t effect what’s already in place. In simple terms adding a maths problem to the coding shouldn’t be a major problem.

Now I’m also not saying this is what rangers need, but it sure would make more ranger builds more viable in WvW. Allot of builds don’t use any Pet traits or the Beast Mastery trait line, so in fact these builds are losing out a % of there damage output as we have gimped pets.

Hi, I’ve been trying to think of ways to improve the ranger without throwing the balance of our class out. So here goes I hope the Dev’s take time to read the post and give us some feed back, I feel allot of rangers would agree. This post is mostly aimed at WvW balance and this isn’t a big list of changes just simple idea.

Rangers currently share a % of there damage with our pet and this limits how viable we are in WvW. A better system for rangers would be to give us control over our damage scaling between the ranger and its pet. I’m not 100% sure what the level of damage scaling between the 2 are but for a easier understanding lets say 50/50%

So now to the point, I personally think the damage scale should be 80/20% when 0 points are invested into Beast Mastery the damage % should scale based on the points spent in Beast Mastery, E.g. 30 points in Beast Mastery should become 50/50% damage scaling between the Ranger/Pet.

By adding in this option gives the ranger more viable builds towards team play without throwing our current balance out. This will greatly improve the rangers roll in WvW.

Now I would like to hear your take on damage scaling between the ranger and its pet. So please keep this topic to only “Damage Scaling”.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

@Lavexis.5360 that’s load of garbage, for starters Mesmers can hit you for hell of allot more in WvW then SPvP or TPvP and that’s fact. Go ask any good Mesmer.

Also I run Rampager’s armor with Knights Acc and Berserker Jewels for WvW. The build I use is the same build I use in SPvP and TPvP just has half the damage.

Bird+SB = the fastest way to kill a Mesmer, just watch the conditions being stacks on you and just keep range. The hardest Mesmer you will face will try to get right on top of you,

is where I kill fair few Mesmers, I rarely go into melee vs a Mesmer just to risky if you burst and they stack you with confusion just as you burst.

Hope it helps.

All depends on where your damage comes from, allot of rangers main damage comes from there BM builds, which is most of the reasons its so hard for rangers to win.

Burst rangers have no real problem vs P/D we just wait for them to come out of stealth and deal the pain. Playing defensive is never good idea vs thieves.

Well, I only really use SS when I go into melee mode so my burst is bigger, SS+SE+QZ stacks allot of bleeds while I’m critical hitting them to death. Hunters Call stacks them as well so extremely easy to get 10+ bleeds in 1 second.

Na mate nothing personal, I use SS for whole different reason. For my build its perfect.

Look, lets not high jack this thread with a debate over SS. Just stick to what works best for you PI.

PI is mate. Racial’s are meant to be sub-par.

I can’t believe you said Sharpening Stone “blows”, for build like mine it’s a must.

doozer, I would pick a race which you like the look of “Pain Inverter” will get its nerf soon.

And if you want to play the meta go Bunker or Power Rangers and take month of Sundays to kill anything.

I run no points in Marksmanship at all and I’m a Precision/Critical Damage ranger, you make up for loss of power in might stacking and most armor/acc, why waste points in a trait line when critical is so much better.

Yeah them last 10 points are same for me, I currently dropped back from points in Nature’s Magic, I wanted more critical chance and more damage from the bleeds.

I find condition duration to be useless. Its effective vs newbie’s but vs someone good they always have good supply of condition removal, like Guardians they remove conditions like no tomorrow.

Hi, some more footage from roaming around getting into duels.

Part 4: http://youtu.be/9unF9Y01Zkg

New Build version 2.1

Hope you enjoy.

My last video, Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFRtYa9FPX8

Hi, nice build but I see few problems your going to run into over time. So don’t take anything I say in the wrong way, just letting you know what I’ve spotted.

#First off, I think Fortifying Bond is a awesome skill but its only effective if you offer boons that help your pet, atm all the boons you offer your pet don’t require having Fortifying Bond to effect your pet, only trait that does is Nature’s Protection. So it might be worth thinking of ways to add them extra boons to improve your pet and making Fortifying Bond a worth while Trait, E.g. your using Sigil of Superior Water, might be worth changing this to Sigil of Superior Battle. 3 might stacks for 20 seconds.

#You have no real condition removal, your pet alone won’t be able to keep up and Healing Spring is ok but the worst thing you can do as a ranger is sit still. So It might be worth rethinking a more effective way to improve on how you can effectively remove conditions.

#Your build is very limited on how much damage it can really throw out, sure your pets have fair amount of damage, but vs zergs pets are useless at the moment AoE murders them. You have no condition damage to make your shortbow effective. Your only real damage is Sword/Horn+QZ but its to limited to how often you can deal the pain. I don’t want to sound harsh but your build has no real effective/chance to beat a decent Mesmer or Thief. Pet’s have a real hard time fighting anything that stealth’s your sword/horn won’t be effective, and you don’t want to go into melee vs a good Mesmer you will kill yourself.

I’m not sure if this help’s you at all, it’s just from what I can see.

Its really funny how thief’s try there hardest to justify there broken class, stop telling everyone how to play and face facts.

@Manos.5486 Hit the nail on the head.

The only real players who stand chance against thief’s are geared lvl 80’s with a solid build, low-lvls are more less doomed they stand no chance as there is 99% chance they are dead in 2 hits. Thief’s are only class who can pull this off using 1 key over and over.

What I would like to see is Anet break your stealth to work in our favour for few weeks while they try to fix it and then maybe thief’s will finally see how broken there class really is.

Hi, like these builds. Any chance you can go into more details about using the axe as offhand. It’s something I’ve wanted to try myself but always stayed clear of due to being locked in place.

I recorded this fight vs a thief the other day, I was watching the replay to see how much he was hitting me for.

Now as I was adding the numbers up and watching the video at slow speeds. I found there was 9k worth of damage missing from my screen. I lol and rewatched over and over. It worked out to be he was dealing the extra damage to me while he was in stealth. It was like 2 seconds of stealth where my life bar dropped but not one bit of damage showed on my screen.

So mean while the thief’s screen shows he just did 9k worth damage to me while my screen shows nothing but my life bar dropping.

And this is why people hate thief’s, your stealth is broken you can deal massive amounts of damage while in stealth

Guam & PK = LOL

I recommend going to the Mist, find a heavy golem and follow this combo. Start at 1200 Range attack with your SB/Raven, run at your target soon as you get into melee range use the following skills. Weapon Swap+QZ+SS+Hunter’s Call+Call of the wild followed with 2 sets of your auto attack then pet swap you will have 6 seconds for QZ and at the 4 second mark when your target realizes you wasting them and the drakehound always opens with his knockdown and he will be under QZ when he does.

Then run the combo with RoA up.

Then its just matter learning some tactics to use against different builds.. Tip vs Mesmers wait for them to blow there load (condition stack you) use your Elite wipe his conditions and weapon swap and melt the mesmer.

*Note turn off the auto attack on your sword, that will get your killed.

I run this build in SPvP, SB-Sword/Horn build. Use raven as opener and drakehound when you enter melee combat to finish your target.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlYDbEoKyOzyyi1SQ0ewJJhJ+hD9F4UgK/XwkG;TsAAzCpoKyUkoIbRuikFt8Y4xGCA

I’ve found Jungle Spider and Krytan Drakehound to be very good combo. One is ranged one is melee combat. When I’m picking my pets I always try to think what pets are great for starting a fight and what’s best for finishing a fight.

I like to use spider as my opener, and sometimes if I really want to rail the guy I’m facing I’ll take the Jaguar as my closer.

You really need to think what’s going to effect your build the best. Combo the skills the pet offers off your own skills.

@Victory.2879, I don’t think it’s that there terrible player’s or just plan don’t see me coming, It’s got allot to do with my play style, tactics and build. I’ve got a good understand what my builds limits are.

Reason I never get rooted/stunned/knocked back I dodge allot, I use Lightning Reflexes for stuns/roots and RoA for knock backs. I’ve got a general idea of what classes have to offer so I keep that in mind when I go into combat.

I do same thing in 1v1 as I would do in Group fights or Zergs, its my play style I focus fire and that’s what I enjoy.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlYDbEoKyOzyyi1SQ0ewJJhJ+hD9F4UgK/XyoaA;TkAqmMNJay2krJZTLPGZsjA

Make sure to copy and paste into browser.

For Item/Food just read up few more posts and there is some info.

The Church Of The Darkside – Dj Tony a.k.a Dozer, I always run 160 hardstyle playlist while I pvp, its only way.

Here is the updated link using the horn.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlYDbEoKyOzyyi1SQ0ewJJhJ+hD9F4UgK/XyoaA;TkAqmMNJay2krJZTLPGZsjA

Shortbow = Power/Precision/Condition Damage
Sword/Horn = Power/Vitality/Condition Damage

When my bows equipped,
Power = 1,662
Precision = 1,875 (2,079 with food) (2,329 with stacks)
Toughness = 1,674
Vitality = 1,116
Condition Damage = 948
Critical Chance = 50% (59% with food) (79% under Fury) (91% full stacks)
Critical Damage = 34

Sword/Horn are little less on different stat’s as I replaced Precision with Vitality.