Guild Wars 2

Okay.. I don’t play anymore so I don’t know how things are atm, but my tactic was : Thief opens, i lose a ridiculous amount of health in 1 second, I pop that trait that makes both me and my pet immune to damage for 7 seconds, longbow #4 (knockback if I remember correctly), longbow#1 (with right trais should hit like a truck), then immediatelly sic’em. Thief can’t stealth for 4? seconds = dead thief.

(full berserker ranger)

Worked against 95% of ALL the thieves I encountered.

Adrenaline.2854:

Roaming and small team fights we excel, that is if you’re running a Tanky/Regen/Condi build.
In zergs, which is relatively boring, we’re alright. We don’t give lots of CC and stuff, except for our elite skill Entangle, but we can last a while and pick people off.
I run a tanky regen condi build and I can beat most classes 1v1. Thieves are fun to fight as they just stealth with 10% HP then come back full health. Rinse and repeat until you either get ganked or the thief runs away for good. The only class I have trouble 1v1’ing is a tanky warrior.

Unfortunately, that build is the only good build we have. Running anything that’s not tank/regen/condi build will get you KO’d almost instantly. I see some videos of people running LB/GS but honestly, the people they’re fighting are pretty bad.

How does one calculate the ‘effectiveness’ in a zerg? 90% of the time the numbers are uneven anyways. Other than that it’s mostly a lagfest. Every class is “effective” in a zerg, and every player. Because you don’t need skills, knowledge of your class or thinking.

what is “kitten” ? It’s getting so out of hand and it’s more annyoing than pretty much everything I’ve ever seen.

Also switch to another class and stop crying. Ranger is not for EZmoders.

PvE side: Pet health increase: it’s needed, although it needs to be a big one in order to be viable.

PvP side: Sic ’em change is sad. It would be better if nothing changed. A 4 second reveal will not be enough for anything other than zerging a thief with 5 people. And even in that situation, there should be at least three people with ranged dps…

It seems that Anet’s idea about countering perma stealth, is giving ONE class a 4 second reveal… just lol…

Tricare.2946:

Glass cannon rangers are horrible. Every other class can do it way better.

^ this guy knows some stuff!

Ryan.9387:

But say you fight a warrior. Even their glass cannon build gives them 9s invuln through shield stance and endure pain. That is longer than a sos and a protect me (not combined).

A theif can stealth through the 6s. Mesmer can decoy or mass invis.

There are soo many options to wait out the invuln duration, and once over, you are left with a pure glass vs pure glass fight which usually is not in the rangers favor.

A good thief will not be beaten by a glass cannon ranger. Not untill the sic ‘em change. (If it’s viable)

Warrior might have all this stuff, but do not forget he needs to be in melee to do all this damage. A glass cannon ranger should force a warrior to use CD’s before he gets to melee. With RaO you have swiftness AND being immune to CC.

Mesmers will take massive initial damage. (I just had 10k on a mesmer in no more than 2 seconds). Assuming you always roam with signet of hunt active (150% damage on next hit), LR shot should go for 5k+, then re-use it and do the same. If he’s not in a bunker build, he won’t be able to heal that.

Gwalchgwn.1659:

What’s the point of pvp ranks if ppl just farm skyhammer all day long?

Kinda off the point since Spvp has nothing to do with WvW, but I agree. The point is that PvP is not rewarding at all in “open world” pvp area. A solo roamer can get 40 solo kills a day and that will probably not be enough for 1 rank, while a raid baby/zerger can just pve and get 20 ranks in a day.

What’s the point of rank titles if they have nothing to do with actual pvp?

One can just follow 40 man zergs, do pve (hit doors, and ninja keeps) and get super high rank. There’s no skill required, just follow the zerg.

I daily see “bronze legends” and higher, and when caught alone (usually trying to get back to their zerg, like good and loyal raid babies), they melt in seconds. Why is PvE so rewarding in an “open world” pvp area?

MiLkZz.4789:

Don’t know his build, but know that it can be done. 99.9% of the rangers in WvW seem to have some sort of braindamage and are just lootbags with legs tho. It is so bad that rangers are the laughing stock in my guild (we only have 2 in our guild :p). On 65k WvW kills I met 1 good ranger and that was that spirit one. The rest pretty much got blown up in 5s.

I play ranger, and I see enemy rangers as free kills. I still have to be killed by a ranger 1v1. The best dude I’ve encountered was kinda spirit hybrid, and he’s the only one that made me use Signet of stone to beat.

I can easily say that the ranger class has the more n00bs by FAR. That’s also the reason of bad “class reputation” and wall of QQ.

When you go to the ranger forums you feel like you have just entered a class with 5year old kids all crying.

Quinlanp.1308:

Ok s what kind of build should i be looking at then as far as gs/lb goes?

Full berserker with dps traits (30/30/10) or (30/25/15).

But don’t use GS in my opinion. It is too predictable, and swoop is not better than sword’s #2.

Use sword/Warhorn as secondary, and work on camera rotation to use #2 as either escape or gap closer.

Ryan.9387:

If you will be running a glass cannon, you will have little, if any survivability. Mesmers have the advantage in glass cannon builds because they have the utility skills that give them the capability to avoid enough damage to kill enemies, which rangers lack. You could run things like protect me, and sos, but after those durations are up you are an easy kill. Mesmers on the other hand have options like blink, decoy, and mass invis, which server the same survival function, but are much better suited for escape, which would be often necessary in wvw.

Mesmers have those skills, because they need them to be able to actually kill something when on glass cannon build. A ranger does not need more than 10 seconds to kill something. 6 seconds SoS alone is well enough, and will make you beat ~ 90% of the players you will encounter if you use it.

mako.2431:

The state of WvW is pathetic, and it will only get worse. I can’t wait for ESO to come out, at least they will try.

We don’t know that. It might an awesome game, it might be as zergy and terrible as WvW here.

Open world pvp games have mechanics that usually encourage big zergs where no skill is required.

From all the mmos that have open world pvp and are not ancient, the only game that had mechanics which encouraged solo/small group play as much as raids was the early days of Lotro.

I like small group/solo play very much (and that’s what I’m always doing), but considering what the majority of players want, I can easily say that ESO is going to be a zergfest.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Sanduskel.1850:

Niim.9260:

D/P thief is a crutch build, it is what you play when you like to PvP with training wheels. I typically just laugh at them and move on.

Yep, scrub build for scrubs relying on an exploit of stealth mechanics to perma stealth.

A player “exploiting” mechanics to gain advantage and achieve victory is the very opposite definition of the term scrub. A scrub is someone who makes up their own rules of game play and victory contrary to the actual in game rules/mechanics.

It is not player’s fault. They are just playing the game best way they can (or see fit). Everyone would do the same.

It is Anet’s fault. They obviously aprove this stealth mechanic, since it’s here from launch. Yes they want stealth to have no counter, which in a game with open world pvp is terrible.

Sanduskel.1850:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Get out of stealth, hit, back in stealth, heal, repeat.

I usually choose stealthy classes in mmo’s but in this game stealth has no counter.

If sic ‘em revealed debuff lasts for 10 seconds, I can’t wait for the thief tears.

agreed. i think it’s a scrub build for scrubs. Some of we thieves choose the higher moral ground and don’t exploit such a broken mechanic.

It’s not only the healing thieves, it’s the stealth mechanic all together in my opinion. Sure some builds can exploit it more than others.

The fact that a backstab thief can crit for 14 k on medium armour, and jump back to stealth in literally 3 seconds later is overpowered. Not to mention whole group stealth along with a “get away from literally every situation” card on their pockets.

At the moment a roaming thief can chose if he wants to die or no.

Ooh- also if you are downed, you have zero chance of fighting back no matter what.

Asura should not be able to go for heavy classes. An asura blocking a charr’s warhammer with a shield… but lol anyways, I would never go heavy class with a tiny race. Feels wrong ;P

I would say charr/norn/sylvari

Get out of stealth, hit, back in stealth, heal, repeat.

I usually choose stealthy classes in mmo’s but in this game stealth has no counter.

If sic ‘em revealed debuff lasts for 10 seconds, I can’t wait for the thief tears.

Punch.3507:

So I just made a necro and would like to level him up in WvW. Will I be seeing fair fights or am I going to be overpowered by every level 80 that I run across. I know I get upscaled to 80 but I’m still hesitant if the playing field will be somewhat even.

XP-wise, it is a very good way to level up. Although I don’t know if its faster than actual Pve in the PvE land.

Fighting wise, I can two shot scaled level players. Especially squishies.

Currently the max stacks of bloodlust buff (10 power each time you kill a foe max stacks 25) are too high. 250 power is too much to just ignore in my opinion, and I usually kill npc’s before start roaming or get in the action. But wasting 5 minutes killing npc’s is too boring, even if I don’t die all the time.

Do any other players think the buff should cap at like 10 stacks (while working at it max potential ofc) ?

atreyu.9624:

Have you considered using Loaf of saffron bread, if you think warrior with that build are that much of a problem?

it’s -20% condition duration and -20% damage while stunned.

Rampage as one is a must. I always use it just before i open a fight. It lasts 20 seconds, and as a berserker glass cannon ranger you will not need more to kill someone.

So just go for power/crit food depends what are your stats overall.

Dead Muppet.9718:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

If the warrior is not bunker build, a berserker ranger should have no problems killing him. Rangers can open with 5k LR shot, and immediatelly cast Rapid fire. Warrior will have to use Adrenal health before he makes it to melee. If he gets to melee with full health, ranger can use CD’s to have a good 12 seconds window of zero-ish damage taken, while hitting like a truck in the meantime.

I have yet to see a single 5k LR shot on a warrior. Even in full exotic beserker/ascended.
As I mentioned in the OP. I have dumped 2 full cooldowns of my longbow before any warrior can get to me – due to the stealth re-starting the fight for me.

They usually close the gap by then. Keep in mind most warriors will negate some damage at some point with the block on the shield should they weapon swap.

My longbow with zerk gear on will crit for roughly 1900 average on warriors (Some above 2k some below 1900)

I bring lightning reflexes, however it mainly being wvw I do, I normally have signet of the hunt on for the 25% speed increase.

Leaving me with one other slot.
Protect me is a stunbreaker and a damage mitigation, however it will most certainly get my pet killed most of the time.

Quickening Zephyr was great before the nerf but now its not worth the slot for one specific class. Also it can reduced healing by 50% when used. Seems really counter productive.

Im open to builds/suggestions as ill try just about anything because a good portion of what you see now in WvW is warriors.

Read my post above. Also you can swich to bear really quick before using protect me. Although I insist you will not need it. I only use it atm when fighting backstab thieves.

shimmerless.4560:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

If the warrior is not bunker build, a berserker ranger should have no problems killing him. Rangers can open with 5k LR shot, and immediatelly cast Rapid fire. Warrior will have to use Adrenal health before he makes it to melee. If he gets to melee with full health, ranger can use CD’s to have a good 12 seconds window of zero-ish damage taken, while hitting like a truck in the meantime.

I think the original poster was asking about how to combat this in Guild Wars 2, not in some hypothetical fantasy land.

It’s not hypothetical. You go full dps traits (usually 30-30-10) you trait so that the signets affect you as well, you have signet of hunt always active on you, you use Rampage as one and quickening zephyr, use LR shot from 1000+ range (should go for 3-5k) and use rapid fire. Suppose you messed up and warrior gets to melee easily withought losing health, you can use Signet of stone (6 seconds of no damage taken from attacks) and if you need even more time, “protect me” (pet gets all the damage for 6 secs). Swich to sword and offhand (I use warhorn) in the meantime and burn him.

If the warrior is not bunker build, a berserker ranger should have no problems killing him. Rangers can open with 5k LR shot, and immediatelly cast Rapid fire. Warrior will have to use Adrenal health before he makes it to melee. If he gets to melee with full health, ranger can use CD’s to have a good 12 seconds window of zero-ish damage taken, while hitting like a truck in the meantime.

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I do extremelly good in 1v1 fights with glass cannon build (LB/sword-warhorn). Although if you play this build you have to note two things. 1 is to play smart. No charging in groups hoping to get a kill and run away, and always attack buffed (RoA and any other dps buff you use in your utility skills). 2 If your enemy is not dead in 15 seconds max. you will not kill him (assume he’s still fighting), meaning he is probably in a bunker build. In that occasion run away. (kinda easy to do)

Here’s the situation. I play ranger (full berserker gear with LB) and i almost always roam on map (avoiding pve stuff).

I win about 90% of the 1v1 fights, and about 40-50% of 2v1 fights.

I see other enemy rangers as “free kills”. They are probably the guys that cry on the forum all day.

That’s all. Play and see for yourself.

Chrispy.5641:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Yeah listen to all the Pros! LB damage needs a serious boost. In WvW I could hit something forever and still not die. Definatelly some burst damage boost is needed!

PS: Opener, able to do from 1500 range http://i.imgur.com/aoO6WxW.png
Not to mentioned that it was followed by god knows how big rapid shot (If the target was still alive)

Just to be fair, about Ranger’s not doing any burst damage, You can get 15,000 damage Mauls pretty easily (after using every utility skill you have, using your elite skill, and your pet’s F2) against a Light armor profession that has no additional survivability. Against heavier armor though, you will never see a number that high. Also, that absolutely pales in comparison to what Warriors and Thieves can do with even less effort.

And also, Your 6,428 damage Long Range shot is pathetic! I’ve seen numbers as high as 9000 before! You need to work on your build a little more!

GS is far too predictable to use in pvp. Also the LR shot was with exotic weapon, no pet buffs, no might, 2 stacks of blood lust, none borderlands bloodlust and on medium armour. Yes it can go higher if you just wanna show off, although 6.4k can happen very often. It’s pretty much like an opener, where you don’t have time to buff yourself.

Yeah listen to all the Pros! LB damage needs a serious boost. In WvW I could hit something forever and still not die. Definatelly some burst damage boost is needed!

PS: Opener, able to do from 1500 range http://i.imgur.com/aoO6WxW.png
Not to mentioned that it was followed by god knows how big rapid shot (If the target was still alive)

lordhelmos.7623:

Durzlla.6295:

Kal Spiro.9745:

This interests me greatly because as far as I understand LB has some of the worse DPS in the game.

Let me guess… some idiot who thinks warrior is the only way to play the game told you this right?

Longbow has AMAZING damage if you build for it, it has some really nice scaling with power and crit, not to mention that stealth in PvP (and PvE i’ve noticed) provides you with quite a bit of survivability….

The LB is only good if your in a teamfight and allowed to unload on a guy fightning someone else from max range. Combat in gw2 is fast paced and based on movement. Against a stationary target LB dmg is great, but it takes full zerker gear and max range to deal competitive damage. At close range, the.damage is so low that even the nonflanking shortbow beats it.

At max range your damage drops because 50% of longbow shots, including half.of rapidfire shot will miss a moving target.

So let’s recap the conditons needed to make it good:

-1200 or more range
-zerker gear
-target must be immob, afk, standing still, or fighting someone else.

For PvE, LB is.great. In pvp, too many planets need to align to make it work. You are better off with other weapons.

You are talking about pve situations, while the issue is aimed at pvp(WvW)

LB is one of the greatest weapons when you solo/small group roam.

If you wanna just kill bosses in dungeons, then use something else.

Bambula.3649:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Bambula.3649:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Do you guys really believe that dps (ranged) ranger needs a buff?!

Dps LB rangers are one of the most dangerous classes in WvW (small scale wise. Zergs require no skill or thinking). You can burn almost everything in less than 7 seconds from 1500m range, while having a good 12 seconds of zero-ish damage taken. On top of that, you can stealth-finish someone with LB#3, and escape too many situations either with swoop or sword #2

i love guys like you, allways nice for stacking condi dmg or power

it´s not so hard as you belive, the “12 seconds of zero-ish damaga taken” where are they?
sos with signet trait are 6 secs but you still take condi dmg and much more problems with builds like that.

b-2-t

the idea is not bad, but i dont like the channeling attack :/

Traited SoS is 6 seconds of no damage from attacks. Protect me is another 6 seconds of ‘pet getting the damage’ 1v1 fights, you can kill everyone if you use those 2 cd’s and you have a power/crit build. (except bunker builds, but you won’t beat those anyways)
Fact is that atm LB ranger has one of the most burst dps and its from 1500 range. If they buff ranged weapons, I’ll end up 2 shotting people…

trololol..that you tell in a heavy condi meta..they dont care and still kill you cause you take condi dmg, warris just go on range cause they so much faster than you, thiefs hide in stealth and every class got a counter for that.
no roamer/smallscale gruop i know fears about a lb ranger cause they know how easy to kill or take the dmg out.

Yeah , sure… Won’t feed you anymore. Learn to play!

Bambula.3649:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Do you guys really believe that dps (ranged) ranger needs a buff?!

Dps LB rangers are one of the most dangerous classes in WvW (small scale wise. Zergs require no skill or thinking). You can burn almost everything in less than 7 seconds from 1500m range, while having a good 12 seconds of zero-ish damage taken. On top of that, you can stealth-finish someone with LB#3, and escape too many situations either with swoop or sword #2

i love guys like you, allways nice for stacking condi dmg or power

it´s not so hard as you belive, the “12 seconds of zero-ish damaga taken” where are they?
sos with signet trait are 6 secs but you still take condi dmg and much more problems with builds like that.

b-2-t

the idea is not bad, but i dont like the channeling attack :/

Traited SoS is 6 seconds of no damage from attacks. Protect me is another 6 seconds of ‘pet getting the damage’ 1v1 fights, you can kill everyone if you use those 2 cd’s and you have a power/crit build. (except bunker builds, but you won’t beat those anyways)
Fact is that atm LB ranger has one of the most burst dps and its from 1500 range. If they buff ranged weapons, I’ll end up 2 shotting people…

I don’t get what OP is trying to say. What is bloodlust? Is it the weapon rune that gives you power with each kill?

Do you guys really believe that dps (ranged) ranger needs a buff?!

Dps LB rangers are one of the most dangerous classes in WvW (small scale wise. Zergs require no skill or thinking). You can burn almost everything in less than 7 seconds from 1500m range, while having a good 12 seconds of zero-ish damage taken. On top of that, you can stealth-finish someone with LB#3, and escape too many situations either with swoop or sword #2

Decklan.7540:

Have to wait and see how it will function.

I’m hoping it will be a short duration aoe centered around the pet that puts on 4 or more seconds of reveal. If it’s tied to the pet actually hitting the thief, then I think there are far too many ways to mess it up, making it an extremely risky utility to slot as it could be easily countered and wasted by the ranger.

I wouldn’t use it if it functions like the two ways you mentioned. I think it will be like:

- Once you hit sic ‘em, pet gets buffs, and the thief imediatelly gets 3-4 seconds of ’revealed’.

Although the skill will become a really good stealth-class counter, if the revealed lasts as long as sic ’em skill (10 secs.)

Chris.3290:

Warriors are the best long-distance sprinters but several classes have faster gap closers.

Nop. A Greatsword/sword-warhorn Ranger is.

Swoop —-→ weapon swap —-→ #2sword’s skill (with camera usage) —-—> #5 warhorn’s skill (swiftness), and all that with 25% run speed signet.

Kalan.9705:

The fact you need to grind for years to do masteries, unless you are hardcore playtime and regularly transfer servers to the current wxp train seems ridiculously elitist. It’s bad enough the pve grinder creep is ruining WvW balance a little more every 2 weeks, without wvw adding it’s own promise breaking grinds. Most of all alt play is completely punished with the per character implementation.

It’s hard to see any future in playing when there is no chance of ever catching up, and the alt longevity has been removed from the game with charbound wxp making alts completely handicapped and detrimental to trying to keep in sight of the vertical power grinds.

All the masteries, from stuff you spend rank points to, have to do with the PvE aspect of WvW. With the exception of the last point in two tiers.

Also complaining about elitist stuff in this game?! really?! You can get full exotic gear the moment you hit 80 on your alt, with just gold. That will allow you to do pretty much everything the game has to offer. In Spvp, you can be awesome while your character’s real level is 2.

The only thing in the game that requires time and some serious work to do, is geta good amount of agony resistance, and legendary weapons. And even those two, can be aquired 90% solo.

I’m not elitist, and definatelly not a hardcore player. Although I can easily say that this game is one of the most casual friendly games on the MMO market atm. Heck, in other popullar mmo’s, you need months, to grind only the gear of your character, let alone all the other stuff. (I’m not saying it’s good system, I’m just doing a comparison.)

If the reveal is 10 secs (sic ‘em duration), I’ll swap to it every time i see a thief.

If it’s 3-4 secs then not sure.

CMstorm.8679:

But is it worth it to use Signet of Stone with the active effect + “Protect me” for a 12 sec endure pain, or using Signet of the Wild to gain stability?

Depends what you’re doing. In pve i find protect me to be kinda useless, because the pet is going to be in low-ish health many many times. You need to swich pets and throw some heals from time to time to keep ’em alive.

WvW, i tend to solo/small group roam most of the time, and i use signet of stone, Quick, z. and signet of hunt. The 25% speed is awesome, and the attack of oportunity (150% boost) on next him, makes long range shot going for 6k in some situations. (I run in full berserker glass cannon build)

I swap to “protect me” only when fighting backstab thieves. I don’t think it’s needed against other classes.

There are like 28935764387562 posts/threads out there about beginner rangers, builds, playstyles and tips.

From this update I want people to stop crying, learn how to play their classes, 500 gold, 12k gems, an exclusive new awesome outfit available only to me, the title “World Saviour” and a rock n roll power-slide for finisher.

Please?

I play 30/25/15 and its fun. People dying before they realise what’s going on. It reminds me my hunter from Lotro looong ago ;P

The only class that poses serious threat is backstab thieves. I can kill the n00by ones, but good thieves are impossible atm. Even though you might be able to eventually run away from them, you can’t kill them. This will change though when sic ’em gets changed. 10 secs of non stealth will destroy backstab thieves.

Also always run away from bunker builds. The good ones won’t go down, but in most situations you can escape.

PS: just had a 6.4 Long range shot on a ranger lol

Something small and not overpowered.

Zhaitan

Kasama.8941:

Stow triggers Mighty Swap and Vigorous Training, if you get into combat while the pet is stowed. It can put your pets health back to 100%, when you come out of combat. If you’re doing a jumping puzzle, it gets rid of the pet so it doesn’t block your visibility. And when you go past a ledge, it makes sure your pet isn’t left behind.

This

I would put natural healing as BM last trait. It is huge surv. boost to your pet and heals you as well. I would also add Sic ’em instead of quick. z.

But overall it is good build. 30 BM rules ;P

Why do people play rangers if they do not want pets?

Players tend to ‘hate’ rangers because there are A LOT bad rangers. People going with glass cannon builds in WvW, die from a thief in seconds and cry on forum. Or going with Longbow in dungeons with bad traits.

I would say that ranger requires some skill and thinking to be played well.

For example in one hand you have those who believe that they can’t do anything solo in wvw, and on the other hand you have rangers roaming solo, charging in 5 man groups, getting a kill and run away with all the weapon utillity.

Heiltdo.2891:

I have a ranger and a thief.
It takes me 3 key strokes to take 40-70% of someones HP with thief,
To do that with ranger i need over 10 seconds, swap weapons and get lucky.

Ranger sacrifices traits, utilities and buffs to make the pet worth something, and they dont give anything back.

I’m hoping Oct 15th patch will fix some of the issues we have been having, specially with the kittenty sword autoattack.

Having 30 points to BM is a huge dps and survivability boost to your pet, and a very good survivability/healing to the player.

Anyways, reading these forums, I get the impression that 90% of the rangers going to either pvp or pve with 0 BM traits, glass cannon builds, and typical Longbow/shortbow. Well no surprise why you guys get massacred by anyone.

Chopps.5047:

So your logic is that because (literally) 7 people on the forums don’t mind where ranger is but 100,000 think it needs help, anet listens to the vocal 7?

Your first mistake is thinking that ANET devs seriously consider profession forums for balance. They clearly use data, watch film of pro games, and do analytics. You have to be reasonable.

If people are able to do stuff (and there are more than enough), then everyone should be able to do it as well. There is no “pro player, I can’t reach anywhere near that” in this game. The game mechanics are simple. You have 10 skills only, with a weapon swap. There is no gear gap at all. And you have to go through 80 levels to learn your class. I would kinda understand this in a game where there is huge gear gap and skillset, where you don’t stand a chance no matter how good you are. But having this issue here is …

So obviously you are doing something wrong if you can’t solo anything in WvW.

PS: I’m not saying that the ranger does not need buff in PvE, I’m referring to doom n gloom posts about EVERYTHING.

Just a question to the rangers that run high level fracts/dungs.

How do you manage keeping the pet alive when going with 0 BM traits?

I’m level 74 atm on ranger, but even with 30 BM traits, in boss fights, the pet can die if I’m not too carefull or simply unlucky. I feel if i go with a glassy dps build (0 BM) the pet is going to die straight away lol

QueenHysteria.1084:

In WvsW don’t even try to solo because you wont make it when a Thief catches you and just drains your life like it’s no big deal.

Stopped reading there. You obviously have no clue what you’re talking about and just crying. I’ve seen videos of rangers taking on groups of 4-5 people, getting a kill and run away. (And it didn’t took me long to find the videos also). Change spec/playstyle or simply class.

:)

I wouldn’t say beastmaster’s bond is bad 100% of the time. It is actually usefull for open world stuff and WvW roaming solo/small group.

Yes it could definatelly use some improvement. Although I totally agree ranger has SO MANY bad traits.