Guild Wars 2

Longbow main utility is actualy its many cooldown and effect. once they burned out you should switch to your off weapon whataver that may be.

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Even if you run the most straight forward of builds for a ranger, in order to be valued for a dungeon (and this goes for anything, not just ranger) you need to learn to work in groups. The damage output you do must be absolutely consistent, so if you need to swap weapons in combat to better support your party get it done. Use AoE heals and use your pet wisely. A good ranger can turn the tide and in fact most rangers, when played well, are typically the last man standing in a dungeon, thanks to your pet and how the ranger combat system works.

That being said, there are tons of people out there who, despite their best intentions, have realized that most ranger pugs just suck at group coordination. This is not just about how much damage you do, how fast you do it, etc… it’s how you do it and if you do it good (be it condition damage, DPS, or pet DPS) then no party will think twice before inviting you over.

So if you encounter a sad excuse for a ranger, please teach them how it’s done, rid the pug base of lakcluster rangers, it’s not the ranger that’s making it tough for all of us, it’s the player behind the ranger AND them ignorant fools who write ‘no rangers allowed’ in their LFG.

I totaly approve of what you said there. as for where longbow stands its not about spamming the range based auto attack but to abuse its many cooldown. Barrage rapid fire and hunter shot actualy deals quite a good load of very usefull effect and in the case of barrage a very good aoe dps once all those CDS are off however you might want to switch weapon in order to keep doing your maximum. One cannot and should not judge a weapon on its auto attack alone

That player generaly not worth my while… i easily do my 6k+ dps from my build Altrought sword has exelent personnal damage it isnt actualy a very good multi targeting weapon. I deal most of my dps from pet having 25 stack of might due to multi hits. Also axe has the lovely ability to bounce multiple time making it easy to do 4k+ everytime you strike and score multiple critical hit within the time of 1 blow in a multi target fight (at least 2 target)

If of course i was a ranger 100% based on personnal damage like you id spec sword but my build is focused on making as many critical hits as possible within the shortest amount of time, making 1 hit every second from spamming sword auto attack simply will not do. This make axe /horn and longbow somewhat of the best combination for that purpose

Nothing personnal but i think you should just leave melee to the plate guy with 2600 armor + wich does about the same damage if not above yours. I guess what make you choose that spec is the bonus dodge from swordplay. Altrought you do a lovely 2k crit or so about near it (1600 damage per hit in heart of the mist with full zerker? Its good but i dont think ill go melee just for a small speed output when i need to reduce my might stack gain by such a ammount) per auto attack and if lucky a little more from the aoe slash i likely outdps you from having my pet score 3k to 6ks criticals while yours is hardly actualy stated to deal decent damage (having -300 on every stat for the pet does make a serious defrence on its damage critical rate and survivability).

horn actual purpose in this build is the multi hit bird strike not the buffing shout altrought i guess having swiftness might stack aoe heal on spring and fury is actualy nice

altrought condition do can deal a lot of damage the pet has by himself quite a lot of self regeneration. Of course if they are poisoned its another story but even then you can use your healing spring to heal them back by a fair amount… long as the pet can survive 15 second or above this wont be a problem. The other alternative is to simply switch the Jag for a tempory tanking pet such a wolf for the battle duration (adapting yourself is part of behing a player a build cant be effective everywhere… aint like ill use my 2h sword on my warrior when fighting lupicus will I? it goes the same way for petmaster go with the flow!) Most battle wont require you to remove your Jag however and having the wolf or the drake instead for a battle duration wont be this terrible. Ill do the tower of nightmare and check out about this condition boss you speaking off but so far i never had tanking problem on my pets save for Alpha wich litteraly is pet unfriendly and cover the map with red circle of doom… pet will survive 2 wave before dying in this case but again you can still do your personnal damage and it is just ONE fight amonst many

I dont have actual problem when it comes to taking hits because i take next to none… i spam hunter shot as often as possible to reduce my visibility time and redirect foe to other target, Altrought you may assume that because i have a longbow i spend a lot of time at range im actualy moving across the field from longrange to shortrange depending on my weapon. Condition damage indeed is the build weakness but since PVE monster hardly ever do any you wont actualy be the victim of some crazy 25 bleed stacking poison burn effect like youd be in pvp. Having a good self healing effect it only comes down to behing able to avoid serious nuking damage. Of course you could always revisit the build by reducing your crit rate and personnal damage to the profit of some toughtness or vitality if you feel you die to quickly. As a general rule however it is quite easy to stay alive due to the permanant regeneration buff and the healing combo zone from horn explosion/healing spring.

Of course you can always swap hunter signet for a defrent skill depending on the situation. I however favor my extreme movement speed when it comes to evading altrought since i use it as a damage dealer i more then often do not benefit from its effect. Any of the spirits can replace this spell and if necesary it is perfectly possible to swap rampage as one for the spirit elite wich will heal everyone like crazy. Mainly because weither or not you have rampage as one your pet will always have a very high number of might stack as well as permanant fury

The main benefit from rampage as one behing the free might stack as well as the fury effect you only realy gain from stability and your own 25 might stack wich can push the pet damage very high. Since not every fight is about burning down a boss to the ground you may revise your elite at any time. Ive found the healing spirit to be quite useful when fighting party wide damage boss.

I realy dont know why people complain this much about ranger… my stronguest character is a beast master ranger, When i need damage coupled along with a lot of buff self and partywide I know what to play.

Altrought i guess i do could use a +50% damage reduction on aoe attack from boss for pets so that i dont have to constantly swap at the last second in order to make it dodge those nasty 1 shot red circles that spawn under alpha in crucible of eternity. People are so focused on the ranger itself that they all ignore what pet can do.

BM build is good but i wouldnt use it on pvp mainly because of its somewhat weak crowd control resiliance. I run that in pve zone such as high level fractal of the mist because lets face it you wont hit over 10 target per second in pvp.

and before you ask yea this thing is runned with berserker equipment

dont know why the edit option isnt there but i think altrougtht sword has exelent dps Ranger was meant for ranged damage and as such a longbow and an axe/horn weapon set with battle sigil as well as a bloodlust sigil on horn is actualy way better for skirmishing specialist especialy when it comes to stacking multihit

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Based on the ability to spam critical strikes and give permanant fury to both you and your pet. This build is designed to be both durable and dps effective

basicaly… its all about critical damage there

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Based on the ability to spam critical strikes and give permanant fury to both you and your pet. This build is designed to be both durable and dps effective. The pet while largely underestimated and misunderstood can be a powerfull weapon when used right and this build is all about maximising both your and his effectiveness

Point is to spam multi strike moves (aka barrage and hunter calls) in order to do as many hit as possible in the smallest time window in order to keep pet heavy on might while swapping weapon. Since all effect you gain are also shared to your pet your pet always will benefit from the regeneration you gain from healing spring as well as the fury might and swiftness stacks gained from weapon swap.

This build is aimed for pve ranger purpose

Power bm? bad? hardly… im a critical damage based BM build and my pet does crits of 2k to 6k quite easily. I run longbow/axe-horn and stack criticals hits like crazy. Keep in mind your pet direct physical damage is related to power and as such if you realy want to run an actualy pet damaging BM build you should also have power in your build. Now now of course you could run rampager that has both power condition damage and critical rate (cats do bleed on critical strike after all) But since shortbow realy wont do that many hit per second like longbow or axe can i dont recommand stacking condition damage. In average i do minimum 4k dps from both my pet and my own damage when actualy not using skills to begin with. if i start stacking might then i can easily do serious concurence to any other critical damage based build. Dont even get me the excuse of pet dying easily its all about controling your pets and knowing when to witraw/switch it in order to prevent its death. Red circles? just swap and its just as if it dodged the blow.

I must admit im having a hard time with bosses like alpha who spam red circles of doom that one shot players every 3 second but as a general rule pet will hardly ever die if played right, you just got to actualy care and manage it.

We due for a return in of various guild wars 1 pet back into the game… give me back the rainbow and black pheonix. Maybe as a reward for finishing story mode?

many old game pet also disapeared in guild wars 2 such as the white and red tiger the lion as well as the black wolf and the Jahai rat pet. we could also use some new bird variety

Signet of the beast master actualy shouldnt be removed but replaced elsewhere. why not place it down to the beast mastery trait line and give people a serious reason to spec 30 point into it? Beast mastery is severely underestimated and deserve some serious love because of the dedication and skills of those few player actualy able to use it right.

Longbow is actualy my main single targeting weapon but barrage actualy is a very powerfull damage tool when it comes to total dps. When i need a more permanant multi targeting i swap to my axe and watch it bounce for 4k+ an auto attack. My whole gear is zerker based and i have maximum critical damage. Since my whole build is based on spamming multi strike in order to stack critical hits my pet is nearly constantly above 12 stack of might minimum as well as fury so it deals dps around 2k minimum per auto attack to 3500+ per attack up to above 6k with a skill. Longbow is both a usefull aoeing weapon as well as a tool for survivability… when focused just use hunter shot and stealth out.

Longbow and axe should always be considered as main beast master spec tools due to their innate ability to spamming tons of criticals at the same time. It doesnt need to be heavy damage critical whole point is to do as many hit as possible within a small time period in order to stack might to the maximum.

point of the whole thing is to spam as many possible critical hit within the smallest period of time in order to stack up pet might to the cap

This is mainly because of people behing closed to the idea of pet class. I run beast mastery ranger as well as minion master necro in fractals above lvl 30 and people never say a thing… mainly because my dungeon master title reminds them that I know what in hell im doing not to mention im rarely the one to get downed first and do my part on the dps chart having my pet score 3ks critical and my bow / axe-horn do the aoe and physical long range dps better then any other darn class would (eat that rifle warrior). Ranger deserve more respect and love then this. especialy for responsible and truly talented pet user. Managing a pet in order to keep it alive and yet efficient is way harder then playing some kittened warrior spamming hundred blade every now and then. I dont spec into marksmanship (0 25 0 15 30) but i provide constant fury swiftness and regeneration to the whole team as well as condition cure wich is more then good.