Think that this is the 5k thread i read about zerker gear, zerker build, etc. The diference between zerk and clerics/pvt/shaman, etc is that you relly on active defences (dodge, blind aegis, etc) not passive defenses (hight armor and hp). As many have said before me it’s a high risk vs a high reward play style.
P.S: Can’t count the zerk parties that failed at lupi because they didn’t know the mechanics (dodge grubs, the kick, and avoid the dome in p3)
For Pve open world, the usual dungeons and low level fractal, you can go full zerk (low level <30). For 40 and above i tent to throw in a piece or two of knights/sentinel. As for weapons/pets i constantly swap them, but the gs is always there (the evade on auto attack is too good to miss on higher lvl fractals). Just don’t take the path of the almighty bearbow, because in all honesty hey suck
My guild has been doing this but in PvP, inside a custom arena (foefire’s middle point works best for the playfield and goal posts). I can be a blast playing a match with 4 teams facing eachother
LOL, this dungeon isn’t too hard. I can say it is average, only the last boss is a bit dificult (wiped a few times at him). Otherwise i enjoy it and i find it fun (you need to think not face roll kill everything). More content that requires grey matter to use
You wonder why people still go longbow when you stack in a dungeon
Why does the bear seem to be a favorite
You shed laughing tears when you read the wvw topic Ranger pets are OP
Well just my two cents:
1) Les pet focused/oriented traits – we have plenty of traits that are focused on the pet and not on the ranger. either remove/merge/rethink them or make pets more survivable
2) Pet survivability in heavy aoe – i think everyone has this problem, even with your pet on passive it still get’s melted by aoe, and becoming a dead weight
3) Sword auto attack root – please fix this, it’s anoying as hell.
4) Pet responsiveness – this will be fixed in the feature patch so let’s wait and see what happens
5) Back to traits – most of our traits are all over the place (first example is martial mastery in ws – wth is it doing there? i think it would be better placed in marksmanship or skirmishing)
Well this is what buges me the most, the rest i say it’s pretty ok and good, or workable with (with much more effort though)
Bears – Knockdown on their maul (seriously you get hit by a bear and no knockdown??)
– bleeds or weakness/vulnerability
Spiders – more escape methods (like the skill you get in the spider guild rush – move to a area a leav a clone behind)
– some more imobilize, cripple would be nice
– poison on attack or on critical hits
Also the ideea of pet levels is nice. Some gear for pets would be nice also (craftable from all the junk items you get – sider legs broken claws, fangs, etc. and the some ores, gems).
Lol this thread, as a elementalist and ranger i can say that i have no problem with thieves. True the mobility is irritating but it’s not at a unbearable level. Actually the thieves seem weaker than before (my ranger/ele used to be easy prey to them).
If their mobility is something that kittens you out use a bit of a brain and see when he is vulenrable, or when he will use those skills (condi overload + thief stealth will result in a dead thief, just saying / or ranger rapid fire – tracks in stealth, or your pet that will chase the stealthed thief/ on ele earth 4 and 5 with dagger, or air 3) plenty of counters for thief. So i don’t get the qq about something that has been in game from the beginning and has been used for so long, that ppl now how to counter them.
It’s true, rangers seem to suck, bet they aren’t that bad. At first playing with a ranger is easy. Get a bow + bear and pew pew mobs while pet takes the damage. And then you enter your first dungeon and a party members tells you to use a sword+x / great sword and you realize that you don’t have only bows. You see a axe, sword, dagger, torch, great sword and the long and short bows. You try to improve and see that the gs is better than the longbow, the axe auto bounces and with a torch/war horn offhand is pretty nice. you almost overlooked the sword because when you tried it you found yourself jumping all over the place and decided to ignore it. For some time you remain stuck with gs/axe+x sb or lb, then some friends tell you to use the sword. You give it a go and see that it’s good but the root is annoying, but still manageable. By now you probably are 80 and trying to find a build for yourself. You look over the trait lines and wonder why are your traits so all over the place, but manage to crop up something, only to see that it isn’t working that good. You decide to fine tune it, change a trait here and there, a piece of armor/trinket etc. and then you still continue to fine tune it.
The pets sometimes annoy the hell out of you, but you learn to use them. In short the ranger is easy at the surface but to make it work you have a steep learning curve.
