Right now my current build I use marauder with Durability runes. trinkets are all berserker except for one cavalier ring for toughness. As for weapons I just use berserker mainly to keep damage. traits are simple marksman,survival and druid. Marksman is the best for dps and is kinda a must to be a melee ranger/any ranger. following that skirmishing/beast master are your best choices for secondary that or nature magic for more tankiness. As for your defense use Survival. it is great for condition cleanse and with Bark skin it will make you hard to kill. But if you have the Xpac. I suggest trying druid with either with survival, and marksman or trying druid with beast master(mainly for the shout rework.)and marksman. At the end of it all just play around with an online skill builder really to find what you want. hope this helped
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Hello Friends! I finally got a few 1vX fights recorded and decided to post them. This is still inspired by Gw Fox so go give his channel a look! He is pretty great anyway see you guys next time!
GW Fox’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/cooperjoe234
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrp5ReZ4ORc
The build: http://goo.gl/bXo0Mj
Next time you try to share a build you should link the build in here.
As for your build, I do have to agree that there is just not enough condi removal especially if you are playing a melee build. The reason I would not use much condi removal when playing would be because I can kite, like Staff/Longbow gameplay. For a melee build I would definitely use abit more condi clear, replacing your Protect Me with Signet of Renewal for example when facing condi specs.
The Build does have condition removal while not enough. Most classes only try and pump out 1 or two types of conditions. The build is fine for going up against condition specs I just Switch out signet of stone for signet of renewal. It is about timing when to use the signet that is the big part. add that in with Druid Clarity with CA and just switching back to normal form real quick conditions can never stay on for long doing much harm (minus like a 1v3 and its all condi people X.x). If you are wanting the build’s address here(http://goo.gl/6AxrkU) Most people do not really like to take an extra step to go to another place to get the build any way. Which I can understand
I personally thought the amount of condi clear was fine, but as many on the forums know I have a habit of playing with significantly less condi clear than everyone else does. I find dodging the big condi spike skills to be more important.
I greatly agree with this statement. The only class hard to dodge is necromancer’s wells and also Aoe affects. Which is why most will go to that for their case and point. Anyone can have a good build if they know how to play it right. I have a friend who plays melee ranger and wins against most condition specs just by evades alone and using his signet at the right time he does not even use survival traits only trooper runes and Nature line.
I’m still using a shout build with a normal ranger and I get this kind of pm a lot…
Don’t worry about it man. I get just about the same from people if I am running survival trait line on normal ranger as well. usually because they cannot get me below 90% and I regen Hp back real fast. Play what you want to play and enjoy it!
Next time you try to share a build you should link the build in here.
As for your build, I do have to agree that there is just not enough condi removal especially if you are playing a melee build. The reason I would not use much condi removal when playing would be because I can kite, like Staff/Longbow gameplay. For a melee build I would definitely use abit more condi clear, replacing your Protect Me with Signet of Renewal for example when facing condi specs.
The Build does have condition removal while not enough. Most classes only try and pump out 1 or two types of conditions. The build is fine for going up against condition specs I just Switch out signet of stone for signet of renewal. It is about timing when to use the signet that is the big part. add that in with Druid Clarity with CA and just switching back to normal form real quick conditions can never stay on for long doing much harm (minus like a 1v3 and its all condi people X.x). If you are wanting the build’s address here(http://goo.gl/6AxrkU) Most people do not really like to take an extra step to go to another place to get the build any way. Which I can understand
Everyone has a different play style and a different way to handle different classes of the game. While some may kite the enemy, others may take a more head on approach. Not all builds can be great at everything. My build may be able to tank a few shots from heavy hitting classes , but if not played right it cannot handle heavy condition based classes. Reading the comments from you guys allows not just me but others understand the ranger class as a whole. Thank you all for leaving comments or viewing the video I love reading Ideas/suggestions being typed out by you guys. I’m not the best player nor am I the worst I am just some guy who makes half way decent YouTube videos, and reading your guys comments/suggestions are really great to read some days!
Not to be disrespectful or anything but this isn’t exactly ground breaking… Minus the mix/matched stat sets I’ve been running the exact same setup in pvp except I use SotW for the stability and damage spike and sometimes take staff over sword/x, depends on if I need the mobility and projectile blocking or not
But overall its a great build, I enjoy it greatly in pvp… You just gotta time that enlargement trait properly or it will kick your out of CA and completely empty it like it did in the video at 2:03…
With that said your a really good ranger, hope I don’t run into you lol
Also saw in the description about the tiger or bristleback… In pvp I always go BB cause tiger dies so easy… in constant 1v1 or 1v2 tiger may fair better and provides more consistent damage via lower cooldown non reflectable F2’s that also plays to your traits.
Its nice to read that this builds concept is not all that new/newish! I don’t use staff mainly due to its damage output, and while the mobility is good it lacks evades for me. I prefer to be in the Middle/Melee of most fights. I mostly use SotW trait for when I need to stomp a player mostly. Its more for Defense than offense for me. As for Tiger and BB I prefer pets that are more mobile and can get to the target faster. while BB has good Range and damage. They are really,really, slow getting from one place to another. Also a smart player can dodge/reflect a BB’s f2 at the right time. Most medium classes will start to use soldiers/ (insert Defensive armor here) because of how strong it is. This is a meta shift I have noticed and some what like. At the end of the day Everyone has a different play style from others;this just so happens to be mine,and I just like to share it with the ranger community and hear/read feedback like this.
No offense, but, this is an extremely sub par or mediocre build, you have a total of like, 3 condi cleanses between shouts, that you can’t really spam, and DC. Any decent player would rip you apart.
Stopped watching at the scrapper/Daredevil fight, that should have been tough to handle with just scrapper alone, that pretty much gave a window into the caliber of player you were facing.
Honestly mate, I just do this cause I think its fun. The build is strong against some but not all Condi specs I agree. But, it can sustain for the most part. The build traits are not Ground breaking. Most medium armor classes do either run soldiers or some other form with toughness/vitality. I just try and find something I have not seen or used yet. I thank you for the opinionated voice. If you have any Ideas for the build to be improved or other builds in general please P.m. me.
This build is really fun to play, It has 3k armor and can get up too 9k to 7k critical hits I hope you guys like it !
Nice vid man, some build suggentions:
I think you should change glyph of empowerment to glyph of equality, it made alot of sense in PotatoVeg build because he’s using both the druid rune and the glyph trait, the low CD of this glyph is his source of condi removal(outside DC), also the healing bonus from this glyph stack with his rune(6) bonus and his high healing power for crzy spike healing. Your build take adiffrent approach with food+hoealbark+natural stride to fight thouse annoying necros( very high reduce time on freez and immob, very nice idea) and your healing power is low so no crazy synegie here. Also, potato is using his boar for extra CC source, you can use the equality to fill this role.
2) Consider to change guard with SoS/SOTW, potato is using 2 relatively tanky pets with strong heal support for them, you are using a bird which cant take any punishment, I know you think its another source for might, but i dont think you are getting much value out of it.
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Kinda enjoyed your old Traps/bleed/Lb build videos, why are you afraid?
Thanks man! I know bird is not all that handy for taking damage, but It is still my favorite pet for the chill and also 5k to 6k critical. and I realize the condition vulnerability. That is why I rely on dagger/sword to avoid the nasty condition burst. If I was to use the druid’s condition clear/blind it would not help in WvW much(IMO), But more for Spvp. The build has a somewhat low Condition cleanse. But that is why I must be easy on using druid form that clears 13 conditions. If anything the build is meant to face tank the conditions as long as I could possibly take off poison first. The build was meant to be intentionally low on the support side and more on the caster’s side even though that was not what its made for…I like glyph of equality, but, I like glyph of empowerment more for the extra 10% to damage on top of my 25% I get from remorseless. Really it is to “fight fire with fire” in a way. and even though I may be weak to a TON of conditions they first have to hit me and then catch me due to my high mobility.
I haven’t seen you around here so far but I started to like your approach ever since the very beginning.
Logic behind your choices is solid and I have to say … this is something I could go through again.
Enjoy the +1 from me. There’s not a lot of people who got one from me but you well deserved it.
thanks you
You fighting on the edge at the beginning with sword made me cringe
That right there is why I don’t use sword – lol. I’m pretty sure I would have managed to leap to my death.
Quick fights because you are hitting between 5 and 7k on some of those targets. Ouch!
Good job, I like it. Fun and see some good management of pet and your attacks. In my opinion, melee rangers are more difficult to play and master. You made it look easy. Kudo’s
Thanks man If you haven’t already check out some of my other videos. I got up to a 9k critical hit on a player on my first roaming video.
Second Vids out guys sorry for it being shorter but the fights were pretty quick for most of them. I hope you enjoy
Hey guys! I decided to upload a fun match from spvp anyway I hope you guys enjoy
*sorry for anyone clicking on two posts… Im not used to posting on this forum…
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Realy enjoyed your vid.
Does action camera helps ypur play style or just a personal preference?
Yes It helps me a lot since I do not use AOE markers. Ranger has the least In my opinion of Markers. Thus it makes it perfect for action camera. I am able to aim my leaps better, though as you saw in the water fighting, I struggle to keep a leap back properly. So really it comes down to practice and trying different things. Which for me was action camera, trying to aim my jump while holding right click was hard but now I can quickly change my angles and leaps.
I hope this helps you and thanks for the compliment!
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