Ranger - Power Survival

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Direct damage and Control

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Overview

A PvP Power Ranger build meant to win smaller skirmishes. Can be used by F2P players as well.

Skill Bar

Longbow

Greatsword

Utility

Slot Changes

Healing skill:

If you do not own any of the expansions, take the following pets:

• Raven for the first pet.
• Owl for the second.

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Specializations

Variants

• Take if you want to focus more on Longbow bursts.

Equipment

Longbow

Sigil

Sigil

Greatsword

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Equipment Variants

Sigils

Greatsword

• over - the build already has a fairly high critical hit chance and plenty of trait synergy that pushes it to 100% from time to time, but if that's not enough for you and want to make sure that your opening burst always crits then feel free to pick Intelligence.

Usage

General

• should be used just before leaving spawn to grant AoE Swiftness to the team through . In combat, to get the most out of the fact that it can grant you extra boons, try to use it if your pet has Protection and Quickness. Swapping pets in the middle of channeling your healing skill is something you should aim for.

• Dodging applies Protection, which also heals thanks to the trait .

• Survival skills cure 2 conditions and grant Fury. (if taken) can cleanse 4, because it triggers another Survival skill from .

• Use for mobility.

• has many uses.
  • It can be used offensively for the Quickness, most notably to boost , , or Greatsword autos for downed cleave.
  • Defensively by keeping your pet swap ready in case you need to cleanse 2 conditions.
  • Alternatively the Superspeed can help you escape damage or chase down targets while on Greatsword.

• Pet swapping acts as a Blast finisher thanks to . Being instant, you can have Smokescale place a under you (even while you're stunned), and swap pets for AoE stealth.

• is the easiest way to gain stealth in this build, but if the projectile misses then it won't be applied. To reduce the chance of that happening (and considering how the damage of this skill is horrible) you should fire it at pets, mesmer clones, and other AI whenever possible. Alternatively, use it to quickly get rid of Blind or Aegis because it's the fastest projectile on this weapon.

• is extremely useful against direct damage spikes, but you have to use it proactively and sometimes even predict when the burst is coming. Use it too late and it's wasted, too soon and your opponent can just delay its plan until the signet runs out.

• Smokescale's F2 is a useful combo field:
  • Projectile finishers like and could Blind your target, increasing your sustain.
  • or the trait proc from could be used to stack Stealth. While your kit isn't the best for stacking stealth, dropping this field before a fight for your team to execute combos in is generally a good idea.

Doing damage

• Using before a burst makes it less likely to get interrupted whilst also increasing your damage.

• Most of the build revolves around burst combos and just surviving / using fillers inbetween.

The Longbow burst combo is rather simple:

1. CC people with
2. Optional - get Quickness from either or
3. Immediately follow up with while you have Fury.

Greatsword burst combo:

1. Already in combat, swap pets to trigger which grants Fury and Quickness. Fury gives you for increased damage.
2. Use
3. your target for CC, hopefully a proc, and to refresh Maul.
4. again.

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