Ranger - Core Valkyrie

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Direct damage and Sustain

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on April 14, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A PvP Power Ranger build meant to win smaller skirmishes. Can be used by F2P players as well, albeit with weaker pets.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Axe/Dagger

Utility

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Equipment

Greatsword

Sigil

Sigil

Axe

Dagger

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Equipment Variants

Sigils

• Sigil of Energy over Sigil of Cleansing - if condition pressure isn't a problem.

Usage

General

• Use Swoop for mobility.

• If you're really desperate for some Swiftness while roaming between capture points, consider using "Protect Me!" for the Resounding Timbre proc.

• Zephyr's Speed has many uses.
  • It can be used offensively for the Quickness and guaranteed critical strike from Remorseless through Wilderness Knowledge synergy.
  • 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 Clarion Bond. Being instant, you can have Smokescale place a Smoke Cloud under you (even while you're stunned), and swap pets for AoE Stealth.

Doing damage

• provides no additional crit chance, which means your sustained damage is going to be rather negligible. The build is all about small burst windows joined together by filler attacks.

• There are 2 ways to obtain 100% crit chance for your next few attacks:
  • Sigil of Intelligence procs when swapping weapons.
  • Obtaining Fury. With the combination of Remorseless and Precise Strike, gaining Fury refreshes Opening Strike and Opening Strike has a 100% crit chance.

• Fury sources in the build:
  • Survival skills thanks to Wilderness Knowledge, including the instant cast Quickening Zephyr.
  • Every CC skill via Two-Handed Training - Hilt Bash being the main one in the build.
  • Pet swap also grants Fury.

• Best skills to use while you have 100% crit chance:
  • Winter's Bite on Axe.
  • Maul on Greatsword.

• Hilt Bash recharges Maul if it hits. Maul ⇒ Hilt Bash ⇒ Maul is the optimal burst sequence with 3 charges of Sigil of Intelligence, assuming you want to do the most damage in the least amount of time.
  • Technically you could start off with Swoop or any other skill before the chain. Hilt Bash procs Opening Strikes and makes your next attack a guaranteed critical strike, so it's possible to chain 4 crits when combined with the sigil.

• Ricochet is the best filler skill in the build. It can be spammed from a safe distance, does decent damage and builds some Might stacks between two bursts.

• Set your pets to avoid combat and manage them manually. This is especially important for Jacaranda, because the first attack it casts is an AoE lightning strike that does damage in set intervals. Ideally you want the pet to begin attacking once the target is immobilized from one of your skills to get maximum value out of it.

Sustain

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

• Survival skills cure 2 conditions and grant Fury. Troll Unguent cleanses 4, because it triggers another Survival skill from Child of Earth.

• Entangle is both a defensive and offensive skills. You can either root enemies into your bursts or stop them from chasing you. The condi cleanse from trait synergy can also be useful.

• Swapping weapons cleanses 1 condition from Sigil of Cleansing.

• Both sets have means of avoiding damage:
  • Counterattack on GS.
  • Stalker's Strike on Axe/Dagger.

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