My current build has me using both the longbow and shortbow. The longbow is for sudden long range burst and to chase down those who are running away.

Shortbow is for up close and personal attacks.

Hi Everyone~
I just started a ranger yesterday
and i has one curiosity regarding about pet..
is ranger pet can enable auto attack rather than press F1?
Even pressing F1 is not 100% responsive at times...

It auto attack the target you hit if you don't press F1 unless you put it to passive mode.

If it's on guard, it'll attack the nearest mob.

I had reached 80. Anybody can advise what karma armor to buy as I have less than 1 gold or do I have to craft my own armor?

Dunno about karma armor since the ones I see that worth to get for the stats is sold at Orr for 42k karma points per piece.

But if you wanna buy rare grade Lv80 fullset armors, might cost you around 40s per piece. That's around 2g 40s for full set.

If you wanna craft rare grade armors yourself, you either farm 90 vials of potent blood or buy it straight from TP for a pro rate of 1s 60c per piece. That's about 1g 44s just for the bloods, not inclusive other mats.

Not too sure if this makes sense but I'd avoid karma armor. If you don't have much coin, blue grade armor should tide you over till you can afford better armor. Rare grade (gold) armor is pretty cheap as well. 40-50s x 6 which you can farm in less than a day of game play. Those will be good enough till you can get better.

Cressalve can craft armor/weapons so you can look for him for that. He'll help you out if you can provide him the mats, talk to him and work something out. Cheaper than buying gear from TP since he's craftin git.

I am turning poorer trying farm mob from dying, level 75-80 map are quite deserted and hard to do events. The drop is bad even i am eating peach tart with 26% magic find.

Never travel through Orr all alone, it's suicide act Go with at least 1 friend if you are exploring or farming in Orr. Those risen sure is annoying as hell.

EDIT: might want to drink some anti undead potion. plus 10% dmg to undeads and lessen dmg from them for 8%.

This post has been edited by cressalve: Sep 14 2012, 03:19 PM

Wow, this is something new to me. I had never seen a potion. I was thinking they spawn fast so it's good for farming but Undead are really poor mob with nothing to loot.

Any good places for farming alone?

Farming for rangers eh? Best bet for survivability and massive loot drops, join zerg rush doing DE Orr luls, with magic find stat you can get yellow and green equips quite easy.

Im like on my shortbow so far. Trying to make a pve build but still low lvl.

Sword is gooding too with Quickening Zephyr.

BTW if i want do burst damage what should i invest in? Precision or Critical condition? I tried with power build and it seems the damage is consistent most of the time

This post has been edited by Mr.Beanster: Sep 14 2012, 07:43 PM

try precision + condition damage . bleeding and poison are scary ~~~
equip lv 5 trait on skirmishing for Sharpened Edges

I will try on that build later ^. Meanwhile im looking to tame a couple of pet. My bear die very fast especially in dungeon

what are the good sigil+runes combination for longbow ranger?

What lvl is the Polar Bear? I want to find him. Love bear can tank for me. Used pet like hound and stalker kena gang bang by few monster already die within few second

Pets are broken. I consider pets in GW2 to be more of a liability rather than an asset.
They die way too fast, and they often get in your hair when trying to leave combat.

This post has been edited by gaeria84: Sep 16 2012, 10:21 PM

Well my brown bear tank pretty good. Other pets die very fast when facing couple of mobs. Now im trying to get Lynx. I heard it is by far the best pet in dealing damage in game.

Anyway what is the trait skills build you guys using? Im going to aim for 20/30/10/0/10.
Shortbows and Greatsword is so awesome

o.o
i am loving the pets...
they dun really die fast as u have both range and melee pets together wit pet swaps...
the variety of pets would help u adjust ur playstyle...

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Added on September 17, 2012, 12:13 amshortbow + axe/ torch condition build...
gear is power, pre and cond...
20/25/25/0/0 or 15/25/25/0/5

This post has been edited by evofantasy: Sep 17 2012, 12:13 AM

Testing 30/30/10 right now.