Ranger PvE | Dungeon Axe/Torch, Shortbow | Damage Condition PvE Ranger

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Summary

This a condition based Ranger build made due to lack of proper inspired or well made builds in the Ranger community. The damage is on par with most other classes and doesn't have much pet reliance.


I. Weapons and Skills

Rabid Axe
  • Weapon Strength: 857-1048
  • Condition Damage: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Toughness: 85
Rabid Torch
  • Weapon Strength: 789-926
  • Condition Damage: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Toughness: 85
Rabid Shortbow
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Condition Damage: 239
  • Precision: 171
  • Toughness: 171
  • Weapon Strength: -
  • Weapon Strength: -
  • Weapon Strength: -
  • Sonic Shriek2¾ 25
    Pet skills. Emit a cone of discordant sonic energy to confuse foes.
    Damage (5x): 305x5Confusion: 5 s (650 damage on skill use)Range: 250
  • Bite¼
    Bite a foe with your jaws.
    Damage: 122Range: 130
  • Chomp½ 20
    Bite a foe and gain health.
    Damage: 240Range: 130
  • Tail Swipe ½ 30
    Attack all surrounding foes with a tail swipe.
    Damage: 647Combo Finisher: BlastRange: 225
  • Ricochet¼
    Bounce your axe between multiple foes.
    Damage: 168Maximum targets: 3Combo Finisher: Projectile (20% chance)Range: 900
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  • Splitblade¾ 6
    Throw a spread pattern of five whirling axes that bleeds foes.
    Damage (5x): 170x5Bleeding: 6 s (1275 damage)Combo Finisher: Projectile (20% chance)Range: 900
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  • Winter's Bite½ 10
    Throw an axe to chill your foe. Your pet's next attack inflicts weakness.
    Damage: 168Chilled: 3 sRange: 900
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  • Throw Torch½ 15
    Throw your torch and burn your foe.
    Damage: 151x2Burning: 6 s (1968 damage)Range: 1,200
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  • Bonfire½ 25
    Set a fire around you, burning foes.
    Duration: 8Damage (8x): 256x8Burning: 3 s (2624 damage)Radius: 240Combo Field: Fire
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  • Healing Spring ½ 30
    Trap. Create a healing spring that heals you, your pet, and your allies. It also cures conditions on allies.
    Healing: 4,920x6Regeneration: 3 s (2340 health)Radius: 240Duration: 15Combo Field: WaterVigor: 5 s
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  • Lightning Reflexes32
    Survival. Evade back with a crack of lightning, dealing damage and gaining vigor.
    Vigor: 10 sDamage: 244Breaks stun
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  • Quickening Zephyr48
    Survival. You and your pet gain quickness and super speed.
    Quickness: 6 sSuper Speed: 6 s
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  • Signet of the Wild½ 60
    Signet Passive: Grants health regeneration to you and your pet.
    Signet Active: Your pet grows larger, dealing more damage and gaining stability.
    Passive effect: 62 healx5Stability: 8 sEnlarged: 8 s Damage Increase: 25%Movement Speed Increase: 50%Duration: 8
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  • “Strength of the Pack!”1 60
    Shout. Rampage with your pet, gaining stability, fury, and swiftness. You and your pet also grant might to each other when you attack.
    x3Stability: 3 s (per pulse)Fury: 20 sSwiftness: 20 sDuration: 20
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Weapon and Skill Details

There are definite variances like opting for warhorn or dagger instead of the torch if another person in your party can apply the burning condition efectively.


II. Traits

Trait Details

The traits provide strong stacking % damage buffs that allow the build to maintain a strong presence. You'll also be rather tanky with your toughness, fast endurance regen, and extra shortbow dodges.


III. Stat Specifics & Effects

Primary Stats

  • Health 18782 (+2860)
  • Vitality 1202 (+286)
  • Armor 2726 (+746)
  • Toughness 1662 (+746)
  • Attack 2289 (+386)
  • Power 1302 (+386)
  • Critical Hit 47% (+47%)
  • Precision 1907 (+991)

Secondary Stats

  • Condition Damage 1187 (+1187)
  • Condition Duration 10% (+10%)
  • Critical Damage 35% (+35%)
  • Damage 987 (+0%)
  • Defense 1064 (+0)
  • Endurance Regeneration 25% (+25%)
  • Experience from Kills 20% (+20%)
  • Ferocity 536 (+536)
  • Healing Power 286 (+286)

Boons

  • Aegis
    Block the next attack.
  • Distortion
    Allows mesmers to evade attacks for some time.
  • Frenzy
    Increases damage taken by 25%. It typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Frosty Armor
    Chills foes that hit you.
  • Fury
    20% critical chance increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Haste
    Regenerate endurance at 50% effectiveness when under the effects of this skill. It's typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Invulnerability
    Prevents the target from taking damage or receiving conditions. It is also placed on rallied players for one second.
  • Might
    X damage per attack increase. Stacks intensity.
  • Protection
    33% damage reduction. Stacks in duration.
  • Quickening Zephyr
    Prevents healing. It typically seen as a mechanic to offset a beneficial effect such as quickness.
  • Quickness
    Makes all skills and actions 50% faster.
  • Regeneration
    Regenerates X health per second. Stacks in duration.
  • Rejuvenation
    Regenerates health. This effect is exclusive to the guardian profession through the Virtue of Resolve.
  • Resistance
    Resistance temporarily negates the affected target of all effects caused by conditions.
  • Retaliation
    Does X damage to an opponent each time they hit you. Stacks in duration.
  • Smiting
    Causes every fifth attack to apply burning. This effect is exclusive to the guardian profession.
  • Stability
    Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, or feared.
  • Stealth
    Allows the user to be invisible to enemy players and avoid being spotted by enemy NPCs.
  • Swiftness
    33% movement speed increase. Stacks in duration.
  • Vigor
    Faster endurance regeneration. Stacks in duration.

Conditions

  • Agony
    Agony is an effect unique to Fractals of the Mists that removes a percentage of the player's health every second and reduces received healing by ~50%.
  • Bleeding
    Bleeding is a stackable condition that deals damage over time.
  • Blind
    Causes the target's next hit to miss instead.
  • Burning
    Inflicts X damage per second. Stacks in duration.
  • Chilled
    Reduces movement speed and skill recharge by 66%. Stacks in duration.
  • Confusion
    Inflicts X damage each time a foe uses skill. Stacks in intensity.
  • Crippled
    Crippled is a condition which decreases movement speed by 50%. Stacks in duration.
  • Fear
    Causes the target to run directly away from the caster.
  • Immobilized
    Immobilized is a condition which prevents movement and dodging. Victims also can't turn. Stacks in duration.
  • Poison
    Inflicts X damage per second. Reduces outgoing heals by 33%. Stacks in duration.
  • Slow
    Slow is a condition that reduces the activation time of skills and abilities.
  • Taunt
    Taunt is a control effect that forces the affected target to run towards the source of taunt with all skills except stun breakers disabled while using their auto-attack skill.
  • Torment
    Deals damage every second; deals additional damage if moving; stacks intensity.
  • Vulnerability
    Increases damage the target takes by 1%. Stacks in intensity.
  • Weakness
    Causes 50% of attacks to be glancing and reduces endurance regeneration by 50%. Stacks in duration.

Control

  • Break Stun
    Stun break is an effect which can break control effects on a character.
  • Daze
    Interrupts and prevents the target from using skills for a period of time.
  • Float
    Forces the affected target(s) to move towards the surface.
  • Knockdown
    Interrupts and causes the foe to be unable to move or use skills for a short duration. Knocked down foes fall to the ground.
  • Launch
    Interrupts and tosses a character into the air.
  • Pull
    Shortens the distance between the user and the foe by drawing one of them to another. If a foe is pulled, this can result in an interrupt.
  • Push
    Physically pushes foes away from the player and interrupts them.
  • Sink
    Forces the affected target(s) to move away from the surface.
  • Stun
    Interrupts, immobilizes, and incapacitates foes for a short duration.
  • Teleport
    Teleport to target location.
  • Teleport
    Teleport (alternatively, flash) is a mechanic that causes the user or target(s) to instantly move from one location to another.

Fields & Finishers

  • Dark Field
    Dark Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Blindness
    Leap Finisher: Blindness
    Projectile Finisher: Life stealing
    Whirl Finsher: Leeching Bolts
  • Ethereal Field
    Ethereal Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Chaos Armor
    Leap Finisher: Chaos Armor
    Projectile Finisher: Confusion
    Whirl Finsher: Confounding Bolts
  • Fire Field
    Fire Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Might
    Leap Finisher: Fire Shield
    Projectile Finisher: Burning
    Whirl Finsher: Burning Bolts
  • Ice Field
    Ice Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Frost Aura
    Leap Finisher: Frost Aura
    Projectile Finisher: Chilled
    Whirl Finsher: Chilling Bolts
  • Light Field
    Light Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Retaliation
    Leap Finisher: Retaliation
    Projectile Finisher: Remove Condition
    Whirl Finsher: Cleansing Bolts
  • Lightning Field
    Lightning Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Swiftness
    Leap Finisher: Dazing Strike
    Projectile Finisher: Vulnerability
    Whirl Finsher: Brutal Bolts
  • Poison Field
    Poison Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Weakness
    Leap Finisher: Weakness
    Projectile Finisher: Poison
    Whirl Finsher: Poison Bolts
  • Revealed
    Revealed is an effect applied when stealth is broken, for example by entering combat or exiting a Shadow Refuge circle prematurely.
  • Smoke Field
    Smoke Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Stealth
    Leap Finisher: Stealth
    Projectile Finisher: Blindness
    Whirl Finsher: Blinding Bolts
  • Super Speed
    Activate your slick shoes, enabling you to move at superior speeds.
  • Water Field
    Water Combo Effects

    Blast Finisher: Area Healing
    Leap Finisher: Healing
    Projectile Finisher: Regeneration
    Whirl Finsher: Healing Bolts
Combo
  • Blast Finisher
    Blast Combo Effects

    Dark: Area Blindness
    Ethereal: Area Chaos Armor
    Fire: Area Might
    Ice: Area Frost Aura
    Light: Area Retaliation
    Lightning: Area Swiftness
    Poison: Area Weakness
    Smoke: Area Stealth
    Water: Area Healing
  • Leap Finisher
    Leap Combo Effects

    Dark: Blindness
    Ethereal: Chaos Armor
    Fire: Fire Shield
    Ice: Frost Aura
    Light: Retaliation
    Lightning: Dazing Strike
    Poison: Weakness
    Smoke: Stealth
    Water: Healing
  • Projectile Finisher
    Projectile Combo Effects

    Dark: Life stealing
    Ethereal: Confusion
    Fire: Burning
    Ice: Chilled
    Light: Remove Condition
    Lightning: Vulnerability
    Poison: Poison
    Smoke: Blindness
    Water: Regeneration
  • Whirl Finisher
    Whirl Combo Effects

    Dark: Leeching Bolts
    Ethereal: Confounding Bolts
    Fire: Burning Bolts
    Ice: Chilling Bolts
    Light: Cleansing Bolts
    Lightning: Brutal Bolts
    Poison: Poison Bolts
    Smoke: Blinding Bolts
    Water: Healing Bolts

IV. Food, Armor, Trinkets & Upgrade Items

Food Nourishment

Bowl of Truffle Risotto
Duration: 30min
Condition Damage: 100
Precision: 70
Experience from Kills: 10%
  • (30min)
  • Condition Damage: 100
  • Precision: 70
  • Experience from Kills: 10%

Utility Nourishment

Master Tuning Crystal
Duration: 30min
Gain Condition damage equal to 6% of your toughness
Gain Condition damage equal to 4% of your vitality
Experience from Kills: 10%
  • (30min)
  • Gain Condition damage equal to 6% of your toughness
  • Gain Condition damage equal to 4% of your vitality
  • Experience from Kills: 10%

Armor & Runes

Medium Armageddon Mask
  • Defense: 97
Superior Rune of the Thief
  1. Precision: 25
  2. Condition Damage: 35
  3. Precision: 50
  4. Condition Damage: 65
  5. Precision: 100
  6. When striking a foe from behind or the side, gain +10% damage.
Medium Armageddon Shoulderpads
  • Defense: 97
Superior Rune of the Thief
  1. Precision: 25
  2. Condition Damage: 35
  3. Precision: 50
  4. Condition Damage: 65
  5. Precision: 100
  6. When striking a foe from behind or the side, gain +10% damage.
Medium Armageddon Coat
  • Defense: 338
Superior Rune of the Thief
  1. Precision: 25
  2. Condition Damage: 35
  3. Precision: 50
  4. Condition Damage: 65
  5. Precision: 100
  6. When striking a foe from behind or the side, gain +10% damage.
Medium Armageddon Gloves
  • Defense: 157
Superior Rune of the Thief
  1. Precision: 25
  2. Condition Damage: 35
  3. Precision: 50
  4. Condition Damage: 65
  5. Precision: 100
  6. When striking a foe from behind or the side, gain +10% damage.
Medium Armageddon Leggings
  • Defense: 218
Superior Rune of the Thief
  1. Precision: 25
  2. Condition Damage: 35
  3. Precision: 50
  4. Condition Damage: 65
  5. Precision: 100
  6. When striking a foe from behind or the side, gain +10% damage.
Medium Armageddon Boots
  • Defense: 157
Superior Rune of the Thief
  1. Precision: 25
  2. Condition Damage: 35
  3. Precision: 50
  4. Condition Damage: 65
  5. Precision: 100
  6. When striking a foe from behind or the side, gain +10% damage.

Armor Stat Totals

  • Defense 1064
  • Precision 175
  • Condition Damage 100

Rune Bonuses

Superior Rune of the Thief
  1. Precision: 25
  2. Condition Damage: 35
  3. Precision: 50
  4. Condition Damage: 65
  5. Precision: 100
  6. When striking a foe from behind or the side, gain +10% damage.

Accessories & Jewels

SyzygyUtility Slot
  • Power: 72
  • Precision: 72
  • Toughness: 72
  • Vitality: 72
  • Condition Damage: 72
  • Healing Power: 72
  • Ferocity: 72
Rabid BackOffensive Slot
  • Condition Damage: 63
  • Precision: 40
  • Toughness: 40
(Infused)
Solaria, Circle of the SunOffensive Slot
  • Power: 57
  • Precision: 57
  • Toughness: 57
  • Vitality: 57
  • Condition Damage: 57
  • Healing Power: 57
  • Ferocity: 57
(Infused)
Lunaria, Circle of the MoonDefensive Slot
  • Power: 57
  • Precision: 57
  • Toughness: 57
  • Vitality: 57
  • Condition Damage: 57
  • Healing Power: 57
  • Ferocity: 57
(Infused)
Ancient Mursaat TokenOffensive Slot
  • Power: 50
  • Precision: 50
  • Toughness: 50
  • Vitality: 50
  • Condition Damage: 50
  • Healing Power: 50
  • Ferocity: 50
Celestial SigilDefensive Slot
  • Power: 50
  • Precision: 50
  • Toughness: 50
  • Vitality: 50
  • Condition Damage: 50
  • Healing Power: 50
  • Ferocity: 50

Accessory Totals

  • Power:286
  • Precision:326
  • Toughness:326
  • Vitality:286
  • Condition Damage:349
  • Healing Power:286
  • Ferocity:286

Weapon Set Sigils

Rabid Axe
  • Weapon Strength: 857-1048
  • Condition Damage: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Toughness: 85
Rabid Torch
  • Weapon Strength: 789-926
  • Condition Damage: 120
  • Precision: 85
  • Toughness: 85
Sigil of Minor Corruption
You gain +10 condition damage each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down)
Sigil of Superior Earth
60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.

Weapon Set I

Sigil of Minor Corruption

You gain +10 condition damage each time you kill a foe. (max 25 stacks and ends on down)

Sigil of Superior Earth

60% chance to do a 5s bleed on critical.
Rabid Shortbow
  • Weapon Strength: 905-1000
  • Condition Damage: 239
  • Precision: 171
  • Toughness: 171
  • Weapon Strength: -
Sigil of Superior Accuracy
+7% crit chance.

Weapon Set II

Sigil of Superior Accuracy

+7% crit chance.
  • Weapon Strength: -
  • Weapon Strength: -

Water Weapon I

Water Weapon II


V. Basic Gameplay

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