Curse

mistress asuka · Nov 22, 2008, 02:54 AM // 02:54

Are there any Uw Ranger Solos that actually use a bow? I mean come on. I made a ranger to use a bow and all the solos Im seeing are touch, trap, and ele =S. I think that kind of defeats the purpose...

Forgotton200 · Nov 22, 2008, 03:10 AM // 03:10

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Originally Posted by mistress asuka

Are there any Uw Ranger Solos that actually use a bow? I mean come on. I made a ranger to use a bow and all the solos Im seeing are touch, trap, and ele =S. I think that kind of defeats the purpose...

Agreed. I made a similar thread asking about UW/FoW solo but they said bow ranger isn't possible.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10337932

mistress asuka · Nov 22, 2008, 03:31 AM // 03:31

Well I think I have an idea for one, but it would most likely be kind of slow.

R/Me

Oath Shot
Whirling Defense
Throw Dirt
Apply Poison
Empathy
Troll Ungeunt
Spirit of Failure
FREE SPACE (Epidemic, Point Blank Shot, Dryders Defense?)

Domination - 10
Wilderness Survival - 11
Expertise - 15
Inspiration - 4

I guess the idea would be for clearing up through the chamber.

Start off with Apply Poison and Troll Unguent. Aggro an aatxe group and when they get close throw on whirling defense and use throw dirt when you have them grouped together, and right after use Oath Shot. Oath shot is there so you can keep Whirling Defense and Throw Dirt going at almost all times.
Cast Spirit of Failure and Empathy soon after, making sure to keep Whirling Defense, Throw Dirt, and Troll Unguent going. Then depending on what you put in the free space you can Epidemic to make the entire group poisoned to keep slowing degening there health so when you kill one the others are already partially down. If you use Point Blank Shot you can spam that and keep racking damage up pretty quick. You can use Dryders Defense just in case your Throw Dirt or Whirling Defense cant be kept up, so you have a few seconds to prepare them.

This is all just theory of course, I actually havent tried it yet, but it would use a bow, lol.

My IGN is Mistress Asuka, you should PM me and maybe we can work together and making something work =D

X Xx XxX xX X · Nov 22, 2008, 04:02 AM // 04:02

Sigh...

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:R/..._Forest_Farmer

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:R/..._Forest_Farmer

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:R/..._Forest_Farmer

mistress asuka · Nov 22, 2008, 04:07 AM // 04:07

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Originally Posted by X Xx XxX xX X

Sigh...

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:R/..._Forest_Farmer

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:R/..._Forest_Farmer

http://www.pvxwiki.com/wiki/Build:R/..._Forest_Farmer

Which part of "UW" did you not understand?

Alexandria · Nov 22, 2008, 04:17 AM // 04:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by mistress asuka

Well I think I have an idea for one, but it would most likely be kind of slow.

R/Me

Oath Shot
Whirling Defense
Throw Dirt
Poison Arrow
Empathy
Troll Ungeunt
Spirit of Failure
FREE SPACE (Epidemic, Point Blank Shot, Dryders Defense?)

Domination - 10
Wilderness Survival - 11
Expertise - 15
Inspiration - 4

I guess the idea would be for clearing up through the chamber.

Start off with Poison Arrow and Troll Unguent. Aggro an aatxe group and when they get close throw on whirling defense and use throw dirt when you have them grouped together, and right after use Oath Shot. Oath shot is there so you can keep Whirling Defense and Throw Dirt going at almost all times.
Cast Spirit of Failure and Empathy soon after, making sure to keep Whirling Defense, Throw Dirt, and Troll Unguent going. Then depending on what you put in the free space you can Epidemic to make the entire group poisoned to keep slowing degening there health so when you kill one the others are already partially down. If you use Point Blank Shot you can spam that and keep racking damage up pretty quick. You can use Dryders Defense just in case your Throw Dirt or Whirling Defense cant be kept up, so you have a few seconds to prepare them.

This is all just theory of course, I actually havent tried it yet, but it would use a bow, lol.

My IGN is Mistress Asuka, you should PM me and maybe we can work together and making something work =D

Doubt it will work, seeing as it has two elites

The only build I can recall working is the trapper one, with Mark of Pain and various traps, not sure :S

mistress asuka · Nov 22, 2008, 04:53 AM // 04:53

There's an edit button - use it instead of posting several times in a row - Marty

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexandria

Doubt it will work, seeing as it has two elites

The only build I can recall working is the trapper one, with Mark of Pain and various traps, not sure :S

The only elite is Oath Shot, what other elite are you seeing? (Note: I mean Apply poison, not Poison Shot ^_^;

UPDATE: The build runs, its kind of slow, but it runs, I had a problem Keeping Whirling Defense and Throw Dirt going, but I noticed it was because I was trying to use Oath Shot in the middle of a firing animation, which in turn restarted the animation and took casting Oath Shot like an extra 2 seconds, which in the long run killed me =S. I cleared all the Aatxes in the first room and then quit because I got an ecto, lol.

On a side note, I didnt have any energy problems so I dont think Spirit of Failure is really necessary. I was using Point Blank shot at first but it had a little bit of lag time on each shot so I switched to Epidemic and the poison effect was workin pretty well, it was a slow degen, but when VS a group of 3 it gets a little bit of damage done while your killing them.

On another note, I was thinking about switching the secondary to Necromancer and trying Mark of Pain. Then maybe some skill to increase your attack rate so you can just sit and spam attacks and do good AoE damage instead of the focused Empathy damage.

UPDATE: The R/N is a pain to pull off, lol, probably not worth it unless your timing is perfect. Im going to stick to the R/Me, Ill try and upload a video soon.

UPDATE: Decided to try and edit this to be a bit more effective. After so long of alternating between Whirling Defense, Throw Dirt, and Oath Shot, the recharge on Oath shot gets to far away to upkeep Throw Dirt and Whirling Defense. You could only kill a group of 2 or 3 at a time, it wasnt extremely slow, but I think it could be faster. All in all the build is kind of tough to run effectively. Even if you run it effectively Ive had a run or 2 now where the Aatxes get lucky and hit a few times in row causing basically instant death.

So overall I guess Im saying unless your looking for a bit of a challenge, this build isnt for you. Ill try to mess around with it, see if I cant make it safer and more effective. Til then happy hunting!

spun ducky · Nov 22, 2008, 08:42 AM // 08:42

I suppose I can take a crack at it this weekend I have solo'ed quite a bit of UW using a bow with many different techniques the problem is most of the time its far too slow or risky to be worth it. I guess I will see if I can put something together over the holiday break that will work.

Forgotton200 · Nov 22, 2008, 11:35 AM // 11:35

I'm new to farming at elite areas (never tried it yet because of the lack of bow-ranger build. I was going to suck it up with using traps but playing it was becoming a torture), I was looking at other builds and wondered why I never see a 105 hp ranger like how dervishes and other classes uses to solo UW.

Using similar defensive skills (the monk skills) like the dervishes but replacing the damage with barrage or something similar (as a R/Monk). I was searching through forums regarding this but I seen many times with the answer that just says "as a bow-ranger in elite areas, you're out of luck." Rangers also have three 75% block skills and even blind and I have hard time understanding why it doesn't work.

And Spun ducky,

When you said far too slow, does it mean you take 35+ min to complete it while a classes like dervishes does it in 15min? Or I should expect more time than that as a bow-ranger?

mistress asuka · Nov 22, 2008, 11:10 PM // 23:10

Yeah, I dunno what was up with it but the Aatxes were hitting every few attacks threw whirling defense and throw dirt =S

I was trying to maybe think of an R/E using water for armor and conjure frost+barrage, sense you would be doing a little over 40 damage that way and hittin more then 1 foe, but the armor just couldnt match up to the damage output on the aatxes

Then I tried it again using earth and I still couldnt match the damage output on the Aatxes. Even with the use of Kinetic Armor, Stoneflesh Aura, and Armor of the Earth.

Maybe some kind of R/Mo would do the trick, something along the lines of prot/smite. I would think that the Aatxes would just blow through it again. The rangers big problem is reducing damage by enough to survive and get the kills off.

**Marty Silverblade** · Nov 23, 2008, 12:55 AM // 00:55

^

Having both Kinetic Armor and Armor of Earth is pointless. Multiple +armor skills don't stack past +25.

mistress asuka · Nov 23, 2008, 01:32 AM // 01:32

I meant it as in Kinetic+stoneflesh or Armor+Stoneflesh :P

My wording on things can be kind of off sometimes, my bad, lol

MisterB · Nov 23, 2008, 01:39 AM // 01:39

I saw a trap build using [[Burning Arrow] and [[Apply Poison] to degen the Aatxe posted on YouTube. Video is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4PcUTvBIU

mistress asuka · Nov 23, 2008, 03:31 AM // 03:31

Im against traps, but I have a new build for this and it works, but it takes a really long time. Mods please close this thread. Ill be posting the new build in a minute.

Closed - Marty