Curse

Silvia Shadowback · Sep 06, 2010, 03:00 PM // 15:00

A few times every week my guild and I like to get together a have some scrimmages. We all like to just try creative builds that you don't see often. I've been trying to come up with a decent R/W hundred blades ranger. This is what I have as of now.

1. Hundred Blades {E}
2. Serpents Quickness
3. Sever Artery
4. Gash
5. Sun and Moon Slash
6. For Great Justice
7. Lightning Reflexes
8. Troll Unguent

With Serpents quickness I can nearly chain Hundred blades, while using serpents as my stance my idea was that for great justice will allow me to use my adrenaline skills much faster. When serpents ends and waiting on for great justice i am using lightning reflexes to boost adrenaline gain and spam sun and moon as much as possible.

Any suggestions on how I could improve this?

Bandwagon · Sep 06, 2010, 04:57 PM // 16:57

Your asking for a decent R/W 100b build, I will help you to the best of my ability, keep in mind that this role of damage and pressure can be handled far more effectively with other professions / skills if you are trying to make something better than what GW can currently provide you

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Your obviously not looking for meta builds. Just thought I would point this out because I know some idiot is going to say that R/W is bad (no wai!) when the OP clearly stated that this is not serious.

I am also guessing this is for PvP. If that is the case FGJ! is useless because it was nerfed to the ground. (8 second duration with 45 recharge EVEN with serpents' is useless with a 8 second duration and 30 second recharge)

What is your attribute+ rune spread? how much have you invested into Swords, Wilderness and Expertise.

Serpent's is not permanent and Lightning Reflexes has a 35 seconds of down time at best so I would suggest replacing FGJ! with something that will cover for this downtime since it represents a break in the pressure that is provided by the IAS and 100% 100b uptime.

Are the fights simply 1v1? If they aren't rez signet is kinda OP.

Silvia Shadowback · Sep 06, 2010, 06:00 PM // 18:00

My attributes are set as
Expertise 9(+1+1)
Wilderness Survival 9(+1)
Swordsmanship 12

Also we usually do 1v1's, so no need for a rez signet.

So, I'm thinking flurry could be a good sub for FGJ? Most of damage will be coming from hundred blades, so losing some damage on other attacks should be fine?
Or is there another stance similar to lightning reflexes? Would be nice to have another IAS and block skill.

Thanks

Mini Norn · Sep 06, 2010, 06:37 PM // 18:37

Maybe take out FGJ, throw in poison tip Signet for some extra degen? I dont think people will be expecting that, it may prove effective.

Vallen · Sep 06, 2010, 06:54 PM // 18:54

Its 1v1, take any one of these on the bar.
Distracting Strike, Distracting Blow, Savage Slash to rupt their self heal.

Off the top of my head I would go with something like
HB
sever artery
gash
sun and moon
savage slash / distracting strike / distracting blow
apply poison / poison tip signet
troll ungent / lightning reflexes
natural stride / antidote signet

Whichever you prefer, experiment with all combos

hard to know which is better since you wont know what your fighting. I would think that the top 4 plus the first 4 of all the optional slots would be the most versatile.

**Marty Silverblade** · Sep 06, 2010, 10:48 PM // 22:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silvia Shadowback

My attributes are set as
Expertise 9(+1+1)
Wilderness Survival 9(+1)
Swordsmanship 12

Your attributes are off. You should be able to get a 12/9/9 (or a 12/10/8) split without bonuses.

distilledwill · Sep 24, 2010, 01:03 PM // 13:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade

Your attributes are off. You should be able to get a 12/9/9 (or a 12/10/8) split without bonuses.

I think he means hes got 9+1+1 (11) and 9+1 (10) and then Swords 12 which seems fair to me.

Although, as you say I'd drop WS to 8 and then raise Expertise to 10.