Curse

Mercury Rivenswift · May 21, 2005, 08:58 AM // 08:58

Just thought I'd share this build I used to get 18 and 22 game streaks. (Other allies had a warrior or 2 and one had a healer).

R/Mes level 14
Illusion- 6
Beast Mastery- 9
Wilderness survival 4
Marksmanship- 1 (from mask)

Imagined burden
Troll unguent
Call of protection
Call of haste
Feral Lunge
Comfort Animal
Charm Animal
Rez Signet

Basic strategy was I would call a target (healer or weak caster). I use burden on target and warriors attack along with my pet. Guy goes down fast due to focus fire and my pet skills. Feral lunge is awesome. I have bleeding on them for 16 seconds. That is deadly. If you get the hang of controlling your pet, it is very powerful. Much better than trying to get off a hunter's shot imo. Call of haste had my moa pet attacking wicked fast. Protection made him almost invulnerable taking a whopping 9 damage off per hit for 2 minutes! These skills are strong. Not sure how this would work at a higher level, but we dominated our opponents. Most victories were flawless. Just figured I'd write to give you fellow rangers hope. Before these streaks, I was going to come rant about how ranger blows in pvp. Anyway, experiment with stuff and see what happens. Beastmaster has arrived.

Gh0sT · May 21, 2005, 10:46 AM // 10:46

Looks nice...

If i were you i'd only take out the markmanship mask and replace it with a beastmastery mask... looks like you aint using marksmanship anyway...

Mercury Rivenswift · May 21, 2005, 02:32 PM // 14:32

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Originally Posted by Gh0sT

Looks nice...

If i were you i'd only take out the markmanship mask and replace it with a beastmastery mask... looks like you aint using marksmanship anyway...

I want to, but I don't have a fur square lol. This build is so much better than my marksman build. I'm not using marksmanship in pvp anymore.

Jana · May 21, 2005, 02:36 PM // 14:36

And this really works? Against a monk?

umm... ok, nice to know there are some awful PvPers out there playing monks, lol, running around for no reason.

OBVIOUSLY you have never ran into a monk using healing seed, healing breeze and a whole slew of other healing stuff.

I am a Monk/Mesmer, and unless they somehow get past my hex breaker stance (protects me for almost 2 minutes aganst hexes and causes damage to hex caster for only 5 energy - THE BEST anti-hex skill in the book), I can (and have in similar circumstances) easily tank your pet AND you with minimal effort. Heck I can do this while healing my other teammates as well.

Hope to run into you sometime

Jana

Zetor · May 21, 2005, 03:39 PM // 15:39

Not to rain on your parade, but level 14 pvp isn't exactly representative of high-end stuff. Tombs / etc has maxed-out characters that come prepared with counters to many common strategies like burden... bleed is also generally ignored [unless as a secondary effect, cf. hunter's shot / barbed trap], poison and fire are much better degen overall.

Your build might have neat sustained damage, but without abilities to produce crazy burst damage, a lone monk can outheal you easily [speaking from experience, here :/ ] and still have enough resources left over to heal his teammates at the same time.

just my 2 plat,

-- Z.

UsagiNoSenshi · May 21, 2005, 08:44 PM // 20:44

I pvp with my pet, i have way more into beast mastery and i have the beast master mask too, i would say having a GOOD pet is great, heck as soon as my strider dies i die. But he's the best and i love him XD

Mercury Rivenswift · May 22, 2005, 04:00 AM // 04:00

I admit that I am only at level 15 arena. However, this is still a build in progress and I'm hoping it stays viable in future levels. I can make a few adjustments. As far as hall of heroes goes, I have a very low shot of getting on a team since I am a.....Ranger

this_barb · May 22, 2005, 06:58 AM // 06:58

To reduce a pet ranger to cinders, just kill his pet. -_-, its not so hard