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EmPoReR oF mElAnDrU · Jun 20, 2006, 12:44 AM // 00:44

I have heard great things about Bunny Thumpers. Was wondering if anyone could give me a specific build.

Thanks
~EmPoReR oF mElAnDrU~

BerryRacer · Jun 20, 2006, 01:02 AM // 01:02

Here are 3 versions of the Thumper, I would say the standard is the top one, but really its all personal perference.

Beast 10+1+1=12(Sup not really needed here)
Expertise 8+1=9
Hammer=12

Ferocious Strike
Irresistible Blow
Hammer bash
Crushing Blow
Tigers fury
Res sig
Charm
Comfort

Beast=10+3+1=14
Expertise=8+1
Hammer 12

Ferocious Strike
Irresistible Blow
Hammer Bash
Distrupting Lunge
Tigers Fury
Res Sig
Charm
Comfort

10+3+1=14 Beastmastery
8+1=9 expertise
12 Hammer

Enraged Lunge
Irresistible Blow
Hammer bash
Tigers Fury
Res Sig
Charm Animal
Call of Haste
Comfort

And ofcourse Sentry's Vest and pants with druids glooves and boots is probably your best choice of armor. If you have a Pve Ranger check out this thread for creating a dire for that extra 15% more damage, http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=89491
With my thumper i usually run a vamp and switch to zealous as i run the third build, which is most pet centred, and i think the best exept when targeting someone with PS. Otherwise, probably go with first one as its the best pressure i find, with finishing off small spike from DW.

Anyway good luck.

EmPoReR oF mElAnDrU · Jun 20, 2006, 03:27 AM // 03:27

Is there a sub-in for the elite pet skills?

Ruby Lightheart · Jun 20, 2006, 06:47 AM // 06:47

i been running a modified version of the Bunny Thumper ...build dont have a name yet though

1. Favorable Winds
2. Tiger's Fury (or whiling defense)
3. Barrage
4. Savage Shot
5. Comfort Animal
6. Brutal Strike
7. Charm Animal
8. Ressurect (or rez signet)

Im still tinkering with the attributes on it but i have marksman at 15, Beastmasery at 12 and the rest in expertise

Sometimes i take off Brutal STrike and replace it with Preaditory Season

Reikai · Jun 20, 2006, 07:50 AM // 07:50

modified version of the bunny thumper -_-?!?!?! what!??! its like totally eaten alive and spit out again. That is no where NEAR what a bunny thumper is -_- You don't even have teh hammar!

Railz · Jun 20, 2006, 09:55 AM // 09:55

the whole point of using a hammer ranger is for the expertise, high expertise resulting in hammer skills costing 1 energy to use

Quote:

JR's Bunny Thumper team iQ forums

Ranger/Warrior
Level: 20

Expertise: 14 (10+4)
Beast Mastery: 9 (8+1)
Hammer Mastery: 12

- Resurrection Signet ()
- Tiger's Fury (Beast Mastery)
- Devastating Hammer [Elite] (Hammer Mastery)
- Crushing Blow (Hammer Mastery)
- Hammer Bash (Hammer Mastery)
- Irresistible Blow (Hammer Mastery)
- Whirling Defense (Expertise)
- Dodge (Expertise)

Fairly nasty hammer build. With high expertise you can spam Irresistible and Crushing all day without breaking a sweat.

Quote:

Dimitry's Ranger/Warrior team iQ forums
Level: 20

Expertise: 14 (10+4)
Beast Mastery: 9 (8+1)
Hammer Mastery: 12

- Irresistible Blow (Hammer Mastery)
- Hammer Bash (Hammer Mastery)
- Distracting Blow (Warrior other)
- Tiger's Fury (Beast Mastery)
- Crushing Blow (Hammer Mastery)
- Wild Blow (Warrior other)
- Escape [Elite] (Expertise)
- Resurrection Signet ()

Valkyries · Jun 20, 2006, 10:10 AM // 10:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Railz

the whole point of using a hammer ranger is for the expertise, high expertise resulting in hammer skills costing 1 energy to use

Ranger/Warrior
Level: 20

Expertise: 14 (10+4)
Beast Mastery: 9 (8+1)
Hammer Mastery: 12

- Resurrection Signet ()
- Tiger's Fury (Beast Mastery)
- Devastating Hammer [Elite] (Hammer Mastery)
- Crushing Blow (Hammer Mastery)
- Hammer Bash (Hammer Mastery)
- Irresistible Blow (Hammer Mastery)
- Whirling Defense (Expertise)
- Dodge (Expertise)

Ummm... where exactly is the bunny?

This isn't a bunny thumper build. Its a Ranger/Warrior hammer spammer... (which is still good btw, just not a thumper build)

thumper builds use the pet to do a high amount of damage while you spam hammer attacks with very high expertise....

IMO, this is the best one listed:

Quote:

Beast 10+1+1=12(Sup not really needed here)
Expertise 8+1=9
Hammer=12

Ferocious Strike
Irresistible Blow
Hammer bash
Crushing Blow
Tigers fury
Res sig
Charm
Comfort

Good build right here and probably the best you'll see to be honest.

ubermancer · Jun 20, 2006, 11:36 AM // 11:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valkyries

Good build right here and probably the best you'll see to be honest.

No way. Enraged Lunge is PIMP. 100+ damage every 5 seconds? I think so.

Railz · Jun 20, 2006, 11:38 AM // 11:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valkyries

thumper builds use the pet to do a high amount of damage while you spam hammer attacks with very high expertise....

you dont need a pet for a bunny thumper

people use the pet for energy from Ferocious Strike its not a "must have" especially when your skills are only costing u 1 energy, We always ran bunny thumpers in Tag yes we used the pet but we used it for energy nothing else, And we got to the gwwc playoffs, now most people only use a pet if they have a smiter to smite of it or as i said low expertise to get energy.

but if your so desperate to have a pet

12 Hammers
8+1 Beast Mastery
10+4 Expertise

Skills:
Tiger's Fury
Ferocious Strike ( better then enraged for thumper but enraged owns for a beast master)
Hammer bash
Crushing Blow
Irr. Blow
Melandru's Assault (massive damage on characters running enchants, pretty decent everything else). can be switched for self heal
Charm Animal
Res Signet

Juicey Shake · Jun 20, 2006, 12:59 PM // 12:59

enraged bunny thumpers are <3, esp. silas' build based around 'em..

oyk lightning reflex thumpers are sexier, tho, no 100+ damage every 5s and no corpse, tho, good for non corpse exploit build.. otherwise enraged > * TF/comf/charm +66 dmg, yumyum.

remmeh · Jun 20, 2006, 01:23 PM // 13:23

Enraged is good and all with charm+comfort+TF being "batteries" for it, but i still prefer Ferocious because of the adrenaline gain... you can KD more often.

Cyan The Archer · Jun 20, 2006, 02:10 PM // 14:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Railz

you dont need a pet for a bunny thumper

people use the pet for energy from Ferocious Strike its not a "must have" especially when your skills are only costing u 1 energy, We always ran bunny thumpers in Tag yes we used the pet but we used it for energy nothing else, And we got to the gwwc playoffs, now most people only use a pet if they have a smiter to smite of it or as i said low expertise to get energy.

I always play a Bow ranger, i just never use a bow because i think Touches are way better. And it's not a "must have" to have a bow with a bow ranger, even when it sound like it.
Get it?
Bunny Thumpers use PETS, it's not called a Bunny Thumper unless you have a pet!
And if you only have 1 hammer skill, then it's not called a Bunny Thumper but a Beast Master w/ Hammer.

Ruby Lightheart · Jun 20, 2006, 04:03 PM // 16:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reikai

modified version of the bunny thumper -_-?!?!?! what!??! its like totally eaten alive and spit out again. That is no where NEAR what a bunny thumper is -_- You don't even have teh hammar!

dude i said it was modified and still a work in progress AND didnt even have a name yet

/sighs
Modified means its an alteration of an original concept..therefore will not contain the same elements. I wont bother you with statitics now...just will say my pet and I are ALWAYS the last to die in co-op missions with this testing build

Cyan The Archer · Jun 20, 2006, 04:59 PM // 16:59

Ruby, i have to agree with Reikai, the build was nowhere near a Thumper. And why do you say you are ALWAYS the last to die? That have nothing to do with a Thumper! A Thumper usually have next to no self heal..

Sha Noran · Jun 20, 2006, 06:23 PM // 18:23

Lol, Ruby I hate to be mean, but I really thought your post was a joke. You aren't even using a hammer man. :-P

My personal preferance is to use no pet at all, as its not the pet giving you energy... its your Expertise that's keeping your energy up. I used to run with Backbreaker, but now I use Shove, which is pretty much perfect for a Thumper; a unconditional knockdown skill that uses Energy rather than Adrenaline.

I run something like...

-Distracting Blow
-Irresistable Blow
-Shove {E}
-Crushing Blow
-Tiger's Fury
-Healing Signet
-Run As One
-Rez Sig

You don't need a pet for e-management because you simply aren't spending all of your energy on anything.

Railz · Jun 20, 2006, 08:59 PM // 20:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sha Noran

Lol, Ruby I hate to be mean, but I really thought your post was a joke. You aren't even using a hammer man. :-P

My personal preferance is to use no pet at all, as its not the pet giving you energy... its your Expertise that's keeping your energy up. I used to run with Backbreaker, but now I use Shove, which is pretty much perfect for a Thumper; a unconditional knockdown skill that uses Energy rather than Adrenaline.

I run something like...

-Distracting Blow
-Irresistable Blow
-Shove {E}
-Crushing Blow
-Tiger's Fury
-Healing Signet
-Run As One
-Rez Sig

You don't need a pet for e-management because you simply aren't spending all of your energy on anything.

thank gods someone with a sense of the pvp metagame, as i said before bunny thumper doesnt need a pet , people who run pets dont use the high expertise most of the time thats why they use ferocious strike to get energy back, as well as a bit of dmg, but in all honesty a thumper with out a pet is 10 times better

Reikai · Jun 21, 2006, 03:19 AM // 03:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sha Noran

Lol, Ruby I hate to be mean, but I really thought your post was a joke. You aren't even using a hammer man. :-P

My personal preferance is to use no pet at all, as its not the pet giving you energy... its your Expertise that's keeping your energy up. I used to run with Backbreaker, but now I use Shove, which is pretty much perfect for a Thumper; a unconditional knockdown skill that uses Energy rather than Adrenaline.

I run something like...

-Distracting Blow
-Irresistable Blow
-Shove {E}
-Crushing Blow
-Tiger's Fury
-Healing Signet
-Run As One
-Rez Sig

You don't need a pet for e-management because you simply aren't spending all of your energy on anything.

run... as... one? you need a pet for it to take effect you know...

2ndName · Jun 21, 2006, 04:11 AM // 04:11

Question about a Bunny Thumper, can this build be used for PvE or is this something for PvP only?

Hidden in the Mist · Jun 21, 2006, 04:19 AM // 04:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reikai

run... as... one? you need a pet for it to take effect you know...

Quote:

Originally Posted by GuildWiki

Run as One

For 5..13 seconds, you and your pet run 25% faster.

No need for pet.

LightningHell · Jun 21, 2006, 04:20 AM // 04:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Railz

thank gods someone with a sense of the pvp metagame, as i said before bunny thumper doesnt need a pet , people who run pets dont use the high expertise most of the time thats why they use ferocious strike to get energy back, as well as a bit of dmg, but in all honesty a thumper with out a pet is 10 times better

...-_- Ten times better?

Extra free damage shoved at your face. Albeit not much.

I use a pet only because I already have Tiger's Fury, and I have free skillslots.

That's only when I run a bunny thumper. I rarely do.