Curse

milias · Jun 07, 2006, 07:11 PM // 19:11

Hi, just wondering how well evasion rangers can tank in Factions. As we know, an R/W can stay in 75% evasion stance 100% of the time using Escape, Whirling Defense, and Shield Stance, making rangers effective anti-melee tanks. Of course, the bane of this build is stance-ending skills, like Wild Blow, or degen and armor-ignoring damage. Elemental damage isn't much of an issue, since rangers have high elemental armor anyways.

I tried using an evasion ranger tank in one of the Factions missions. She did fairly well, although at times, she was pretty low on health, especially against mesmer mobs that put on massive degen, although I was able to pretty much out-heal them using Healing Sig. Elemental spikes also hurt a bit, especially when I was using Healing Sig. But overall, she did pretty well, even outliving the warriors.

So my question is, where in Factions would this build not work? Any comments/suggestions are welcome.

And for reference, here's my build (I believe I posted it before, but here it is again):

Expertise: 9+1+3
Tactics: 12
Sword: 9

Skills:

Riposte
Deadly Riposte
"Watch Yourself"
Escape {E}
Whirling Defense
Shield Stance
Healing Signet
Rebirth

I use a zealous sword of defense.

Francis Demeules · Jun 07, 2006, 08:01 PM // 20:01

IF.... you hench, Zhu Hanuku can kill you if you havent Panaku with you (For Interrupt Jade Fury). Kuunavang can kill you too in Unwaking Waters. I can't tell you much more because I'm at work.

milias · Jun 07, 2006, 08:09 PM // 20:09

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Originally Posted by Francis Demeules

IF.... you hench, Zhu Hanuku can kill you if you havent Panaku with you (For Interrupt Jade Fury). Kuunavang can kill you too in Unwaking Waters. I can't tell you much more because I'm at work.

Hmm, guess I'm not that far in Factions yet. I would test it out more, but I'm at work too...

Francis Demeules · Jun 07, 2006, 10:12 PM // 22:12

The reason why I put Kuunavang in the list is because of the first stage in this mission. In this stage, any melee Char can't reach her to attack and the objectif is to weak her until you can go and fight her for real.

She use Dark Chain Lightning (do about 250-200 dmg and reduce at each allies of 10%-20%), Corrupted Scales for -8/-10 degen in the Area and more.

ratatass · Jun 09, 2006, 12:07 AM // 00:07

My buddy has used tha stance ranger/W quite a bit through the factions campaign and he can hold his own to my W/mo. The extra elemental armor helps him quite a bit.

AS said earlier here, some bosses creates some prob, but no more than for the Wars. I pile Dolyak signet and Watchyourself on my war/mo and are always ok. My buddy gets the Watchyourself bonus as well, so his armor against elemental is insane.

a W/mo and r/w are a really good combo there upfront.

Rat