Curse

ohiyo · Feb 26, 2006, 03:50 AM // 03:50

At first I had an idea of "reversing" the iway build from a w/r to a r/w. For there I tryed it out, and made some changes. Here my current build right now(only tried it out in CA/RA)

R/W

Beast Mastery: 12+1+1
Axe Mastery: 11
Wilderness Survival: 6+1/Tactics: 6
Expertise: 2+1

Eviscerate[e]
Executioner Strike
Wild Blow/Call haste
Distrupting Lunge
Tiger's Fury
Troll Unguent/Heal sig
Charm Animal
Rez Sig

So far im facing problems with runners, conditions, and hexes. Please help.

Druids Arrow · Feb 26, 2006, 03:42 PM // 15:42

First off, if you want to reverse an IWAY build, don't.

IWAY requires strength and rangers don't have it, so drop the Charm Animal, unless you want to use a pet. If you were surcome to blindness or weakness, then you would have no damage output. If your facing problems with conditions, runners and hexes, then your having problems being targeted, which essentially means if your focus fired your toast. Stick to the thumper build IMO.

mortalis doleo · Feb 26, 2006, 04:05 PM // 16:05

for an iway reversal, you kinda need the skill IWAY...
also, if you are playing as an iway "warrior", you want your pet to die, so you could use IWAY, so beast mastery needs to be 0.
a good beast mastery build can be something like this:
1. balthasar's aura
2. call of haste
3. pet attack
4. pet attack
5. charm animal
6. comfort animal
7. that pet attack elite (my memory sucks atm...)
8. res sig

Jenosavel · Feb 26, 2006, 04:28 PM // 16:28

Actually... I'd have to disagree that a good pet build smites off the pet. The pet AI is horrid for moving targets, as it has to sit and wait a full attack cycle after following before it can begin attacking again and thus it never really hits a moving target. Therefore, you want your enemy to sit still with your pet on it, and if you're smiting off of the pet, it encourages your enemy to get away from the pet.

mortalis doleo · Feb 26, 2006, 05:33 PM // 17:33

you should smite off of a warrior if there is one, but with call of haste on, smiting off of the pet is very possible...

Spenser_For_Hire · Feb 26, 2006, 11:38 PM // 23:38

lets try to fix this build from crap to shine
first, get 12 axe mastery, the damage % from 11 to 12 is staggering, 12 is the must minimum
second, self healing in pvp is gonna greatly diminish your effectiveness if you have to put points into an attribute JUST for a heal
if you dont have a monk on your team in RA/TA, play smart, i hardly ever bring self heal and i dont die very easily
third, why reverse iway? people play W/R iway cause its the most effective

ohiyo · Feb 27, 2006, 03:05 AM // 03:05

I think people dont really understand my goals, for I did not explain them. This is not really a reverse iway, its just more of an attempt to use a rangers speed buff with axe attacks and some moderate damage from a pet. I have had fairly decent sucess in CA in killing monks that dont kite. More than often, my distrupting lunge will hit a good healing/prot spell (healing touch, orison, RoF, guardian), and then the monk is gone for. I guess using "Iway warrior" gave out the wrong idea.

Also when building this character, I looked at a bunny thumper and an axe war. I also took this IW mes (http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=121152)
tried to change the iw to eviscerate and executioner's strike. I threw in wild blow when I noticed all the units that I attacked used mostly stances (whirling def being the most common).

BTW: thanks, more comments appreciated.

Spenser_For_Hire · Feb 27, 2006, 03:48 AM // 03:48

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=122475
thats a pretty good R/W using axe while having pet do good damage, though i would personally switch out desmember with evisc and ferocious strike with disrupt lunge