Wa/Ra, Help appreciated!

Well I want to make a decent melee build with some ability to regenerate health/self-heal.

Right now I have 4 attribute fields.

Strength - 8
Swordsmanship - 11
Wilderness Survival - 9
Tactics - 8
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Total: 199

The main skill set I was looking at was:
1. - Sprint: run away!!!
2. - Sever Artery: worked well on wa/mo
3. - Gash: didn't use much... need advice
4. - Galrath Slash: extra damage ....
5. - Gladiator's Defense {Elite} recharge a bit high?
6. - Apply Poison: good combo with sever artery
7. - Troll Unguent: heal self
8. - ??? (I had Warrior's Cunning but the recharge time is 60 secs)


Alternatives/Possible 8th:
Defy Pain {Elite} - If I could find a sub for Gladiator's ?
Deadly Riposte - Don't know about this one, only blocks 1 :/
Healing Spring - Seems like a good healing spell


Well, share some advice ...
- Skills I should change, consider.
- Switching weapon masteries.
- Getting rid of an attribute field.
- Switching order of proffessions
- Getting another secondary
- Dumping build
etc.

I think 100 blades is sweet you pick up a lot of adrenaline off of it use that instead of gladiators defense. Then you don’t need points in tactics so you can put your wilderness survival or something else up a few.

Gash is really nice deep wound does more then you realize here is a link discussing it.
You may not need troll ungit for GvG since you will have good healers.

Frozen soil is a great skill to have when you start killing off a team and they are combat rezing you set this down and screw them over but of course it works both ways. Another skill you might want to pick up is some sort of cripple its annoying when people run but you have sprint so meh.

They just added some more pet skills so you might want to think about making room for that... its debatable though not going to say its good or bad till I test em out.

I kind of like the idea behind the build will it will be good? *shrug* I think it will be decent at least.

Assumed items:
+2 to Swordsmanship

Attributes: (cost)
Strength: 0 (0)
Swordsmanship: 12+2 (97)
Wilderness Survival: 12 (97)

Total attribute points used: 194/200


Skills:
1) Apply Poison (availability) - (15,2,12) For 12 seconds, enemies struck by your physical attacks become poisoned for 13 seconds.
2) Hundred Blades (availability) (elite) - (5,0,8) Swing twice at target foe and foes adjacent to your target. This is an elite skill.
3) Sever Artery (availability) - (4a,0,0) If this attack hits, the opponent begins bleeding for 24 seconds, losing health over time.
4) Gash (availability) - (7a,0,0) If this attack hits a bleeding foe, you strike for 10 more damage and that foe suffers a deep wound, lowering that foe's maximum health by 20% for 19 seconds.
5) Storm Chaser (availability) - (10,0,30) For 18 seconds, you move 25% faster, and you gain 4 energy whenever you take elemental damage.
6) Greater Conflagration (availability) - (5,5,60) Create a level 8 Spirit. For creatures within its range, all physical damage is fire damage instead. This Spirit dies after 126 seconds.
7) Frenzy (availability) - (5,0,4) For 8 seconds, you attack 35% faster but take double damage.
8) Troll Unguent (availability) - (5,3,10) For 10 seconds, you gain health regeneration +9.

i came up with that, its kinda odd, but still. same concept, use aply posion and then use hundred blades, by this time you should have enough adrinaline for server artery, and then bust gash on em.

for energy control i have chosen Storm Chaser.
this way, when combined with Greater Conflagration, you will allmost allways be taking elemental damage if you take damage. and you have great fire resists as it is, so its helping out more than you think.
frezy is to be used when your attacking and not gettin attacked back.

there are flaws here, but it only took me about 10 mins to come up with this.

No no no, if you want to get some regen then you need healing breeze. Troll Unguent takes 3 seconds to activate. That means you're standing there like a pilon in front of your ennemy. Healing Breeze is almost insta-cast and gives the same regen if not better. Also, Apply Poison is a good thing to combo but takes away some 15 energy and as a warrior you'll only have 20. You also don't have Final Thrust which is a must since it's double damage if the target is below 50%

Cool suggestion with the Greater Conflagration and Storm Chaser; should solve energy problems, at least for PvE

if you go with greater conflagration then go R/W because rangers have better armor vs elemental and you can put a couple points in expertise and decrease the cost of all of your skills.

What armor set would you suggest? Haven't played a Ranger yet.

Edit * DrakeScale seems like the obvious choice.