Warrior/Ranger

i havent bought the game yet, but im thinking about builds, Warrior/Ranger intrigues me because rangers have pets is there a way to be a warrior while meleeing have your pet along side you kicking butt as well? or is that just my insane wishes?

Quote: Originally Posted by gunman

I am a warrior/ranger and i have a level 10 melandru's stalker pet that kicks butt when i am meleeing with it.

Yeah, atm, Im a Lvl 8 W/R, but I use a bow at distance while my pet goes in for the kill, keeping me out of harms way, but if its getting too much for the lil' guy (btw his name's spot), i'll run in and melee along side him!

I'm a level 12 W/R and I have a level 10 stalker too. Me and "Kitty" (my daughter named it) battle right along side each other.

now imagine being a level 20 warrior (11 Strength, 11 Swordsmanship, 10 Beastmastery) and having a lvl 20 pet alongside and you'll appreciate the joy of being me....

we usually solo with a healer hench alongside...

Question, does anyone know if strength works with bow damage as well? And if so, if you use piercing shot does it do 20+X% (X being your strength) Armor penetration? Or does it stay with the 20%

Quote: Originally Posted by Xphile

just became a ranger as my 2ndary and now that i have a companion, i couldnt be happier!

Even though I finished the PvE with a W/R build using mostly henchmen, I'm still not sure of the best skill set to use. I like to bring my lvl 20 pet "Askem", but I need two slots to keep him alive. One for Charm Animal and one for Comfort Animal. So I usually use just warrior skills, and throw in a Winter or Greater Conflaguration depending where I am. Greater Conflaguration is nice to have in the frozen area, as it changes all physical damage to fire damage. Winter is very helpful in "Hell's Precipice".

So here are the builds I use, and I beat "Hell's Precipice" with henchmen using this one:

Strength: 12+1
Swordsmanship: 12+3
Wilderness Survival: 3

1. Savage Slash
2. Pure Strike
3. Galrath Slash
4. Seeking Blade
5. Final Thrust
6. Sprint
7. Winter (Only ranger skill used, gives party 54 seconds of the spirit, 6 seconds to recharge after that)
8. Capture signet/Resurrection Signet

I swap out Winter for Greater Conflaguration when I skill capture in the frozen areas.

No elite skils in this build, they're not needed for PvE.

But now I want to PvP, and am trying to figure out the best build. I'm looking at something like this right now:

Strength: 12+1
Swordsmanship: 12+3
Tactics: 3+1


1. Savage Slash
2. Pure Strike
3. Galrath Slash
4. Seeking Blade
5. Final Thrust
6. Sprint
7. Endure Pain
8. Defy Pain (elite)

Using this build is pure warrior, and it doesn't matter what your secondary is. If I use Endure Pain (12 seconds) and Defy Pain (8 seconds), I have a total of 1019 hp, for a short while, which helps. So my question is, how will I hold up in PvP playing as a tank with this build? Is there a ranger skill that would be more useful? Keep in mind I like melee and my sword.

Warrior Rangers suck. I recommend this build for them:

7 Swords Mastery
7 Axe Mastery
7 Hammer Mastery
7 Marksmanship
3 Strength
2 Tactics
3 Expertise

Put superior runes on all your armor. They don't hurt you at all, it's very worthwhile.

w/r is great id use sword because cripple is readly avaliable to pound the snot out of them with tigers fury and use warriors endurance to help manage energy between the hamstring and tigers. Use pure strike and seeking if theres another sword warrior in your gvg or tombs group
9 beast mastery
9 + 1 strength
12 +1 +3 sword

sever/pure strike
gash/seeking blade
savage
final
hamstring
tigers fury
sprint
warriors endurance{e}

axe w/r has some great combos like apply posion and cyclone axe aoe posion for pve anybody?

penetrating blow
eviscerate{e}
axe rake
disrupting chop
sprint
for great justice
tigers fury
predatory season

yup, Dar used a sword

and im glad i saw this thread, as i was thinking about the subject myself.
seemed to me that r/w was less usefull, since the ranger part as primary meant that the warrior part as second was of much less use, but the other way round ^^ was much more usefull.

(man, my mom loves that film heheh, but thinks the second and third ones were useless...bah, she watches soaps all day, what does she know about a good film heheh )

r/w is good too :b expertise+ all the spamable 5 energy warrior skills you can grab ^_^

I named my pet "Peave"

R/W > W/R because Expertise >Strength.

This is especially true with energy draining Beast Mastery skills.

Quote: Originally Posted by Xphile

Quote: Originally Posted by Vigilante

I think Vigilante is just TRYING to be funny. Notice how no one laughed though?

Noone laughed because you are all stupid and think that W/R is actually a decent build. Mod, please close this.