User:Silk Weaker/Build:Team - Ranger Pressure

This is a build focusing on using Rangers to pressure foes using RaO, Degen, Interrupts, and Energy Denial, as well as spiking specific targets by disabling opposing healers.

Hammer Ranger

 * Considering change to AoG Dervish.

Equipment

 * Zealous and Ebon/Furious Hammer of Fortitude

"Strength and Honor"


 * Survivor Insiginias
 * Vitae Runes

Equipment
Zealous and Ebon/Furious Spear of Fortitude

"Strength and Honor"


 * Survivor Insiginias
 * Vitae Runes

Equipment

 * Silencing Wintergreen Bow of Fortitude
 * Barbed Wintergreen Bow of Fortitude

"I Have the Power!"


 * Survivor Insiginias
 * Vitae Runes

Dazer

 * Considering changing this to Cripshot and 5 to Burning Arrow

Equipment

 * Silencing Recurve Bow of Fortitude
 * Poisonous Recurve Bow of Fortitude

"I Have the Power!"


 * Survivor Insiginias
 * Vitae Runes

Equipment

 * Crippling Recurve Bow of Fortitude
 * Poisonous Recurve Bow of Fortitude
 * Crippling Longbow of Fortitude

"I Have the Power!"


 * Vampiric Flatbow of Fortitude

"Strength and Honor"


 * Survivor Insiginias
 * Vitae Runes

Equipment

 * Survivor Insiginias
 * Vitae Runes

Equipment

 * Spear of Enchanting, "I Have the Power!"
 * "Brawn Over Brains","Ignorance is Bliss"
 * "Live for Today","Seize the Day"


 * Survivor Insiginias
 * Vitae Runes

Equipment

 * Spear of Enchanting, "I Have the Power!"
 * "Brawn Over Brains","Ignorance is Bliss"
 * "Live for Today","Seize the Day"


 * Survivor Insiginias
 * Vitae Runes

Tactics, Usage, and Bullshit~
Apply constant pressure by maintaining -7 degen on all foes, using Debilitating Shot to E-Deny, Diversion and Interrupts to pressure foes. Use Signet of Humility on condition removal elites (especially Restore Condition) or other utilities such as Blinding Surge. Rememeber to Guardian the mesmer as he uses the signet to decrease chances of interrupt. On the same line, try to guardian the Pain Shot while he uses Barbed Arrows or Smoke Trap.

The main counters of this build are block/evade skills, blind, and condition removal. If humility is not avalible, or there are multiple sources of these, put effort in distracting the skills. With the exception of Draw Conditions and Extinguish, which has a 1/4 cast time and should be dealt with using diversion (mesmers rarely have holy veil maintained), most dangerous skills have at least 3/4 cast time and easy to interrupt, especially so considering that those skills would very likely be spammed (in the case of Blinding Surge and Restore Condition). Using daze, for example, you can easily force the opposition to use their condition removal, thereby making their actions predictable. By means of counting and predicting the actions of the enemy, and coordination between the players, you can keep key spells permenantly shut down. While it will hardly matter in general, while attempting to interrupt a specific skill before applying full pressure, it is important not to interrupt the intended target as much, or fake spikes, as to lure the foe into a sense of security. This is especially important if the opposing team is maintaining pressure adequetly, and not desperate.

Do not allow Aegis or Displacement to be brought up, do not allow hexes (Reckless Haste, Faintheartedness) to finish casting. It is the rangers' duty to check utility characters for the skills.

Once these skills have been dealt with, apply relentless pressure, use E-denial and damage to pressure them, and attempt spikes. It is possible for the foes to recover if given time to reorganize&mdash; spare them no such luxury.

Before spike, use BHA on healer, Melee releases attacks on target (applying daze if it is a monk), Mesmer uses Shame, Diversion and/or Power Leak (if Holy Veil or Hex Breaker is used on target) on remaining defensive characters such as Monks, Paragons, or Mesmers. The rest of the players unleash spike. Arrow Rangers use Marauder's Shot and Savage Shot, while mesmer uses Spiritual Pain (if applicable).

The spike itself, if performed flawlessly should be fatal, but as a pressure geared build, emphasis should be placed on pressure and speed. The build uses denial skills to force ineffective and expectable play of the opponent, which in turn results in more interruption and disabling of skills. Even in its nerfed form, Power Leak is extremely powerful if used properly. On a monk, for example, the the amount of pressure caused by the amount of conditions, e-deny from Debilitating Shot, interrupts, and disabling would make the loss of 25 or so energy disastorous. As such, even if the spike is caught or some of the skills involved were recharging and the results not fatal, the consequences of opponents' skills being diverted, their energy pool exhausted (especially with Power Leak and Debilitating Shot), and other tactical disadvantages could lead to susceptibility to another quick spike.

Fifth ranger should be sent to counter ganks, kill flaggers, or run flags.

Seeing as a large part of the build uses conditions to pressure aside, signet of humility is very important. If it is interrupted, disabled, recharging, however, it will be wise to disable the oppositions condition removal. Using daze, you can easily force the opposition to use their condition removal, thereby making their actions predictable. By means of counting and predicting the actions of the enemy, and coordination between the players, you can keep key spells permenantly shut down.

Other Notes

 * To be added.