Screaming Poison : Need Advice

Hopefully this build hasn't been posted before so i'm sorry if it was


Profession: Ranger/*

Name: Screaming Arrow

Type: PvE/Possibly PVP?

Category: Damage/Interrupt

Attributes :
Expertise : 10 + 1
Wilderness Survival : 11 + 1
Marksmanship : 10 + 1 + 1

Skills Set :
Poison Arrow {Elite}
Screaming Arrow
Choking Gas
Distracting Shot
Needling Shot
Throw Dirt
Dryder's Defense/Whirling Defense
Troll Unguent

Summary:Basically the whole idea is that you poison them then do Screaming Shot so they are bleeding. This causing good degen you then using Distracting to take away a skill like any skills that pose a threat. Moving in hit Throw Dirt and by now the degen should of taken the health past 50% so use Choking Gas and spam Needling Shot. What this does is add interuptting and added damage to the constant shooting. The opponet is pretty helpless.

Notes & Concerns: Need to sort out when you have more than one opponet.

Credit:Me, if it hasn't been done before.

I havn't been playing GW that long so this is the first build i've worked on myself but at the moment it's only good for solo 1v1. Its perfect against Desert Hydras but thats really it. I feel it's a solid build but I'm sure I can improve it.

Try apply poison instead of choking gas and burning arrow instead of poison arrow. Poison arrow is junk, really. It accomplishes the same purpose as a non-elite skill (apply poison) and it's debatable which one takes more energy. Plus, with AP you can spam two conditions at once:

Screaming shot = 7 degen on target.
Burning arrow = 10 degen on target.

It's a pretty good build for random or team arenas and for AvA as well, if you bring a run skill (Natural Slide? Dodge?). Signet of Malice is also great for any condition-based build. When you can't rely on support from your monk (like in RA or AvA), it'll keep you clean of conditions.

Oh and I'd use a superior marks, or maybe 2 majors.

I used to use that build a lot in AB's and it worked pretty great. Apply Poison + Burning arrow is easily one of my favourite ranger builds too.

I can understand wanting the greater degen but i'm not sure it offers the same interuption. With choking gas and needling it allows me to spam so they can't heal while it takes off a fair bit poison and bleeding also help to bring it down.

I've got whirling defense as it allows me to blind them while avoiding most of the damage.

I'm might go and capture Burning Arrow and swap it like you said but I want to keep choking.

I've tried it a couple of times and it seemed to work. The only bad thing is Screaming Burning dosn't really make sense

needling shot has no place in that build. use savage shot instead to get 2 interupts. that way you can use burning arrow, screaming shot, and apply posion instead of relying on choking gas to do the interupting.

I don't really care for using Choking Gas as a primary means to interrupt. It has its uses, sure, but for general use and general interrupting, I just carry Distracting + Savage shot. If I'm in an area where interrupting casters is going to be key (PvE mind you) then pack Broad Head Arrow - then every attack becomes an instant interrupt on spells, and you can use another preparation (RTW or kindle for damage, Apply poison or Barbed arrows for degen).

It sort of feels like you're trying to do too much. You want to do heavy degen AND interrupt AND defend yourself.

For general PvE when I want to degen I run Barbed Arrows + Poison Arrow. That's -7 degen on every target I can hit for a low energy investment, easily spammable. Screaming Shot does nice damage but it's not as spammable as I'd like and I often find I'm not in earshot to get the conditional bleeding, which kinda defeats the purpose of the skill.

Burning Arrow is great damage and degen, but you can't spread it around like you can Poison Arrow.

And I do like Needling Shot, but keep in mind its innate damage is low, you need a +dmg prep to get the most out of it (RtW, Kindle, FW, a vamp string), otherwise you're tossing out a lot of energy for not a lot of damage.

But yeah, get down with Savage Shot. At first I didn't like it a lot because of the heavy energy cost and conditional damage on spells, but man, it recharges fast. Honestly that one skill can cover 90% of the interrupts you need to do, and Distracting is there to catch the ones you really need out of the way.

Interrupting is not necessarily about catching *every* skill, it's about catching the important skills.

-7degen (14dmg per sec) and the 26+dmg from screaming shot seems somewhat low. Shouldn't be too hard for the target to heal, especially since you only got Distracting shot.....if it misses, there's not much you can do if the target is above 50%hp. Trying to bring a target below 50%hp also might be abit hard without a constant dmg preparation (kindle, read the wind, etc). Randomly activating Choking gas doesn't seem like a good idea - If you're gonna use it when a target is below 50%hp, they'll take that opportunity to heal, run, or do somethin else. It can also be interrupted, or if the target sees you using an elite besides Practiced stance, they can just kite you untill they know the duration is over

If you're not using Practiced stance with choking gas, I think you're much better off using Concussion shot instead.

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drop poison arrow for burning arrow.

drop choking gas for apply poison.

drop needling shot for savage shot.

drop dryders/whatever for natural stride.

1st, get your Marksmanship to 16. You're playing an archer, who is underpowered,imo.

Second, apply poison+screaming+burning=serious degen and conditions that can only be removed slowly, and you reapply burning and poison on every BA that hits your target.

Choking Gas+Needling Shot is a nice thought, but like the other said, w/o Practiced Stance, it just isn't really worth it. Savage is always better to bring than distracting, but both on the bar makes you a "Real" interupter,imo.

As for natural stride;

[skill=big]Natural Stride[/skill]
Compared to;

[skill=big]Storm Chaser[/skill]

It's nice if you're monkless, but it just pails in comparison in the long run to skills like dodge or storm chaser unless you are a trapper who needs to move fast. I'll take 25% and 14-17 seconds over 8 seconds any day. I know that the recharge of NS makes it useful, and I understand that, but this is just my opinion. All either needs is to get a crippling hit, and both are useless, so it's up to what you want to use in the end.

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