Should I make a Beastmaster Ranger or Water Elementalist?

Lishy

Lishy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

I am on my last free character slot and I am deciding whether I should make a beast master with my focus on [Enraged Lunge] or a [Shatterstone] water elementalist.

Can somebody help me decide the different uses of the professions and what would be worth more committing to?

eximiis

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2007

How about choosing between a Ranger and an Elementalist ???

Don't make your choice by the build. In pve the 2 are fun. Enraged lunge and Shatterstone are pretty much bad in pve. You'll have more fun running something else.

I'd go with ele cause the can farm and do regular pve.

Snow Bunny

Snow Bunny

Alcoholic From Yale

Join Date: Jul 2007

Strong Foreign Policy [sFp]

Water Elementalist; you'll actually be useful.

Master Lorkhan

Master Lorkhan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

Kamadan

Spirits from Hell [SH]

Mo/E

Don't think to make a character focused only to one use.
Imo it's funnier to use a ranger with a pet than an ele

faraaz

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2008

India

Hey Mallyx [icU]

A/

Depends. With the recent Ursan Nerf, Elementalists are in a LOT of demand right now...Obsi tanks, Terras for UW SCs, FoW nukers etc. However, after badmouthing rangers for a long time, and I decided to finally make one. And I've never had so much fun playing GW as I do on the ranger...landing a D-Shot on that monk boss casting RoF or completely shutting down a monk,ele and necro in RA is much more fun than grinding elite dungeon areas all day, IMO.

Oh and as far as beastmastery is concerned, its a waste of time. Don't do it. Trust me, you'll regret the money/time spent getting into that.

GWEXTREEMFAN

GWEXTREEMFAN

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2006

in my house

N/A

W/E

do it like me


delete a different chara and make both

^^

alltho you will regret it

-.-

like my lvl 20 necro

first chara ever
xD


i would go for ele

alltho i love rangers

Cathode_Reborn

Cathode_Reborn

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

[skill]Great Dwarf Weapon[/skill][skill]Scavenger Strike[/skill]

Put GDW on your pet. Good damage, lots of KD's. Scav Strike is now the first and only non elite e-mangement in Beast mastery after the last update.

Best Water skill in PvE is Deep Freeze, and that can be run at 0 spec. The rest of water magic isn't very suited for PvE.

If you're actually gonna use something besides those 2 skills, I'd probably say Ele for general use, but BHA ranger is still good. Not talkin about farming either - I never make chars based on how well they farm.

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

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beastmasters are underpowered i think :/
if it dies you get skills disabled 'n stuff nah i'd go with water ele

Rhamia Darigaz

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2008

out of those two builds, water ele by far

Master Mayhem

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

Mo/

Ele is fun, you can play all sorts of elements

furanshisuko

furanshisuko

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2007

R/

if you have the right build a ranger would not even need a team beast master also


edit:some people dont really know how to use beast masters,meh water ele
pm me ingame if you see me ill give you the best build

Zahr Dalsk

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2007

Canada

Do you have a slot you use for PvP-only characters? If not, make that last slot your PvP slot.

Lishy

Lishy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zahr Dalsk
Do you have a slot you use for PvP-only characters? If not, make that last slot your PvP slot. I already have a pvp slot.

pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

behind you

bumble bee

E/

you don't have a ranger or ele?

well, reason for asking is, if you don't have them you need to get another slot and make both! because they are both very fun to play!

if getting new slot is not an option, i suggest you make a ranger first, endless possibility!

althought ele has the same but yay pets!

Winterclaw

Winterclaw

Wark!!!

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

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Water els are useful in PvP but are unwanted in PvE because people only want fire mages. If you go ranger than people will be expecting you to be a bunny thumper (pvp) or B/P (pve).

Marverick

Marverick

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by N1ghtstalker
beastmasters are underpowered i think :/
if it dies you get skills disabled 'n stuff nah i'd go with water ele They are underpowered but that is not the reason....

They are underpowered because you lose 2 skills just to bring a pet, and pets have issues attacking and staying on targets. For some reason they run all the way back to you after killing the current target before attacking the next target.

Daemon Dremora

Daemon Dremora

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Millington, TN

Seele Erntemaschine {Nein}

Well imo, beast master is kind of under powered. Pets are a lot of fun to have though. My build uses about half of my skills for my pet and the rest for me. It is not a good farming build but that is why we are allowed to have more then one char. My ranger is purely for fun. It is an extremely fun class to play. Have fun with your ranger and if you want to farm use another char.

Mister PMA

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2008

W/

In the end all of these are just biased and based on personal opinion. You are just going to have to try them both for yourself. Personally I think Rangers are EXTREMELY boring, but thats just and me and that's why theres multiple classes, in theory there is something for everyone. If it were me I'd go with just because of all the different things you can do. You can make water,air,earth and fire builds. Plus if you are into farming I think it'd be the better choice.