I have taken it upon myself to do something in Guild Wars that really doesn’t seem that popular.  I am converting my Ritualist/Mesmer to a Ritualist/Ranger so that I can get a pet and have yet another creature to annoy people.  I have been looking into the Ranger pets skills and figure that I can sacrifice at least 2 of my ritualist skills for pet skills and then I can add in either my Spirit Spamming build or I could do my Channeling energy maintenance build.

The only trouble I am having is thinking if I should really bring a 2nd pet skill or just let the pet do what it does, because if I bring my spirit spamming build I would bring Wanderlust for knockdown and then I could time my animal attacks with Beastial Mauling (Your animal companion attempts a Bestial Mauling that deals +5-20 damage. If the attack strikes a knocked-down foe, that foe is interrupted and Dazed for 4-10 seconds.), so if timed correctly I would get a knock down with added dmg from pet with added dazed on top of that.  So I could then add a 3rd pet spell, Scavenger Strike for extra energy added to help with the energy issue that might arise.

To make all this happen with my other build I would need 2 of my energy replenishing spells with a spirit and then my 3 ranger pet spells…now I could either bring some ashes for added bonuses and a res or add more channeling dmg.  The way I see it, AB battles I would bring more channeling dmg and PVE I would probably bring ashes and res.  Though I won’t get in game until Friday so a lot of this is just me thinking in my head until I can actually test this stuff out.  I figured I would give this a try since I was really only able to find 1 Ranger/Rit build that was meant for Tombs and all it did was really support other rangers so they could bring other spirits .

So if you have any ideas how I might be able to get some good performance out of a Rit/Ranger, leave me a comment.

I will be in game Friday testing…so hit me up in game: Felicity Leonhart