The Heal Quickness Untamed build for Guild Wars 2 is a versatile Ranger specialization designed for raids. It provides strong healing and boon uptime, including Quickness, Might, and Regeneration, while maintaining good mobility and crowd control. This build is ideal for supporting your team with consistent healing and
The Heal Quickness Untamed build for Guild Wars 2 is a versatile Ranger specialization designed for raids. It provides strong healing and boon uptime, including Quickness, Might, and Regeneration, while maintaining good mobility and crowd control. This build is ideal for supporting your team with consistent healing and utility, though it lacks group stability application and requires a high skill level to master.
for Condition Removal, Regeneration, and a Water Field.
Utility Skill Options
for Resistance, Resolution and Condition Removal
for Defiance Break
for Protection and Aegis
for Might
to quickly Revive a downed ally
for a group wide Stun Break
Pet Options
Electric Wyvern for a strong Breakbar option.
Fanged Iboga for damage and Pull.
White Tiger for Aegis application.
Jungle Stalker to help keep up Might.
Brown Bear to help Cleanse Conditions.
Rock Gazelle for even more Breakbar damage.
Jacaranda to Immobilize enemies.
Siege Turtle to block projectiles.
Trait Notes
when is not useful, or if you need extra Vigor
Equipment Notes
Consider taking additional Giver's equipment if you need more survivability.
An offhand Axe can be used for the pull on if necessary. Take to maintain some of the lost Swiftness.
Rotation Concept
Unleashed Ambush skills are the primary source of boons via . This is how to use it:
Every nine seconds, you will gain the effect
While affected by , use to gain access to Ambush skills for four seconds
You also gain when you Weapon Swap which lets you Ambush a second time.
The basics of your rotation will look like this:
Gain the buff
→ → Ambush
Weapon Swap → Ambush
Repeat from step one
Opener
Wait for combat and boonstrip before generating any boons! This short sequence ramps up the most important boons quickly.
Start in Pet Unleashed
Unleash Ranger →
Weapon Swap
Swap Pets
Boons
Priority Boons
Untamed's goal is to provide permanent Quickness and aid its group with a variety of boons and utility.
With the default setup you'll be able to provide permanent Quickness, 25 Stacks of Might, Fury, Regeneration, Swiftness and Protection.
In order to achieve this use the following skills off Cooldown:
Skill
Boon
Quickness / Might / Protection
Quickness / Might
Might / Fury / Swiftness
Protection
will further help maintaining Fury.
Regeneration will be upheld by , , , and . can also help upkeep regeneration if placed on the group, although this is not always reliable when blocking projectiles.
Prioritize hitting to activate Force of Nature, as you provide twice the protection and can deal twice the amount of breakbar damage over using for the activation.
Supplementary Boons
Additional boons can be gained from these sources:
Skill
Boon
Usage
MaceAuto Attack
Vigor
Whenever possible
Vigor
Save if Heal needed
Regeneration
Whenever neccessary
Might
Off Cooldown
Resolution / Resistance
Whenever necessary
Fury
Save if Defiance Break needed
Protection / Aegis
Save if Aegis needed
Regeneration
Whenever neccessary
Try to complete the Auto Attack Chain on Mace, as only the final hit grants Vigor.
Healing & Cleanses
Healing
and are your main Healing sources. Since you should already be using them off Cooldown to maintain Quickness, Might and Protection, keeping your group topped up will be a given.
You can delay your Ambush skill → Weapon Swap → Ambush skill combo if you already created a buffer of the aforementioned boons and a strong attack will be coming soon. If there will be an incoming damage spike and your Ambush combo is not up, use and Blast Finishers.
Use Staff skills frequently to Heal allies. and can be cast on targeted allies as well as enemies.
Mace skills grant you stacks of Nature's Strength, which will result in a +15% healing increase to allies at 5 stacks for a short duration. will also heal allies in an area.
Making use of Blast Finishers inside Water Fields will increase your healing output tremendously.
Your Water Fields are and
Your Blast Finishers are , , , , , , and
Cleanses
cleanses 2 conditions per pulse on up to 5 targets
cleanses 3 conditions per slam, for a total of 6 if using
Condition Converts 5 conditions to boons upon its initial cast
from Brown Bear cleanses 2 conditions from 5 allies.
Additional Utility
Whenever you're in Pet Unleashed, you'll get access to , and .