Guild Wars 2

My shortbow ranger stays in WvW.
The build is Condition/Healing/Toughness/Vitality so Crit chance is ~27%.

Kills take a bit longer, but my survivability is nice. I don’t want to raise Precision at the expense of Healing or Toughness.

The character is not maintaining an adequate stack of bleeds (imo).
(What’s “adequate”? Hehe, I don’t know that either, but figured 10-12 would be good with my low crit chance %).

Food used (Rare Veggie Pizza) gives 40% condition duration.

I am wondering whether a Sigil of Agony (10% Bleed Duration) or Sigil of Earth (60% chance of Bleed on Crit) would yield better results? Your opinions?

Any other ideas for raising bleeds?
Note: The alternate weapon set varies depending on current activity (axe/warhorn, longbow, greatsword, sword/torch).

Here’s the build btw:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.3|5.1d.h9|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.71i.1b.71i.1b.71i.1b.71i.1b.71i.1b.71i|1a.68.1a.68.1a.68.1a.68.1b.68.1a.68|0.0.u38c.a6.u16c|30.d|4i.4p.4q.4r.0|e

Shortbow has 3 conditions it can apply:

• #1 bleed (3s)
• #2 poison (2s) x5
• #4 cripple (3s) (NOTE: pet bleeds not affected by your stats)

Currently, you have +40% condition duration from your food. These makes these:

• #1 bleed (4.2s)
• #2 poison (2.8s) x5
• #4 cripple (4.2s)

So you’ll get

• 1.2 extra seconds of bleeding which is just 1 extra tick on your bleed. The 0.2 does nothing for bleeding.
• .8 extra seconds on the poison (per arrow), which can be useful since poison reduces healing while on the target AND it’s per arrow which means that if you hit the same target with 2 of those, that’s 1.6 extra seconds. If you successfully shotgun them with all 5 arrows that’s an additional 4 seconds of poison.
• 1.2 extra seconds of cripple

If you increase bleeding by 10% you’ll simply get

• Bleeding (4.5s). This will do nothing for you as 0.5s of bleeding does 0 damage.

Now, Sigil of Earth gives you a 60% chance when you crit to inflict a bleed. You have a 26.86% chance to crit. So you have a 16.116% chance to inflict a bleed. Statistically, that’s almost one in every 6 hits.

Man, you’re smart and can type too!

Thanks for so much info in a neat package!

And I saved 1+gold since I have an Earth sigil vaulted.

Runes work now on bleeds. They didn’t before. You can get 3 × 15% bleed increase. Assuming you have piercing arrows, you will have 20% for traits and 45% from runes. This will allow you to use cheaper 37% foods if you wanted.

That is 6 seconds which will give you 12 bleeds pretty easily. You could go for 7 seconds but would give up a lot just do get that 1 second. The runes are pretty cheap also.