Guild Wars 2

I’m sorta at a loss as to where I want my ranger to be.

I was working towards a particular build and would like some input on it. I can’t link to the build site right now so I’ll lay it out the best I can.

30/10/30/x/x

Signet Mastery; Piercing Arrow/Eagle Eye (situational); and Signet of the Beastmaster

Pet’s Prowess

Natural Vigor; Vigorous Renewal; and Empathic Bond

Armor is Knights of the Dolyak

Longbow of accuracy (I can’t remember what prefix I went with)

Rabid Sword of accuracy and Rabid Torch (I can’t remember what suffix is on the torch but it increased precision, condition dmg and one other stat)

Trinkets are all Berzerker of the Knight (so Berzerker with Emeralds)

The pet of choice would be birds or cats for their high crit chance to take advantage of prowess.

Utilities are mostly signets.

Signet of Stone and Signet of the Hunt are both musts. The third I’m at a loss with. Should I go trap to get more out of condition damage? Also, is it any good to go with the flame trap if I already have bonfire? Go with a third Signet to take advantage of the grandmaster trait? Or should I go with something like “Protect Me” and maybe even change out Pet’s Prowess to something that benefits me and keeping the pet on passive and close by to use as a meat shield? Perhaps going with a wolf for the AoE fear, keep on passive and use protect me….

Or is this just a bad build in general?

It’s not too far off from what I run I guess, I used to grandmaster in marksman until I realized my points were better spent elsewhere for the way I play so I did some reshufflign. This is more or less what i run:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.4|7.1h.a2.f.1b.hf|1.1p.a1|1o.a4.1o.a4.1o.a4.1o.a4.1o.a4.1o.a4|1i.62.1i.62.1i.62.1b.62.1b.62.1c.67|k06.a5.u6ac.0.a6|3l.d|4j.4r.4p.4y.55|e

I change out a few trait skills here and there and of course swap my heal as needed, but for me it’s a decent balance of survivability and strong sustained damage output. I use a cat as my main dps pet for the high crits and bleeds (thebirds just seem to die way too fast for my taste) and a warthog for my swap since it is a little tanky and has knockdowns and EW search, which usually gets me some useful items.
You were asking about your 3rd utility, if you do go a trap I think flame trap would be too redundant, use another one. I would say a survival skill but unless you trait for them, might want to stick with a trap.

Thnx. I’ll have to wait to get home in order to see the link. I think the work network blocks the function so the link takes me to the page but only shows a blank build.

Yeah must be your work’s network or something, I just double checked on my end to make sure. Your build focuses more on direct damage but mine is kind of a hybrid, but we do run similar stuff so I was just hoping I could help you with some ideas on your build. The reason I chose axe over sword was for the multiple target hits as well as giving me kiting room (since I’m using a GS instead of a bow, I needed more wiggle room) but with your setup a s/t is fine and you could even still benefit a lot from the survival skills if you so choose.