Guild Wars 2

Here’s a link for my build
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|5.1h.h9|1.1h.h1j|1h.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719.1h.719|1h.62.1h.62.1h.62.1h.62.1h.62.cb.0|0.a1.u35c.0.u67b|1k.e|4h.4y.4n.4q.54|e

after alot of testing and switching, I finally feel comfortable with that build, i tried replacing conditional damage with power or percision, but ignoring the shortbow’s bleeding is just… wrong.

I go with undead rune, as I don’t have many healing skills, therefore less hp means more effective healing, it’s bad vs conditions, but you can’t have everything, and I get some vitality too from my jewel which is carrion.

some traits and why I chose them.
Shared Anquish Incoming disables (stun, daze, knockback, knockdown, sink, float, fear, launch) are transferred to your pet. This effect can only trigger once every 90 seconds.
this one is a good confusion, and can be a life saver too, will make your opponent target someone else, target your pet or run the other way looking for you.

Expertise Training Pets deal extra condition damage
need some data for this one, anyone can define “extra”?

Bark Skin You and your pet take 30% less damage when under 25% health
another defensive trait, I prefer those because I’m a beastmaster, more offence is a greedy option while I have a pet, therefore I chose defensives, and while running away when I’m outnumbered and dying, this one lowers the damage I take significantly.

Mighty Swap Pets gain 3 stacks of might (10s) when they are activated
while this is not a very popular trait, I benefit from it as I switch the pets whenever I can(no health regeneration for pets therefore they die fast, but that’s fine enemies almost never target pets), and I switch them every 15 sec.

Rending Attacks Drake, feline, devourer, and shark pets bleed on critical hit with their basic attacks
I use jaguar and lynx, bleeding on critical hits plus my bleeding, PLUS their other attacks that bleed, AND their massive damage, super damage.

Instinctual Bond When you are downed, your pet gains quickness
my final defence line, and it saves my kitten vs many, like 80% of the time when i get downed and my enemy has 30$ hp or less, I have enough time to get him down and revive myself with wound lick.

my all time #1 rule: you have 1,200 range on short bow for a reason, stay as far as possible, which could save you from mesmer clones, engineer turrets, necro minions and full melee players, start attacking from the max range.

Feedback is always welcome.

I’m in a somewhat similar build that I’ve been using in WvW to great effect. Though I toned my condition damage down to 1381 with Veggie pizza so I could increase my Crit chance to 35%.

Personally, I prefer Axe/Dagger/SB, but again, this is WvW. The bleeds you can stack with the increased duration is just ridiculous and melts more faces than A Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. Plus with with a fully traited Feline, it’s easy to get at least 21 stacks between both of you. (obviously not individually). It also makes poison quite useful.

I also run with runes of the adventurer for the free dodge on heal Happens a little less often, yes, but Happens when I NEED it to happen.

I personally prefer higher toughness over higher vitality, especially as a BM/condition build, it helps because you can hold your ground and act as bait while using fire trap and bonfire for massive aoe fire damage, while your team mate supports you. Naturally you don’t want to let them come at you and hand you a plate full of pain, so that short bow comes in handy. It works very well for me so give it a shot.

Also switch expertise training for wilderness knowledge, especially if you plan on using a survival skill (QZ or Lightning Reflexes), your pet gains a very small amount of condition damage increase from Expertise training that simply does not out weight the possibility of you being able to reuse that survival skill. Granted that every second counts in a fight for a point or for survival in pvp.

Yea I was wondering how much condition dmg does expertise training do, how much is that in percentage?approximately at least

it gives 350 condi damage to pets . a bleed tick will go from 40ish to 60ish

Expertise training is fine in PvE and I use it sometimes just cause I like to watch numbers fly. But like awge said, shortening cool down on something like lightning reflexes can be invaluable at times in PvP and WvW

You can look on the gw2 wiki for the condition damage formulas and calculate the numbers yourself.

For example bleeding: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bleeding

It also helps you better estimate how to optimize other traits and stats while keeping condition damage high. You don’t need to see 150 bleed numbers to do high damage, you can do a decent 100 [EDIT: bleeds] and put those other stats into toughness or vitality or whatever you think matters.