Guild Wars 2

Finally decided to main as my Ranger in GW2 and having a blast at it. Without reading too much into the forums, I ended up going for what appears to be relatively popular — GS main weapon going into BM, WS, and others. Still working out the details, but more on that in a second. As it is right now, I use a Drake and a Arctodus as my pets. I don’t particularly PvP or WvW at all, but I may get there at some point. I’m trying to create a durable melee with strong synergy in pet and weapon swapping.

I have two questions:

1) Do pets inherit stats from the master? That is, will bleeds hit harder if I stack Cond Damage?

2) Using GS and Axe+WH, a significant portion of my damage is from bleeds. I also use Fire Trap regularly… does it make sense to go into Condition Damage or should I stick to Power/Precision?

Thanks, hopefully I can get some info!

To put a bit more info, I’m not entirely sure the endgame build I’m going to run with. I’m level 35 now after a few days levelling — I definitely want 20 in BM and 20 in WS at the very least. Focusing almost 100% on PvE.

From there it looks like I can focus on a crit build, a trap build, or a general power build. All of them seem really awesome! I guess I’m just looking for some general build guidance. Once I know whether or not Cond damage is worth it with the base weapon set, that will guide my decisions I think.

Can Bleeds and Burning and whatnot crit?