Guild Wars 2

I play a warrior or mesmer for my “hardcore” stuff like Fractals and other dungeons, but I was very dissatisfied with the way both of those classes felt when using magic find gear. They just aren’t entertaining if they don’t have crazy high damage, so I’ve decided that Ranger will be my magic find class.

I want to run a beastmaster build as pet damage is unaffected by gear (so my MF gear will not cripple me as much). I want to use drakes primarily as their AoE damage is the highest (if I’m wrong about this, correct me).
My options for gear are Power/Precision or Power/Condition or some combination thereof.
I don’t mind being melee without survivability – that’s basically how I play this game (though I’ve noticed it’s very hard to dodge effectively with 1h Sword on rangers; tips for this would be appreciated). I also don’t mind being ranged. What should I be using weapon/gear/trait-wise to maximize my kill rate in farming scenarios?

Hmm…something like this may work for what you’re looking for:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRBMhx+1JRFVWGZhVQsWII6H4ErwhePSv6bv/woyYoPeBB;TQArMGZsFZKC(copy and paste link)

This is a variant of a 1h sword build that I run in dungeons from time to time. The basic goal is to supplement pet dps by stacking might on them through the 1h sword attack, warhorn, sigil of battle, and sigil of strength, so you’ll want to swap back and forth between weapon sets frequently.

You could easily go for providing condition damage with the torch, which would work well with the blast finisher from drakes or you could go with an axe offhand if you prefer direct damage along with the ability to reflect projectiles.

That looks pretty impressive. I like the idea of using the fire field from the torch to stack might by having 2 drakes use their tail blast. I’ll give this a shot. Thanks very much for the suggestions.

A tip for 1h sword chain, take it off auto cast, it will do wonders!!