Guild Wars 2

So I got my ranger alt to 80 a week or so ago and I have been theory crafting on gw2buildcraft.com… and this is what I think I want to go with:

Main Weapon: Beserker Shortbow of Force (+5% Damage)
Off Weapon: Giver Axe of Geomancy and Giver Warhorn of Battle

Traits: 10/25/5/30/0
Marksmanship
Beastmaster’s Bond: Gain fury and might when your pet’s health reaches 50%
Skirmishing
Sharpened Edges: Chance to cause bleeding on critical hits
Quick Draw: Shortbow and longbow skills recharge 20% faster
Nature Magic
Nature’s Bounty: Regeneration you apply lasts 33% longer
Strength of Spirit: 5% of vitality is given as a bonus to power
Nature’s Protection: Receive protection for 5 seconds when you take more than 10% damage in a single strike. This effect can only trigger once every 30 seconds

Armor: All Valkyrie with 6 Superior Runes of the Ranger.

Goals with this build:
-Double dip with Strength of Spirit for some survivability and added power.
-Maintain near 100% Fury up time (for maintaining adequate crit chance) between Warhorn 5, Rampage as One, Battle Roar(Charr racial) and Beastmaster’s Bond
- Relying on Crit Chance/Damage for extra damage output

Questions: I’m at about 63% crit chance if I maintain 100% fury up time – would it be better to have a lower crit chance (between 55% and 60%) and have more of my stats placed somewhere else?

Otherwise, I look forward to your critiques and making a better build!

I haven’t looked too much into your build but I noticed you took Beastmaster’s Bond. I tried that trait and noticed it sometimes wouldn’t proc….not sure if its been fixed since the last time I tried it.

Based on the minimal research I just did, the general consensus seems to be that the trait is still bugged. Perhaps I will switch it out for Keen Edge and stack some more bleeds.

How do you people survive without empathic bond? I don’t get it.

Eurantien.4632:

How do you people survive without empathic bond? I don’t get it.

Healing Spring.

skill knowing how to play helps alot

Daemon Hawk.9406:

Eurantien.4632:

How do you people survive without empathic bond? I don’t get it.

Healing Spring.

This. Besides, why have your pet taking conditions from you when you can survive more when you’re nearing death by using Bark Skin?

Eurantien.4632:

How do you people survive without empathic bond? I don’t get it.

Personally, I just use my pet as a meat shield, sending it in first so it gets aggro or constantly moving so that my pet is between me and what I am attacking. Healing spring cures conditions if I really need it. This probably wouldn’t work as well in PvP though.

I’m rank 42 in PvP so most of my ranger experience is from PvP even though I’ve done 100% map completion. I just can’t live (literally) without empathic bond or the 30 sec CD on healing spring. I guess this is because every team in PvP has at least 1 if not 2 condition specs that if you cannot cleanse rapidly enough you will die and standing in a healing spring is almost always a death sentence. As for bark skin, why would I want the equivalent of perma protection at like 4k health when I am getting killed by conditions that negate the dmg protection? I feel like I can always dodge or CC power/crit bulds but you can’t do the same for condi builds usually. Which Is why I always take empathic bond.