Guild Wars 2

I’m considering playing a Ranger starting tomorrow if the patch brings the mentioned changes to spirits and pets (I have been waiting since launch to play Ranger because I liked those two things but they weren’t very good).
Wanting to be a Ranger focused on the pet and spirits, I’m taking 30 in Nature Magic and 20 in wilderness survival for increased pet and self condition damage and because I like Warhorn and Shortbow.
Looking at builds, though, I can’t decide on 20 in Beastmastery for the bonus to pet attributes and the ability to give certain pets bleed on critical, or 20 into skirmishing for shortbow recharge and the chance for pets to do extra damage on criticals.
Also, I looked over pets and am not sure which to choose for a primarily conditions based pet. Boar, Devourer, and spider pets have the conditions on their regular skills, but several other things, like eagles, have quick f2 abilities that inlict bleed, and I don’t know which is best.
Thanks for any insight for a soon to be Ranger (hopefully).

Lynxes do plenty of bleeds, with maul, their F2 and the beastmastery trait. Their current downside is the long F2 activation time, but if that goes down…

I have been playing spirits lately, granted its Tpvp / spvp but I have had a ton of success rolling with fire trap, sun spirit + stone spirit with entangling roots is working wonders, I’m also using a raven as there blind ability is on a short cd and is just ace while it complements sun spirits activation blind and my lynx will inflict bleeds to complement and cover up the burn condition, It’s surprisingly powerful, I will post the build when I am home from work, downside of course is the spirits health pool but its viable at least at the level of play I’m at and fun, have not tested in wvw yet though