Guild Wars 2

I have decided to use a shortbow to whittle down health as much as I can until I can use melee, where I will switch to a sword and axe for ny melee. I have decided that my build will be 0/30/10/20/20. I was wondering if that build would suit my playstyle. The trait skills I will use are III/VIII/XI, III, VI, II/XII. I think theses skills would compliment my playstyle. I intend to be very evasive and try to avoid being hit. I’m going to use traps a lot as well whilst I’m in melee to put conditions on them I’m not sure what pets to use though. I am thinking of using, on land, a salamander drake and a lynx and in the water a shark and either a carrion devourer or a whitetail devourer, I’m not sure. If you have any other suggestions/improvements please tell me and adjust my build to make it right please.

This seems like a fun little BM build for PvE. I think a short bow would serve you better. Also, you probably don’t need shared anguish.

Beastmastery II may a bad idea as you can get far more out of 2 pets rotating than 1 pet with a small stat boost. Natural healing is also very weak, the self heal is neglidgable and the pet regen would be higher from the health gain of crit in skirmishing. You may want to consider dropping ALL the beast mastery points and putting them into a line that gives you better base stats to increase your damage or tank.

So what points should I put my beastmastery points into? Because I thought it would be good since it upgrades the pet stats, which is very important. Also I think I wouldn’t be doing too much swapping, I’ll use a Lynx for dps and a drake for tank so I don’t really need to change that much. I might put 20 in beastmastery and put the other 10 in wilderness revival to get the hide in plain sight skill.

Hmm, im no longer sure what damage type you are, the shortbow isnt very good for power and crits and is normally used as a condition weapon. If you are a power build then try using a longbow instead and if if you can free up the trait points, then put 10 into marksmanship for 10% damage while endurance is full. In the end of course it comes down to how you feel works, so dont hesitate to keep altering it as you play, trait resets are dirt cheap. Just be careful about splitting your stats too much its difficult to be power/crit AND condition damage AND tanky.

the shortbow is good for power builds in small range or to kite its still much butter than langbow, so i dont know where you see the problem

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This is the build i use in dungeons.
Basically with this build your just trying to stack vulnerability for your party.
Longbow combo+greatsword combo
#1—>#3—>#2—>#5—>#3—>#1×2—>#2—>swap(greatsword)-#2×2+autos within 10 second swap —>#3-->#2—>#5—>#3—>#1×2—>#2 rinse and repeat.

Only use this against bosses.
I swap out remorseless with piercing arrows when fighting trash mobs.
Just swap to remorseless when fighting bosses
You can swap to singet of the beastmaster(signet of stone) when you need to do parts where you need to absorb damage like examples Dredge zone in fractals when you have to put down the bombs to destroy gate. When doing skips in arah.
This also works well with signet of wild when you need to dps structures only do this in CoF path 1,2. In path 1 use it if your going to do gate zeyphr+sick em+signet of wild while using sword+feline. In path 2 use it on end crystal thing. I use shortbow here since sword doesn’t really work out to well attacking that thing. Use the ledge near the crystal and swap your pet and command it to attack to get your pet to attack the crystal.