Guild Wars 2

I’d like some advice and guidance from my ranger community about how to make a proper trapper out of myself. My current most successful build is this.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMUQNAV8YjAV11xVCWg2Bi2DKJJMxecIH9oXh0nyVqAZSA;T0AgyCnooyQlgKLVOqkUtIY8x5j9HvPA

…But it hurts my soul not to have loud whistle, and I have problems with pet mortality, between not being able to cycle them as often and dropping so many conditions on them with WS XI. Plus, loud whistle just has such utilitarian value; much more frequent quickness, more pet F2 skills…the works.

Sometimes I’ll try to include loud whistle by going 0/30/20/5/15 instead and using healing spring instead of troll unguent for condition removal. Having loud whistle is nice, but this is always a shaky setup; I feel like troll unguent and empathic bond works better for me overall in terms of survivability and I tend to find myself struggling a lot harder to live with 30/20/5/15. Plus, it’s rough having to take up my armor with runes of dwayna just to make my heal pull its weight. So I swap back to 30 30 10, and start missing loud whistle. Grass is always greener.

Lately I’ve been considering going double wolf with the 30 30 10 since wolves are still quite strong and will -definitely- survive the 20 second cycle (it’s always the snow leopard that dies). But then I wouldn’t have my awesome snow leopard DPS or chill, and I wouldn’t know what to do with skirmishing 10. I could put it to pet speed and take a third trap, but I feel like I’d really be lonely for signet of the hunt. Mobility is such a blessing. I’ve considered dropping SoTH and taking a warhorn, but I love my dagger.

I’d love something to settle on. Something to feel secure in, and good about. It’s just been endless waffling, and sometimes it’s been hard to test what’s really working better or worse. So I want suggestions. I want to see successful trap builds. I want opinions. Help!

I assume you mean PvP? Personally, I prefer just running double canine. If you really want to drop something for loud whistle, then I’d probably say to drop 5 out of Skirmishing, but I wouldn’t go that direction myself.

Empathic bond does not drop conditions on your pet. Problem solved.