Guild Wars 2

Help me out here, please! Traits, runes, sigils, trinkets, pets, etc.

Any help is appreciated!

Hmmm, I would say having good condition damage would be nice with the poisons and bleeds that S/D gives you.

The offhand trait is nice for the dagger; faster recharges and the range on the dagger cripple goes up to like 1200.

The F1 on sword also freely grants your pet Might, so a pet that does good dmg would benefit from this.

As for sigils, it’s largely up to you. I use Purity sigils since I hate using Healing Spring.

Question: is this for PvE or PvP?

Oh and QZ lets you attack like a tasmanian devil for a few seconds.

i’d also focus on crit play. you’ll be focusing primarily on poison (while an okay condition) shouldn’t be your only weapon for this. and give one of your weapons a sigil of rage, and perhaps a boon removal on the other.

but you’ll most likely run the wilderness survival tree since it’s already tied to toughness (to ensure a bit more survivability), and your condition damage will go up. so are you running s/d main? what are your pet’s and what is your secondary weapon set (don’t just go in without a ranged weapon).

pet’s will get the bonus of might every 3’rd auto-attack, and sword gives us some of the best burst possible on a ranger. i like to run duel dog for their knockdown (when opponent is knocked down i pop qz or switch pet for 2s of quickness and burst them down.