If you wish for some kind of Zerk style build, best to get 15 in nature magic and let those might stacks from allies beef your pet why waste all those boons in a zerg, of course you’ll need a party with allies for those boons but your pet will survive , with skermishing traits from power,peircion and toughness/condi damage , or even the zerg gear you want, but over all your runes and traits need to be in the wilderness trees for toughness 2.6k with momentum sigils and WvW guard stacks should give you enough hp and more power .
pets heal on crits , crits give pets might, stacked with sigil of Strength and Piercing arrows , will grant a near immortal pet As long as you keep shooting/ attacking doing crits
Longbow/ axe+warhorn would be a good choice lots of crits and a blast(sigil of stregth again for more might, each crit will give you 1 might and your pet 2 stacks of might plus the healing from crits heal your pet.
runes i’d go for toughness+power runes runes with a boon duration of somesorts. an idea of 20/30/0/20
PPT weapons for crit bonus and PVT Trinkets ect
should get you to near 45% crit chance add the maintance oil and your good to go,
Toughness+power a little vit for hp with guard stacks you’ll hav some good hp (not say great but it’ll do if your use to being on your toes)
your power will be constantly buffed by crits gain might.
and ou can use Carrot Soufflé or i’d suggest a Condi duration reduction food with toughness runes that reduce condi duration.
all this with a Jaguar pet and a Draken hound or Bird with blind or bleeds (Aoe immobile will let you barrage your targets before they get a chance to react giving you more taggs/downs/kills = more power from food or gaining more crits upping you and your pets damage to 25might stacks if you hit enough.
this ism’t tested but its what i use to run and partly still do in WvW but after the crit damage changes i subbed out my crit damage in place for condi damage and control through muddy terrain and survival of the fittest for condi removals.
the 20/30/0/20 could be used with striders defence , two handed training and natures protection (as you don’t have protect on dodge roll.
down sides still toughness but not as much as zerk
still near very little condi removal so take a sigil of (quickness and a condi sigil of purity for condi removals + signet of renewal) even with this it still have the problem of on demad removal out of healing spring but shouldn’t be a problem if your 200-300 yards behind the front line of the zerg second tagging and killing the people that break through the front line.
for the marksman tree 10% damage or beastmasters bond(as you’ll gain might and fury so will your pet this will help you maintain your might and fury durations maximising your power and crits to heal your pet.
the other two utiliies i’d suggest a human signet Prayer to Kormir with the signet mastery for 20% less time 36secs 3 condis plus your prot condi removal it’ll help with the spike condis.
the other one frost trap or spike trap though they may not do as much damage as other options they help your pet hit with the 25stacks of might while fighting mid zerg.
other options for signet or a slow down skill would be muddy terrain/guard(to hide your pet a second time avoiding focus damage allows you to rapidly heal the pet though crits while he hides by you close ready to punce and signet of the hunt to up your damage.
with guard too you can take Melandru runes for toughness/more condi time reduction and stun duration.
Or Rune of the Trooper for a shout condi removal every 15secs while protecting your pet from unneeded damage pull him away from a Aoe saving the might stacks)
prot hit 1 condi , signet 3 condis , signet of Renewal 1 condi very 10secs and one eery 15secs a rotation should keep you good and healing spring will keep the heavy condis off, but ALL this will leave you with a lack of regen making you use Troll Ungent .
if you have a balanced Team of friends or guildies with a regen bunker or guardain you’ll be laughing but as always a zerker type will alway have to be on his toes regardless of where he is it won’t be easy zerging .
