Guild Wars 2

Magic Find -

I’m making an exotic travelers set since I don’t want to kitten myself on damage just because I’m playing solo, with that said despite food buffs and using gear alone what is the best method to pushing my MF as high as I possibly can.

I know once I make the set I can fill it with 5 runes of the pirate, the sixth rune seems useless in the long run so what would I throw in there that would be helpful, Is there another rune or gem that I can use to fill that slot with more magic find?

On that note, I’ve noticed in Spvp that my aquatic helm counts as a 7th rune set slot does this also come into consideration in PvE?

Where is the best place to acquire an end game aquatic helm because I’m currently sporting a level 35 helm and I’ll need multiple for each set if that 7th slot remains true.

Do Sigils of luck with 2 one-handed weapons stack? or should I be replacing the second sigil for something else when I’m not sporting a shortbow?

Bleed/Mitigation -

This would be my attempted build so far – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYUQRAqY4YlcmKPndy9E95EBnCjqUvHfFtdtTxV1KA

It focuses on P/D for prolonged single target bleeding, some nice control effects, team support and D/D for burst AoE bleeding, considering the amount of stealthing I’ll be doing with my 5 and shroud my traits fall into line and focus heavily on init & health sustain.

I had thought about working the shortbow in there instead of D/D but it seems even with Sigil of agony the bleeding done with cluster bomb last for a pretty pathetic amount of time as far as I’ve tested it.

Hopefully that link works but if it doesn’t my traits are 0/0/20/20/30

Shadow arts – V – X

Acrobatics – II – X

Trickery – III – VIII – IX

I don’t want to waste trait points on Deadly Arts if I can help it, the +bleed duration is nice but hopefully if I can gear right I won’t have to worry about duration or wasting points and gaining more power.

I have to decide between a Carrion or Rabid set each one at least to me anyway seem to have a wasted stat to them (power for Carrion and precision for Rabid) power is useless if I’m focusing on bleeding damage and duration and nothing in my traits seems to trigger off of criticals that would help with bleeding as far as I can tell.

So in the end what it would come down to is which stat either Toughness or Vitality is more useful inside of a dungeon, I know Toughness mitigates raw damage while Vitality deals better with over time damage but which is more prevalent in most dungeons, currently it seems from the explorables that I have done I get one or 2 shot by rapid damage but that may have been down to my dungeon choices so far and the fact that I am only using beserkers gear at this point.

This may be entirely wrong but if the 7th rune slot actually works then I should be able to go 5 runes of nightmare and 2 runes of krait, however this brings up another question, what is the difference between bleed duration and condition duration, condition duration on the runes of nightmare seem to have a pretty sad percentage so that leads me to thinking I may be going about this the wrong way, rune of the mad king as a nice 15% duration in there somewhere so should I try and prioritize that over nightmare?

My final question for now is somewhere in there I have the trait that allows me to gain might upon dodging, does might effect bleed damage as well as raw damage? or does it only work one way?