Hello,
What I’m using is what I call a Phantasm ‘annoy the enemy to a great extent’ build, in my opinion it provides sufficient damage, I’m able to support my friends in WvW and dungeons while still being able to slay most enemy players in 1v1s should I ever get into that situation.
Weapons
For me, I’ve found that using Staff + Sword/Pistol works great in normal PvE and dungeons, and Greatsword + Sword/Pistol in scenarios where I fight a single or few enemies at once, and in WvW because of the Phantasmal Beserker. (Seeing a group of people being hit for 4k +/- damage never gets old, they usually jump away and lose their original focus).
Heal, Profession skills and elites
“Eather Feast” most of the time, but sometimes I use “Mirror” because of its projectile blocking capabilities.
For WvW I use “Arcane Thievery”, “Blink”, “Signet of Domination”. The beauty of this combination is that you have condition removal, boon stealing (hey there Guardians!), you can teleport away 1200 units with Blink every 24s and that also breaks stun, and you get a extra stun ability from the Signet of Domination. This is very useful if you get in a 1v1 fight, as you’ll have two stun abilities (one on your pistol as well).
For PvE/Dungeons it highly depend on the scenario really, I usually switch out “Arcane Thievery” with “Null Field” or “Phantasmal Disenchaterer” to better support the whole group, and the Phantasm also provides regeneration to the whole group every now and then. Blink I most defiantly switch out, very often I replace it with “Radiation Field” (Asura skill), but “Feedback” is also a good choice.
For Elite i choose “Time Warp”, I simply love that skill, its very useful in any situation.
Traits
Numbers: * 10/20/10/25/5
*Majors (WvW): III, I, IX, III, V, IV
Majors (Dungeons): III, III, V, IV, and the two last ones depend on the situation of the group and the enemies. Actually, all of them do, but particularly the final two ones.
Runes & Armor
Havn’t really looked too much into the “perfect armour/rune build”, I’m using 6 Runes of the Undead on my armour, they are cheap and gives good +Condition Damage. I have a mix really between all types of gear, at 80 my stats are (rounded) 1600 / 1700 / 1100 / 1200. I have 2600 Attack rating, 41% Critical chance, 1900 Armour and 18200 Health and about 650 Condition Damage. All from some rares I purchased for about 20-40s per piece.
Playing the build
Pretty easy actually, get phantasms up, stun anything that tries to run away, blink away if anything gets too close
Its not the perfect build, I would prefer a Dungeon build and a WvW build, but until ArenaNet implements such a feature in GW2 this will have to do for me