Guild Wars 2

Been playing GW2 for awhile now, and feel that it’s time I actually started playing my guard. He’s been sitting, a bit neglected, in the back of my character queue and I would really like to get him some exercise.
What is a good GS/Hammer build for WvW (including armor needed, please)? I would like to use most of my time for roaming.
Thanks!

Edit: Meditations sound the most fun to me, if that helps…

is an i5 or an i7 a better option?
and will the i5 run gw2 well in wvw?
WvW is where i do most of my work levelling/playing and such.
Thanks for the advice.

What would a better option for a CPU be? I’m at a loss as to how to proceed. Would really like some options.

Running with a new computer for almost a year now, I have never had trouble with any of my games. They’ve all worked fine, even on nearly the highest settings. However, I have had tons of trouble with GW2. The gameplay is choppy and slow, even when running around solo. A friend has an older GPU and his game runs perfectly on nearly the highest settings. The only differences between our systems is that he runs an older GPU, an intel CPU, and windows 7.

I am using:
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
CPU: AMD A8-5600K APU (w/Radeon HD graphics)
16GB ram
Windows 8.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks much

Edit: Also, GW2’s auto-detect put my settings at high enough that my FPS ended up being 11-15, just running around lion’s arch.

Rhino.9607:

Dragons:

Red: F2: Flames/Lava base damage

Blue: F2: Wate Base damage

White: F2: Wind base damage

Black: F2: Knock back, knock down, stun-lock

Green: F2: Posion base damage

Brown: F2: earth base damage

Yeah, cuz it’s not like the entire purpose of our characters in this game is to defeat a group of Elder Dragons or anything.

As cool as dragons are…no need to have them as pets. I love my Arctodus
New pets are awesome, I just dont see the need to put dragons as pets/mounts/what have you, in EVERY game…