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I’d only go 30 WS if you want empathic bond, which I see as more a PvP trait. The guy who does the Pain Inverter videos was running with bark skin in one (30% less damage when under 25% health – it works out to the equivalent of 10.7% more hp), so maybe that’s viable too. But that too seems to be a PvP trait since in PvE you can usually withdraw if you get that low and let your pet/party take the heat.
20 Skirmishing gives you two important things:
- Carnivorous appetite, the heal on crit skill. I agree that most of the time it doesn’t make a difference, but by the same token most of the time it doesn’t matter if you put the extra 10 points into Skirmishing or WS. It’s those extreme cases where it matters – champion bosses and group event bosses. During those, it’s very helpful for keeping your pet alive.
- Trapper’s expertise – makes traps ground targeted and 50% larger. This will cumulatively save you tons of time since you won’t have to run up to melee range, drop the trap, and run back. It’ll also eliminate all the deaths you suffer while doing that due to being in range of a boss’ point-blank AOE.
To me, the essentials for a BM build are:
30 BM
- Your choice of adept trait
- Rending attacks – bleed on crit, though it limits you to cats, drakes, devourers, and the shark. Works best with the cats since they have a naturally high crit rate.
- Natural healing – regenerates both the pet and you in combat, despite what the tooltip says. Frees you up from carrying the regen signet to top off your hp between heals.
20 Skirmishing
- Pet’s prowess – pet does 30% more damage on crits
- Carnivorous appetie – pet heals on crit (swap for trapper’s expertise when you don’t need, or you can go for 20% faster bow skills if you dislike targeted traps)
10 WS
- Expertise training – pets deal extra condition damage. Makes the bleeds 60 per sec instead of 42 per sec at level 80. (Swap for soften the fall or 20% faster wilderness skills if you like quickening zephyr, lightning reflexes, and muddy terrain.
The remaining 10 points you can put where you like. Good candidates are 10 Marksmanship for malicious training (extends the duration of all those bleeds your pet is applying by 50%, though this only really matters on veteran mobs and in dungeons). Or you can raise Skirmishing to 30 to get the double trap condition duration trait, which will add a helluva lot more damage to your flame trap (goes from about 1k to 2k damage) than +100 condition damage will add (adds 5 damage per bleed stack, 25 damage per burning sec). Or raise WS to 20 for hide in plain sight or 20% quicker cooldown on sword skills.
just a warning though. you gotta make sure youre doing enough damage on your own and helping your team in other ways because your pet will often be dead in dungeons, regardless of your skill.
That’s why I think 20 skirmishing for targeted traps is so vital. You can be a BM first, trap ranger second.
If you hate the ground targeted traps, try turning the “faster ground targeting” option on. That makes it so ground targeted skills fire immediately below your mouse pointer. So traps will be as easy to use as when they weren’t ground targeted, you just need to be sure the mouse pointer is over your targeted area before you fire the trap.
What armor you use for this BM Build? p/t/h ?
Hi one question pls, What stats you use in armor and jewel whith this 10/30/30/0/0 meditations build?
Pls can share you Build pls..?
Wow I can’t believe what I’m reading. Guardian is flat out awesome for WvW. I just got my 3100th kill in WvW today. I have only lost once in 1v1 (since adjusted my skills) and I have won a number of 2v1 fights.
Wall of Reflection is amazing, so is the support tome. Nothing quite like healing to full when they’re already having a hard time killing you. Its going to be a very long time until I get bored enough to play another class in WvW.
Can you post your build, please? Just curious.
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#Mmcz0mM0mRTbomRTboGx0G0MkzMqzs
hi, What stats you use in armor whith this build?
Pls alanis can you post the build? thx