Guild Wars 2

Easy first attack damage boost
Signet of the Hunt applies a 16 minute buff to your active pet when used. Yes, 16 minute. Activate it, wait for the relatively short cooldown, then swap it or keep it for the passive. The buff stays until your pet attacks or you swap pets (or dies, but the likelyhood of that before the pet gets an attack off is low).

I believe the better you get the more you lean towards higher damage as it becomes easier to stay alive from skill. However, at some point you are going to want to play condition ranger since there are so many viable condition builds. I’d say get both.

Unless you’re going for a legendary, it’s hard to waste karma since this game tends to give you more than you can ever use, but honestly the gear you want won’t come from the karma vendor.

You’ll almost always want most of your gear with Berserker stats. Some people swear by using full berserker sets, but personally, I run with a 3 Soldier (power/tough/vital) pieces to supplement my berserker gear.

However, in the end, it will depend on what build you’re running as to what suits you best.

Does anyone else like the idea of having an in game ranger guild that is specifically for rangers only? It would be more along the lines of a guild people can join and then represent it to ask other rangers in the game questions for quicker opinions/responses than posting on a forum, or for find pets or dungeons or whatever else people would want.

30/20/5/0/15

Run this

don’t ever run without 5 in Wilderness, you’ll hate it trust me.

30 skirmishing brings absolutely nothing useful as a glass cannon build, its much better for traps.

If you’re not going to invest the 5 points in wilderness, put it in Skirmishing for the 10% damage on flanking.

otherwise follow a build like that.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQJAVTjEVR2VWCWsWCitgmiM1f2DDxoE9Pk+LWqKJ;T8Ag1ynEOJdS9kyJKqMUJoySljKJVrKGasBB

this is is what i am going for when i hit 80. please give me your feedback.