Guild Wars 2

FaceFoiled.5142:

- Preferred pets, and why
- Preferred weapons, and why
- Preferred stats, and why

Wolf for the aoe fear, cripple, knockdown and medium damage. eagle for swiftness and high damage.

Shortbow for bleeds, poison and mobility. greatsword for survivability and aoe.

crit and condition are prefered stats due to stacking bleeds by crit and mobility.

20 in both the wilderness survival and beastmaster line to gain passive survivability and increase the pets stats and reduce the CD on pet swap and gives them might on activation.

30 in skirmishing for trap condition duration and cd redux, shortbow cd redux and bleed on crit

This setup allows me to constantly switch my pets every 10 secs giving them 3 stacks of might for that duration as well as gaining quickness for 2 secs every 10 secs. additionally it also gives me a knockdown, swiftness, aoe fear, bleed, weakness every 20 secs.

conditions from traps and elite and bow skills deal consistant dmg from myself while the pet deals the more direct damage.

I would trait how you want and use stats to fill in the gaps. you should reach a happy medium between damage and survivability. Also remember that the Thiefs mobility is his/her main defence. Additionally take 15 in the power line to grab that trait. its a godsend, you more or less gain 100% uptime on weakness which reduces damage incomming by 50%.

I played an enhance shaman and rogue in wow and currently i enjoy the ranger and thief.
Although i would say a a thief with a dagger/pistol + pistol/pistol setup or a double axe + greatsword warrior.