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[Kumori Tensei]

Hello everyone, My name is Kumori and I'm trying to get some input from you better rangers out there about my new build. It's nothing revolutionary or anything. I just would like to get some advice and pointers and such about this new set up I have.

I run in all exotics with +% crit damage, and the jewelry is the same the ruby orichalcum ones. I mainly do Dungeons and other PvE stuff for now.

http://gw2skills.net...as14qRWzyixI7FA

This is the build I'm running so feel free to suggest changes to it if you see fit.

I really just wanna do steady damage with little condition damage sprinkled in there from my SB auto.

[Dahk]

Solid build, but I'd recommend a few small changes:
Swap Sig of Stone for Lightning Reflexes and drop the first 5 in Nature Magic for 5 more in Wilderness Survival.  Use these 5 points in WS to get Vigorous Renewal.

Lightning Reflexes won't make you immune like Sig of Stone, but it will give you an escape from stun on a much shorter cooldown along with an increase to your endurance regen to help you stay at full endurance more often (10% more damage with I in Marks).

Vigorous Renewal is suggested for pretty much the same reason.  Vigor will allow you to dodge more and thus get protection more often as well as to get you to full endurance faster.

[Dahk]

Oh, one more small thing.  Instead of taking a hyena, consider a Krytan Drakehound or Alpine Wolf.  You'd think that the hyena would do more damage since their F2 ability duplicates them, but they have half as much power as any other canine, so they tend to do less damage than the other canines, even when they use their F2.

[Jornemormel]

Another small thing, the cooldowns on your sigils (% chance on critical to do x) tend to overlap. I'm sorry that I can't quote where I read this but if you procced the Sigil of Rage (45 second cooldown), for the next 45 seconds you won't see the Sigil of Superior Fire proc.

That makes the Sigil of Rage a bad choice, considering it's a random proc. (I prefer timed quickness for being able to res, burst when I need to etc...)

In dungeons one of my personal favorites is the wolf, the F2 ability (fear) is one of the few conditions bosses are usually not immune to. But remember to swap your pets around when you see fit (And I don't mean F4, just don't get stuck on always using the same pets.)

[Kumori Tensei]

Dahk, on 29 November 2012 - 08:37 PM, said:

Lightning Reflexes won't make you immune like Sig of Stone,

What do you mean about the immunity?

[Palthiron]

I think he was thinking you had Signet of the Beastmaster? That would turn Signet of Stone into a 6s invulnerability for you and the pet, but obviously you need to get 30 Marks to use it.

[Dahk]

Yea, I meant the invulnerability from the Signet of the Beastmaster trait.  ArenaNet has stated that they want to address signets, but until they do, Signet of Stone just doesn't really give enough toughness to be that solid as a passive signet and the long cooldown makes it too weak to be that reliable on activation either.

[Kumori Tensei]

So I just revised my build, And I do like lightning reflexes instead of Signet of Stone. It only gave me 30 toughness I believe. LR or the Mud trap are really nice utilities

[Dahk]

Kumori Tensei, on 06 December 2012 - 04:36 PM, said:

So I just revised my build, And I do like lightning reflexes instead of Signet of Stone. It only gave me 30 toughness I believe. LR or the Mud trap are really nice utilities

I still see SoS in your build, but I'm not sure if that's intentional or not, but the build looks solid to me.