Ok first of the main idea of the build started out as a condition damage build, stacking bleeds fast and other conditions not as fast but so they are there to hopefully be removed first before the bleeds from condition removal. with this thought in mind, the weapons i chose are the Axe/Dagger, the axe/dagger is great because it is range 900 (except skill 4) and has conditions like crazy. the axe one skill ricochets and with my crit raiting at 62% and the sigil of earth stacking a bleed 60% on a crit, i can put bleeds on multiple people, also if i hit either 75% health or have sharpening stone up, i stack a bleed anyway. the 2 skill is a fan of 5 axe's that also stack bleed, and if i am close enough that an opponent gets hit by multiple blades it stacks multiple bleeds. the 3 skill is a great chill condition shot. skill 4 is a close range dodge and poison stike, so i dont often hit it, but if someone is close it's a nice dodge and condition. and skill 5 is great because it cripples and stacks 3 bleeds at once.
My second weapon is the shortbow, also good for some conditions and nice range which is 1200. I chose this as my second weapon because the 1 skill or auto attack stacks bleeds if i hit from the side or back, and fires VERY fast (though not a ton of damage, it can crit often hopefully stacking more bleeds from the sigil or earth). the second skill is sort of like the axe skill 2 but this time it fans out poison arrow shots. the third skill is a great dodge back shot that grants swiftness so if someone gets close i can get away. skill 4 applies a bleed and a cripple, so that helps to stack the bleeds and keep people away. the skill 5 is a good daze shot, or stun if i am behind (i rarely am though).
the skills i went with are healing spring, which heals me ok, but places down an AOE that grants regen to everyone and also perodicly removes a condition, not sure if that includes me or is only allies the way the tooltip reads. the regen is nice because you can run out, attack some run back in and regain the regen buff (3 seconds or so) i dont have much in healing so it's not huge but maybe an extra 3-5 thousand. i take two traps next, the spike trap which applies a bleed (3 stacks) and a cripple, and the flame trap which of course applies burning. i took a talent that makes the traps rechard faster and also be ground targeted and bigger in AOE size. i already covered sharpening stone but basicaly it makes my next 5 attacks apply a bleed. my elite skill i have changed recently because i notice that against more competant foes, entangle was usualy wasted because they just mist out or tele/shadow out or hit stability, so i have now gone with rampage as one which gives me stability, fury, and swftness for 20seconds (a lot in my opinion) and when i attack my pet gets might and when my pet attacks i gain might (which also lists 20 seconds though i am not sure if it stacks for each attack). so i think that will help out a bit more vs mesmers and guardians, or the damn 100 blades warrior thing where they use bull charge or whatever keeps knocking me down and then hitting that combo. plus with my power at 2395, the extra might wont hurt, and the fury makes my crit 82% so bleeds should stack even faster.
the talents i took are: Marksmanship 10p: (III) a sharpening stone auto cast on me when i hit 75% health (more DOTS) and my first attack in a fight does vulnerability. Skirmashing 30p: (II) (VIII) (XI) and the passives giving me fury and swiftness on weapon swap (more crit, MORE DOTS) and 10% more damage while flanking, not entirely useful to me but hey i cant choose it :-p. the (II) trait says it is a chance to cause bleed on crit, but it doesn't say what the chance is so... why not. (VIII) is the trait that makes the traps i have bigger and ground targetable. (XI) is the 20% fatser trap recharge with longer conditions. last i went with Wilderness Survival 30p: (III) (VIII) (XI) the passives here giving endurance regen +50%, gain protection on dodge roll, and 5% extra damage above 90% health (not often, haha). this trait line was a little harder to choose, but i know i wanted a lot in the line because it is condition damage. for (III) i decided on incoming disables are transfered to my pet (every 90 seconds cooldown) which hopefully helps me avoid knockdowns and other guardian/mesmer crap. (VIII) is a gain regen when hit with damage condition, which i chose over what i used to have (survival skills recharge faster) because i only had one survival skill now instead of two. lastly (XI) pets periodically take conditions from me, again no clue how often, but otherwise i dont really have condition removal (unless the heal does work on me too) so i figured i needed this to try and help vs other condition builds (which are all the rage right now i think).
because of the almost hybrid power/condition way i was going for ( a lot more condition then power though) i did not take the rune of undead, the 10% of toughness i think is 63 points, so i went with a little more power and survivability and took the rune of adventure. with this i get 100 condition 35 power, and on heal (which i use a lot) i get 100% endurance. i like to dodge a lot. i am very open on debate of which armour rune i should go for, cause i just didn't know here. as far as amulet, i went with rampager/rampager which is how the crit % is so high but also gives good condition damage and small power (and some VIT).
lastely i decided to go with Cynic and take the poison pets, one being the merrelow bear (self targeted poison AOE) and then the carrion devourer (a ranged AOE poison). i might also switch one of those up for the hawk,depending on if i feel like i should have more bleed effects, the F2 power of the hawk is a 6 second cooldown bleed attack. i think with the recent testing i can stack bleeds fast enough that having two pets with poison works out better, since i only have 1 attack that does poison.
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