Condition Soulbeast

Merge with your Pet by using . This will improve the following skills:

• causes you to inflict additional Bleeding
• will copy your boons to yourself thereby increasing their duration and doubling their stacks.

You gain an Attribute Bonus depending on your Pet's archetype. On Condition Damage builds, you want to merge with a Deadly archetype for the +150 Condition Damage and +100 Precision.

Inflict Bleeding by dealing Critical Hits. Attack from the sides or back, or against defiant foes to trigger and Weapon Swap frequently to maintain Fury and Swiftness.

Your Short Bow skills are also improved when attacking from the sides or back, or against defiant foes:

• inflicts longer lasting Poison
• inflicts Immobilize
• inflicts Stun, rather than Daze.

Prior to start encounters, you can precast the following:

• +

Don't cast and too early as they don't last very long!

Use your Short Bow skills off Cooldown with the following priority:

Use your Auto Attack when you don't have any skills to use.

The next step would be to also these additional skills off Cooldown:

provides you with a 10% increase in Strike Damage and Condition Damage. In order to trigger this trait, you need to use Defiance Break:

Delay if you already see the buff from is active due to recently using .

Dodges and will apply , and can be cast before the encounter or during downtime.