Guild Wars 2

So, I’m kinda curious about what gear and builds people will head into the raid with first. Are you going to head in with zerker or are you tanking up with soldiers gear?

I’m sure a lot of people will switch things up once they actually get a chance to try things out a bit, but I’m still wondering what people will use for their first shot.

Personally, I will probably just stack on in soldier’s gear with an intelligence sigil on my engi as scrapper. I figure that if this content is half as difficult as they’ve hyped it up to be, I won’t clear things on the first attempt and defensive gear will at least allow me to see more of the fight before the first wipe so that I can learn the mechanics.

I think our first attempt will be my individual raiders speculation on their primary builds (there has been some heavy speculation haha), then once we get our kitten kicked a few times we’ll start switching things up to react to the encounter.

I’ve lined up a few key points I want to determine (how effective certain buffs will be, what sortof uptime we will have on those buffs with all 10 players, etc). I’m going in planning to kill this thing obviously, but my primary goal is to gather as much key information about raiding in general as I can.

EDIT: Forgot to throw in my personal build, haha.
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAse8cncfCtfilfC+fCUrhFVjiMAKgirsDKhlrOZn2qF-ThBBABYt/o8DgTqgh6fGV9nAeSBnpEkUAjqrC-e

I feel it maximizes mesmers alacrity output, while still focusing on doing as much damage as we can at the same time. The off hand sword will be swapped for focus if warden will be useful in this encounter. Same goes for the Master traits in Domination, if we have adds that we can interrupt we should run Furious Interruption for the added quickness (as throwing out our shield on CD will provide plenty of interrupts), otherwise we run Shattered Concentration for the boon stripping, as Blurred Inscriptions is no longer worth it as we wont be running signet.

Main builds with energy sigil. I will try to swap traits/utilities around first. Maaaaybe will use some tanky pieces if nothing will work.

Probably start with the defensive P/S +TK condi engi build. Probably sinister gear might swap to Rabid if I think it’ll help survival. We’ll see. I’ll only be tanking up if I start seeing persistent unavoidable damage, outside that I’ll just have to learn to play better.

Prolly gonna go soldiers the first time around. I’d like to live to see as much as possible :-P

Settler’s guard :p

Torn between a couple, will probably stay with the sinister engineer or do a breakbar engineer either in assassins or berserker. Might get shoe horned into being a healer since I was the only one who theorycrafted it extensively in our guild. We will see once the encounter gets released.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASlUUhSsYtWwdLQ7FLjIFYtkLBA9Tmlf53psKtCA-TxRBABXp8jm9HwTHhGXIAAegAUq+jZKBDAcA87vB++bO/8zP/8z73f/93f/tUABOzC-e

Power Scrapper in combination with a Herald for boon duration that has a good amount of self-buffing in case I need to fly off into a corner like a psycho

Just going to try what I already know. There’s no point in adapting YET. Once I see what the encounter is throwing at me I’ll adjust my build.

Zerk War. There is a lot of hp/blocks there already. and If everything fail the Ol’ roaming pvt set #plsraidsdontsuck

zerk because i’m not a scrub