Hi,
as some of you might notice, the difficulty of the open world was a little bit increased with HoT. Some of us (like myself) find it great that they are forged to alter their playstyle and builds. On the other hand I can understand why many gw2-players are frustrated by this development and bring their complaints into the official forums.
What I definetly dont want to happen, is that Anet removes that difficulty and effectly makes the jungle to a second orr, where just can run through and ignore everything.
As an solution I suppose that everyone that was already made this altering process and have fond an good-working, easy, build will post it here. I think that most people have problems with the new contend because their build is still optimized on the “just zerk it down” – meta from the core game.
So I hope that everyone who has troubles in the jungle can find a build here to test and hopefully have through this a much better enjoyment of the addon.
Please arrange your build like this:
Class:
Link: to for example http://en.gw2skills.net/
short explanation how to use it
works good against this enemies (or in this zones):
has problems with/negativ points:
So then I will start.
The Machoist-Berseker
“Rage requieres pain”
Class: Warrior – Close Combat
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRAse3XnMdAthgdhAmkCElilgAzYBUCDAItgaQ17d5WdvuA
This build combines the new stunbreak skills with the “Defense”-Greatmaster Trait “Rousing Resilience” to give you an goodly amount of sustain. Im using Berserker-Gear and was dying all over in the jungle but with the and +1000 Toughness you can go berserk and still tank a lot. The use of it is also very simple:
Get hit by any cc that comes at you.
Leap in, dogde in, beg the big hammer frogs to smash their hammer into your faces. Outrage has a ******* 10 sek cooldown. You can stunbreak anything that comes at you. Endure Pain is just to protect you while using Frency and in the rare case that you got cc´ed while Outburst is on cooldown. Use headbutt if they dont want to stun you.
For the rest – go in activate berserk and just spam your axe skills until everything is dead.
The most important thing is that you bind outburst to an key that you can easy press (like “R” or “G”)
positives: Good against everything that has lots of cc´s. And in the jungle that is basically everything. Did good work for me while traveling solo (you still cannot ignore everything, but fighting should be much more easy). Didnt test it for the big zerk events but it should work fine their. Just get a little back and let healing signet heal you when endure pain is on cd and you got lots of damage from the boss.
Also headbutt and shield 4 give you a good amount of stun to break bars.
negatives: Well you need Berserker-Spec. And Outrage is sadly really far behind in the row. So it could be a little hard for non main warriors which dont have collected that much heropoint in the old world. But on the other hand you can just swap the Elite with your favorite one and outrage with “shake it off” to have a build which is a little less effectiv but still holds the spirit.
Also has very little condition clear (probably buy sigils for that). And obviously is bad against any enemy who counters close combat – just leave them to others.
Extra: This build also works fine against the nasty little Pocket-Raptors – Just go in with your shield and press 5 when they jump at you. You will negate their burst and shield master will grand you up to 10 might. Which helps a lot when you cleave them down with your axes and berserk mode afterwards.
(edited by Gomes.5643)