Guild Wars 2

Recently, I’ve found myself hitting a creative wall for new builds. In theory, there’s plenty of hybrid options on both Warrior and Engi, in practice few of them actually work that well. Why am I focusing on Warrior and Engi? Both classes have weapon sets or specs that only really work in a hybrid setup and lose a lot of effectiveness if they focus too heavily on one type of stat for damage.

Right now the main “hybrid” ammys are:

Celestial: Good on D/D Ele and Signet Necro. For other classes, the stats are too spread out and you end up doing nothing very well (which is probably how it should be for all classes)

Carrion: Good if you don’t rely on “on crit” traits/sigils like Burn Guard, but for Engi and Warrior it’s only “OK” at best.

Rampager: Good damage, but the sustain you’ll have will be really bad. I;ve tried using both but even a mildly skilled power player will probably burst you down quickly in a team fight.

There’s other Ammys but none of them see a ton of use, though I have seen some Settler’s Shoutbows around.

The problem with Warrior in particular is that both Sowrd and LB will both have underwhelming skills if you focus on either power or condition damage. Go condi and your Final Thrust and Arcing Arrow hit for a small amount, go power and your bleeding and Burning are hardly doing anything.

I would like to see a Ammy that is a bit like Rampager and a bit like Marauder.

Something like:

• 950 Power
• 950 Condition Damage
• 650 Vitality
• 650 Precision

It has a similar total number of stat points to Marauder but has enough vitality and precision that your sustain isn’t terrible and you can actually have decent crit chance as well. It’s more focused than Cele as well and doesn’t use stats that Hybrid Specs don’t make much use of.

There is a reason this doesn’t exist. There would be no reason not to run just this amulet. Everything you want.

i wouldnt mind a mid way between rampager+apothecary.

Power 1050 or swap for 1050 condi
Condition 550 / swap for power 550
Healing 650
Precision or Vitality 650

if this is the damage/health sustain your looking for between hybrid<<>>bunker.

I sound like a broken record but…

Just split the current amulet into multiple items and let players mix and match. Easy to understand, relatively easy to implement, still able to control combos (e.g. no Dire).

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

There is a reason this doesn’t exist. There would be no reason not to run just this amulet. Everything you want.

Depends on what you want to do. This ammy wouldn’t really benefit most Thieves, Ele is basically designed for Cele (the problem has gone from the ammy to the design of D/D), Many Warrior and Engi Specs still wouldn’t use it.

If you ask it it isn’t fair for ANet to design weapons/kits around them being hybrid without offering a stat set that reliably caters to it. Losing Ferocity will still be a big hit to many specs so they’ll stay on Marauder.

Unfortunately, their removal of the gems + forcing us into pure runes instead of mix and match, and finally the recent trait changes have all but removed diversity.

Interpret Interrupt.3824:

There is a reason this doesn’t exist. There would be no reason not to run just this amulet. Everything you want.

Except toughness

It would be nice if we could keep the same amulets but have 3 amulet slots accounting for:
Gear – 40% of stat total.
Weapons – 20% of stat total.
Trinkets – 40% of stat total.

Build diversity would greatly increase and traits could essentially be more viable across the board to cater for each playstyle.