Guild Wars 2

I like the idea of weakness especially with the “no crit” and fumble. I thought that a berserker would be a lot more durable when fighting a weakened foe, so it might be worth giving up some damage for huge amounts of weakness on the enemies.

So which profession can do this reliably do you think? I know the necro’s trait “withering precision” is pretty bad with a 20s cooldown but when combined with other weakness giving traits, do you think it’ll be viable in PvP?

Any other berserker type builds that can be reconfigure for long weakness durations?

Hammer Warrior technically can have 100% weakness.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fierce_Blow

Ranger main hand axe gives perma weakness if not cleansed, but axe is more of a condi weapon.

Engi gets weakness on the elixer gun auto attack so can be perma but again, more of a condi kit.

Staff ele also gets perma weakness by camping earth in staff and auto attacking, but this is just a terrible strategy.

Hi,

bhagwad.4281:

Any other berserker type builds that can be reconfigure for long weakness durations?

Thieves can easily inflict weakness, either with Lotus Poison (use doom…) or by blasting/leaping in Choking Gas. The warrior has also good potential, for instance using hammer/sword+warhorn, although losing the longbow probably wouldn’t be too viable in high-level play.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Weakness

Thanks guys. I’ll see if I can use this to configure a build of my own!

Fresh air ele running Glyph of Elemental Power instead of Signet of Air can maintain near-perma weakness if you swap out Bolt to the Heart w/ Quick Glyphs. I’ve found it works pretty well in 1v1 duels against other zerker classes. The weakness is single-target, though, so it ends up being less effective in teamfights where the guy you’re focusing is usually not trying to kill you at the moment.

air ele can inflinct some weakness with lightning rod (4 sec when disabling enemy), with new traits, you can pick this together with tempest defense (shocking aura when disabled, it stuns when enemy hit you), plus when you play DD you have another shocking aura on main hand dagger and stun in earth and launch in air on offhand dagger, could also work with DF or maybe even staff, I’m planning to run this build when we get new traits, so we’ll see how it works