Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve been messing around with a ton of traits and builds and weapons and etc… One of the funnest play styles I’ve come across is dagger/focus. I had also messed around a bit with arcane utilities (admittedly due to the new heal), and found them to be a bit of fun as well. Given the new ascended armors and such that have come out, what would you guys think about the following build?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAodnEEFaYlBSGwjYAgooFTEKewiyjYupGA-j0CBYfChkIBhMAM1UZNRVQsMsIasKkYaXER1Wzp2gOYW0JSKAtWGB-w

It’s a celestial centric build that has a bit of oomph with a lot of CC added. I may try to play around with it in exotic gear first, but I wanted to hear some thoughts about it for pvp and wvw roaming.

I d trade water 2 for 5 or 6 depending of need on atck/def, and arcane 7 for renewing stamina since your crit would be good enough and stamina is soooo needed for us in pvp
Overall you may lack condi remove imho

Those are good suggestions. I typically run renewing stamina on d/f, I think I just got caught up in the skill calculator. You are correct, however, in that this build has bad condi cleansing. Some day, maybe they’ll address that. I hate the potential amount of fun and cool builds that exist but aren’t viable due to conditions being a concern.

I was messing with something kind of similiar but with the new tempest defense stuff… you can get insane dmg with gale > burning speed > lightning flash > arcane wave … and if you have a hammer warrior with you stunning people your putting out huge deeps constantly, its lot of fun!

i would also recomend keeping lightning flash on your bar as your main burst with d/f comes from burning speed > lightning flash

Genius. I am gonna try that out tonight!

zitounae.4803:

I d trade water 2 for 5 or 6 depending of need on atck/def, and arcane 7 for renewing stamina since your crit would be good enough and stamina is soooo needed for us in pvp
Overall you may lack condi remove imho

I see why he took arcane 7 since it has synergy with elemental surge. Hmm I have similar gear and can try this out using your setup though admittedly I am terrible with focus. I feel I may find myself forced to auto attack in attunements I don’t normally auto attack in since the cds are long on focus. I’ll give it a swing though. I would probably swap arcane wave out for shield though for another stun breaker. Definitely roll ether renewal with this.

My normal set up for this was arcane shield in place of the glyph. I added the glyph to add even more conditions to the build, although with the arcane traits, they act more as crowd control than actual conditions, which i find more useful in this set up. I have found that I don’t really have issues with stuns, since they usually have some pretty noticeable windups and I have a lot of CC and defense. The issue I do have is with condition removal. It’s horrible. Earth focus 4 is really the only thing I have, and although it’s actually a decent CD (for focus), it’s usually not enough. I may have to forego the new heal and go back to ER to handle them.