Guild Wars 2

Tried the dagger/focus, its pretty legit with tempest not amazing but okay, was wondering about dd tempest, any thoughts and violent reactions anyone?

I tried it and liked it, Tempest is all about being in the middle of the action and OH dagger helps with that. I mostly use MH dagger and then change my OH depending on what I need at the time. More offense = dagger, more utility = warhorn, bit of a mix = focus. But dagger is gonna help bridge the gap with air and give you another frost aura along with some control.

I think it depends what traitlines you take up, but I think OH dagger would work best with fire for mightstacking purposes and OH focus would work best with earth traits.

Personally I used D/F for most of the cele builds I came up with, and I even tried to make a mightstacking-through-fireaurashare Fire/water/tempest build to work, but I felt that earth’s defense and sustain traits gave overall better support, but I think its a concept worth revisiting at launch. I’m also kind of unimpressed by fire in its nerfed state, but cantrip might was way too strong. Theres also water/arcane/tempest builds that could work with cantrips and overloading to do more damage with the damage mod, and play like standard D/D otherwise, but I didn’t try that really due to time restraints. I tried it with shouts/shoutrunes and it felt lacking. Overall I liked earth/water/tempest the best, but I did miss the cover boons from arcane and defaulted to traited cantrips with aurashare for that purpose.

Yes but its a high dmg set up off hand dagger is more dmg aimed much like off hand focus is def aimed.