Guild Wars 2

So currently I’m using a build for D/D and S/D that is 30 in air, 10 earth, 30 arcane.

I’m semi glass cannon, with some Tough and Vit.

My current build provides a lot of chase down, while still being able to do a lot of damage.

Please post what works for you.

P.S. I am NOT looking for a bunker build, I get bored too easily going bunker.

With a highly organized WvW group: 30Water/30Arcana/10Air Aura-share D/D.

Excellent fun.

I am still trying different things after I fell into a rut and became too dependant on 30 arcane 20 water 20 earth. Or the ever faithful 30 arcane 30 water 10 air.

My current experiment is 30 arcane 20 fire 20 water. I will change though again today and go with air instead of fire….

I need to escape the trap that is 30 arcane though =( I might just go completely different that what I am currently with earth/air/fire buwahaha! ;P

If you like healing (like I do), you can run 0/0/10/30/30 on staff. I runed my gear out with Dwayna to up my healing power (only about 650) but I can grant regen to allies by using my heal near them. I didn’t go 1k+ healing power cause it’s an expensive stat and I didn’t want to totally kitten my damage (you still need lava font and meteor shower to clear walls, my meteor crits for like 3.5k) so I use a bit of berserker/knight/rampager gear (berserker rings/ammy) to keep my power up, 25% crit chance, and roughly 17k hp. My toughness isn’t as high as I would like it to be, but it’s WvW so I’m not focused much (unlike in sPvP).

My goal when keep sieging is to keep the ram crew up when arrow carts and AOE rain down I can lightning flash in, swap to water (healing, regen’ing, and condition clearing a bunch of folks), pop my heal (granting everyone even more regen from Dwayna runes), drop a geyser, then dodge roll (with evasive arcana) to set off AOE heals and condition clears. If things get hairy, drop a healing rain as well, dodge roll some more for AOE heals (using lightning flash gives me vigor, so I can get more than 2 dodge rolls in quickly), then switch to earth granting the ram crew protection (from elemental attunement). Pop magnetic shield to reflect some enemy fire back at them, then attune to fire granting the door beating crew might. Then I get outta dodge and drop meteor/lava font while waiting for water cooldowns. I’m always moving, it’s not as boring as standing still just spamming lava font and meteor shower like a glass cannon ele does (as I tried at first), and I do well in open field fighting cause i’m kinda tanky…

I’m not saying this is the best build out there (I’m positive it’s not min-maxed to perfection), but I put it together cheaply/easily (a mix of what I had, plus a few trading post items, namely my berserker staff) and people seem to love me for it. And because I didn’t invest TOO heavily in pure healing, I still pump out decent damage and can clear walls, and I’m kinda tanky and can take a couple hit before I drop. Sure, a glass cannon build can clear walls faster than I, but I feel like I bring A LOT to the group. I think people appreciate it too, cause if I ever go down, there is a mad rush to ress me

Edited to add: People also rush to ress me cause I’m often the first to drop a ram at the door. Seriously folks, they’re like 6 silver. Why people don’t have a dozen in their inventory is beyond me…