Signet/Toughness synergy build question (PVE)

Signet/Toughness synergy build question (PVE)

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Posted by: Alastrina.9685

Alastrina.9685

Before anyone says anything yeah I know signets suck but hey I like them!

Having just hit 80 on the Ele I wanted a build that had a lot of toughness and wasn’t one of the commonly used cookie cutter builds. After a bit of messing around with a build editor I came up with 20/10/30/10/0. Full build here : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQJAodhMmcbvR2gjEAkCtEUQACjHgICJiCPA-jgwA5wioxW7KiGrMAmLA-e

Question is would I be better off dropping the 10 points in water, losing the vulnerability on signet use, and put them into arcana to get more boon duration?

The idea is to use the 4 auras from signets and 2 from the weps (D/D or D/F) and one from runes (Earth) to try and keep protection up.

Haven’t had a chance to test it in dungeons yet but it works fine on the champ gladiator enc in Cursed Shore.

PS yeah I know its a slefish build :P

Signet/Toughness synergy build question (PVE)

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Posted by: Neko.9021

Neko.9021

I really fail to see the point of this build. You do little damage, have no utility, and not much survivability other than full protection uptime with no other active defenses.

At the very least you could go 30 into Water for Powerful Aura so you could share the auras with friends.

But even then, I can tell you right now that this build has little use in dungeons and offers nothing of real worth to the team.

Sorry for being so harsh. But ANet made a terrible mechanic and this is a perfect example of following a bread trail left by game developers only to lead to something far beyond suboptimal. It’s just bad.