Guild Wars 2

I’ve been a rather casual player since I started this game so I didn’t pay too much attention to builds and did my own thing. But after I started playing spvp I looked around at ideas and saw all the noise about the bunker build. I tried it out to see what was so great and apparently I’m missing something so I’m hoping someone could tell me what it is. From what I hear, and saw in videos, the build lives a long time and i saw nothing of the sort. From what I can tell, it all revolves around regeneration, but regenerating a few hundred health every sec vs taking several thousand damage every sec doesn’t really help and I still die very quickly….while doing very little damage. I’ve found that 1v1 it’s pretty close to a stalemate vs most classes, some i win some I lose, but they are long fights. But when there’s more than one opponent, I get crushed before I can get through like 3 of the attunements in my rotation. I take massive damage and the regen doesn’t mitigate much. I also spend most of my time CC’d many more times than my cantrips can cure.

So what am I missing? Why am I taking so much damage and not able to mitigate anything with regen?

In the videos I’ve seen, those ele’s seem like they barely get hit at all, even vs many opponents. I suppose if I weren’t taking damage I could win too but how is that even possible? One ranger (with much better range and cc than I) can drop me really fast…so how can someone live vs more than one?

You can save the “L2P” posts cause that’s exactly what I’m trying to do….just looking for help.

Thanks

I followed this build before even coming to the forums and realising it was a bunker build: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evJ507gkbdg

Generally I can out survive a lot of my team in dungeons like AC and Arah and find it a lot of fun for breaking CC / Dots and staying alive.

Thanks, I’ll check that out, but I suppose I was looking for specific gameplay things or something else that I may not understand rather than the build itself as I’ve already used the traits, gear and utilities that are expected.

Bunker eles survive with numerous heals, Regen, plentiful Boons and a ton of Condition Cleansing.
A lot of damage is evaded by dodge rolling often with perma Vigor and triggers the Trait Evasive Arcana for each attunement. (10sec cooldown for each seperate attunement)

But yes, most fights are painfully long and decent players will CC at the right times and destroy you quickly, I find high toughness hybrid builds to work much better.