Guild Wars 2

see topic.

i loved this build back when i played regularly, about nine or ten months ago, because i love the aggressive style and my personal play-style focuses less on burst and more on having enough sustain to live through almost anything. i love the bruiser/tanky-esque styles and the 0/10/0/30/30 D/D bunker build of yore let me do that.

is this build still effective now-a-days? i haven’t been keeping up with the patch notes, so, i dunno if they’ve dismantled it completely or not.

It is although, depends for solo or group roam.. Whilst solo-roaming, u will notice it will be hard (to impossible) killing one but also depends what gear you’re wearing..

EDIT: WvW/PvE/PvP?

No.

At least, it’s poor in sPvP, might just get away with d/d, the staff version is almost totaly useless.

Might still work in WvW with d/d and the higher gear stats, though I doubt it.

Still good for wvw roaming. As long as u balance ur stats to not be fully bunker (have some damage)

Honestly this and 0-0-10-30-30 (for full bunkers) is still that gets the most out of ele, so yes, it’s still viable.

While it’s not as strong as it used to be due to nerfs on traits and cantrips, It’s still very much viable and enjoyable to use. The biggest difference between now and then though is that most enemy players know how the cantrip ele works and operates, as well as the nerfed mobility that they now have.

I think you’d find most D/D specs have branched into different trait combinations and specced themselves to output alot of crit damage and precision. I personally use 0/10/10/20/30 with stone splinters atm.

Been using it for 1 year now. Havent changed it since nothing else really works in WvW roaming and grps

Fuzzion.2504:

Been using it for 1 year now. Havent changed it since nothing else really works in WvW roaming and grps

what gear type do you use?

back in december, PVT gear + accessories were pretty much king.

i can buy the entire PVT orr armor, currently, and i’m working toward getting enough for an ascended amulet (likely gonna buy a celestial statted one) and i have cleric daggers, simply because they were the cheapest exotics i could afford when i hit 80. aren’t soldier weapons only available through dungeons or WvW, iirc?

I can’t recall times when PVT gear was actually king. What high health gives you if you can’t heal it up?

For me, the answer is NO. I personally run a Zerk/Arcane build focusing on burst more than sustain and bunkering. Bunker builds just does.. Not enough damage.