Guild Wars 2

I’m just curious how well some peoples builds are holding up in the lvl 20+ Fractals. Glass cannon grenadier seems to barely make it with how some of the damage scales if you failing to evade properly and sometimes lag/latency gets in the way.

The issue here is that glass cannon isn’t viable in the later levels because you lack the toughness. Use Sorrow’s Embrace gear and other knight’s pieces while keeping berserk stat trinkets (possibly socketed with exotic emerald jewels). You will definitely lose out on some critical damage; however, you will be running around for a lot longer than if you’re getting one-shotted, I guarantee it. So to recap, choose the following pieces:

- Knight’s stat chest (get this first as it gives the most of all stats, of course)
-keep your berserk stat trinkets, but replace jewels within using emeralds
- obviously agony resistance (dur)
- I will sometimes keep a set of armour with emerald orbs in upgrade slots as it is probably the tankiest upgrade one can find and for so cheap as well.

I also like to run with elixir S and elixir R so I have tons of dodges as well as invuln to keep myself up. Elixir R is also one of the shortest ranged revives available and with traits it resets once you hit 25% health (unless it is bugged, which it was for a short while).

Be a glass cannon grenadier, but learn to use your flash bombs.

I admit at level 30 it’s not working so hot, I’ll have to consider swapping to pistol/shield just for the 4 skill.