Guild Wars 2

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So I usually am a passive agressive trickster when I fight. I like leading the enemies into a field of doom where they die rather quickly, no fess no messy cleanup.

I usually set my toolbelt mines and 1 regular a little farther away so that by the time they reach me they usually have nothing left. Helps with the higher level mobs. When they’ve exhausted my bombs I generally use the bombkit a dodge a bit. If they do manage to hit me I rely on the Superior Runes of the Pack to give me boons for the bonus damage, and my trait Hidden Flask for when those buffs turn off.

Movement is perfect in this build because I can literally stack swiftness until I finally reach 2 minutes. The extra endurance is great in preventing becoming overwhelmed so I suppose it’s a bit like evade tanking in a sense. If things get too hairy I drink the B and switch to pistols for a quick AOE blind and a Blowtorch for when the burn wears off naturally. I played around with using the Elixirs to remove conditions but I’ve learned that in open world PVE this isn’t really that essential, so I use the medkit for that as well as the swiftness boost.

This helps farming resource nodes very well especially in regions like Orr where you have to keep on the move the most to keep from being slowed down by a series of mobs that use CC after CC after CC I also use the Protection Injection to prevent extreme drops in health when I get CC’ed.

For damage I rely on Conditions and generally have no issues getting most things to die while I survive using my quick toolbelt skill and relying on the confuse/retaliation boons for their demise.

I’m sure other people are using other things I just thought I might share. This build is mostly just for open world adventuring and personal story questing. I generally don’t meddle in any other part of the game. (PVP/WVW/or Dungeons)

Interesting PvE build, Tigrius.

You have several on-crit traits condition traits, but that build calculator is showing only 4% base crit chance and 150 cond damage. What gear are you using?

As it’s PvE with explosives, you might do better with a Power based build something like 30/?/?/?/20:

• 30 in Explosives for Forceful Explosives, Explosive Powder and Short Fuse (~30% increase in direct damage from your explosives, and that’s before taking into account the extra Power). The extra condition duration will offset your drop in condition damage from the other changes.
• 20 in Tools gets you another 10% reduction on your toolbelt skills and Speedy Gadgets for 20% faster recharge on those mines you love.
• For dodges go 10pts into Alchemy for Invigorating Speed (and 10% boon duration), or up to 30 in Tools for Adrenal Implant.
• After that there’s 10pts left over to spend as you feel like.
• Gear would be Power based with Precision to get your crit chance up.

This should give you a lot more mines and bombs (all with greater radius and damage) and all the manoeuvrability you want. It would also be a lot more viable in group events.