Guild Wars 2

I’ve been looking at the new traits, and trying to figure out if taking the elite spec has a way to make a rifle, bomb, EG, and X kit useful again.

I was sort of hoping this would fix the problem with bombs being nerfed by virtue of grenade existence.

I was sort of hoping it could give me the ability to use bombs on point to do good AOE, provide some area control fields and live for some time. My thinking was that if scrapper allowed you to melee, it would then be useful for the bomb kit.

Any build suggestions, or is there still nothing there to resurect the usefulness of bombs as a main damage go to kit?

I’ve been messing around with the bomb kit since they buffed its radius and haven’t had any problems. I think there are better builds, but this is perfectly viable.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Z70;2Z;09-f6FQFx0;9;4jlk;0248146157;4Vo0;3H7W3H7W30U

I’ve tried this from a different post I think. Didn’t work out for me optimally for sPvP.

How would you incorporate the new elite specs traits and what could you give up?

I have been running an very similar build with more condi focus: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-ZRw;2Z;09-f6FQFx0;9;4jlk;0138056057;4Vo0;3l6Uwl6Uw0j

Mine focuses more on sustain through Elixer Shell + Super Elixer + Backpack Regen + Regen Boon and damage through Condi.

I would like to replace Inventions with Scrapper and take hammer and regen trait from scrapper along with the defence GM.