Guild Wars 2

I’ve been trying to find an alternative to a good balance build in WvW.
I’ve tried a p/p condition build
I’ve tried a nade build

Here are my biggest issues with these builds. There is little to no survivablitiy in fights that involved 2+ people attacking you. Ill pop my defensive things such as toolkit shield or the elixer S, but they eventually go away and then they massive CC me again. Immoblizes are the worst, I am usually out of my dodges and i end up getting immoblized for 8 seconds or higher, and it just destroys me.

What are some tips you guys have? I’d love some way that I can still do DPS while keeping my ability to survive. I play a ranger and a thief and they have stealths and great kiting mechanics, but I’m having trouble finding a way to keep my dps and sitll being able to escape.

So any tips? Possible some good WvW builds that excelt in all situations, not just Zergs or just small 4v4 fights.

hey dude litraly just changed my build, i was so supprised with pistal/shield
shield how much survivablity i have. look up on GW2 wiki wat the sheld abilitys do its amazing. reflect/knock back and stun/daze in 2 skills!

i have a full CD build with 2.7k toughness 19.2k hp (28590 efective HP) and 1436 condition damage. (1600 with consumables) (1850 with consumables + CD sigil kill stacking)

Carrion – wep/shield.
rampager/Carrion – armor
Rabid – trinket

traits.
0 – 25 – 30 – 15 – 0

if immobilizes are your problem try traiting cloaking device. it’s a life saver.

I mainly play solo or in small groups, but I do get into larger fights at times, check my build, maybe you get some ideas for yours: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/New-build-new-wvw-movie

I have serveral different WvW setups with movies in my thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Drakeco-s-PvP-Videos-New-Movie-25-02/first#post1514056

There might be one you like, the Napalm specialist build worked good in most 2vs1 (Using the cloaking device Maska talks about to handle immobiliez)

Else I strongly recommend checking out what Maska do, cause his kitten good at it, and it’s a simple well working build for roaming he got!

Maskaganda.2043:

if immobilizes are your problem try traiting cloaking device. it’s a life saver.

I mainly play solo or in small groups, but I do get into larger fights at times, check my build, maybe you get some ideas for yours: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/New-build-new-wvw-movie

I just finished gearing up and have tried this build over the past few days and I give it a huge thumbs up. (I replaced the main hand sigil with the might on crit one for more might stacking, and I am using sub par runes because I need to run ac to get the superior monk but everything else is roughly the same). Survivability is terrific and damage is not bad (I am always amazed at the number of folks in wvw who will slaughter themselves with retaliation/confusion).

I’m not anywhere near as good as Mask but this is the only build I have tried where I feel I can really hold my own against thieves and mesmers. Thieves will usually get you down to half health with a quick burst but then you confuse, burn and poison them. Most think they are going to get a quick kill and can’t react fast enough when you turn the tables.

This is also quit a good zerg build. In small group/zergs i sometimes switch out Elixir C for Elixir gun. The new patch lets you combo Super elixir and acid bomb to give you a reliable way to give area retaliation, which is huge when doing group work. But when running around solo or with a friend I stick to C.

Long term goals: Grab all the multi stat ascended gear (just got the amulet last night). This build reminds me a lot of my D/D elementalist in the boon stacking multi-damage source department. The multi stat gear i great because you benefit from every stat offensively and defensively.

Flamethrower is now viable in zergs in my opinion in WvW for badge farming. I think Bombs might be too if your running PVT gear. Then again I swear I’m getting more badges from using an Axe/Axe & Greatsword on my lvl 20 Warrior alt.

To handle more than 1 opponent for WvW, ensure you have a build with AoE skills. And build for Toughness.