I’m actually enjoying this patch, now that certain things are able to die to anything less than full team coordinated burst. The indirect buffs to certain builds are real.
[edit]I should preface this with the obvious, “I’m talking bout pvp builds” cause what else even matters[/edit]
Was wondering what ideas people have been testing recently and in response to other classes’ buffs and nerfs, although not much has change besides amulets. Had debated on playing around with classic medi guard or shout bunker, but I gave shield another shot before the season ended and have actually found it to be a great weapon after these changes. Always been a die hard believer in focus but the amount of healing I’ve been putting out feels great and the number of clutch decaps and revives coming from shield 5 is fantastic. There’s another thread specifically about shield but I wanted to hear if anybody had other non shield-specific builds they’ve been toying with.
I’ve successfully been playing this since patch: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAT5en8ABVdiFdC+7AkdilKiSe2z9fPL8Ov0DbACgIA-TpBFABAcBAU/IAEz+DNcQAEvMABPAAA
Plays well with Marauder or Paladin and scepter can also fit in there well. Pure of Heart does work with the double Fragments of Faith for healing up on point and shield 4 for healing allies, Honor is really nice since the energy nerf anyways, so why not. Lyssa has also been interesting to use with Dragon’s Maw because you can easily fit in a Save Yourselves while casting to pull conditions and then flip em. Sigil of Speed cause swiftness, also not bad for swapping into and then casting mace 2 or Receive the Light. The build keeps its damage pretty well while giving good support, I’ve had a number of fights where allies playing sustain get focused and eventually run out of juice but can just be reset indefinitely with the heal and some blocks. Bubble knockbacks op.
Given the amount of condi spam still going on & the fact that necros can so easily spam boon corruption I have severe doubts amount runing anything with allot of boons as you will just be feeding them extra damage & CC.
I also have severe doubts about the hammer given how slow it is, & the fact that so many people have stability/teleports to get out of the ward.
Marvin from PZ was the one who told me about it, I assume if hes getting it to work in the higher MMR its prolly got some success to it. It seems to work quite well, plus the only proffessionb running with overdosed amounts of Stab is the Reaper nowadays.
