Guild Wars 2

Hi !

Sorry for my english

Showing in this thread a very funny build for WvWvW.
It’s a build who suit very well with my gameplay so you will need to adapt it to your own gameplay !

I really trust the key of tanking in this game is mobility + avoidance. So this build focus on mobility (swiftness / insta-teleports / conditions removal), avoidance (blocks / invulnerability / dodges) and DPS.

The Fat Heavy Ninja is very good for small/medimum scale fights, especially when you’re outnumbered. With your tanking power you can run and dance in ennemy backline, take aggro during your friends are killing stuff. The Burned Heads will like play the Fat Heavy Ninja

/!\ Be aware this build wont work in sPvP, it’s only for WvW.

Starting with a 5min video (with fights :p) I made to show a little how work the build in WvWvW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMoN1qC3JKM

Build details:

GEAR / WEAPONS TYPE

Berserker + Knight Mix in gear, jewels and weapons.
Try to balance high armor with good DPS. Get around 3k armor then go for crits damages.

TRAITS
0/0/30/20/20 – Mediation Master, Retributive Armor, Altrustic Heal, Superior Aria, Empowering Might, Vengeful, Absolute Resolution
This build focus more on condition removal because of AR.

0/0/30/30/10 – Mediation Master, Retributive Armor, Altrustic Heal, Superior Aria, Empowering Might, Vengeful, Two Hander Mastery
This build focus more on offense with 2hM.

My advice is the first build, AR can remove easily your snares and roots.

SKILLS / WEAPONS

Greatsword / Sword + Focus
Shelter / Save Yourself ! / Retreat ! / Judge’s Intervention / Renewed Focus

BUFFS

[Maintenance Oil] (crits) + [Bowl of Lemongrass Poultry Soup] (-40 cond duration and vitality) or [Bowl of Curry Butternut Squash Soup] (%crits and %critdmg)

STATS (with buffs)

2.9k Attack (growing while fighting with Empowering Might)
47% crit chance (52% with Curry food)
74% crit dmg (84% with Curry food)
Armor 2.9k
Health 14k (with Lemongrass food), HP is low but you have Protection, high regen and tons of blocks to prevent any burst and keep your health up.

RUNES / SIGILS
2x Superior Sigil of Energy (for multiple dodges, it’s mandatory in this build)
6x Superior Runes of the Earth

BONUS
20% boons duration
+20% protection duration
1800ft insta blink with Judge’s Intervention + Flashing Blade
600ft jump with Leap of Faith
(6001800 = 2400ft…)
Multiple dodges by swaping weapons / critting ennemies
Emergency protection with Magnetic Aura (Rune of the Earth)

Way of fight:

1. Mobility

All the build work around the high mobility with the blinks and the leap.
You have 3 mains mobility skills: [Flashing Blade], [Judge’s Intervention] and [Leap of the Faith]. With [Retreat !] and [Save Yourself !] you can keep Swiftness on you. [Sav Yourself !] is also your Stun Breaker.
With the trait [Absolute Resolve] your [Virtue of Resolve] cure 3 conditions, it’s very nice to use it when you are snare or root to keep your mobility up.
Abuse of your dodges. Usualy without any endurence regen you can dodge 6 times per minute. With the 2 Sigils of Energy you can go for 12t/min. And with Vigorous Precision you can even recharge more pushing you to ~18 dodges / min when while attacking foes. Any dodge will AoE heal of ~395 health on this build.

2. Main buffs

Your main buffs are Swiftness, Protection, Regeneration & Retaliation.
On this build you have +40% protection duration, which is very good. It’s 14sec from [Save Yourself !], 5 1/2sec from [Virtue of Courage], and 5 1/2sec from your Rune of the Earth proc. With [Renewed Focus] you can renew your [Virtue of Courage] for 5 1/2 extra seconds.
You can easily keep +20sec of Protection on the fight entering then stay under Protection ~50% of the time.
Because you have a low Health pool with this build you need to keep your regeneration up. Your regen tools are 4 1/2 sec with [Virtue of Resolve], 12sec with [Save Yourself !] and 4sec with [Ray of Judgement]. Your health regen is a counter for low damages you taking. [Virtue of Resolve] heal you ~130HP/secn you regen boon ~150HP/sec, so you can have ~300HP/sec and while dodging it’s even more (~400HP/dodge).
It’s always good to use a regen skill before using [Shelter] or [Renewed Focus], it’s giving you 2/3 extra seconds of regen while blocking.
Don’t mind of Retaliation because the buff will pop along the other buffs.

3. Block the bursts !

This build have a lot of blocks to avoid bursts. You bests tools to blocks are [Shelter], [Renewed Focus] (not really block but still invulnerable), [Shield of Wrath] and [Virtue of Courage].
[Shelter] + [Renewed Focus] = virtually unkillable for 5sec (or 7sec if you decide to take [Elite Focus] instead of [AR].
[Shield of Wrath] + [Virtue of Courage] + [Retreat !] = 5 blocks.
Exemple of chain to escape heavy burts: [Shelter] (heal + blocks) -> [Virtue of Couage] (protection + block] -> [Renewed Focus] (unkillable + virtues recharge) -> [Shield of Wrath] (3 blocks) -> [Virtue of Courage] (protection + block) -> [Retreat !] (1 block)
This chain is keeping Protection and other boons on you with 5sec of invulnerability and ~6 blocks.

4. Ninja escape

While targetting a mob or a player you can do a great escape.
[Flashing Blade] = 600ft insta teleport
[Judge’s Intervention] = 1200ft insta teleport
[Leap of Fait] = 600ft jump (reduced to 300ft if snare or 0ft if root, always cleanse you with [Virtue of Resolve] if need)
So if you chain the 3 skills here you can almost insta teleport you to 2400ft, there is no class who can catch you from a so heavy teleport (or an other Fat Heavy Ninja maybe ? ^^).

5. Switching for large scale

The build is very versatile, if you switch the traits: [Meditation Mastery] for [Purity] and [Vengeful] for [Master of Consecrations] then you switch you [Judge’s Intervention] for [Wall of Reflection]… you’re ready for large scale ! This is only an exemple.

I hope you’ll enjoy trying this build ! I’m waiting for you feedback, advices, questions, ect… (and if someone can fix all my typo :P).

Have fun.