Guild Wars 2

Both the Bow and mace will be great for strong Aoe dmg and crowd control – it would be ideal if you could rotate between these two but it won’t seem effective given we can only pick 3 trait line options.

For example, the best mace lines will be:

1)Radiance with the single handed crit bonus, crit bonus and bonus against burning enemies/ renew justice each time you kill.

2) Zeal with the dmg bonus for symbols/burning enemies.

3) and Hon for reduce mace skill recharge rate and having symbols last longer/bigger/heal.

given burning damage will be reduced i’m skeptical that going virtues and doing damage through Supreme justice/Permeating Wrath will be more than the symbol Aoe damage + your justice will be getting renewed all the time anyway with Renewed Justice trait in radiance.

Yet If you go DH, you’ll have to give one of these trait lines up to wield the bow, which is a shame as they all compliment each other well as you could switch between range/melee Aoe dmg. Also with a powerful shot that will go threw multiple enemies every 4 seconds, fire symbol, trap on #5 and an auto that hits enemies behind it makes it awesome + when it gets intense you’ll be able to stay back at a distance and do awesome damage with the Big game hunter trait with your SoJ.

thoughts?

You mean Radiance.

@slypheed woops! edited

for PvE, Virtues is a MUST have simply for supreme justice and permeating wrath

Darknicrofia.2604:

for PvE, Virtues is a MUST have simply for supreme justice and permeating wrath

Agree.

Getting 3k burn ticks on 5 enemies at once with zero condition damage is too good.

But it doesn’t let you activate your virtue of justice if you want to keep the damage up.

Virtues is pretty much a must have in every game mode tbh

the AoE burn ticks in PvE, then the staples of AR and IC in spvp/wvw