Hi, my name’s George and I’m going to show you the builds that I have come up with for excellence in these three areas.
General PvE – Altruistic Healing + Symbol Vuln (Hammer+Staff)
15 Zeal – (Fiery Wrath)
0 Radiance
30 Valor – (Strength in Numbers) + (Retributive Armor) + (Altruistic Healing)
20 Honor – (Superior Aria) + (Empowering Might)
5 Virtues – (Inspired Virtue)
I run this build with SY & HTL shouts, switching up the third utility (usually choosing Wall of Reflection). This build provides the great survivability of AH, plus some extras. PvEnemies will suffer a constant assault of Vulnerability (due to Trait + Hammer symbol). Great for increasing your parties damage, and you still keep the team-oriented PvE buffs (Shout CD, Emp Might)
WvW – Altruistic Healing + Shouts (Hammer/GS+Staff)
0 Zeal
0 Radiance
30 Valor – (Strength in Numbers) + (Retributive Armor) + (Altruistic Healing)
30 Honor – (Superior Aria) + (2H Mastery) + (Pure of Voice)
10 Virtues – (Master of Consecrations) OR (Vengeful)
This build focuses on using low-cooldown shouts to keep you and your allies free of conditions. Shouts will also work wonders with the AH, keeping you alive longer. 2H Mastery helps keep those cooldowns short, opening up your gap closers and area denial abilities sooner. Depending on the situation, I’ll run either MasterConsec or Vengeful. Wall of Reflection is invaluable in WvW, but if it’s not your style, pick up vengeful to keep 100% retaliation uptime with your three shouts easy. Come on, HIT ME!
P.S. If you’re taking your Hammer to WvW, make sure to bring Judge’s Intervention. When running with GS I usually leave it out, as the leap has greater gap closing potential.
Arah Explorable – Altruistic Healing + Virtues (Hammer/Staff)
0 Zeal
0 Radiance
30 Valor – (Strength in Numbers) + (Retributive Armor) + (Altruistic Healing)
20 Honor – (Superior Aria) + (Empowering Might)
20 Virtues – (Master of Consecrations) + (Indomitable Courage)
With this build, I run 2 shouts and WoR. SYG for Lupicus tied with stability on your courage activation allows you to save yourself and allies and escape his toxic bubble. 30 Second refresh on your courage will also passively help avoid big hits. WoR is great for his targeted projectiles and reflects for BONUS DAMAGE! (Hint: Use for his rapid fire projectiles in Phase 3) A very survivable build with an extra touch to help the hard fights go down easy.
My stats in the General PvE Build:
+Sigil of Accuracy
+70 Toughness in combat
