Guild Wars 2

Im currently using a Power focused Greatsword build but I cant seem to decide on a 2nd line. I tried Honor for a while(basically damaging and passing out regen and the teleport heal) but thinking maybe going Virtues and buffing up with boons might be better. Any suggestions?

I’m going in the honor line personally, I want two handed mastery for faster greatsword skill recharge, and the extra health will help as well, since we have the lowest possible vitality in the game. The honor line means more dps and more survivability at the same time.

I think I will go 30 honor, 20 zeal, 10 radiance and 10 virtues.

To get the 3 spirit weapon traits, to get the justice blind, and two handed mastery.

And then balance my gear around high crit and power while still some vitality/toughness.

Zsymon.8457:

I’m going in the honor line personally, I want two handed mastery for faster greatsword skill recharge, and the extra health will help as well, since we have the lowest possible vitality in the game. The honor line means more dps and more survivability at the same time.

I think I will go 30 honor, 20 zeal, 10 radiance and 10 virtues.

To get the 3 spirit weapon traits, to get the justice blind, and two handed mastery.

And then balance my gear around high crit and power while still some vitality/toughness.

What other weapon set are you using?

I’m currently using this one (mainly for PvE though):

Spirit Build

No clue if it’s any good, but I’m having a lot of fun with it and rarely go down even when jumping into packs of mobs and pulling in even more. The 5+ seconds of stability ensures no nasty surprises from cc’s and it seems to have quite the self-healing potential whilst fighting.

Using it with a full exotic Cleric set (Draconic crafted armor) with 6xDolyak runes, a Valkyrie greatsword with the Superior Water sigil and a mixed batch of Knight Amulet, 2x Valkyrie Ring, 1x Cleric Earring, 1x Knight Earring.

But I’m sure people could point out the potential flaws in my design, or suggest something else that they are fond of using.

@aveneo: using cleric gear, how much zealous blade heals you? based is 24 if i’m not mistaken. how are you doing in dungeon? i find very tedious to cast the spirit weapon in every fight. i end up switch every utility to shout.

i stop using hammer in pve coz of knock back. i want to round up mob.

one thing confuse me why sword command does low dmg (seldom crit) but hammer command always crit for 2k+

Don’t have any raw numbers, but I don’t think it scales with healing power or anything and is just a flat 25 per target hit. So the bigger the packs of mobs you can hit, the more healing you get apparently (Whirling Wrath <3)

So for me it’s more a combination of:
+30/s (Dolyak)
+25/hit (Zealous)
+160ish/s (Resolve + Healing Power)
+???/dodge (Selfless Daring)
+240-370?/10-12s (Water sigil).

On their own they feel pretty lackluster, but alll of them combined with 600+ Healing seems to give you a very nice stream of healing with splash for your allies as well.

Numbers will probably be way off as I’m no mathematician heh heh

As to summoning spirit weapons. I usually summon them prior to engaging an opponent and later on after I dodge out of the way or need to kite something a little bit. It’s really great that you can summon them whilst moving

As to the sword dealing lower damage, this might be because it lasts longer than the hammer and is on a shorter cooldown.

For dungeons however, I’m inclined to swap out either hammer or sword for the bow or shield though, for better support.

Haven’t had much experience in dungeons, but it seems to work great against packs of mobs during DE’s or in Orr (where every undead hobo has cc’s apparently)