Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

I’ve been trying to get back into open world PvE, but my raid build doesn’t work there. Does anyone have a good build using lb/gs with berserker armor/accessories for open world PvE they’d like to share with me?

What exactly are you looking for other than full berserker with lb/gs? Traits? Your raid build should do completely fine in open world PvE

I keep dying :| Traits + utils…

Just your normal GS/LB dungeon meta build should work fine tbh.

What open world PvE are you having trouble with? My assumption would be the HoT hero point champions. I run my zerk GS/LB guardian everywhere… I just pick my fights carefully and not try to fight my way through everything. And for the unavoidable mobs like the hero points, I just ask map chat for help or join a HP train.

One specific situation I do change my build: the “every man for himself” DS noxious pod farm. Always got wrecked in my glass cannon build, so now I carry around exotic knight’s armor for the occasion.

take a set of marauder and the increase hp helps u survive enough time to activate your defenses
or be cheap and take out your zeal line for something else like valor and slot some meditations, gives ya high fury up time so u trade some damage for crit chance, lots of sustain and lots of condi removal (which all in all isnt that bad cause yare soloing in open world anyways)
(^^^assuming you are running the typical Zeal/Virtues/DH^^^)
if you were running Zeal/Honor/DH (raid hammer)then i have no real comments

edit: marauder>knights, guards have good toughness already and the fact HoT mobs hit like a truck don’t really help that much, quad stat gear like marauder gives around 10% more stats than berserk so ya aint losing much either
set of mara = 376 power, 376 precision, 207 ferocity, 207 vitality =1166 total (minus vit=959)
set of zerk = 439 power, 315 precision, 315 ferocity=1069
so ya trade like
110 damage stat for like 207 vit which = 2070 health
by the way the stat u lose out the most is ferocity which isn’t exactly the most efficient damage stat(u only lose 2stat if u compare purely power and precision)
7.2% crit damage out of 200+ ish% so ya loose out at most 3.6% damage and get like around 18-20% ish raw hp(the averaged out power and precision saves ya the trouble of getting the assassin erring pieces as required by many build guides)