Guild Wars 2

Is sword/shield efficient to use for roaming wvw or am I wasting my time? I like the concept of sword shield but I’m not sure if its gonna work for roaming in www solo. Any tips on sword/shield in wvw? I don’t plan on taking anyone’s build but I’d like to use theirs as a guideline for what I want to do if you decide to post. All answers are welcomed.

Thanks in advance

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vUAQNAseSlsApbolDxfH8DNRYpAgHETBGz41DIGxGC-zUzAY/Ah/BJKA0nIm9kYTfCZVtioxqWwUmJVvCrcDk3Ix+jsSKgIWGB-w

Here is a build I made up real quick. Tell me what you think?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQRArd8elUgSDHHyNEf4Eh1DAeQ/VVIeXPgYEbIA-jUCBYfDim+IwEIRM1UQM3UZtYqIas6aYKXAqYLqWGA9xA-w
Change the food to omnom berry ghosts and youve got extremely high sustain, really great dmg, tons of blinds, blocks, and dodges for defense, and soft CC through hydromancy sigils for chasing/sticking on people, and teleports with sword and JI to either get away or chase.

Save the shields knockback until your enemy tries to heal, since that interrupt is the only reason i use a shield

Shield is also kinda funny to use when a thief drops shadow refuge. Lately i have been running hammer as my main weapon with shield and something else on my off slot when I roam EoTM. I do not know why i enjoy knocking people off the bridges so much.

I’ve used a shield since the beta weekends and early release.

People might say it’s the most useless off-hand since it doesn’t do any damage, except the #4 skill.

But I love using the shield in WvW. Thieves that runs around and think they can hide in Shadow’s Refuge will get their kitten knocked back and revealed and they are dead because they couldn’t stealth for another 9 seconds.

Fighting near cliffs is fun to in Edge of the Mists and just knock your enemies off.

Can also be good to interrupt your enemies heal with a knock-back and then watch them try to leg it as fast as possible with every escape ability they got, but they can’t since I’m just blinking forward.

Shield might not be the most damage centered weapon but it sure is a lot of fun to play with.

Needs to be able to put Guard on a team mate. Otherwise it is a vanity off hand to knock people out of something. One would think it would actually block but for some reason the devs wanted the fugly thing called a focus to actually block.

/rollseyes.

I have to say it’s too much effort and it’s easier to use focus.

In small fights focus dominates as the focus block can also be used for some serious damage as well being a blast finisher. Ray of light is also decent utility and consistent.

In bigger fights shield starts to get better with thr ptotection and bounce, but the cooldowns are really long and that root on shield 5 really sucks. You do get a tiny bit of toughness, but I don’t think it will pull ahead of focus unless you can knock lots of people off.