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Posted by: Jackmo.3428

Jackmo.3428

Sorrengild
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Posted by: Jackmo.3428

Jackmo.3428

Forgot to mention I wvw zerg almost exclusively

Sorrengild
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Posted by: Harbinger.8637

Harbinger.8637

Drop Retributive Armor for Med Mastery or Purity. An extra 7% CC isn’t going to do your build that much. Your CC is already high enough so you don’t have to worry about Vigor procs. Your damage is still going to be fairly lower, since you have low CD and no damage multipliers. In my view, Med Mastery would help more with your CoP, or you could grab Purity for an extra condition remover.

Drop Retaliatory Subconscious, again another subpar trait. Four seconds of Retaliation every 30 seconds isn’t going to do anything. Pick up Vengeful, and you can also swap it out with Master of Consecrations when you use them.

Sigil of Strength and Sigil of Energy share the same CD. I’d drop Strength and pick up either bloodlust or life.

Untraited SoR isn’t worth taking over Shelter. Being able to mitigate large amounts of damage is far more important. Especially in an environment like zergs.

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Posted by: Reaper.1748

Reaper.1748

As Harbinger Mentioned SoR has a long CD and untraited makes it not really worth it. It might be a bigger heal, but if you look at Shelter, it blocks, while healing, which is nice for pushing choke points or mitigation in high damage situations or a nice relief from damage.

Personally as far at traits I’d drop Retributive Armour as mentioned, and pick up purity for the 10 second passive condi removal, as you’re running soldiers runes and shouts should help with removal of them as you remove one condis per shout (as you’re not specced into Pure of Voice). If you’d still like Retributive Armour, then drop Strength in Numbers, as in my view either are interchangeable. Since your quote says commander Im going to assume you command a lot, and thus as a commander you have to kind of be selfish, and self sustain prioritizing yourself a little more, a dead commander can’t command.

I’d drop Save Yourselves, for Hold the Line, as Save Yourselves is an iffy utility, depending on when used. Hold the Line is generally more picked and reliable, as you’ve just given yourself, and teammates Protection (4secs) and Regen (7seconds) which helps to mitigate and again recover.

Going back to what Harbinger your sigils share the same CD, Energy is much more nice, as a dodge is useful for avoiding potential damage, and your traits make it so your dodges heal. Depending if you want a little more healing or damage pick Sigil of Life, or Sigil of Bloodlust respectively.

Contemplation of Purity isn’t something I’ve really seen run before due to the long CD, and Retaliatory Subconscious is lacking, generally I’ve seen people use (and myself use) Master of Consecrations, and then their last utility as Wall of Reflection, Purging Flames, I’ve even seen some use the more uncommon Sanctuary or Hallowed Ground.

Last thing I can make mention of is Absolute Resolution looks nice and is good, however if you’d like to try it and experiment with it, Indomitable Courage is something I’ve played with in the past, it makes your Virtue of Courage apply stability to you and your party/teammates around which is nice as it allows you to save stand your ground for another needed time.

All in all this is what I’d suggest be changed
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJAWSlUgyCXFyMEf4ESmCRCBxUgRZ01DHiiYIA-j0CBofDRjaAgEAh+AiQAL1sIasVWFRjVtET/aR1aYAWzFRrWKgLGGB-w

I wasn’t looking to redo your gear really since its already solid as is, hopefully this helped to some degree.

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Posted by: Jackmo.3428

Jackmo.3428

I run save yourselves and CoP for the group wide condi dump. In tight situations ive saved groups with this more times than I can count.

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Posted by: Jackmo.3428

Jackmo.3428

Also I actually do run sigil of bloodlust on hammer. I switched here not realizing those shared a cd. And energy is on staff.

But ty for the tips those are a few things I never thought about.

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