Hey guys, thought I’d come in here and ask for advice regarding my build.
For starters, here’s what I’m running:
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcmmzc9cMabrmMabrm0GGpVMmmaVR08kiT7khT7kiH7070M7kuZ70V
What I really enjoy doing with this build is self-comboing for almost consistent chaos armor up-time plus the occasional retaliation combo as well. To do that requires loads of weapon swaps plus tons of movement for getting into position for combos which I quite enjoy. I’ve run with GS before and while I like it, I found myself being static for far too much of the time in dungeons (I could be playing it wrong but that’s what I found happening anyways).
Additionally, I’ve really come to love the focus. The speed boost is undoubtedly really nice but what’s really awesome is the iWarden. I used to think he sucks (and it still does suck that he doesn’t move at all essentially) but I’d have to say he does a fair bit of the DPS in my build. I know confusion is still pretty wishy-washy as a condition but I like to couple the Warden with any of the ethereal fields/curtain for confusion or condition cleanse. I find kiting groups of enemies into the Warden to be quite enjoyable. Plus! The reflection trait from the focus is so good! I don’t know if I could run without it now.
The MH sword is well, the MH sword. No one’s ever really complained about it and I’m not going to start (well… the leap could be a bit more finessed). The staff is mainly about defense plus providing a field for chaos armor comboing. It doesn’t hurt that the iWarlock and staff clones are also super useful.
What do you guys think of the build? Would love to hear what some of you think in terms of viability. I’ve found it to be decently viable PvE and in dungeons/fractals (though I am a noob in fractals atm). WvW I’m not so sure yet. I do seem to get owned quite quickly but I wonder how much of that is gear related?
Speaking of gear, that’s where my main question is. I’ve thinking of rampagers as I was hoping the vit+tough from the traits would be defensive enough. Also adding in loads of chaos armor up-time and I hope that will be sufficient. I went with rampagers since I felt it compliments the playstyle well. More power so that I hit harder and phantasms hit harder, high prec for sharper images bleed proc as well as MH bleed proc, and high condition damage for the confusion + bleed + chaos armor/storm debuff damage. Thoughts on that?
I’m having trouble deciding on rings/amulet/accessories though. I could continue with the rampager pattern but I also thought about either adding in more crit damage or grabbing some toughness/vit. I’m not sure what would be good.
Sooo, sorry that it became a massive wall of text but thoughts? Build is terrible, rampagers suck, your traits are all messed up, whatever the thoughts are, I’ve love to hear em!
Thanks all!
Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention, I’m also not sure what runes to run with this build. I like anything with +20% swiftness as that means almost 100% uptime on it with curtain alone but unsure between centaur/pack/air. Great thing about pack/centaur though is that they’re still decently cheap :P
(edited by woopwop.9281)