Guild Wars 2

I’ve been putting it off for forever now but I think I’ll finally get to achieving world completion. Only have like 50% now, but I figured I’d try to grind it out. That said, I’m looking for the most painless build to do it since I don’t want to spend too much time going through it. I know that a definitive build won’t be best and in some places changing traits around will be better, but just in general. I’m guessing it’ll be Dueling/Dom and something else, but other than that I’m kinda in the dark since PvE was never really my thing. Any suggestions?

Enjoying Dueling/Dom/Chaos or Dueling/Ill/Chaos running a modified Condi build.

Based on the 12k confusion build I modified it to become more damage oriented it’s very bursty and kills things quickly.

Your weapon skills should always be on cooldown (I tried it with Rampagers as well, but I find it better with my Assassin gear). Everything should be Assassin’s if possible, Zerk could work as well. Try to maintain Chaos Armor to reduce cooldown on Staff. Use Mimic on Feedback if fighting near lots of mobs (not a large cluster, but a lot of clusters) and get Chaos Armor. Otherwise double Blink 4 lyfe. Healing Skill is whatever you want, you can use Time Warp or Mass Invis.

Traveler Runes are nice for movespeed (Runes of Speed are usable as well, etc, etc). I personally don’t have any on my killing setups so I just run around and double/single blink to enemies or objectives. You can also use Centaur runes for swiftness (probably better). If you don’t like Sword, feel free to use Scepter. If you can position the #3, it’s great, otherwise Sword is better for cleaving PvE etc etc etc.

Just go with the Lazy Kai build in my signature. It won’t get any more painless than that for open world.

Hmm the Lazy Kai build seems to have nice bit of damage but I’m really interested in the confusion build since I’ve always wanted condis to be viable and not just a chore of stacking then kiting. But Esplen, do you mean Sinister gear? I can’t imagine your bleeds or confusions hitting very hard with Assassin and the original 12k confusion build is running sinister IIRC.

I’ll probably try them both out and see which fits with my playstyle more. Thanks you guys

I don’t have Sinister and it didn’t matter that I wasn’t hitting 12k confusion with Assassin because Power Blocks were ranging from 2-6k and so was everything else in between. It’s more of a Power Block interrupt PvE build than a hard hitting condition (my version).

If you want to do world completion efficiently, zerker all the way, no questions asked. Any sort of condition damage is absolutely and completely worthless.

The thing is that in the open world, nothing has much health. Pretty much everything dies within 1-2 seconds of a quick damage rotation, making condition damage worthless to use.

I recommend sword/focus + gs for world completion. This set has a lot of good cleave/aoe skills, and it has temporal curtain to allow you to group mobs up for that aoe kill.

The other highly important thing for easy world completion is to get yourself a set of centaur runes and then just spam the mantra or mirror heal. This will give you permanent swiftness.

You can run naked and mainhand a spoon and you would still do world completion fine.

But the simplest thing is to just go full zerker, staff/greatsword (you’ll use greatsword 99% of the time, staff pretty much to bossfight with iMage) and spec for every bit of damage you can think of. Mobs should go pop in 1 second. After the patch, level 10 mobs will probably be harder to kill than level 80 mobs.

Having perma-switftness or +25% is what makes exploration tolerable, not so much the build.

Fay.2357:

If you want to do world completion efficiently, zerker all the way, no questions asked. Any sort of condition damage is absolutely and completely worthless.

The thing is that in the open world, nothing has much health. Pretty much everything dies within 1-2 seconds of a quick damage rotation, making condition damage worthless to use.

I recommend sword/focus + gs for world completion. This set has a lot of good cleave/aoe skills, and it has temporal curtain to allow you to group mobs up for that aoe kill.

The other highly important thing for easy world completion is to get yourself a set of centaur runes and then just spam the mantra or mirror heal. This will give you permanent swiftness.

This is what I did. Although I didn’t have aoe mantra of pain.