Guild Wars 2

I have been trying to come up with a build, for days and days now, and im not the best at this.

I am just trying to find a good balanced PvE (groups / dungeons) and WvW build.

If you can help me, please include

Weapon choices

Traits (with majors listed) – i.e. X/X/X/X/X or 10/0/0/30/20 (just a sample)

Ideal Rune choices

Ideal stat preference for gear. (i.e. Condition damage > power > perc or Rampager’s)

Thanks, much love!

Hello,

What I’m using is what I call a Phantasm ‘annoy the enemy to a great extent’ build, in my opinion it provides sufficient damage, I’m able to support my friends in WvW and dungeons while still being able to slay most enemy players in 1v1s should I ever get into that situation.

Weapons
For me, I’ve found that using Staff + Sword/Pistol works great in normal PvE and dungeons, and Greatsword + Sword/Pistol in scenarios where I fight a single or few enemies at once, and in WvW because of the Phantasmal Beserker. (Seeing a group of people being hit for 4k +/- damage never gets old, they usually jump away and lose their original focus).

Heal, Profession skills and elites
“Eather Feast” most of the time, but sometimes I use “Mirror” because of its projectile blocking capabilities.

For WvW I use “Arcane Thievery”, “Blink”, “Signet of Domination”. The beauty of this combination is that you have condition removal, boon stealing (hey there Guardians!), you can teleport away 1200 units with Blink every 24s and that also breaks stun, and you get a extra stun ability from the Signet of Domination. This is very useful if you get in a 1v1 fight, as you’ll have two stun abilities (one on your pistol as well).

For PvE/Dungeons it highly depend on the scenario really, I usually switch out “Arcane Thievery” with “Null Field” or “Phantasmal Disenchaterer” to better support the whole group, and the Phantasm also provides regeneration to the whole group every now and then. Blink I most defiantly switch out, very often I replace it with “Radiation Field” (Asura skill), but “Feedback” is also a good choice.

For Elite i choose “Time Warp”, I simply love that skill, its very useful in any situation.

Traits
Numbers: * 10/20/10/25/5
*Majors (WvW): III, I, IX, III, V, IV
Majors (Dungeons): III, III, V, IV, and the two last ones depend on the situation of the group and the enemies. Actually, all of them do, but particularly the final two ones.

Runes & Armor
Havn’t really looked too much into the “perfect armour/rune build”, I’m using 6 Runes of the Undead on my armour, they are cheap and gives good +Condition Damage. I have a mix really between all types of gear, at 80 my stats are (rounded) 1600 / 1700 / 1100 / 1200. I have 2600 Attack rating, 41% Critical chance, 1900 Armour and 18200 Health and about 650 Condition Damage. All from some rares I purchased for about 20-40s per piece.

Playing the build
Pretty easy actually, get phantasms up, stun anything that tries to run away, blink away if anything gets too close

Its not the perfect build, I would prefer a Dungeon build and a WvW build, but until ArenaNet implements such a feature in GW2 this will have to do for me

Glamour build
Traits
Domination 20
traits 3 and 8
Dueling 0
Chaos0
Inspiration 20
traits 2 and 9
Ilusions 30
traits 5 8 and 9

Skills
Null field
Feedback
Signet of domination

Weapons Greatsword-septer/focus or pistol

This went over this build mainly for wvwvw to nullify attacks and move enemy forces back but it works find in pve aswell.

Some of you are prolly thinking why dont you use a staff to get more use from your condition dmg its because in a one on one if i happen to run into that I need the cripple from my gsword along with my signets stun to stay alive with no real combat abilities along with the direct dmg from focus or pistol. I also can not kill arrow carts on top of a wall with a staff

This build is kind of weak atm I would like to see anet add the glamour tag to a timewarp, illusionary wave and a few others to make it worth while.. but i still play it

Thanks for the ideas guys, I will use these and work to test them out myself