Guild Wars 2

Hello purple people! So nomally all I do is solo roam, flip camps and fight whoever I run into in the borderlands. I use a 44006 shatter half assassin, half zerker gear with greatsword and sword/torch.

Latley I’ve been feeling that other classes (like thieves and power rangers) can kill me without any effort at all. Simply press a button or 2 and I’m downed. Anyone else I encouter are most of the time using a condi build, which isn’t fun since all the cleanse I got is the Mantra of Resolve, which is never enough.
Today I felt like I wanted to try something else, something with a bit more armor so I tried this build. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNArfWlknpRtlpxBNcrRSpBZqcg62cnmSqAUyRUOA-TliAABXoEMI1fIc/BAOEAPYWRG9BVcCAcwU1GPBAoU+RKAIWWB-w It gave me a little bit more room for error due to the extra armor it provided.
What are your thoughts on this build? Are there any improvements to be made that suits solo roaming more?

Thanks in advance purple people!

The first thing I notice is that you have 0 access to condition removal in this build. As you said yourself, this will cause condie build classes to kill you effortlessly. Just being condie yourself doesn’t make you immune to condition fights, you still have to deal with that the same way as power builds.

I have been running something similar with good results. As fay has pointed out no condition removal is a bad thing. So I traited 04046 condition shatter. Menders purity and shattering grants vigor to you and party. With the minor in dueling and this trait the vigor up keep is amazing. Also I have slotted duel energy/cleansing on weapon sets to help with conditions. You can use the face heal so 2 on heal then swapping removes one also. If you wanted can use mantra heal to net 4 conditions plus swapping. Hope it helps. Gl.

Crippling Dissipation over Mender’s Purity seems out of place. I typically run the same build, with the aforementioned change. I also have tried the build Denis describes (Vigor on Shatter, in lieu of DD), which also was fairly effective.

I also run, in addition to Mender’s Purity, Arcane Thievery. Has saved me countless of times, and is fairly useful for almost every single build I’ve run across, except power thieves.

This is what I use and I love it. I can take down a healthy amount of thieves and plenty of rangers (there are so many now that I kill one in almost every video I do).

Build link is in the video description

http://youtu.be/htmaw1uSzKU

On my channel I also have a (how to beat thieves) video you might want to check out.

the trait u use is fine but you using them more as defense trait as you want your clones to be killed to proc more conditions while you trait for shatter for mtd

yes you need condi removal so take mantra but if you get spank by condi necro you have 25% chance to win as you will burn your condi cleanse

i also played this trait line but felt like the 0,4,4,0,6 more suitable or 0,4,2,2,6 with more cleanse when needed
4,4,0,0,6 when you fight in group for more boons removal

0,4,0,4,6 is nice buff to condi dmg but hardly needed in wvw and MOA is nice trait versus thieves and any other enemies

here is what i use in wvw (sometimes i take perplexity or torment runes)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNArfWlknpTtlpxINcrNitBZyL0LUPkqsySGghB-TFyCwAAOCA4U/h6+Dp0HgV53lTBgkHAwYlgkCAilVA-w
i get around 2.2k condi dmg in a fight , i can burst fast with MI