Guild Wars 2

Hey All,

New to the game (only have my first toon up to lvl 19 and a couple of lvl 16 alts when i was trying to pick a main) and I am looking to get some advice from the pro’s.

Currently I am using Staff as my main weapons and Scepter/Dagger as my weapon swap. I just wanted to see if I am making a good selection as far as PvE builds would go. This game is a different beast than the MMO’s I have played in the past (starting with UO) and do not want to wste my time adjusting to a weapon playstyle that in the end is going to have to be changed as I progress further and further in the game and things get a little more challenging. Do weapons even matter other than for flavour in PvE? I have read that condition builds are not the best since your DPS gets capped as soon as the debuff you are applying (IE bleed etc) hit the max number of stacks.

Any help would be very much appreciated,

Chimpanthrax

For leveling, I’d go:

Scepter/Dagger
Dagger/Focus

Get Epidemic, Spectral Walk, and WoC as your utilities.

No, definitely make one of your offhands a warhorn. Even if the other skills on horn were crap, the swiftness would be worth it in sheer time saved, but both the AoE daze and the AoE cripple/light damage are decent abilities as well.

Don’t use staff until a bit later when you can trait for it and can avoid mashing 2-5.

Condition builds are fine and you won’t run into the stacking ‘issue’ often ensuring you;
a) don’t stack bleeds in large scale dynamic events – use staff/kill adds
b) don’t use condition duration gear, take traits only
c) don’t need run dungeons with 2+ heavy bleed players

I personally use the ‘cookie cutter’ cond pve spec and find it works perfectly fine in meta content

For levelling I would run axe/warhorn and staff with wells as:
a) scepter can’t damage objects
b) wells are freaking awesome when levelling
c) warhorn for speed boost paired with spectral walk for 100% swiftness uptime

While the endgame meta centers around power hyrbid and condition specs with certain weapons sets I would experiment with all the different combos and see what fits your playstyle

Viable sets include
Scepter/Dagger
Dagger/Dagger
Axe/Focus
Axe/Warhorn
Dagger/Warhorn
etc

Thanks a lot for the prompt responses all. I have quite a bit to look over here and decide what fits my style of play. Funny you brought up the mashing 2-5 manticore because that is EXACTLY the reason I wanted to deviate from the staff weapon in the first place.

Anyways thanks again everyone,

Chimpanthrax

Your weapon selection is fine. You don’t really need to worry about swapping weapons out later on into the game unless you get a full set of exotics for one specific build and then decide you don’t like that build anymore.

In all honesty the only combination that doesn’t make sense is scepter/warhorn. Other than that you can go to town.