Guild Wars 2

Just wondering with the new weakness and now that blind doesn’t go away when you spam auto attack, which off hand is better for a Powermancer in 1v1 and group fights?

Rok.5260:

Just wondering with the new weakness and now that blind doesn’t go away when you spam auto attack, which off hand is better for a Powermancer in 1v1 and group fights?

My mm build uses focus. Foc4 stacks vuln and hits pretty hard now and 5 rips boons and chills. All very useful.

ronpierce.2760:

Rok.5260:

Just wondering with the new weakness and now that blind doesn’t go away when you spam auto attack, which off hand is better for a Powermancer in 1v1 and group fights?

My mm build uses focus. Foc4 stacks vuln and hits pretty hard now and 5 rips boons and chills. All very useful.

For some reason I’m not one to use dagger/focus, even though the reaper animation from Focus 4 looks cool. I’ve always sticked with warhorn mainly because of Locust Swarm, but now I’m thinking about using a dagger off hand.

i have all 3, they are all very situational but since theres so much condy and putrid mark is nerfed/bugged i like running d/d atm for the extra condy transfer plus the weakness isnt bad if you can land it xD

Elvahaduken.3609:

i have all 3, they are all very situational but since theres so much condy and putrid mark is nerfed/bugged i like running d/d atm for the extra condy transfer plus the weakness isnt bad if you can land it xD

Yeah, landing d5 is the main reason I don’t much care for it.

Elvahaduken.3609:

i have all 3, they are all very situational but since theres so much condy and putrid mark is nerfed/bugged i like running d/d atm for the extra condy transfer plus the weakness isnt bad if you can land it xD

Exactly!and that is the problem ( or the beauty?) imo.With dagger main hand the offhands are all too situational.

I tend to prefer dagger offhand for pve since i like to use blood well for healing so i stick to d4 for condi removal.

Dagger OH got a big big buff in that it now transfers 3 conditions per bounce, which is incredible, and weakness being buffed makes the 5th skill better.

On the other hand, warhorn is about to see Sigil of Paralyzation no longer work on its Daze, meaning it loses a second off that, and Banshees wail is harder to get now because of where terror is, meaning you lose another second. So what was once a potential 4 second AOE daze, is now back to two. WH 5 is okay… not amazing not terrible.

So which would you take? For a power build I think it comes down to if you want the extra damage/regen/stripping of a focus vs. the extra condition transfer/AOE from dagger.

The condition transfer and extra AOE (ranged) attack was important to me in both ZvZ and roaming. I don’t know why but WH has always felt gimmicky to me.