Guild Wars 2

Has anyone ever tried using a D/W with secondary D/F power build? I’ve been trying it out for a few hours, and while 2 skills are lost to shared cooldowns, I can honestly say the build “flows” much better than using an Axe or Staff secondary weapon.

The downside to this set up is obviously lack of range, and 2 skills sharing cooldowns, but the general idea is to use dagger autoattack as much as possible while keeping up locusts, daze, regen from reapers, and life siphons when available.

Generally the rotation seems to be Dark Pact -> Life Siphon -> Spinal Shivers -> Reapers -> Swap Weapons -> Locust -> Wail -> Dagger¹ Spam

I lvled my necro to cap with that combo since lvl 30 or so … just because I dislike staff mechanic :/
Tho, I consider D/F as my main and mostly used … still struggling with traits tho.

I’ve decided to just switch back to D/F with Staff. Not having a ranged attack really hurts when doing dungeons and crowded PvE.

I’ve heard many good things about the trait Greater Marks, so I gave it a try and can definitely see why people like it.. Having Marks the size of Wells is pretty awesome.

The only problem I see with this specific setup is that it doesn’t promote weapon swapping, especially not while fighting single targets.