Guild Wars 2

So far I know:
– I like the staff and how useful marks are in WvW. Which means at least 10 points in Death Magic for greater marks
– I like using wells. Especially the well of darkness. So 20 points in curses to make them ground targeted.
– I prefer the trident when underwater. Which means I’ll be investing in condition damage. Thus the scepter is in my second weapon set for on land.

I just need to nail down the rest of my build. Including what stats to aim for on my exotic gear.

I’m thinking at least 20 points in Blood Magic for ritual mastery and bringing curses up to 30 since precision and condition damage will both be helpful. Which leaves 10 trait points to go elsewhere.

I need some advise on offhand choices (I’m thinking dagger), underwater utility skills, and what traits I chose. Though I am expecting to switch traits/utility skills and maybe even my elite as necessary, meaning using different ones in PvE and WvW is acceptable.

If it matters, my character is asura

Prec/ condition DMg/toughness.. And a mix of carrion set… And rampager if u want

I go 0-30-20-20-0 for WvW, and don’t change up for the off-chance PvE run. It is pretty adaptable.

20% bleed duration, ground-target wells and scepter condition duration;
Staff mastery and the cc-reflect (will likely change to greater marks when fixed);
Transfusion and Well cooldown reduction.

For utilities, you mentioned WoD — Epidemic is an obvious other one to consider; for the 3rd slot I’d suggest swapping between WoP for smaller engagements and WoC for keep/seige battles.

I’ve found 0/30/10/10/20 to be really effective for both pve and pvp:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#McVczm9MmnwvMmnwvM0xaaGMkbMcMc

The traits can be switched up a bit for a fully-pve build, but the distribution of points can remain static. I also recommend the flesh golem over plague for pve. I really like the balance of this spec overall, though. The DPS is there, the survival is there, and there’s a good amount of support.

I get the chill on blind trait and use corrput and darkness wells.
However I’m mostly playing support (by softening up the enemies) in my well spec.

I’m 0/30/10/30 right now, but I might go 30/20/20….. if the toughness trait minors werent so useless….. =.=

Armor stats pow/vit/toughness

Prec/ condition DMg/toughness.. And a mix of carrion set… And rampager if u want

What items come with a prec/condition damage/ toughness combination ?

The best I can get from crafted gear is Power/Precision/Condition damage. Sapphires come with Healing/Power/Toughness, so I could go with them for my jewelry, but power/prec/condition damage on my armor and weapons.

Then there is the matter of upgrades to weapons/armor. I’m thinking Rune of the dolyak for armor. For sigils I’m trying to decide between blood (lifesteal chance on crit) or earth (bleed chance on crit).
Or would I be better slapping some gems into weapons and armor ?

i am trying to figure this out too, what is a good wvw build

i found this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fQAQNBmWDbkRravdTcjhTBIp45rnK8dkChJmSh7tD

i really don’t know what’s effective in WvW

hellokittyonline.7532:

i am trying to figure this out too, what is a good wvw build

i found this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fQAQNBmWDbkRravdTcjhTBIp45rnK8dkChJmSh7tD

i really don’t know what’s effective in WvW

The problem is that build has no gear options set. When gear is a major part of the build, and the part that requires the most coin, meaning the most expensive part to change. Meaning gear is the part you really want to get right first time.

In fact, looking close, I can’t even chose my armor set with that tool. Only the rune I stick in it.

Using SPvP build editors for a PvE/WvW build simply doesn’t work.