Guild Wars 2

The purpose of this build is to provide a roaming tank that is difficult to kill even in 2v1, and applies decent DPS over-time. It’s specific role is to dominate bursters under any means.

Traits

• 30/0/10/30/0

• Spite: VI, X, XII

• Death Magic: I (Alternatively you can place 10 points into Curses instead for Chilling Darkness)

• Blood Magic: II, VIII, XII

Equipment

• Knight’s Amulet (Berserker’s Jewel)

• Axe (Sigil of Leeching) and Focus (Sigil of Force)

• Dagger (Sigil of Leeching) and Dagger (Sigil of Force)

• Runes of the Vampire

Utilities

• Consume Conditions

• Well of Suffering

• Well of Corruption (Or Well of Darkness)

• Signet of the Locust

• Flesh Golem

Primary Stats

• 2075 Power

• 29,802 Vitality

This build is based purely upon 2 things: Power, and Health. It is designed to mitigate huge quantities of damage with Leeching, it is impossible to burst without being severely outnumbered. It destroys other tanks, and eats burst players.

The main strategy is to perform switches often in this build, to leech as much health as possible. Your Flesh Golem is there to add CC and increase your damage output, HOWEVER, do not summon it BEFORE a fight. Summon it DURING a fight, catching opponents off guard for extra bursts (Also allows for extra toughness when you truly need it)

This build is simple for it’s effectiveness, it accomplishes it’s purpose. If anyone has ideas on how to improve on it, please share them.

If you can master the CDs on this build, the Mist Form will be a godsend. Allowing you to pop your wells, your heal, and your Signet for upwards of 60% of your health back, and even more if you have multiple opponents.

(If Leeching is ever fixed to scale with healing power, I’ll make a switch to Valkyrie)

Tested in 13-16 tournaments. Fills it’s role seamlessly, begins showing difficulty against Bunkers, often ending up in a constant tie.

I run the same concept time to time, high power and health with about 15% crit (soldiers amulet / zerker jewel) Dagger and staff(hate axe)

Its a fun tier two build

I tried a similar idea but using a MM, with minions leaching health at every attack, paired with dagger and soldier amulet it was a moving fortress, like 3k atk, 3k, almost 3k def, 25k+ hp and constant regen from leeching.
Downside: minions are weak in a teamfight cause aoe spam will kill them quickly.

I’ve been using a 30/0/10/30/0 build in PvE for a while – dagger/focus, staff and wells. It’s getting tankier as I earn my PVT gear. I switch the /10 in Death Magic between Ritual of Protection, Greater Marks and Staff Mastery according to need. I never used to like the Focus, but the more used I get to having Regeneration on, the more I’m coming to like it.

I’m still lacking punch in those boss fights where melee isn’t really an option. I miss ground targeted wells but can’t justify 20 in Curses. I’ll give the Axe a go, switch the two main wells out for Blood is Power and Poison Cloud, and find something else for Death Magic VIII and XII.

Well, this build is made to provide maximum leeching and tankiness in tPvP. Not sure what you’re doing to it in PvE, but I doubt it’s viable there.

which rune???

Runes of the Vampire, of course.

is so clear that edited? good

Actually I go the minion path with it also cute,

20/0/20/30/0

Its fun mostly because people dont expect it, its a good mess around build that wont be a huge burden to a team.