Guild Wars 2

I have taken some time off and in my absence I haven’t really followed up on any new “builds” or nerfs that may affect builds. When I stopped playing (a few months ago) this was my build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQJARVjEVJ2VWSWs2Bi2DOZJM9eke13eXhRdyU6AL-jgyAYrARQQIQQkIMqAQ2rIasF1ioxqsx0vER1G8ioVHAUA-e

0/0/30/10/30 with Soldier gear, Berserker Greatsword/Short Bow, Knight/Soldier Trinkets

I am now back to the game and I am wondering if this build is still viable/effective for mainly PVE. I would like to get back into running dungeons and Fractals regularly however I would also like to try out all the new WvW changes, so I will probably be doing that as well.

Any guidance on this build would be appreciated!!

Its a solid powerbuild, I’m a big fan of knights armor myself, don’t like the dolyak runes though the heal is a tiny 30h/s unless wiki is wrong on that and otherwise they only offer toughness and a small amount of vitality I would suggest ruby orbs, ranger, scholar or pack runes to gain damage instead wichever is cheapest (probably orbs and they are probably only second to scholar in damage) or if you would rather maintain defensive runes dwayna would be a much better alternative it would give a high uptime of regen in combat wich would heal vastly more than dolyak runes even with your low healing power.

You could also drop 10 in nature and get the natural regen in BM if you drop dolyak and pick power runes/orbs instead, that’s if you’re willing to give up 5% on spear/sword and give it to pet instead it would also mean better pet survival and that regen is much better for you than dolyak runes too but not as good as for the pet.

thanks for the reply! Now that you mentioned it I went back to my build and I did have exactly what you stated, 0/0/30/10/30 and using Natural Healing.

I hadn’t thought that the 30h/s was terribly low but you do make a good point… I updated my build with the Runes of the Ranger and obviously did see a drop in Toughness.. not sure how much it’ll affect my survivability. I do like the increase in Crit Chance and Damage so I will definitely consider going with the Runes of the Ranger (I have not fully added Runes to all my gear yet so I won’t need to buy an entire new set).

LkPr.5014:

thanks for the reply! Now that you mentioned it I went back to my build and I did have exactly what you stated, 0/0/30/10/30 and using Natural Healing.

I hadn’t thought that the 30h/s was terribly low but you do make a good point… I updated my build with the Runes of the Ranger and obviously did see a drop in Toughness.. not sure how much it’ll affect my survivability. I do like the increase in Crit Chance and Damage so I will definitely consider going with the Runes of the Ranger (I have not fully added Runes to all my gear yet so I won’t need to buy an entire new set).

Ruby Orbs are practically the same damage as runes of the ranger a little more actually and probably for a 10th of the price you likely already have them in your storage too, just a reminder of that.

Thanks again! great suggestion

Updated the build again … went back on my character last night and realized that when I left off I was building towards a full Soldier armour set and then having a good mix of Soldier/Knight trinkets. I was also always using at least a Master Maintenance Oil which I put in the build as well.

The more posts I read on here the more people talk about a Power build being good with Kinghts armour (instead of Soldier). Is this true? If I went all Knight armour I would then make all (or most) of my ‘trinkets’ Soldier… I think.

I will probably only be able to ever afford one full set of exotics and eventually a full send of ascended trinkets so I need to make sure what I chose to go with is optimal

LkPr.5014:

The more posts I read on here the more people talk about a Power build being good with Kinghts armour (instead of Soldier). Is this true? If I went all Knight armour I would then make all (or most) of my ‘trinkets’ Soldier… I think.

I will probably only be able to ever afford one full set of exotics and eventually a full send of ascended trinkets so I need to make sure what I chose to go with is optimal

Knights is much better in terms of damage due to the crits, powerspecs with little or no critchance do comparably low damage, I use knights armor with celestial trinkets myself it has a very high damage output while still retaining very strong survival against pretty much anything it looks like this:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.3|5.1n.h19|c.1n.h19.g.1n.h4|1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7.1n.a7|211.d14.211.d1a.311.d1a.211.d1a.311.d1a.2s.d1a|0.a1.u47b.0.u57c|56.7|4j.4q.4o.4r.0|e

Not quite the same as yours but almost but I have run the same setup with dwayna runes and 0/0/30/10/30 aswell wich is more survivaloriented and still does good damage, I still prefer the little extra burst in the pet over that though.

That’s what I use for pvp I should say in pve I switch out most of it to berserker.