Guild Wars 2

Decided to make this into its own thread as I feel it warrants it.

Tentative setup here, critique more than welcome.

This build may or may not stack personal might faster than a warrior. Needs testing in the next BWE.

Beastmastery:

Minors:
Pack Alpha
Loud Whistle
Pet’s Prowess

Majors:
Companion’s Might
Wilting Strike
Zephyr’s Speed

Marksmanship:

Minors:
Opening Strike
Alpha Training
Precise Strike

Majors:
Clarion Bond
Brutish Seals
Remorseless

Druid:

Minors:
Celestial Being
Live Vicariously
Natural Mender

Majors:
Primal Echoes
Natural Stride
Ancient Seeds

Weapons:

Berserker Longbow
Berserker Staff

Utilities:
We Heal as One
Signet of the Wild
Signet of Stone
Signet of the Hunt
Strength of the Pack

Pet:
Jungle Stalker
Red Moa

Armor:
Zealot’s

Runes:
Superior Rune of Altruism

PSA: Altruism runes synergize a bit too well with this build. Like to an excessive degree. I was kinda shocked as I read over the tooltip.

The idea behind this is a combination of disgustingly selfish might stacking through opening strike, signet and F2 abuse. Keep pet on passive initially. Pop Stalker’s F2 for five stacks of might. Switch to Moa. Enter combat, pop opening strike. Use Moa’s F2 to regain opening strike, switch BACK to Stalker, set pet to aggressive. Pop all signets, pop SotP, use WHAO. Switch to staff, proceed to Venasaur your way to victory.

Haven’t done the math yet, but I’m preeeeetty sure that puts you at 25 stacks. Maintain might by swapping pet when available and using signets as they come off cooldown.

Druid traits are there to both boost your staff skills and provide a safety net in case enemies get too close, as you’re not carrying any melee weapons. Longbow 4 + Ancient Seeds is a hilariously trollish combination. Celestial Avatar is an “oh kitten” button and astral power should build up relatively quickly between the staff AA and the heals.

Additional note about the runes:

As it stands, this build uses the Altruism runes in a purely selfish manner to maintain your boons and boost the might and fury stacking. I believe it would be very possible to change some things and turn this build into a sword-swinging, heal-flinging, group-might-building close range maniac.

Again, constructive criticism and edits more than welcome. This is my first time theory crafting.

The problem I see in this is that the might stacking is just for yourself, when a good party will put you at 25 stacks anyway.

You also make less use of the might by not having Sword, LB+QD, etc.

@Lome

Yeah, I agree. The support part in this is is more the healing and less the might building. The personal might is more there to offset your DPS decrease as you’re not taking the optimal full zerk power build. We won’t know the staff AA’s true damage until next week anyway and this build relies on that to be viable, as you’re primarily going to be using the staff to keep up healing.

Basically, off-dps healer boosted by might. Might be relevant in HoT content but probably not old dungeons, fractals, etc. This was more an experiment to show it’s possible.

The close range variant I’m considering will probably have more viability in old content, as the rest of the party will be in range of Altruism’s might buffs.

i dont think lb4 works with ancient seeds as it is a knock back and no knock down?

You could use a greatsword…tough im wondering if this could even work better on a condition build with a shortbow as it gives you more bleeds and dazes

Modifying this for condi is possible as well, as might affects both direct damage and condition damage. I chose power because of the WvW/PvP potential mainly, and how the ranges of the staff and longbow compliment each other.

When I’m done with my other support/might theorizing I’ll definitely look into seeing how to modify this for condi/shortbow. Might work as a bunker or sustain/attrition hybrid.

i think wilderness survival + druid + skirmish + shortbow + ? and some condi gear make for some very nice condi build