Guild Wars 2

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Been testing this build for the past couple days but havnt been able to go up against the "vets’ due to my tier and mmr so take my experience as such.

Anyway, works out great as a mid point tank with some dps (dps mainly from pet but with enough might, even non crits hurt) with good mobility.

Don’t know if I should swap out smokescale for either raven or wolf but those would be my choices.

Peoples thoughts?

The meta is sadly moving towards condi in my experience. And this build is really limited in cleanse.

Mcrocha.3891, That depends on what you mean by limited condition removal. Swapping into celestial grants condi removal. 13 condis removed is nothing to shirk at. they may as well remove all conditions when they swap to celestial avatar. also, replacing just one of their sigil’s of energy for sigil of purity will give them more condi removal. on top of that, movement imparing conditions have duration reduced, some condis are removed through dodge rolling. i’d say the build has just enough condi removal.

With this build you will be able to cleanse conditions every 10 seconds. That’s good, and if you time it right you can escape when you need to after swapping over. I’d be more worried about interrupts and daze. The current meta is very heavy with stun locks and interrupts. Your build is viable on paper. I’ll try it out tonight and get back to you.

Conditions are very prevalent in the “meta” at the moment. Unfortunately because of reaper that now means that our incredibly strong full condi clear on celestial avatar doesn’t mean much because the reapplication of chill as well as other condis means that burst cleanses don’t mean as much as steady cleanses (such as healing spring or survival skills/glyphs). Also, even though CA is on a 10s cd when chilled its really a 16s cd and over that 16s you are taking an 11k damage JUST from chill. You have 17k health, you will be poisoned when you heal which means that you will have like 21k-ish hp. You won’t be able to out heal the damage and you will likely take extra 10k damage from other condis/raw damage before your condi clear is back up.

People seem to like the gs/staff glyph build ROM uses on metabattle. I don’t know if people actually find success with it (I don’t like it) or if they just don’t know any alternatives. Personally I have found mot of my success from running glyph or survival condi clear with traited healing spring (meaning I go skirm/ws/druid OR skirm/nm/druid with glyphs). But to be honest I’m still working on ways to counter all the conditions out in the meta…

With the boon duration you get from Rune of Durability + Nature Magic you already have permanent swiftness just from WHaO. There’s no need to take Natural Stride then, and you can easily get more condi removal from Verdant Etching instead.