Guild Wars 2

Before I stopped playing over a year ago, I last played quite a bit as Greatsword / Sword + X using various gear sets, traits, etc. depending on my mood and the situation. I loved the heck out of it as there are some inherit advantages to focusing on melee and definitely quite a bit of mobility with the two sword.

My quest is … is anyone else running Greatsword / Sword + X these days?
If so … how are you running it? any recent videos?

… I’m aware the Greatsword is being buffed tomorrow.

Today, the build is 4/5/0/5/0, tomorrow the build will be 6/5/0/3/0

:D

No “Martial Mastery”?

No. The builds focus on % damage increases, and less on defense and utility.

Someone posted a melee ranger video not long ago, here’s the link

He’s pretty good, i run a similar build but going 0/2/6/6/0 and i have to say it’s quite fun
BUT

My impression is that it doesn’t bring so much to the team and it still feels inferior to other melee classes but it works (not against all classes) and it’s fun, so booyah
I even gave it a go in tPvP with fairly good results

Not mayn melee rangers around anyway

here’s what i run:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAR8YjEq0yaHLGsQ1aALhqdDEAjKrm1dJEt38Jr4BrA-T1SDwA9Uiha/BqKDScRAeq04l6Pw1NERJIATMSeCAkNBRKAdVGB-w

I actually wonder if sigil of strength/battle would be better than fire and i’m considering swapping runes of divinity for melandru

… GS is going to be awesome tomorrow xD

If you’re talking about roaming. I’ve been a fan of 6 into WS for poison mastery. I would probably go 0/4/6/4/0 after patch.

I’m running GS + S/D 2/0/6/6/0 in small scale and I really like it, good survivability and you get to do some big numbers every now and then as well. I’m afraid melee rangers will be even rarer after today’s patch tho. My latest video is from last week https://www.youtube.com/user/Froudactyl

I usually flop back and forth between the build FrouFrou posted and 4/0/6/4/0, with EB and spotter. Brings just a tad more damage and team support, which I always find lacking with the 2/0/6/6 version, which is significantly tankier thanks to bark skin.

Usually dagger offhand, but man axe is friggen cool.

The 2/0/6/6/0 version is pretty nice for hitting enemy backlines in zerg encounters, especially with an untargeted sword auto. Fling yourself in to the backlines without burning any cool downs at all, then LR, sword 2, GS3 and 4 are still there for when it’s time to leave.

Ltomato.8649:

No. The builds focus on % damage increases, and less on defense and utility.

The builds with 3 or 5 points in NM are currently defunct due to Frost Spirit’s ICD being “fixed.” If/when they disable the ICD, those builds will become viable again. But as of right now, the only reason to put points into NM (from an offensive perspective) is to give your pet a copy of your boons.

e.g. 5 WS gives you:

• 10% extra damage when your HP is above 90%
• about 7% extra damage from Martial Mastery (can go up with Maul hitting 5 targets after patch)

5 NM gives you:

• 5% extra damage when you have a boon
• about 3% extra damage from Peak Strength for most builds (more with a Vit-based build)
• about 8% extra damage from 2h Training.

Ltomato.8649:

Today, the build is 4/5/0/5/0, tomorrow the build will be 6/5/0/3/0

:D

I’m actually running something like this now.