Guild Wars 2

I play as a Druid right now, wondering how Soulbeast is performing in areas such as, Fractals, roaming in WvW, and general PvE stuff?

I’ve seen a few videos but nothing really educational or answers any real questions.

Thanks.

Its not out yet.

It looks like it can be good and easy to play. Plenty of damage immunity.

Black Bear meta.

Levetty.1279:

Its not out yet.

The people who are in the beta are playing the new elite specs, just not many of them are going into any detail really besides showing gameplay.

I played it during the stresstest in PvE and its pretty decent. Good gap closing, very nice CC and switching back and forth between BM and pets.
I played it with hybrid setup Vipers-Zerker mix and Marksmanship and WS traitlines.
We could only touch open PvE though. Raids and fractals couldnt be tested yet.

Honestly, we will be doing open world for the first month, so I myself personally really don’t look at the fractal/raids meta at all, nor will we know how that turns out.
I do know that Soulbeast will find a place in some sort of DPS spec, druid will remain the go-to healing/support spec though.

Soulbeast leans itself perfectly for the new hybrid set coming out (power/prec/condi dmg/ferocity).
Especially looking at the Beast skills alone, merging with your pet gives you an ‘ultimate’ ability, this is either a power one, or a condi one (looking at the dps ones), they don’t share a cooldown so switching in and out of Beastmode and pet swapping to get your other ‘ultimate’ off is going to be very beneficial for your DPS, more so if your stats buff both aspects.

I personally can’t wait for PoF, Soulbeast is going to be so much fun!!! A real breath of fresh air honestly.