Not Zerker power armour sugestions
Soldier will be a good choice when fighting against world boss and potentially big scale WvW, especially if you want to play melee. This is even more so after the trait revamp where remorseless will refresh opening strike every time you gain fury, which is easy when you combine it with new traits. (Note that opening strike will be 100% crit, so precision is less important.)
For roaming, just stick with your condition build.
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Keep in mind the armor stats are going to change in presumably 1 week with the specialization changes. I’m wondering if they might even go to 4 or more stats, like in PvP… probably not but maybe.
Soldiers is kind of crap for a LB in my opinion. The damage drop off is just massive, and it defeats the purpose of being able to hit from so far away if the person shows up next to you at near full health.
I’d look at a mix of 3; zerk, assassins and cavaliers. Particularly with every LB user getting easy access to condi removal, I think toughness will be the way to go. If you want it to be a full set and not mixed pieces, I’d go for cavs and then all assassins or zerk jewelry. Again it will depend on what kinds of stats we get from gear with the change, and what kind of crit chance you’re ok with.
With the coming changes to Opening Strikes refreshing, I’m personally tempted to try Valkyrie to get a little more staying power in physical builds.
You also can’t go wrong with Sinister for condi since it also adds to your other offensive stats.
@Toxsa in not really after armor for large scale stuff, which is the reason why i don’t thing PVT is going to be what i want. your opening strike comments raise and interesting point which would make Cavalier/Valk and interesting choice. as far as sticking to condi builds for roaming variety is the spice of life.
@Fluffy it will take me a month or more to get the mats together anyway, i just what some options and i don’t normally consider the future when investing in this stuff because it always variable (sinister became available just after I made a rabid set now I never use my rabid set). As I have no desire to use this in a longbow build I don’t see the need for anything other then zerker I’m thinking more of a GS build.
At the moment I’m more or less trying to decided between Cavalier or knights, maybe knights armor, cav trinkets and zerk weapones (i already have them). In the long term i most like will make both.
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With the coming changes to Opening Strikes refreshing, I’m personally tempted to try Valkyrie to get a little more staying power in physical builds.
I would look more closely at Cavalier over Valkyrie, we have a fair bit of access to regen and small heals, which favour toughness over vitality far more. You lose some power, sure, but 3500+ toughness with perma regen, SoTW, mango pie and 2k power is pretty mad with intelligence sigils.
Hard to heal up all that health when you still have low armor and lots of small heals. Something to look at anyway.
How would zealot fair then? I’ve never heard of pow+prec+he before, when did they add it? Also I’m mostly a pver so in usually worry about all offense.
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Might be able to make it work with all the new shouts + regen… I wouldn’t want to take a non-berserker-damage melee build with no toughness or vitality though.
They added it with the Scarlet stuff if I remember right?
I would suggest you figure out how much Valk (PFV) you want from your armor as you cant get pure ascended valk accessories unfortunately (Can get ascended valk weapons though). Atm, if you ran full skirmishing, you have 18% crit chance and if you ran spotter, it goes up to 25%.
Myself, I would go a mix of valk and cav armor if I were to run 6 in skirmishing,
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Atm, if you ran full skirmishing, you have 18% crit chance and if you ran spotter, it goes up to 25%.
Myself, I would go a mix of valk and cav armor if I were to run 6 in skirmishing,
That won’t exist anymore by the time he makes it. Traitlines aren’t going to provide stats as of the next update (as far as we know.)
If you like POWER then you really shouldn’t run a gear set without both power/ferocity.
Toughness > Vitality imo but I wouldn’t run toughness as main stat unless mixing.
With the removal of guard stacks AND vitality from nature magic incoming perhaps valk would be a solid choice?
Mixing valk/cavalier would be the best option really.
Don’t ever make a piece of assassin gear. Seriously its a horribad stat combo for medium armor classes.
15% after the update if you run spotter (which will be in skirmishing) without any gear. 21% with a zerk weapon. Perma fury is also very viable when the change hits as well. Not to mention If you run remorseless, opening strike (guaranteed crit) will be reapplied on Fury gain which is very easy
edit: Btw, with a Power Greatsword build like this, what will be the standard skirmishing GM trait? Strider’s Defence, Quick Draw and Most Dangerous Game all look really good.
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I run a Zerk/Valk armor mix(good power and crit with a bit of a Vit boost) with Zerk Weapons. I run Zerk trinkets, with the exception of Valk Earrings. Ranger Runes. I tend to crit a lot. So I run “on crit” sigils.
Not sure if this will work for the OPs focus as they already have zerker gear, but it may provide food for thought on adding some Valk pieces to be able to mix it in.
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edit: Btw, with a Power Greatsword build like this, what will be the standard skirmishing GM trait? Strider’s Defence, Quick Draw and Most Dangerous Game all look really good.
MDG is an adept trait. Luckily. It isn’t worth a GM unless they change it up.
So far thanks for all the feed back i was leaning towards knights but after this thread i think cavaliers might be the go. I can always use zerker/knight trinkets
edit: Btw, with a Power Greatsword build like this, what will be the standard skirmishing GM trait? Strider’s Defence, Quick Draw and Most Dangerous Game all look really good.
If great sword is my primary focus i don’t think i would use the skirmishing, I would probably use Marks/WS/BM but if MH-sword was my focus i would use skirmishing/WS/NM i don’t know i will see how it plays out.