Guild Wars 2

Hi there,

Since the new traits came out I have been playing around with different possibilities. I mostly play power builds utilizing remorselessness, but that got me thinking about stacking vulnerability with a condition build using opening strikes and sigil of frailty on a SB.

It also got me thinking about perplexity runes for the stacks of confusion on interrupts as you can get one on SB and one from spike trap (though timing is important). Has anyone ever tried something like this?

I would like try it myself but those runes be expensive (-_-;)

I tried GS/SB with Quickdraw, Moment of Clarity, and Predator’s Onslaught. Everytime you weap swap use the #5 skill, which have increase duration on daze or stun(3s on GS and 2s on SB), and their CD reduce down to like 7ish s (more interrupt), on top the increase damage to daze or stun target from Predator’s Onslaught. They go pretty well together.

Here is the dilemma.
If you want your Confusion stacks to be damaging, you must back it up with condition damage(with out condi damage it does 20 damage per 1 stack, the passive and the active together). also, you must back it up with more condis to make it hard to remove.
Now, if you go with condi damage setup that u’ll just ask yourself, why GS? why not sword torch or maybe axe-dagger or any other setup that compliments condi builds.
If you remove the GS u’ll start wondering why do i need MOC? Why do I need plex? I do much more damage from bleeds spaming, i’ll just take krait/traveler, and bamm you’r back into being the popular condi ranger build.

ps to those that forgot Vunrability now effects Condi damage , so by all means buff up that condi damage with remorsless+perplex running.

Quickdraw , Sword+axe , Axe dagger or SB
or Axe+Axe > sword+torch one set for range one for defence they decide to close in drop the bonfire and evade >quickness burst with Sword AA to apply Bleeds from sharpen edges+sigil of earth if the pet is in range , you’ll be stacking 3 bleeds per 0.5secs from all the combined sources per auto and still have Axe to interrupt with the quickdraw means you can interrupt without fail every weapon swap.

will let you still deal enough interrupts , there are plenty of Fury sources outside of two-handed training a full skill bar of Survival utilties will cover any problems you’ll have if you have quickness as one utility your interrupts would be instant with nearly no dely and quickness on SB is a killer.

so yes it will work with a WK set up no GS need, skirmishing required with Wilderness and marksman ship if you need a escape dump take one signet and run SoS or SoR with signet mastery traited , this way you can use SB+ quickness to quickly Stack up with sigil of might+strenght of the pack .

though you don’t have to go the might route you can use Sigil of earth to quickness stack double bleeds from AA SB.

strenght of the pack is key to interrupt builds as you can really lay on the pressure after a interruption of a heal skill , if you would use Entangle it gives them a chance to recover through mass condi clear > CC you and reset .

using Confusion+ maybe Sigil of torment creates a situation of “Dammed if i do or Dammed if i don’t” and they must fight to survive or put all the efforts into clearing the confusion+torment+poison before the bleeds as a Priority first because those 3 prevent effective combat , the more they do the more damage they take, those 3 are the icing on the cake.

keep doing what your doing Op its a amazing idea.
but do focus on bleeds as your main condi source of damage and do use quickness it helps in so many other ways than to just speed up damage since now zyphers speed grants super speed means you can quickly repostion that SB to the flanks while they suffer the full 3 trio.

try it with and without MoC , see if the Damage bonus is worth the slot.
if not take signet mastery for a SoS or SoR for dump panic buttons since in this type of build you won’t have much endurance unless you slot LR then two survival skills.

if you find your lacking movement between weapon swaps use Signet of the hunt , then Activate it during your burst phase.

with this type of build your going for Op

GaijinGuy.8476:

Hi there,

Since the new traits came out I have been playing around with different possibilities. I mostly play power builds utilizing remorselessness, but that got me thinking about stacking vulnerability with a condition build using opening strikes and sigil of frailty on a SB.

It also got me thinking about perplexity runes for the stacks of confusion on interrupts as you can get one on SB and one from spike trap (though timing is important). Has anyone ever tried something like this?

I would like try it myself but those runes be expensive (-_-;)

look up xsorus, he made a technobabble build a while back and it fits that design. perplexity runes would be nice for it.

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