Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone!

So I was playing last night and today with our new e-spec and came up with a build I think is currently the best one, but still not as good as druid or the other new specs… Keep in mind that this is my opinion and that things can change! (also for other classes)

Here it is
Nature Magic: Top Top Mid
Beastmaster: Bot Mid Mid
Soulbeast Top Top (all Grandmasters are Trash) Top/Bottom

Pets
Smokescale
Jacaranda

Weapons and Sigils
Greatsword – Energy + Cleansing (maybe u want to take something more offensive here like Battle)
Longbow – Annulment and Agility

Skills
Heal as one – Signet of Stone – Protect Me – Dolyak Stance/Maybe Signet of Renewal( while its bugged take something else that breaks stun) – Strength of the Pack

Amulet
Paladins

Rune
Leadership ( I wanted something with Boon Duration here)
Other Choice Might be: Herold

Information
In my Opinion the strength of the SOulbeast lies within its Boon Sharing, thats why I took Nature Magic Trait Line aswell. Greatsword seems to fit Beastmode best. Hitting Maul causes your next attack to do 50% more dmg. Combine that with your new f3 when you are in smokescale beastmode.

Weaknesses
Boon Corruption/Stealing – CURRENTLY Scourge and Spellbreaker just rek u ( Let’s wait till Launch tho)
Condis – I dont know why Soulbeast has no Condi Cleanse, does Anet want us to play Wilderness Survival Traitline ?? (Which is just a bad traitline despite Protection + Healing)

Suggestions/Improvements
We desperately need Condi Cleanse in Soulbeast Trait Line! Right now we got this awesome minor trait which gives us 7% more dmg when we have fury (yay!!) – maybe add another effect like: whenever you gain fury, you loose 2 conditions ( just anything) OR change our really usefull Grandmaster Traits to give us Condi Cleanse when entering Beastmode or gaining boons like Stability, Fury and Resistance.
Dagger Main Hand is just bad. The Damage is just too low compared to GS.

What do u guys think? Have u found a better build and like to share it ? Any Improvements, suggestions for this one?

EDIT: NEW BUILD!!!

WS Top Bot Mid
Nature Magic Mid Top Mid
Soulbeast Top Top Bot/Top

Menders Amulet
Currently Testing different runes and sigils tho Longbow should be Annulment and Agility imo
Same Pets and Weapons as above
Utility: Troll, Signet of Stone, Lightning reflexes, X (Dolyak Stance, Moa Stance, Signet of Renewal), Strength of the Pack
Hint: When u are in Beastmode and use Longbow 3, you gain Swiftness…
Have Fun Testing

The Bear stance is (our quite decent) new condi cleanse but the problem that arises is the lack of swiftness if you equip this heal. Also beastmode F2 or F3 (don’t remember) has some condi cleanse with Jacaranda. The fury trait is pretty good however.

SB has a ton of condi cleanse, we don’t even need WK any longer.

But but but dagger/dagger?

HeadCrowned.6834:

The Bear stance is (our quite decent) new condi cleanse but the problem that arises is the lack of swiftness if you equip this heal. Also beastmode F2 or F3 (don’t remember) has some condi cleanse with Jacaranda. The fury trait is pretty good however.

Someone pointed out in another topic that if you run Beastmastery, the trait ’Pet’s Prowess’ applies to you in Beastmode. It gives you a flat 30% movement speed buff. Just don’t run with Signet of the Hunt because it overrides it with it’s 25% movement speed.

I dislike the long cast time on Bear Stance, it’s far too easily interrupted for our main condition cleanse on Soulbeast.

Right now i am playing with marauder and nature/wilderness/soulbeast got Empathic Bond,Second Skin with gs and d/d just cause they are new with groot pet for heals and ressistance and alpine wolf cause it got `knock down and stunbreak still using We Heal As One,Strength of the Pack got moa stance for the protection and dolyak for the stunbreak and stab that dont work atm and i think it works really good against condis dont know how it is against power but i think it will be ok also tryed old build that i used to play with sb/gs moc the dazes and its alsome so far tryed those 2 builds cause i dont like condis that much but they work fine for 1v1 idk how they are in a group tho

^ that sounds really good

HeadCrowned.6834:

The Bear stance is (our quite decent) new condi cleanse but the problem that arises is the lack of swiftness if you equip this heal. Also beastmode F2 or F3 (don’t remember) has some condi cleanse with Jacaranda. The fury trait is pretty good however.

As u said, u loose the swiftness, but heal as one also doubles your boons while in beastmode ( u count as pet!) which is pretty dope
Thats the reason i use jacaranda aka condi blaze it

tyinkz.7813:

Right now i am playing with marauder and nature/wilderness/soulbeast got Empathic Bond,Second Skin with gs and d/d just cause they are new with groot pet for heals and ressistance and alpine wolf cause it got `knock down and stunbreak still using We Heal As One,Strength of the Pack got moa stance for the protection and dolyak for the stunbreak and stab that dont work atm and i think it works really good against condis dont know how it is against power but i think it will be ok also tryed old build that i used to play with sb/gs moc the dazes and its alsome so far tryed those 2 builds cause i dont like condis that much but they work fine for 1v1 idk how they are in a group tho

I dont think that Empathic Bond is useful tbh… 1 sec less of 10 stacks bleeding wont help u much … and i dont think it works in beastmode??!

PUSH… edited new build

i was running very similar…but to be fair, with mender amulet is subpar to druid…druid has much more condi cleasning with the new change on sigil, and also much more support / mobility. i did not found any aspect in which this soulbeast could be better than druid in power build, at least in PVP

If you want to run menders, then indeed go Druid imo. Much more healing potential.