Guild Wars 2

As a variation of a turret Engie – this is the build I came up with.
A build based on high HP pool, immense condition bombing as well as Direct Spike via Snow Owl.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-J73Fk;0wEkw-d2gEF-0;9k-C;1Z_b;0256136036;4U7m6X;1k2Ewk2Ew1J

As the tittle says – this build is merely designed for holding onto a point. It doesn’t excel at teamfights (even though it works – but you die fast when focused) due to low Toughness, but is able to survive various 2v1 fights.

This build is extremely deadly, and durable in small scale fights.
To be noted: your Sun Spirit is going to trigger from 4 targets with just you on the point. This is not to be underestimated.
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Hope I’ll help some of those bunker enthusiasts.

I was able to win various 1v2 match-ups with this one.

Whenever I took empathic bond in this new “meta” I didn’t have a pet, too many conds flying about. Also why is hyena your secondary pet? Wolf or dog should outperform it.

Quick Draw on a condi build is interesting. I can see you getting quite a lot of burning out there.

Hyenas are pretty nice for 1v1s. You can have 3 of them out at the same time unless something has changed with the patch (I don’t use them so I don’t know.) See synergy with sun spirit.

Elorna.5329:

Whenever I took empathic bond in this new “meta” I didn’t have a pet, too many conds flying about. Also why is hyena your secondary pet? Wolf or dog should outperform it.

To make the most out of Sun Spirit.

I didn’t mention it earlier – but with this build you, hyena, hyena’s ally, and parrot spawned out of the rune – all proc Sun Spirit.
And that fact is enormous. I’m aware that Empathic bond is not the best solution possible, but with Healing Spring this turned out to be a huge success since both you and your pet are getting rid of the conditions – actually you being cleansed a bit more.

Also, Hyenas are there for the disruption as well. You have very powerful disruption potential (since you are going to bond the people through burning anyways).
For direct damage spike – the Owl is there (owl applies Taunt on every taunt, CD is 14,3/4).

To summarize what this build has:
- scary condition bomb
- impressive condition cleanse
- potent hard-CC

Negatives:
- loses most of the potential at chasing or out of the point.

But when I was testing this build – I really felt like shouting
“You are in my kingdom now!”

The more I think about this build, the cooler I think it looks. I refuse to play PvP until they fix the bugs though.

Since you’re pretty light on defense, have you tried blind and weakness spam with an eagle? Or are you cancel casting the F2 to get the spam out anyway? I feel like actually using the F2 on an eagle would outperform the owl.

Fluffball.8307:

The more I think about this build, the cooler I think it looks. I refuse to play PvP until they fix the bugs though.

Since you’re pretty light on defense, have you tried blind and weakness spam with an eagle? Or are you cancel casting the F2 to get the spam out anyway? I feel like actually using the F2 on an eagle would outperform the owl.

Yes, I indeed have. But I found myself swapping the bird way too fast to make the best use of it. That’s why I stick to the high-burst chill Owl. It blows around 5 conditions on a single F2 press and and taunts the guy for my condition bomb. After that – I usually ended up spawning the Hyena to keep the enemy down.

But you are free to make adjustments. My builds are pretty much a template with potential. Everyone has a different play-style and everyone will do just better with his own.

Ok, so that’s why the hyena. Hm guess I’d have to try it, seems a bit overly focused on the spirit if that’s also a reason for taking a normally underpowered pet. Do people realize its importance? How long does the spirit survive?

Been using this recently, very nice. Fun to play.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Elorna.5329:

Whenever I took empathic bond in this new “meta” I didn’t have a pet, too many conds flying about. Also why is hyena your secondary pet? Wolf or dog should outperform it.

To make the most out of Sun Spirit.

I didn’t mention it earlier – but with this build you, hyena, hyena’s ally, and parrot spawned out of the rune – all proc Sun Spirit.
And that fact is enormous. I’m aware that Empathic bond is not the best solution possible, but with Healing Spring this turned out to be a huge success since both you and your pet are getting rid of the conditions – actually you being cleansed a bit more.

Also, Hyenas are there for the disruption as well. You have very powerful disruption potential (since you are going to bond the people through burning anyways).
For direct damage spike – the Owl is there (owl applies Taunt on every taunt, CD is 14,3/4).

To summarize what this build has:
- scary condition bomb
- impressive condition cleanse
- potent hard-CC

Negatives:
- loses most of the potential at chasing or out of the point.

But when I was testing this build – I really felt like shouting
“You are in my kingdom now!”

Looks like a nice build.
If only spirits can move post patch :/

Sigh…

I removed the signet on some games depending on if they have a thief or two or not and replaced with sic em and it still works well, though I found I often didn’t even need to with the spike trap + condis.

Elorna.5329:

Ok, so that’s why the hyena. Hm guess I’d have to try it, seems a bit overly focused on the spirit if that’s also a reason for taking a normally underpowered pet. Do people realize its importance? How long does the spirit survive?

Actually, the pet is underpowered from Direct Damage perspective. It always was the best CC option right after wolf.
It’s just a nice addition to scale with Sun Spirit.

Anyways, the spirit can live the whole duration if used at a strategic place, but usuallt lives around 5-15 seconds depending on the enemy.
I usually blew it myself for the extra burn, though. The effect persists for 14 seconds after the spirit dies.