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Posted by: Hesacon.8735

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So the idea here is to seamlessly transition from roaming to defense to zerg support. The idea would be to act as a detachment from the zerg to capture soft targets that aren’t worth the effort for the entire zerg. With alpine in the mix instead of desert now, maybe that’s not as critical, but I digress…

I looked at runes of the pack and durability, but I don’t need swiftness and don’t have boons, so both of them are kind of a waste. Divinity gives me a higher stack of all stats.

There are a lot of AoE cc’s that would work both supporting the zerg and taking on an enemy roamer. No intention of healing, but celestial avatar has a lot of solid AoE cc’s with Lingering Light adding one more.

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Posted by: Puck.9612

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You might be able to get away with this in the middle of a zerg but you will get shredded trying to roam.
No stun breaks, all the projectile hate pretty much shuts down your damage, and negligible condi removal. Bare minimum you should swap cultivated synergy to druidic clarity for a burst cleanse and stun break. You might also want to seriously consider swapping one of those weapons to staff so you can maintain some pressure on the target. And in my personal opinion, if you are going to stick with those trait lines and utilities, you should swap wilderness knowledge to empathic bond and lingering light to ancient seeds.

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Posted by: mcarswell.3768

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At the very least you should either run Druidic Clarity or swap Glyph of Tides for Glyph of Equality so you have at least one stun break.

This is what I’m running for roaming and zerging and having good results in both.

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Posted by: Khenzy.9348

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Celestial Shadow+Druidic Clarity is the strongest trait combo in the game for roaming. You crazy lunatic!

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Posted by: Hesacon.8735

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You might be able to get away with this in the middle of a zerg but you will get shredded trying to roam.
No stun breaks, all the projectile hate pretty much shuts down your damage, and negligible condi removal. Bare minimum you should swap cultivated synergy to druidic clarity for a burst cleanse and stun break. You might also want to seriously consider swapping one of those weapons to staff so you can maintain some pressure on the target. And in my personal opinion, if you are going to stick with those trait lines and utilities, you should swap wilderness knowledge to empathic bond and lingering light to ancient seeds.

I’ve tried out staff and haven’t really liked it. The greatsword was my answer to projectile hate, and it’s also handy for movement. Going with Wilderness Survival was an attempt to gain some condi clear, but it was kind of shoehorned in.

I am by no means locked into anything except the gear, especially the utilities where I was going for cc, stability (to avoid the need for stun break… in theory), and damage immunity.

At the very least you should either run Druidic Clarity or swap Glyph of Tides for Glyph of Equality so you have at least one stun break.

This is what I’m running for roaming and zerging and having good results in both.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATWnUqA1Ci9CCWsCctgl9A7JOUueawv166fd52FAOblMtzA-TlTBQBCSTwDeAAW4IAcFlKhRJBe0BAgLAQCVPALKhoy+DnRJ4zOEAZUZACVxJAACwN3Z6cnBO6RP6QH6Q7o38n38m3sUAfN1C-w

I guess I didn’t realize equality was a stun break. I like the shout swiftness generation, it would certainly remove my need to have Natural Stride. It’s certainly something I should try out.

Thanks for the help, all!

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