WvW roamer build: is it viable?
Take signet mastery instead of malicious training, replace bird with wolf and take runes of the traveler. Signet of renewal will be 90% of time better option than protect me.
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Do not take signet mastery because a fight won’t last a minute as a glass cannon.
Replace spider with Drakehound for immobilise.
Replace bird with Wolf for fear.
Combo with the pets and force the enemy to use cleanse/stun-breaker by using either wolf or PBS first, then the other and then burst the enemy. Try to time the pet’s knockdown (which it uses as first attack) to your advantage.
Replace Pet’s Prowess with either
Primal Reflexes for more dodges or
Companion’s Might for more pet damage
Replace Protect Me with Lightning Reflexes for more survivability or “Oh kitten” button
And no, it’s not viable for roaming.
And no, it’s not viable for roaming.
Pretty much this. It’s suitable for finding a spot that is hard to get to and sniping people that aren’t smart enough to dodge/block/reflect/get out of range.
As far as roaming goes you lack mobility and you will get wrecked by condi’s.
Try this, Runes of Lyssa are pretty cheap and they give you a nice condi dump on a 48 second cooldown. If you are fighting someone that does condi damage with little to no direct damage you can just stand in your healing spring. Between the healing and condi removal, healing spring pretty much hard counters people running condition builds for 10 seconds.
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I wouldn’t even log into a wvw map with this build if not for trolling. Certainly not for roaming.
Try the “classic” 6/0/2/6/0 with 2 survival utilities+wild or 1+signet of stone and wild. Entangle gives you another condi removal.
Knight gear mostly… few berserker accessories. Zerker weapons. Traveller or speed runes.
-40% condi food and 2-3 on-demand condi removal along with the Healing Spring should be enough but if you want you can add a purity (or Generosity) sigil to your GS.
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It sure is viable for roaming when i play that build, but then again I’m pvp player and most of wvwers are free kills for me. If it doesn’t work for you, you should switch to tanky builds when roaming.
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Thanks for the feedbacks i Will make tweaks according to them
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LB can be viable for roaming, but you need condi removal as has been brought up with several different options. Also consider Sigil of Generosity, but it’s fairly expensive.
I recommend S/D; it’s better for WvW. S/D has 6 movement skills and GS has 1.
If you don’t take the SotF build, I’d also remove MoC and put some of your spare points in to any of the trait lines lower on the tree for some defense. Nature’s Protection for example. And you’ll want Primal Reflexes. Probably want Lightning Reflexes as well.
The SotF build will really eat in to your damage, and I don’t like being forced to use my utilities for cond removal, I want them for when I want them. So… if I were you I’d give SoR a go, perhaps in some duels. Yesterday I 2v1d a necro and mesmer using only SoR for condi removal, just use it with some thought.
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Saying S/D is better than GS in WvW is very debatable. GS is fantastic when flipping a camp. If you are running through a zerg to get into a tower the forward leap and block are extremely helpful. Also he is running moment of clarity, he will definitely want hilt bash. The biggest downside to running the great sword is he will get that stupid flapping bird bugged out on his head.
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For zergs, ya GS is way better. He wants to roam with LB though. S/D is better in 1v1 or 1vX for WvW where there is plenty of room to play. I wouldn’t want to fight more than one person on a glass LB if you only have a GS on swap, it doesn’t have enough defense.
I do agree GS is way better for camps, too. I carry all the weapons in WvW so you can switch it up on the fly.