Guild Wars 2

From your experience would a D/D condition heavy-tanky build or a S/P pistol whip raw damage build be more appropriate for PVE. This includes map exploration as well as dungeons.

Would like to know since i want to start completing maps/ farm dungeons and need to start buying suitable runes/sigils/armor.

Thanks!

S/P, just because Blinding Powder is utter hax for everything except Dredge and lets you be 100 % lazy in open-world PvE. If you don’t want to be lazy, I’m still inclined to say S/x, because the auto attack is so much better than D/x against multiple targets. Might want to check out S/D too, if you stay mobile the defense/damage is the same but you get C&D for travel.

D/D is going to pretty much be limited to grabbing a bunch of mobs at full initiative, dropping caltrops, and then Death Blossoming until they’re dead. Very effective, but that is pretty much going to be all you can do.