Guild Wars 2

I’ve developed a venom share build for zerging:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAsYVl0MpopVNxrJ8PNRMhw9uf90uxiAddF-T1yBABEr+zP7PIrSQAOCAHcIAY+BAsg5v2U+di+AMOBA3phhUAgNGA-w

Role:
-Giving your party insane amounts of CC, hard and soft

-Heal your party through leeching venoms, shortbow water field blasts, and possibly your heal venom.

-Spam choking gas on the enemy zerg to poison them and reduce their healing.

-Be a puppyhole.

…all while having the armor and health needed for a thief to survive a zerg, plus it registers 2k power.

Healing power is great because of leeching venoms and thief’s spammable shortbow blast on water fields.

Condi damage isn’t important but duration is. You want those chills, poisons, and immobilizes lasting as long as possible.

There are other options for this build. For example, I’m a scrub so I wanted vigor on healing and took withdraw to correct my positioning easier. If you are a pr0 however, you could take signet of malice for aggressive healing or the heal venom for maximum support.

Sigils are also debatable. The poison duration sigil on my shortbow is the only one I know Id want 100% of the time because spamming poisons on the enemy zerg is one of the main jobs for this build.

Let me know what y’all think!

Note: for small group fighting, I prefer a full dire build with P/D and short bow with more aggressive venoms. The build above is just for large groups.

Hi,

I am a thief that runs on the Commander Tag, this trait setup has been tried unfortunately Venoms do not work for some reason. The groups gets them, but they do not trigger properly, and get cleansed easily, there are better builds to run on the tag.

You can also optimize your stats much better. At this point you provide nothing to your group. Just Venoms that will get cleansed every 30 or so seconds and a blastbot from shortbow 2. No damage.

I usually run this in the gank squad group, pop my venoms on them, and then run to the commander tag to be a blastbot poison spammer. I’ve noticed our gank squads catching power increase, but maybe that’s because they are fighting squishes away from the cleanses.

Thanks for the critique though. I’d love to see your zerging build if you have the time.

I hoped I’d never see a thief build using nomad gear, the stats are good just for ninja nurse build.

this build and other variations of it are popular in T1 fighting. Swap the nomad with something like dire and/or apothecary and it is strong and viable.