Guild Wars 2

it seems like all of the d/d builds are full glass cannon now, with no points into shadow arts? I’m seeing a lot of 6/6/0/0/2 w/full zerk, while this is good for soloing you get destroyed by aoe, and w/out shadow arts its more difficult to get away and heal up.

I’m also noticing people replacing hidden killer trait with executioner in critical strikes and supplementing it with sigil of intelligence which grants you 3 guaranteed crit hits on weapon swap.

Before the patch I had d/d with Valkyrie and 0/6/6/2/0 which worked great with shadow’s rejuvenation of course. Now with the critical % dmg nerf i’m not putting up decent numbers.

Any suggestions for a d/d build that uses shadow arts and doesn’t basically do 0 damage?

I suppose I could always do some condition spec thief.

I too run your valk build but I havent actually ran with it yet to see if the numbers were drastically low…have you tried it?

yah its like we just don’t do that much dmg with it anymore, and you slowly lose in 1v1

….If what you say is true it seems the PD’s will have Shadow Arts to them now as it is too costly to invest that much into a non dmg tree for a “balanced build” but Ill have to see for myself…but if it’s true, kinda sucks