Guild Wars 2

is it better to go condi or zerker for dual wielding pistols?

mainly for wvw zerg + ricochet

also, is it a good idea to mix direct damage and condi damage?

Direct dmg. If you want hybrid, P/D is way better since P/P doesn’t have access to stealth for sneak attack. Condis suck in zergs anyway, they get cleansed all the time.

What is your 2nd weapon set? SB is best as main for zergs, you tag everything, can aoe walls and it also has evade.

yea i am thinking of going p/p & d/p , with ricochet for zerg fights.

i am trying not to use shortbow even though it seems the obvious choice

Why no SB?

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that’s what I run in zergs with P/P, not the best build for survival, but its really fun

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Why no SB?

don’t really like shortbows

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that’s what I run in zergs with P/P, not the best build for survival, but its really fun

thanks for the build, but why 30 in acrobatics?

Zackie.8923:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Why no SB?

don’t really like shortbows

I hear ya, but if your goal is to zerg in wvw sb is your best option. The aa is better than richocet, cluster bomb is a great aoe and blast for fire/water fields, evade is kitten so best to ignore it, aoe poison to hinder their healing is always good and infiltrator’s arrow to escape a static field or avoid some hits while immobilized.

Zackie.8923:

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that’s what I run in zergs with P/P, not the best build for survival, but its really fun

thanks for the build, but why 30 in acrobatics?

Your just getting as many tags as you can so the 30 in Acro is mainly for quick pockets to spam more #3 and the extra dodges

Think about this as s/d build but instead of spamming flanking strike on 1 target your spamming your pistol for tagging a Zerg and dodging aoes

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Zackie.8923:

Jayden Ennok.3687:

Why no SB?

don’t really like shortbows

I hear ya, but if your goal is to zerg in wvw sb is your best option. The aa is better than richocet, cluster bomb is a great aoe and blast for fire/water fields, evade is kitten so best to ignore it, aoe poison to hinder their healing is always good and infiltrator’s arrow to escape a static field or avoid some hits while immobilized.

SB has more utility and survivability in zerg fights, but pistols/ricochet can pull off heaps more damage as long as you’ve got good enough positioning and awareness to not get melted. The only downside is being required to physically target someone.

It may pull off more damage depending on the set up but sb brings more to the table and the dps loss is hardly noticeable. I can still pull off ~1.7k crits with the aa, ~6k with a well placed detonated cluster and dish some poison/weakness. I love how p/p looks, but it’s not as exciting in practice.