100% crit chance "Berserker" Build
10 points in defense could go elsewhere, like 10 points into arms for 10% dmg vs bleeding foes and rending strikes. Now your crits also causes vuln, which is another powerful source of damage output.
you don’t reallly need sure-footed. It only increases stance duration by 1 second or less.
Not to sound like arrharr, I like 100% crit and all;
But in my opinion, you do it wrong. If you managed to put 10 in defense, and put it on stance duration, it is a waste. Why not put 10 in arms for 10% extra damage and 4 seconds quickness? If you go 10 in defense, then that’s for block reflection which works pretty nice.
Tactics is an amazing tree. Only lackluster thing is passive minor bonuses, and yet still you have to revive sometimes. Being fatter and doing it faster is in no way a disadvantage(imo better than trait 5 in defense and better than trait 5 in discipline, trait 5 in arms is also awful unless you have 25 in arms). 10 in tactics is a staple if I run GS, and I’m thinking about putting 20(leg specialist chains nicely into frenzy blades for 10; and for 20 empowered is enormous synergy with my lyssa runes(18% damage bonus when under full boons? Don’t forget to spice up with frenzy)( recommended to immobilize opponents before surprising them) which I find incredibly superior to eagle(eagle gives around 5% extra damage(less if you have solid amount of critical damage… and extra 5% when target below 50%. Full boons/condition removal is very,very strong!!! And sometimes 4th bonus gives amazing gifts too(10 sec protection after heal? or maybe 10 sec stability? free aegis? 1,5k heal from regeneration? 10 sec retaliation for solid damage on enemy? Extra dodge from vigor? :P) How does that even compare to extra 3% damage(i converted 5% crit damage into 3% damage, seems more than it does in fact) from eagle? And how does full boons/condition removal every minute compare to extra 2.5%(assuming your enemy is below 50% half the time) damage?
To prevent insanity from happening I’ve found only 1 way. Boon corruption. Which forces me to activate SOS(what a perfect abbriveature of signet of stamina!)and do an emergency retreat.
(edited by Evalia.7103)