Guild Wars 2

Yeah.. I’m back theorycrafting again…

I read on a few threads below about the “shout DPS” idea and thought I would mess around with a build for a few moments and see what you all think. I used to run a condition shout in WvW but to be honest, it got really boring.

I’m also not sold on the GS+H build idea yet because it’s so freaking common but here is what I’m looking at so far: [DPS Shout]

The nice part of the build is even without using ascended armor/weapons, you still end up with over 2.3K power, 2.9K armor, and 22K health.

I replied to your message … have fun

You have to ask yourself if the trade off by going for shouts is worth the sub-optimal build you run. Because this will not work when you are solo or with 1 or 2 friends.

You have no means of mitigating high direct damage, and a 6k heal won’t save you when you get focussed.

Hammer without Merciless Hammer is poor IMO. But, seeing as you are using shouts, why not forget about Cleansing Ire and get Inspiring Shouts instead? Take -duration on condi food, Shrug it Off instead of Empower (which sucks), and Sigil of Cleansing on GS to get decent condi removal without CI.

Getting Merciless Hammer allows you to combo with Fear Me, which acts as a disable, thus increasing hammer damage by 20% for the duration of the fear.

One more thing, don’t pick Armored Attack over DotE if you want damage. You get ~180 power from Armored Attack, which means roughly an 8% increase in damage. Most people in WvW will run 3+ boons easy at all times, and for the ones that don’t you probably won’t need extra damage.

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