Okay ive been …. very hesitant to post this spec given how people are raging in debate over great swords and probably the decrying I will receive from it. I like testing strange and weird builds and combo’s to see if I can push up performance.
I feel this does that and I have been using this in WvW ONLY, I cant attest to it in PvE or SPvP so feel to try it yourselves or simply ignore the whole idea as zomg noob for those of you willing to experiment or embrace the GS and HB fixed channeling and allowing my HB’s to land.
However I dont see why it shouldnt work the synergy is brilliant I find imo and you can simply switch out different major’s to output more dps. It is very very important to note that this build works with Sigils and Runes and they are very important to how it works and impart further synergy, so dont just look at the talents look at EVERYTHING.
I would also suggest – although I assume everyone carry’s around extra weapons for swapping out in certain situations, although im dual wielding the SAME weapon, I carry around a rifle and longbow and warhorn, infact a fair few weapons.
This is the build:
While you loose a weapon selection and it’s abilities in combat you gain an additional ability while using the greatsword – aoe root on a 9 sec cool down while retaining access to Great sword skills.
What this works around is pure mobility, being immune to much CC via your heals and weapon and utility movement abilities, While sneakily getting hold of an extra AOE immobilize CC with a 9 second cooldown which compliments your HB skill (geomancy sigils on both great swords), this actually frees up utilities for other options allowing you to not only dps but also if you choose give a more supportive roll if you want.
You also now have to no longer rely on bulls charge/bolas for 100B pew pew, although I still use it as it becomes another snare breaker.
After much consideration I chose the centaur runes they just seem perfect, both increasing bleeds duration (so higher damage) and increasing run speed -another side effect of this build is you will have a very very high uptime of increased run speed and allows you to use healing ability offensively – speed boost.
Something which is a side effect when running about the maps is to switch in the Healing signet, and the reduced cool downs on signets in dicsipline tree which gives you almost 100% uptime run speed increase allowing to get everywhere very fast, there is a 2-3 sec window of no run speed if you dont switch in a warhorn from the rune set and talent spec, but I find randomly hitting stuff as I run past for run speed on crit works too
Possible tweaks Ive been considering:
Running with healing signet and reduced signet cooldowns in discipline to give you higher mobility uptime and quicker CC break from a faster cooldowns.
Dropping down to 25 points in arms and removing opportunist as it doesnt proc off the geomancy sigil for some reason which means we have one skill the pops it up, and putting the 5 points into Discipline to up it to 25, giving you 10secs of might on weapon switch. Usually this is lacklustre, but since your weapon switch is 5 secs and is suddenly part of your playstyle (weapon swap key becomes an aoe root) your are automatically buffing yourself without realising it.
If they fix weapon cool downs to be unique to that sigil on swapping that has been discussed this build becomes even better – who knows but Im having alot of fun while using this whacky and im sure as alot of comments will say noobie build
- please comment and critique!
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