Guild Wars 2

To start, here is what I am sticking to: Great sword. Here is what I do not want: A build that can do all the damage, take no damage, provide utility to my team and heal them. Why? I can’t make a 30/30/30/30/30 build.
Now, what do I want with my great sword (knight’s of earth) and my knights of strength armor? High damage, good mobility are tops. If shouts can be used, that would be nice. However, shouts are secondary. Also, I will stick to healing surge (OP heal) unless you can prove beyond any doubt healing signet will kill anything and everything before I am hurt. As for my build, consider it empty. Gear? Like I said, Knight’s Draconic Armor of Strength and A Knight’s Great Sword Of Earth. I have two exotic Berserker trinkets. Lets see what you got!

I have a build that I am currently using that I like a lot.

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I use that when using a GS. You can easily swap the strength and arms traits to axes if you want to use those, and there are some traits that lend it well for rifles. I use rifles right now with this build, with 5 krait runes and an undead run. Basically keeping bleeds up as long as possible while also making the bleed tick for higher damage. The tactics traits stay the same in all weapon types. I have not had any issues from my guild in regards to using the rifle in this way, but I’ve noticed I could be doing way more with a GS or Axes, which is why I’m saving gold to get back into ogre runes.

(Before I talk about the Ogre runes, I want to mention I do not use the burst skills with any weapon. Axes are the exception because the ability is quite good, but honestly, I’m lazy and still find myself not using it.)

Anyway, the runes I like for GS and axes are Ogre, because soldier is expensive as heck. Ogre is pretty cool, and you get a chance to summon a rock dog, which is neat. Ogre provides a lot of power, and like I said, are way cheaper than soldier. If you have the gold though, get soldiers. I see you are using strength, if you like them then by all means keep em.

Zerker jewelry with rubies. Mine are green at the moment.

With a GS and this build, I can farm Orr all day long while avoiding champs and vets. I can kill vets, I just don’t feel like it, which falls into my laziness as I describbed above. I also found that when I am fighting a vet, I usually get 2-3 more adds on me, so I typically don’t find it worthwhile. In a group, yeah kill em.

The shouts provide over 1200hp per shout, which is awesome. Typically I’ll see heals out from either 1228 to 1248 depending on the boons I have. The runes I’m using to get the most out of my bleeds are 5 krait with 1 undead. This is with a rifle though, so you can ignore that aspect.

So yeah, originally I was using ogre and was tearing it up with the GS. It’s a lot of fun, and I really liked it. There is a sonic boon build that uses the GS with different runes, but same knights armor (but not strength, obviously) which I had a lot of fun with as well. However, I have found better mileage with the 20-20-0-30-0 build.

You can contact me in game if you like, or message me on the forum. I’m no expert by a long shot, as you can tell by my post. Happy slaying, friend!

Post edited for better clarification on traits.