Guild Wars 2

Since the patch was out and Phalanx Strength trait was added, I tried to look for a decent might sharing build. There were plenty here on the forums but they were mostly not arranged and hard to understand which gear is needed to use with those builds. It would be nice if someone could share the might sharing build they use with it’s gear.

I think two investments are important. First, you want Forceful Greatsword since it’s the easiest might proc a warrior has access to. So that’s at least, using the new system, 4 points into Arms. Secondly, you need to invest 6 points into Tactics for the Phalanx Strength trait.

Having 6 points in Tactics is an automatic 30% boon duration boost. This is nicely augmented by Runes of Strength to bring your shared might to 10 seconds, as well as being a good DPS rune choice. If you want to sustain your own might longer as well as provide additional might to allies, equip a Sigil of Strength. Obviously, raw damage stat spreads are best suited for PvE and you’ll want high precision to proc more might for your build.

Everything outside of that is purely user preference. There’s people in this forum talking about Runes of the Scholar and I would assume they don’t invest in the Defense trait line at all. You, on the other hand, may want some additional defense and/or utility. .. or maybe not.

Yeah, what he said. ^^^
Plus, you can use a longbow as your other weapon with a sigil of battle then combo field the F1 + LB #3 ablity + signet of rage. I tested this out yesterday and pretty much perma-stacked 25 might.

I don’t think lb makes a good pve weapon for DPS. Its good for the fire field and might stacking in a sense for might stacking it works well. However in terms of PVE dps its not a good choice as a secondary weapon.

Warlord.9074:

I don’t think lb makes a good pve weapon for DPS. Its good for the fire field and might stacking in a sense for might stacking it works well. However in terms of PVE dps its not a good choice as a secondary weapon.

It’s not a DPS weapon, it’s a utility weapon and about the only good ranged option for a warrior in any arena. The warrior’s rifle can be fun(i.e. 10k Killshot in sPvP) but it’s a tad too clunky.

mooty.4560:

Warlord.9074:

I don’t think lb makes a good pve weapon for DPS. Its good for the fire field and might stacking in a sense for might stacking it works well. However in terms of PVE dps its not a good choice as a secondary weapon.

It’s not a DPS weapon, it’s a utility weapon and about the only good ranged option for a warrior in any arena. The warrior’s rifle can be fun(i.e. 10k Killshot in sPvP) but it’s a tad too clunky.

Either way ranged is situational in PVE doesn’t make a good permanent weapon. I wouldn’t recomend running it unless there is a boss that needed ranged. And I don’t think might sharing is good in PVP or WvW. Because you need other traits to be effective. If you don’t want to be effective sure run it play however you want in PVP. Up to you. But it doesn’t fit well in proven builds like skul crak, or hambow. Just becasue it can work in hambow doesnt mean that it is better than 0/0/6/2/6 Given that we shouldn’t be discussing this new trait in the context of PVP I think its very clear that axes on the swap are the way to go for a majority of the time.

With how banal most PVE content is, you can pretty much use anything as an off-weapon for funsies. If you know how to dodge roll or block, the extra damage from might and burning is worth it IMO.

My point is if you don’t care that it is suboptimal go for it. Play how you want. As long as you are aware your DPS is less by running this build and that AA on GS is slow and should not be used. And that GS should only be use for 100 blades and Axes should be used for AA while 100 blades are on CD. If you dont care the GS and long bow AA is much lower than axe AA by all means do whatever you think is better. If you think that adding 8 stacks of vuln from mace 4 + axe 2 is not hellping the party fine dont use it.