Guild Wars 2

Was messing around with a build idea and came across this combination of things:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=Vt7wF-CFSKkN0g4NL-60;9;49-T-T3;318B;107ASNk05;1H7W3H7W36gH

Strengths:
Anti-Bunker, being blocked gives you tons of might, does more damage per boon on target.
Extremely Tanky with endure pain and shield block with vigor on warhorn
Strong against fast attackers via retaliation (thieves/mesmers/rangers)
Gets stronger the longer you’re in combat via stacking might.
Might scales retaliation, which eventually goes from 350 to 500+ per hit

Weaknesses
Not too good condition removal, only 3 per 7 seconds, and only if you hit your target.
Not too good when focused by 3+ players (not a bunker, even though he’s tanky)

Any critiques? I’ve played about 4 games in tpvp and won 3 of them.

I would not use sword warhorn with this. The weapon set just does not bring anything to the table, apart from some weakness/vigor and a leap for a bit of mobility.

Try Longbow instead. It gives you AoE, which synergizes incredibly with the Might on blocked trait. In a team fight, with a guardian or something on the opposing team, you will get to 20+ stacks easily. Also, Longbow 3 inside fire field=more might, Axe Burst and Shield 4 gives you fire shield (more might), Longbow burst gives you a reliable condition cleanse (solving your condi problem), the advantages are numerous.

Another suggestion might be to use Axe with Warhorn instead of shield. You don’t get the shield 4 into evis combo, but that didn’t crit often anyway. Warhorn 5 is a blast finisher for even more might, and warhorn 4 guarantees swiftness.

Other changes I would make is use Vigorous Focus in Discipline instead of Mighty Defenses, as a smart player will stop attacking (and you will thus gain only a few stacks of might, which have a short duration anyway). Short temper is way better, it’s an offensive based trait and it can give you a lot of stacks very quickly. Mighty defenses only gives 1 stack per attack blocked, and you only have 1 blocking skill on a long cooldown.
Vigorous focus also synergizes well with Warhorn 5 (if you take that with Axe instead of shield), granting you a lot of vigor.

Lastly, I would take 3 stances instead of just EP with FGJ and Dolyak Signet. Dolyak without signet recharge is plain inferior, and FGJ does not bring much to the table on this build except for a bit of might and more Fury. It is good for damage, but most your ‘burst’ damage comes from very high power along with high auto with axe, evis (which only crits 1/4 of the time anyway) and retaliate. As it is now, blind spam will kitten you (no berserker’s stance), and like I said, Dolyak is just bad without the CD.

My two cents.

Cygnus.6903:

I would not use sword warhorn with this. The weapon set just does not bring anything to the table, apart from some weakness/vigor and a leap for a bit of mobility.

Try Longbow instead. It gives you AoE, which synergizes incredibly with the Might on blocked trait. In a team fight, with a guardian or something on the opposing team, you will get to 20+ stacks easily. Also, Longbow 3 inside fire field=more might, Axe Burst and Shield 4 gives you fire shield (more might), Longbow burst gives you a reliable condition cleanse (solving your condi problem), the advantages are numerous.

Another suggestion might be to use Axe with Warhorn instead of shield. You don’t get the shield 4 into evis combo, but that didn’t crit often anyway. Warhorn 5 is a blast finisher for even more might, and warhorn 4 guarantees swiftness.

Other changes I would make is use Vigorous Focus in Discipline instead of Mighty Defenses, as a smart player will stop attacking (and you will thus gain only a few stacks of might, which have a short duration anyway). Short temper is way better, it’s an offensive based trait and it can give you a lot of stacks very quickly. Mighty defenses only gives 1 stack per attack blocked, and you only have 1 blocking skill on a long cooldown.
Vigorous focus also synergizes well with Warhorn 5 (if you take that with Axe instead of shield), granting you a lot of vigor.

Lastly, I would take 3 stances instead of just EP with FGJ and Dolyak Signet. Dolyak without signet recharge is plain inferior, and FGJ does not bring much to the table on this build except for a bit of might and more Fury. It is good for damage, but most your ‘burst’ damage comes from very high power along with high auto with axe, evis (which only crits 1/4 of the time anyway) and retaliate. As it is now, blind spam will kitten you (no berserker’s stance), and like I said, Dolyak is just bad without the CD.

My two cents.

I’m going to try all of this, I didn’t know that about fire field, and pretty much negates any need for might on block since you’ll have fire field up almost half the time. Ill drop might on block for vigorous stance, though i might run balanced/endure pain while keeping FGJ. While 25% of the time doesn’t seem like it a lot, it’s actually quite noticeable. I’m going to leave shield for the extra leap.

That gives me 10s, followed by another 5s after that rotation, which should max out might in almost any situation unless they literally stop attacking me, which… if thats what they choose then sure!

Last thing, blind spam doesn’t bother me much considering how mobile axe/shield is and how retaliation works. Necros are the only class I’ve had a hard time, only because they outlast me and negate so much damage. Thieves end up killing themselves almost all the time.