Well…
- Restorative Strength is useless unless you’re using Healing Surge or Mending. Not worth the points, in my opinion
- Sure-Footed pales in comparison to Dogged March for the adept slot, in my opinion.
- Picking Spiked Armor and Merciless Hammer over Cleansing Ire and Merciless Hammer is going to have a very big effect on your ability to take condition damage
- Leg Specialist only procs on 1 target at most, so it’s not that useful
- I think you’re overloading on Toughness in your gear. Also, you’re not going to be benefitting from all that crit damage with your fairly low crit chance.
- Rune of Lyssa isn’t a good condi cleanse, as our elite has at best a 48s cooldown. And in fact, the boons can be turned against us by a necromancer. I would rather take Rune of Hoelbrak or Rune of Melandru.
Personally, I am running Sword/Shield with a Longbow and I’m a powerbuild. This is what I run with.
For a quick comparison:
- Your build has 1,614 effective Power and 31,321 effective HP
- My build has 1,817 effective Power and 27,206 effective HP.
- Optimizing your build to this results in 1,666 effective Power and 32,286 effective HP
For your traits, the direction that you should take depends on how much of a sidearm the hammer is. If you use it a lot, you might want to go 30 in Discipline for Burst Mastery. That leaves you with 10 or 20 points (as you should have 20 in Defense for Cleansing Ire) to put around and experiment.
I pick up restorative since I’m not using dogged, it helps with the chill particularly when I’m trying to run away. and with reduced signet recharge, I can get it back easy in 16 seconds. And i go with stance duration because I get off with 4 stances (sorry that was supposed to be defy pain rather than sa) and stances give me vigor. I found that with a lot of condition heavy, that extra 2-3 seconds on zerker stance helps quite a bit, plus extra dodges is great
I would mix in more berserker gear, but with 33% crit chance (hammy was supposed to be zerker my bad :P) and the fury being about 33 sec up time (boon duration from vitality tree) I would be sitting around 53% crit chance. Plus with the upcoming patch, the 25 minor line trait will give 10% of toughness to power instead of 5.
Atm with this setup I get 108 extra power from the toughness. After the patch that’ll jump to 216.7 power.
And the reason I went with lyssa runes is for the precision that the build lacks, plus the complete condi removal, compared to melandru or hoelbrak which give -20% condi. Albiet with food that’s -60% at best which is great and all, but most of the condi classes out there carry around +40% condi food and +condi duration gear. so it cancels out.
I could move over da for cleansing ire, would certainly help with more adrenaline, plus the extra condi cleanse. And maybe proc 10 into vitality tree for empowered or more into discipline for burst mastery.
The reason I just go so tanky is because I like to roam a lot, capping camps sentry’s etc. so the extra tough helps when I get jumped by two or three, especially if they’re zerker ranger or warrior.
But i agree I lack somewhat with power
