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New level 80, first time FoTM (need build)!
If you want maximum damage, yes a full set of Berserker’s gear will provide that. If you’re skill level is high enough to handle the relative fragility of such a build, more power to you. For Runes, consider options like Strength, Scholar, or Eagle. For Sigils, Bloodlust or Perception, and once stacked swapped out for things like Force, Battle, or Strength.
If you want to mix in survivability, you best bet is probably swapping in Knight’s gear into the mix, which replaces Toughness for the Power in the primary spot, Power gets moved to a secondary stat, and Critical Damage is dropped. You could replace a few pieces of armor with Knight’s, a couple of accessories, etc. It is quite common as well to use Knight’s accessories with Ruby (Berserker’s) Jewels in lieu of the Emerald Jewels as the trade-off between the survivability and damage favors going the damage route on the jewels. Valkyrie’s gear is also an option which maintains the Power as the primary slot, but replaces Precision with Vitality. The decision to go one way or the other depends on your critical chance, the type of damage you primarily expect to take, etc. If you expect to take lots of condition damage and have high precision, go Valkyrie’s. If you except lots of direct damage and low(er) precision probably Knight’s.
For consumables, unless you have a specific need for something else and/or your precision/critical chance is very low, I would recommend Omnomberry Pies for food which steal life on critical hits (all the more reason to go Knight’s gear to keep the precision up). Nice thing about this food is that there is no cooldown (versus something like Sigil of Blood). For your secondary consumable, either Maintenance Oil for more precision or a Sharpening Stone for more power. I generally lean towards the Maintenance Oil because I am willing to give up a little bit of damage to gain additional critical chance for additional healing from the pies.
Gear wise I pretty much agree with phantomFury. About skills: I use 2 shouts, SIO and FGJ, along with soldier runes (better survivability plus shouts remove conditions, which is a good way to support yourself and your team) and SoS for more frequent dodges. Elite is SoR and heal is HS. You shouldn’t have much trouble with this build and don’t forget to use Omnomberry pies, they make you godlike (especially with Knight’s gear added toughness)
Thank you, I really appreciate both of your responses but would you guys know of a build that would be suited for those dungeons? I have no idea what kind of damage to expect ill take more of being that I have never run a dungeon in this game. So if anyone is familiar with the ways of FoTM and Arah, please advise based on that. Thanks again for you help.
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Thank you, I really appreciate both of your responses but would you guys know of a build that would be suited for those dungeons? I have no idea what kind of damage to expect ill take more of being that I have never run a dungeon in this game. So if anyone is familiar with the ways of FoTM and Arah, please advise based on that. Thanks again for you help.
You can do what you want without recount.
80’s: Sylvari Necromancer (Main). Human: Thief, Warrior (PvP Main), Engineer. Charr Guardian
Well this is the build I use when running dps in FotM (it’s probably not the best out there, but it did the job well for me so far). Just copy paste it, gw2 forum doesn’t like links.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIUQNAnXTjcONvJPCPMxBCzjiMkgcekEqQeVh2A;ToAhTUZZySklNLXWysWhMgYiB
I might also want to add, that with GS you can probably deal more damage, I use dual axes since it fits my playstyle better, also more combo finishers, and an awesome burst skill (unlike GS’s Arcing Slice). But the damage difference is not huge, so if you prefer axes too go for them
I hope this helps.
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