Guild Wars 2

So long story short, I’ve tried pretty much every weapon combination and found out I prefer to dual wield swords and use a rifle as my swap weapon for ranged fights. I tend to enjoy building my traits around what I like to use as weapons and was wondering if I could somehow make a hybrid support/damage build with some survivability for PvE purposes?

I was considering 0/30/10/30/0 with my trait choices of Rending Strikes, Deep Cuts, and Blademaster for the Arms part, Embrace the Pain for the Defense filler, and Empower Allies, Lung Capacity, and Vigorous Shouts for my Tactics Traits.

I would (obviously) use shout skills to help myself and allies, as well as the Battle Standard for tough situations while relying on bleed damage to fill in the parts where healing is not needed.

Do you think that this may work out if properly geared for it? (Still in the low levels so I’m not bothering with runes or gear sets at the moment, this is all in Theory). I’m thinking Vitality, Toughness, Precision stats would be most useful with this build, but correct me if I’m wrong on any part of this.

Edit: I also wanted to mark that I would bring a warhorn in my bags for extra support purposes if I would not need my Rifle for the situation (Thus Sword/Sword, Sword/Warhorn).

Builds okay with Long Bow I guess…