Guild Wars 2

Hey guys.

I have a few questions concerning pve dungeon builds. Atm I am using power/prec/tough gear, healing shouts and have 4 exotics. Generally I have been using GS and axe/shield. I’m not overly a fan of using the shield but, I feel that i have to use it in dungeons. This is mainly because I seem to always get aggro and have to switch over to survive.

I am a fan of Gs axe/axe, and really like switching between the 2 in battles. Is this viable not being a glass cannon and can I do it with power/prec/tough and if so, what sigils? I hear that the crit damage ones seem to be the way to go.

I’m also interested in sword/sword but, so far haven’t really used it. A few reason’s come to mind. 1, I’m not sure about what secondary weapon to use with s/s. I know rifle adds in some bleeds but, I like the ‘in your face’ style of melee weapon’s. 2, I hear quite a few people bagging out condition s/s builds generally saying other classes can do it a lot better and I really don’t want to spend a lot of time gearing for it and then it not being very desirable.

What weapon combo’s are u guys using? I haven’t really touched hammer because it kind of feels a bit slow and I like it fast paced. Same goes for mace. Any help would be great!

Bump. Also wanted to stress the ‘having to use a shield’ factor. No matter what I do I always seem to have the aggro of the mobs. I take hit’s pretty hard still even with 2300 armour and honestly couldn’t see any survival without healing shouts. Thanks

I use Hammer/Rifle. I agree the hammer may feel slow at first, but you grow to love it. In melee it allows you the control to fight shieldless. I also run a 3 shouts/ shouts heal build though. All my gear is pow/toughness/vit with runes for the same. I even recently switched all my accessories to pow/toughness/vit. I can take a beating now, and offer alot of support with the shouts.

Thanks for the reply Azarul. I think I’ll go ahead and give the hammer a go. Perhaps try it with axe/shield or axe/mace or even mace/mace as a secondary. I curious to know if you feel like you kind of have to go for a defensive build in dungeons? As I said I’m feeling ‘forced’ to use a shield and stack defensive stats. Even with them I’m still holding the aggro every fight.

Perhaps I run with under geared people (always pugs) but, I’m sure this cannot be the case everyday.

Anyone else with some builds? Thanks.

I suspect that the mobs target whoever has the highest toughness. I have points in toughness, as well as toughness armor and accessories, and mobs always seem to pick me out of a crowd.

Unfortunately, no matter how much toughness you stack you can’t take hits (even if you’re dodging all the big stuff the autoattack damage is too high), so it seems to me if you want to melee without attracting aggro, you’d want to go as squishy as possible, and just mind your dodges on the big stuff.