Guild Wars 2

Hello there,

I’ve been using Rousing Resilience for a while now. For those who don’t know about the trait, it’s Defense XIII:

• Gain 1,000 toughness for 8s when you break out of stun,
• Gain 1,000 toughness for 8s each time you activate Balanced Stance, whether you break out of stun or not (not cumulative with the first one, though). One usually activates Balanced Stance when going to burst, so this is quite a fitting moment to get the extra toughness IMHO.

Many builds in PvP go x/x/6/x/6, sometimes with two stun breakers (Balanced Stance and Endure Pain). In such contexts, I think that Rousing Resilience is superior to the usually preferred Defy Pain, because it lets you gain extra toughness early in the fight, giving the opportunity of strong double exchanges with your foes. I use this berserker build, previously discussed on the forum.

Aside from Rousing Resilience + Balanced Stance + Endure Pain, I have tried:

• Replacing Endure Pain by Shake It Off, but this does not come out nicely, because one cannot always wait for a stun to activate it (while activating Endure Pain is never lost),
• Replacing Cleansing Ire by Last Stand, because my build does not rely on burst too much, but I have found that conditions were more difficult to deal with (especially in these celestial times).

Have you guys tried the trait? If so, what do you think of it?

Regards.