Guild Wars 2

So I hit 80 on my Warrior recently, and have been enjoying farming materials and other things needed for various weapons/armor for myself and alts.

I’ve been running a Precision based Condition build using Sword MH and Horn/Mace offhands, with Shout Heals (mainly though for the vitality in that tree).

It’s a lot of fun and durable, but feels a bit slow on the whole killing thing. Was curious, purely from a Solo perspective what would be a better build to go with. (Using Rampager’s right now but have no problems making a different set if it will help me with what I want).

:) Appreciate any insight.

Condition has tagging issues do not use conditions.

Actually pretty similar to build and approach I have been using for farming. I run 0/30/10/30/0 spec, Sword/Axe and Rifle. I swap the Major traits alot depending on what I am doing at the time. Mending, Shake it Off, On my Mark, For Great Justice, Rage Signet. Sometimes swap in Bolas if I come across Champ or Vet I want to kite. Gear is mostly Rampager’s w/Soldiers Runes. Seems to be sturdy enough and the DPS especially when farming events and such with Axe #5 works out nice. I sometimes swap to Horn mostly for #4 for when I want to get across zones/areas a tad quicker

Arcing Shot and Greatsword. Look for DEs in Orr that spawn large masses of enemies in small packs. Sit on their spawns and auto attack. (Yes, it’s stupid. Welcome to Guild Wars 2.)

I use a condition build, have had no issues, in fact its so good I cant go back to any other weapons then sword/sword/sheild.

I admit, it takes a little longer to take down a mob than a greatsword warrior would. A friend of mine who has a theif showed me how quick he takes down a mob also, then I pointed out his health was at 50%. With my build 20/25/25 and all the toughness on condition damage gear, with added power gear and precision here and there. Oh also added vitality with soldier rune and 2 parts temple power/tough/vit. I rarely go down past 90% on an average mob in cursed shore. Noticing this, I farm 3-4 mobs at a time. It is also quite possible, though maybe not in cursed shore, to solo champions. Kite and bleed is very strong.

GS + Longbow is a beast. Aoe damage is preferrable and while I agree that conditions in general are not that great, pulsing aoe burn is awesome, much more so if you manage to routinely combo with yourself.

Try building adrenaline with gs/signet, swap to bow and do f1, combustive shot, arcing arrow (combo1), fan of fire, swap back to gs, whirl through your own field (combo2), and bladetrail behind you (combo3, can hit twice).

Be sure to invest in the 5s weapon swap so you can swap in and out of longbow quickly. This should pretty reliably tag any number of mobs.

Conditions requires time in order to fully gain the positive damage output over a comparable Power build. For general solo, you should build for spike/burst damage first. (Carry a second set of gear and invest in some invisible containers to store the other set)

Offhand Axe is another option.

Especially in Orr, it requires some “practice” to anticipate when mobs stop the “invulnerable” message and can be damaged with any build. Obviously knowing the spawn locations in each event helps immensely as well.

I also recommend Sigil of Geomance if your trying to AE farm events.

@Dray,

You know a way to get that working all the time? It seems to work like 1 out of 10 weapon swaps for me, not sure why it isn’t constant when it is off cooldown. I switched it out for Earth until I could figure out how to work it properly a week or so ago. ( I /bug reported it to)

Yeah i noticed that sometimes it does not trigger when I think it should………I kinda figured it had something to do with shared cooldowns with other sigils…..like maybe all sigils regardless of type (i.e on crit proc, on swap) share common ICD.

I know On Crit stuff messes it up (most share a cooldown) so maybe that’s it. I kind of assumed though since Sigil Of earth doesn’t have any ICD it wouldn’t have an affect on Geomancy but possible. Will have to try it with some dummy weapons later to verify I guess.

Don’t forget the most important part of farming
Being decked out in +magic find% gear