Painbow.6059: Ignore what anyone else who doesn’t agree with me has said because its wrong.
Time to respec, looking for options
Painbow.6059: Ignore what anyone else who doesn’t agree with me has said because its wrong.
This is my personal build. As you can see its very tanky yet still has extremely high dmg for how tanky it is. its a bit squishy, but it also works great in zergs. Charging through the frontline and earthshaking the backline with your hammer on steroids dmg is awesome fun. I’ve been experimenting with taking out cleansing ire for defy pain and leg specialist for the +20%dmg under 25% health. Crazy risk vs reward synergy there. But i often miss the adrenaline you get from cleansing ire.
This build is also getting a huge buff on the 2handed weapon sigil patch. Ill be using impact/air on hammer and perception/hydromancy on GS (you could use force or air instead of perception but i hate seeing my big moves not crit :/ ). Impact alone more than makes up for the crit dmg nerf, and air is just another 3-5k hit every 5 seconds
Condi builds are typically either 0/30/20/0/20 or 0/20/30/0/20 with full dire. There are a few ones with shouts and apothecary gear, 0/10/20/30/10. LB is a great weapon. It scales awesome with power and condi, and you don’t have to actually hit anything with the f1 to clear condis with cleansing ire. You can use hambow (spvp only), axe/Sw+LB (popular tpvp roaming/dueling build), or GS/bow (my favorite build for tpvp, 30/0/20/0/20, zerkers any and lyssa runes. I use bulls charge+frenzy+100b and it often oneshots people just like the good old days. Arcing arrow hits incredibly hard, especially on a point with multiple people, and you can pindown→100b as well. Awesome tpvp roamer/team fight burst).
30/25/0/0/15 full zerk, scholar runes, etc with GS+Axe/Ma is the meta PVE build
(edited by Carpboy.7145)
IMO the build you posted is perfect for axe+shiled / Hammer.
For GS/Hammer I find 20/0/30/0/20 to be much better.
You don’t need burst mastery and leg specialist is too rare but u do get more power, 10% gs dmg which is A LOT, more dodges, dodge dmg, which is great, and more vitality/DFO ,the jump trait, which is always good for wvw but it also lunches, a very strong and supa fun skill.