Guild Wars 2

What skills and traits should I pick up for fractals?

Running a set of Knights armor berserker jewlery.

Just hit 80 and have GS + Rifle + Longbow.

Don’t really care about wvw on this guy just made him to farm fractals for my thief since no one will ever group a thief.

TBH, I switch out skills depending on the map. My base skills are healing surge, FGJ, Balanced stance, shake it off, sig of rage. Depending on the situation I will drop balanced stance for undure pain or OMM. Condition heavy areas I drop FGJ and grab stamina sig and switch out healing surge for mending. For some boss battles I will at times switch out sig of rage for battle standard to help others. Most of the time you should be using shouts. They are instant cast and they buff other players not to mention they stack might. I do find at times I dont have enough players who support so I switch to range with my rifle. I suggest, if your traits support it, to take the ability of piercing damage and 20% less recharge time on rifles. Its great for hitting multiple targets and does alot of damage.

6. Healing Surge / Mending
7. For Great Justice
8. Shake it off (Love it as it gets you right back up after stun too, life-saver)
9. Endure Pain if I am sucking, or Signet of Stamina (More dodges = love = life)
10. SoR (Warbanner for noob teams when 3+ are downed)

That’s as close to a cookie cutter berserker build as you can get.
It’s better to change traits per fight, but honestly… I’m lazy as fudge and sometimes I just want to stay on a single build and play.

I find Shake it off and Signet of Stamina to be enough for conditions, but I’ll occasionally switch in mending just because it’s freaking amazing… and because sometimes I like to F1 with LB which uses all my adrenaline which means mending becomes better than healing surge.

Thanks for the ideas. I am going to try going with a shout build. Seems like you guys and some other have suggested many of the shouts. I am running Of the Soldier runes so I think those will compliment it.

I would suggest for utilities: balanced stance, signet of stamina and for great justice