Guild Wars 2

Alright, so although I haven’t been playing the game much lately, all the time I have been, I’ve been playing sPvP or tPvP. I used to play an extremely tanky hammer bunker, and had a lot of fun, but with the new patch, I wanted to try something new, a faster build based around damage.

However, I’m having trouble picking traits. I’m running GS + Sword / Shield, with full Ogre runes, Superior Fire sigils on GS/S, and Superior Bloodlust on Shield. Berserker’s amulet. Right now for utilities I’m using Mending, Bull’s Rush, FGJ, Endure Pain, and Signet of Rage.

I’m running 20/20/0/10/20, and I’m not happy with it. I feel like I need 5 more points. In Strength, I take Berserker’s Power and Slashing Power. In Arms I take Rending Strikes and Forceful Greatsword. I take Leg Specialist in Tactics, and Heightened Focus and Mobile Strikes in Discipline. I feel like I need Slashing Power, Forceful Greatsword, Leg Specialist, and Fast Hands. That leaves me with 5 points, which I threw into Mobile Strikes. However, I really want to pick up Dogged March somehow, I just don’t see how. Either I give up a lot of GS damage, or the ability to immobilize, or I double the weapon swap time.

Any ideas? The rest of my build is open to criticism, too, I’m new to damage dealing in PvP. I took Mending because it’s my only condition removal, however, it heals so much less than Healing Surge I’m not sure about it. I also took Endure Pain because I felt way too squishy and easy to burst down, I originally had Frenzy instead but it was getting me killed more often than it helped (it seemed).

Thanks.

I use 20-20-15-0-15

Strength V-IX
Arms V-X
Defense II
Discipline V

With this I get the GS buffs I want, the fast weapon swaps, and the Dogged March trait. It sucks not having Leg Specialist, but it lets me survive a few more seconds to get that extra damage out or to hold out long enough for some help. I think some of the traits could be merged together like many others have already stated, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

NOTE: I’m not skilled at sPvP, still trying to learn myself, I mostly do WvW and PvE.

He probably needs 20 in discipline for the mobile strikes…. He needs 10 in tactics for leg specialist. He did’t post his build but I’m amusing that is what hes running. So that leaves him with 40 point left. I know its sad. If you want the dogged march your going to ahve to make a sacrifice somwhere. The should of made it a minor trait. Anyways.

10/25/0/10/25 maybe. You will trade the 10% GS damage increase for 10% more damage to bleeding foes, pick up the trait Deep cuts for 50% increase in bleeding duration and you have a minor trait to cause 33% chance of bleeding. You will have a little more crit power and a little more burst damage. use a axe/shield or something to take advantage of the 3% burst now on eviscerate. the 25 point minor trait on dis is might when you swap. So I think trading 10 in strength for 25 in arms and d5 in dis makes up for it and maybe slightly stronger actually.