Guild Wars 2

Open up by spawning your hammer/sword to give chase. You want to land your immobilize into the scepter 2 skill. If your hammer AI is working with you and is on top of the enemy toggle to knockdown while they’re immobilized. Swap into that sword, blink on top let the fire breath burn them with the five skill. After that you can activate virtue of justice get another burn (two more if the weapons are on him too). The burning is real at this point. Now since we are running krait runes you can pop the invulnerability elite to get even more condis on them!

Now that is in a perfect world ^ but that is pretty much what you’re going for.

A tip that a guard (Maintoogood) gave me was that instead of fighting behind my weapons fight with them. It really helped me put this thing together.

Trick to this build is since we are only running 11k health you need to make sure to manage your aegis. Don’t waste them. The shield on the focus is used more defensibly in this build too.

If you’re doing it right the you can survive quite well against any class and still apply a ton of pressure!

Sword Avg Auto attack damage: 320 ish normal | 600 crit
Scepter Avg Auto attack dmg: 300 | 413 crit
Burning tick: 667-690 per second
Poison tick: 220 per second
Bleeds: 110 per second
Torment: 100 per second

Spirit sword auto attack dmg: 530 normal | 800 crit
Spirit hammer auto attack dmg: 273 normal | 450 crit

With the Rabid amulet you will hit crits about 50% of the time! So it ain’t to bad!

Traits: 1/5/2/2/4
Now as much as I like the weapons, they’re not the carry of this build. That’s why we aren’t going 6 into Zeal. Because first off, they’re unreliable outside of a 1v1/2v1 as their AI sometimes just does whatever and if they’re focused down there goes 50% of your damage output.

Now 5 in Radiance is for the Shimmering Defense and A Fire inside. Fire inside gives the weapons their burns and the last minor point at 10% more damage to foes with condis. You could take the 1 point in Zeal and throw it in but I like the “Symbol of Wrath” and did not like any of the other major glyph in Radiance to put a 6 point in.

Valor 2 points for the burn on block. If the foe isn’t paying attention this will hurt them very bad. Every aegis will burn, the scepter block skill will burn, your block will burn. And you get a aegis proc at 50% health

Honor just gives the vigor on crit, which helps a lot since you’re only rolling with 11k managing your burns and rolls will be critical + the retaliation on aegis end is nice for 3.5seconds.

We have the 4 points in virtue for the two major glyphs that allow spirit weapons to last 50% longer and the burn/proc frequency of virtue of justice “Supreme Justice”. The two minor glyph are nice too.

Alright why use the spirit weps? First off, they’re fun!

If let unchecked these bad boys will apply some serious burn. The hammer is cc strong, every 3rd attack it will knock back. The toggle knockdown is great too. The sword last longer is faster, so it applies the burn pressure a lot better than the hammer. The toggle applies in a aoe ground slam type skill that applies vulnerability.

Scepter/Focus: Standard weapon combination. I like the focus better on the scepter to add protection from far range. Helps to safely get off the weapon channel summon too. The immobilize is great. The 2 skill on the scepter applies a burn every 3rd hit, and it hits them 16 times!

Sigil of Rage: When it procs the burn output is crazy. Every 3rd swing, if you get a 2 skill off during rage, it its even more burning.
Sigil of Doom: Keeps the healing to a minimum and the tick is decent.

Sword/Torch: The auto attack procs alot of burns (triple slash) it also procs with the 3rd skill channel attack via Virtue of Justice. The blink is a great gap closer with a nice blind ontop. The first torch skill is a nice ranged burn throw or you can set yourself on fire to burn them on auto attack. The 2nd torch skill doesn’t have a burn by default on it. With virtue of justice up though it will burn on the 3rd pulse (it pulses 9/10s).

Sigil of Doom: Keep the condis up, heals down
Sigil of Energy: Increases survivability since we are running with a 11k health pool

Time for the skill bar!

Heal: Block on heal = Burn while healing.

We are rockin’ Hammer and Sword spirit for sure!

The Hammer lockdown capabilities are awesome if it doesn’t get focused down. Still one good knockdown out of it and that’s all you need.

Sword helps applies pressure/vulnerability and is faster than the hammer. With these two things in their faces constantly burning the pressure is real.

Last slot we are running Contemplation of Purity. Which is a recent change I made with a suggestions of friends and guard players to help deal with the condis/cc. The only thing is since we don’t have the meditation cool down trait you need to use this wisely.

Elite: Renewed Focus, combos well and resets all your virtues.