Guild Wars 2

Greetings again,

I took your advice Osicat and put a Sigil of Str in the GS. The Clockwork Chaos runs have been good to me so far and I was able to also place an entire set of Superior Runes of Str in all armor slots. I looked at Hoelbrek, but given a PvE environment, the condi reduction didn’t seem as needed.

The build is working well, but I still miss the Staff. It just feels like it works better to me… either that or I’m just taking time adjusting to the GS play style. This is still funny, all the things I constantly complain about are the same things that make me love this game. Just too many combinations.

Be safe

-Sark

Thanks Osicat, I will give the GS a try. Time to purchase another ugly Pearl Berserker weapon…. man those default skins are ugly.

-Sark

@Moaning Marv, yeah you’re right. I just took the condi build for a whirl yesterday and got sucked in to a clockwork event. I felt like I was gonna cry. Before I completely flipped out though, I took it to WvW and roamed a bit with a couple people and it really shined out there.

So I think I will put the Rabid set in the bank until I WvW more often and go back to the Heavy 3.0 for running events with the wife. That warden is a beast in PvE… the mobs just sit there while he pounds the T-Total crap out of them. Good times.

Edit: Also was looking for some advice if any to rune choices and sigil selection to better enhance the the Heavy 3.0 in a PvE environment. Might stacking NPCs is quite a chore and at times doesn’t seem worth the effort. Any advice welcomed.

Be safe,

-Sark

Greetings all,

Well I was on the way to completing my rabid set and some clockwork patch happened and derailed that for a few hours. Anyway, I did end the night with completing a rabid set with a few exceptions. The helm and shoulders are rares, the rest are karma bought exotics from ORR.

As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t have a ton of money, but I sold some mats and was able to purchase exotic Carrion S/T and Staff. I don’t have the WvWvW tokens yet for the actual Rabid weapons. Anyway, I can’t wait to give this a try in the Borderlands tonight.

On a side note… crafted exotic weapons might actually be the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I think it’s done on purpose… it’s just bad. Never in a game have I crafted something so powerful and immediately wanted to hide it from the world before I bought a skin. Be safe all.

-Sark

@Everyone at this game that’s better than me, how does the Rabid setup work for PvE? As much as I love spinning cartwheels over everything, I’d love to try this build out too. I understand that you can get the armor from karma vendors, but where can you get the weapons? Anywhere other than TP?

-Sark

@Kotan

I understand just fine. Thanks for the advice. No matter which way you look at it, it just going to take some time. I totally forgot about Karma… been away for a few months and trying to get back into it again. Thanks for the advice again.

@Osicat, thanks for the tip. Like I said, I cannot afford to get all superior runes yet so i went 4 Hoelbrek (spelling?), and 2 Wyrm for a little bit of crit. A couple of times last night I managed to get up to 23 might stacks with just two opponents so I am getting the hang of the build. I used to hate the focus, but now that I see it’s use, it’s pretty awesome. So thanks for the advice. I will start saving for the big boy runes.

On another note, how do you guys fund all these habits of changing specs all the time? I got crafting up in most areas I use and end up making each piece, but it’s still a slow process. Do you dragon farm, farm T6 mats, have helpful guilds, what? Be safe.

-Sark

Greetings all,

Many thanks everyone for all the contributions to this thread. I have gone from necro to mesmer in my time on GW2 and mesmer is just a blast. And the Shatter Cat builds have given me endless enjoyment in part from my wife glancing over and asking me if “i must cartwheel over everything we fight”. Now to the questions.

I feel i need to start with I’ve never been good at getting money. Every dime has gone into crafting exotics for me and the wife, so for the most part, I don’t get to use those “Superior” runes and sigils and instead have to make due with the “Major” ones instead (in some cases, that’s quite disheartening).

Anyway, I swap between the SC Heavy and the SC Hybrid when the wife and I play. We play mostly PvE farming the Queens Jubilee currently. I was wondering, I love the survivability of the SC Heavy but I really cant stack might to save my life. I really can’t, unless having 8 stacks in a fight is ok. Is this a PvE thing? Perhaps the major vs superior runes are too much of a gap for me?

Anyway, thanks all for the insight through these 26 pages and counting. And another thanks to Osicat for all you’ve done for the class. Hope I haven’t been too confusing.

-Sark