Guild Wars 2

Sherman.4631:

Charr for battle roar, hidden pistol.

Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just happy to…. Oh! it IS a pistol. I’ll be going now…

Shilian, how about: “Shout of Rampage”? Works like rampage, but is a shout

Maybe this would be fun, “Shout of the Savage”. – Your senses are heightened, riposting all melee attacks and deflecting missile attacks for 5 seconds, or something to that tune.

IMO – None of the available racials would replace my banner. I wouldn’t recommend rolling based on racial abilities.

The sigil is more of an afterthought of the build. The build definitely isn’t designed for survival via leaching, moreover survival through damage negation. The leaching plays a nice supporting role though. Unfortunately, this build doesn’t have the room to maximize crit procs and achieve its design. The build relies on Avoidance>Toughness>=Shout Heals>Blocking>Regens to negate incoming damage.

Hey Wobels, get off my toon, you kitten spy! This is currently my exact build. Same order of shouts and everything. I had been using GS and ranged builds lately, but I keep going back to this. I thoroughly enjoy the in-your-face survival style. The damage is definitely a bit lacking and shield CD’s are still too long imo, but it really is a fun build.

I do keep a mace handy for extra turtling when needed, but primarily run with an axe. I generally have a longbow on weapon swap. It’s a great opener with F1, weap swap, shield bash. The cleric’s gear is a great supplement to the regens and shout heals. Having the ability to effectively switch to a hammer for lockdown situations is also very appealing about this build.

I’d probably lean towards the 10/30/0/0/30. The damage output will be greater. You can negate the “glass” portion of the glass cannon with your ability to keep your targets at bay. Between rifle and bow, you shouldn’t have any issues keeping distance.

I went into defense after level 40 for pve reasons only. I liked the idea of being able to solo the majority of events and skill checks. I’m also a fan of S&B play style, so it fits. As one mentioned above, the benefit of having the extra regen is nice, but is not significant if it’s not stacked. In conjunction with healing signet and increased toughness is where the trait seems to shine.

Like LameFox stated, if you’re only going into the defense line for Adrenal Health, then you’d be better off spending the points elsewhere.