Guild Wars 2

I’m a hard sale on the usefulness of 10 in tactics. The +toughness while reviving isn’t good, but the massive damage increase for when you’re under 25% health is very situational. When I roam and my health pool hits that low, I’m not focusing on continuing to dps my target, I’m focusing on allowing my war to take a “breather” to let his health get back up a tad.

If you remove those 10 points and put them in Strength, you lose 1k health and 10% boon duration, no big deal. However, you gain 100 power and some condition duration. Take trait III Great Fortitude and you’ve recovered the lost health and then some (for your build it’s a 1,600 health gain).

Next, I took 10 points out of Discipline. The only real downside to doing this is the loss of Burst Mastery plus the loss of the raw +10% crit damage. While the 10% off burst skill recharge rate, and the 7% damage increase to burst skills wasn’t anything amazing in the grand scheme of your total damage output, the -33% cost to burst skills is going to hurt a bit. But stay with me!

Take the 10 points and dump them on top of the 10 in Strength. You’re up to 200 more power (roughly a 7% increase in Attack vs. original build) and 20% condition duration (meh). Burst skills now grant some recovered endurance, which is a nice added bonus. But you now have the option to either get back that 10% crit damage by taking X Axe Mastery, or you can just take a flat 10% increase to GS damage with IX Slashing Power.

Also, since you’ve gained about 600 health using my variation, you can change some of your trinkets to put your health back down while boosting other stats (if you choose all berserker trinkets you’ll gain about 3% crit chance).

I’ve tried both specs, both are a lot of fun to play and I’m just slightly privy towards my revised spec because I’ve always been a fan of consistency over burst.

DH gets to the point where they know they have it in the bag and then they don’t show up much after that. Refreshing to see they have people that treat this as it should be, a video game.

Had the opportunity to fight a necro from your guild tonight around 3 AM PST. Fight was in EB at Rogue’s Quarry. he had already cleared the NPCs, I showed up (Asura guardian) and we began fighting.

I slowly got the upper hand on him, got him to about 15% health, and he suddenly ghosts off into the nearby wall while still damaging me. I cannot hit him, even though I am directly against the wall where his avatar is. I figure he’s lagging so I move around, he’s still tagging me with melee attacks. I use a teleport-to-enemy skill with him still targetted and I fly in the opposite direction as where he’s running into the wall. Luckily, a guard spawns and begins to shoot him. He dies, and I report it.

I’m not trying to stir kitten up, but I really despise cheaters.

Fun fights, IoJ. You almost* had EB.

I usually enjoy soloing in mmos. Thieves really ruined any attempt at soloing in WVW for me.