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this issue was raised before, if you’re not going to spam sword AA, won’t that hurt your overall dps? what makes it better than GS AA with the evade on the chain?
Well people say that it´s calculated that sword autoattack does more damage but the rooting is a pain if you can´t manage it properly. I like the GS better too but it does feel like it does less damage but it´s good for cleaving trash thought.
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As a player who has played high level fractals only two classes seem to even benefit from stats as toughness and vitality and they are Gurdian and Warrior(Heavy armor classes). Because of that I don´t find it likely that the Zerker PvE meta will ever die.
I optimized your build into this http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBhOD7koiqKjswKIWLDAdGcaJnRiH6UUKqp8kSsWL-jwyAYLioZyCEpBjChQEgpCAJviox2GKiGreBTVSEV7NKiWNA-e. Forget the two-handed training trait in Nature Magic entirely. It´s just complety useless and in the wrong tree. Strength of sprit provides a better damage buff to your GS and all other weapons you use even with only your base vitality+the 200 from traits(That´s the Ranger traits for ya :/). Next we lose the guard trait and the10 spec to it. As you said the guard skill is stupid and trating Nature Magic to 30 to make it usefull is not effective either. You want to use a GS here which is a defensive weapon (Has a built in evade ,block 4, intertupt 5) so you don´t need to trait for that defense especially in PVE. Now you may ask what´s this frost spirit doing there? With the trait in Nature Magic it provides a 7% damage buff to you and your party. Thats a great bonus. You need to plan a little were to place it. It wont attract agro to itself on its own and will be killed only by aoe skills by mobs if they use them close to it so place it a bit out of the way. The ten points I took out of Nature magic got put into the 2 10% damage buff´s which are active when a you have over 90% health and are flaking your target(really easy to do with GS since no root). You can swap Pets Prowess to something else if you want but there isn´t much worth taking there since the Axe bonus only aplies if you are using a main hand axe and have it active. When you want to use S/H for more DPS switch the Martial Mastery trait for Off-Hand Traning. Lastly remember to switch utilities when needed. (Mostly on skipping parts in a Dungeon like TA Stability from Rampage as One is great here)
An easy fix for this would be that you could dodge or heal during any part of the auto attack chain cancelling the auto attack chain until you start it again.