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Thanks for this information!
A few hours after the patch, I got 4 ectos from two rares.
I absolutely love my 0/0/30/30/10 healing shout/hammer build. http://goo.gl/wf144 (gw2db skill calc). I use a mixture of cleric and soldier gear.
You can pre-build adrenaline with shouts and start off with earthshaker. When melee mobs get too close, use staggering blow to knock them back, then snare/immobilize them with hammer shock. If there are still a lot of mobs left, wait until they get in range and use fear me for 3 seconds of breathing room. You can control stragglers with backbreaker and fierce blow. By then, a lot of your cooldowns are up, so you can restart the earthshaker/staggering blow/hammer shock combo. The entire time, you’re using your other shouts to heal, manage conditions, and keep your adrenaline up.
I’m still experimenting with my secondary weapon, but I’m leaning towards axe/shield. There are times where you don’t need all of this aoe crowd control, and the axe provides a nice ranged snare on a short cooldown, decent auto-attack dps, a leap finisher and a vulnerability debuff. Using your shield to leap through a combo field then immediately shield block is nice too.
Juggernaut is incredible for dungeons if you need lots of crowd control. Short cast time aoe stomp and several short cool down knock backs with a variety of application methods means that melee mobs will barely be able to touch you.