Guild Wars 2

I use sword shield and mace shield, I love my shield, means I’m almost always the first one in the fight and the last one to get downed, its awesome, plus combined with my mace I can stun like crazy. I also carry my trusty hammer and rifle for when they are needed.

Since I do a hell of a lot more PvE than PvP, I cant stand when a warrior rocks up to an instance with a GS.

I think Influence gain scales exponentially when you group with other guild members, so when you only have one person representing the gain is very small, not sure of exact numbers though.

So after hitting 80 and getting some gear together (full set of 80 crafted rares) I decided again to venture into dungeons, after not going into any dungeons from around level 45 I wasn’t to sure what to expect.

After looking at the dungeon gear vendors I decided to try for the flame legion stuff.

Skip to my first explorable CoF
We chose the path where you have to stop the resurrection ritual.
- Was done within 20 minutes
- no complete wipes
- only got downed once or twice

I remember when I ran an earlier explorable mode with some friends, Twilight Arbor I think its called, and we did the path with the hammer boss at the end, that place was a pain from start to end and we didn’t even get the last boss down.

I kinda feel like it should have been harder especially for the reward it provides, AC and CM explorable modes that I have done have been harder than this place and they don’t even give 80 exotics.

for reference I am a warrior with mace/shield sword/shield equipped most of the time, plus I carry a hammer and rifle for when the situation requires.

Do you guys agree with this or was I just lucky with the group I got

mm yeah completely forgot to factor traits into it, you can get even more uptime with boon duration increased/signet cd reduction, should

mm I love my mace shield combo, using charge, mace stun then my adrenaline consumer for maximum stun, or just the mobility available from sword shield, with lunge and charge.

I tend to play more tanky/support than anything else, so anything that lets me intercept enemies going for my teammates helps a tonne.

mmm I dont find this at all, although i use a mace shield/sword shield setup with defensive and condition removal utilities.

melee did draw the short straw when it comes to staying alive in instances, need to focus a lot more on defense than our ranged counterparts, but I don’t mind since I’m pretty much a tanky/support build

I use the elite signet when i want to stay mobile, 30+ seconds of swiftness with 50% uptime, means you miss out on other stuff though