Guild Wars 2

Hello and thanks for taking a look!

First off, I’m just getting back into GW after a year off, and I’m still very new. I’m at level 50.

I mostly play GW with my girlfriend, PvE. She’s a ranger, and she’s using a frost drake and jungle stalker, and she’s pretty good. We play as a team, but a lot of the time I end up engaging the mobs head on, with her playing healing/DPS support role.

Before I stopped playing, I was going for this save adrenaline build, as it looked pretty cool. I had specced 15 into Defense, with the rest into Strength and Arms. Now that I’m back into the game, I did some research and first found that the SA build cannot be done as shown in the vid, as he has Beserker’s Rage available at 10pts Strength. Apparently an update has moved that to 30pts Strength. So, I started researching the “current best warrior builds”, and while of course there is a lot of debate, I settled on the 30/25/0/0/15. When I hit 40, i respecced all into Strength and Arms, and found that I die a lot more often. So, since I tank for my girlfriend a lot, I thought maybe I could try to do a build that would mix the best of SA and the newer build.

Here’s what I’ve come up with for my current level 50 character.
Here’s what the final build looks like.

I’m not 100% sure if I have the right adept/master/grandmaster traits, or skills, or if this build is any good, etc. I guess I’m basically asking you guys to consider that I usually roll with just my GF in PvE, I do some/most of the tanking, and I’d like a build that is “fun”, can take some punishment, is good paired with a hunter, and still maxes DPS, with those other factors in mind.

I’m also considering using Healing Surge in place of Healing Signet. I don’t have anything giving me bonuses from or to signets, and the pairing of the higher straight heal with the adrenaline use/regen seems like a better fit than Healing Signet (though, it does provide regen, but I think it’s also getting nerfed 8% in next update).

Thoughts?