Guild Wars 2

Wildclaw.6073:

At least it sounds good on paper.

Until you realize that the +20% to vulnerable targets trait is crap as your water spells will still do much less damage than your other attunement.

The 20% will work for the Dragon Tooth as well, as long as your in Water Attunement before it lands.

Focus is nice for PvP.
It gives you a daze, a knockdown and invulnerability. Of course, these 3 come at the cost of fire grab, updraft, earthquake and churning earth. That’s a big cost but I can’t say that Focus is horribly worse than offhand Dagger.

Focus has a nice combo, where you start off in Lightning until you apply vulnerability (lightning 25 trait), then knock down (20% more damage to knocked down opponents), switch to fire for dragons tooth and then immediately switch to Water for 20% more damage to vulnerable foes. At least it sounds good on paper. This combo has a 50 sec cooldown (40s traited), almost same as Frenzy, so I don’t really know if it’s worth all that setup and traits.

If you spec tanky then Focus is great for interrupting stomps and getting off resses in PvP, but I felt that I didn’t contribute any damage at all and it has no big healing capability so I think it’s not the best choice.

Swirling winds + Magnetic Wave are great against rangers, also Magnetic Wave is a blast finisher and removes 3 condis, I definitely miss that skill whenever I’m not using Focus. The thing on Dagger offhand that is great against rangers is RTL and currently if you try to go for a target at 300-600 range it will bug 100% so I’ll take Focus any day.

I tried this but at my 20-30 FPS the camera is so ridiculously floaty that it’s not comfortable at all for aiming like this, doesn’t feel like GTA or such games.
What frame rate do you have in this video?