Xander's PvE Builds (Project under construction)

Hey everyone,

I am sharing some of the PvE Builds that I have used so far in this game. Hope you guys will like them!

I will be adding extra info further down the line (exact gear etc).

MISSING SKILLS ARE THE NEW ELITE SKILLS!

Here are some new Dervish Healer Builds that I have been playing. Enjoy!:)

If you have any questions, let me know:)

Okay so I have added the template codes and the gear that I have personally used:)

More Builds to come later on most likely. Do we want more player builds or hero builds first? (including different team builds I have used)

Was just messing around in-game a bit and started thinking....

Why is there no D/E Support?

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At current attributes:
+22 armor

+46 armor vs Elemental

50% to block melee attacks

50% to block projectiles

+8hp Regen

All Party wide. I have to admit it looks kinda boring to play, but still might be fun who knows

I have added quite a few Paragon and Necro builds for the fans out there!

I will be cleaning up this thread soon to make it look nicer:)

Bump, made some new Dervish Healer builds that I have been enjoying!

Alright guys, I am working on a Dervish GWAMM at the moment that turned into a Healer Dervish GWAMM. As it is closing into the end (mostly just vqs left), I will be looking for a next project.

So far I have come up with the following builds that seem fun to play!

Which one do you think I should do first?

Alright. I have done it again

I have tried out multiple variations and different combinations of professions to arrive at this point. I have not yet tried out this version but thought that maybe some of you might like to give it a try. The thing that is new is the AotL Protter. Before I was personally playing prot and had a SoS prot hero but it just felt like wasted space and came up with this. I have tried E/Mo ER Protter but didnt like the reliance on enchants to keep up.

I hereby present... "Signets, Spirits and Minions"!

To give a short summary, this team provides:

- 10 Offensive Spirits (including Ench strip, Blind, Interrupt and double dmg vs Hexed foes)

- 19 Minions total (if I calculated correctly; 11 from AotL Protter and 8 from Keystone Bomber)

- Great damage and Interrupts through the many signets and Keystone

- Undisturbed Damage pumping from Visions of Regrets as there are no other Mesmer Hexes preventing full damage

- Great Snares such as Deep Freeze and Binding Chains

- Hex Removal: 1 (x2) | all hexes (x1)

- Condi Removal: 0-11 Conditions (x2) (11 Spirits in total)

I have tried this team mostly with Consets, however I have done Levels 1 & 2 SoO HM without Cons together with Emma without much issue.

If you did want to try it, this should work on all classes that can effectively play SoS and should therefore be quite easy.

If you have questions, let me know!

Alright, so Necro is my next focus. Monk is just 1 VQ away from GWAMM so I can start thinking about this (aka procrastinating the fact that it's a NF Deso VQ)

So I was thinking firstly what build I should play and then see what I can make around that.

Or an Axe Necro (with the new elite skill, instead of using a scythe like everyone else :P)

Here are some of the ideas atm

Here's a bunch of new Player Builds! Remember: Missing skills are Elite PvE skills^^

Here's a small adaption of the W/D Magehunter's Strike Build that I will be running for my next GWAMM project. I thought it was only appropriate to run this build after creating the armor set. Both Magehunter's Strike and Protector's Strike have a cast time of 1/2 second making them extremely fast on a scythe (they also recharge very fast, so after using both adrenaline attack skills, you can go back to smashing 1-2-3-4 on a loop if you hit enough targets). This fits very well with the Executioner vibes that the armor gives off

I use atleast a BU and a pumpkin pie. But the first 2 attacks are instant so it doesnt really matter that much tbh:)

Hits like a truck but you need a zealous scythe

Attack skills with a certain attack speed arent affected as far as I know. If they are, then the changes are so small that I havent noticed them at all

First off, I like the idea of the synergy that the skills have. What I personally don’t like is swapping weapons during combat (I tend to f*** it up so that’s probably why^^; I have escape key as close windows so I would close the UI stuff I have on before it would cancel the action, making you swap faster and cleaner).

How much damage do you do? I’d imagine just taking scythe mastery attacks would do more damage than the whole swap to sword thing. What you might want to try is look at which skills count as a “melee attack” over a certain weapon attack such as “scythe attack”. That way you can use them even on another weapon than where the skill is listed. For example, Pious Assault is a scythe mastery skill that can be used with any melee weapon. This is also only possible because the warrior elite is that broken:)

Then I was confused by the fact there was 6 points in scythe mastery, but that’s just to get up to 20 scythe then I guess?

I like the idea, but from personal experience I prefer using scythe as the weapon of choice. It's just so broken with Strength (and the armor penetration from it) in combination with warrior attack skills such as Power attack that can go up to +50 on 3 targets xd

Why not also take sun and moon slash over Knee Cutter? I cant imagine you’d need it for energy since almost all attacks are adrenaline (esp with zealous sword), and the adrenaline “loss” you have from dropping it, you kinda get back from sun and moon slash (4 adrenaline with FGJ).

Yeah I get it. I saw it was an Iron char on the screen u send:). If you’re looking for something else; you could run this build with an axe so you can inflict deep wound easier (without relying on bleeding; especially since there are mobs that don’t bleed) but that’s up to you what weapon you prefer (or want) to use:) This way, you can choose another ench to strip since you don’t necessarily need bleeding. And penetrating attack & chop and executioners strike deal good damage with high axe&strength. In addition, you’d have cyclone axe as well 😜

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I made a 100b build with YMLAD and Knee Cutter that you might like if you like that playstyle. It is a bit energy heavy, but you could add steelfang slash for even more synergy with the build. It doesnt help with energy but its a slot of adrenaline you get:D

Yeee looks good!:) grenth’s is a nice choice to remove conditions

Here are some of the assassin build ideas I came up with. Made one with every martial weapon type.

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Here are some of the assassin build ideas I came up with. Made one with every martial weapon type.

I assume the "?" is Shadow Theft?

Would you recommend Critical Agility for IAS?

Edit: oh sorry, just read the above, you use BU and pie

Shadow theft is the open slot yeah.

Critical agility is great if u dont want or dont use cons/pcons. One “downside” it has imo, is that it renews on crit (so it will be first ench to get stripped this way). Not that sin has much better options for IAS (besides WotA+daggers)

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Wow! Thanks a lot!
The A/P bar looks great, can't wait to try it out!

It’s untested but it should work pretty well. Was nice to not worry about energy for once with spear:D Also high chance of DW on Vicious Spear. Elite skill is optional, but incoming seemed most useful xd Anthem of Guidance might also be a valid option if you’re bringing more heroes that benefit from this