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[pojoman42]

Yes its a common starting point with many other builds. But please take a look at my take on it. I dont pretend to be the only one running it but i havent seen another post with the same build.

Here is a link to my build:

http://gw2skills.net...uoAzAmAMLYOwkgB

The whole idea is to bunker(well, bunker is a loose term here) a side BO in Tourneys. The runes really make this build shine. At 50% health i receive 10 second duration of protection. At around 50-70% i pop my heal so that my health will dip below 50% for the boon then slowly rise. I can usually keep up protection during most of the fight with all the dodges(2 seconds each). Also if it is a class that has lots of spike damage i of course get another 5 seconds of protection if they hit me for over 20% of my health. Elite is also nice for getting off stomps on those 1vs2 situations.

Most of my dps comes from flame trap, my torch off hand. And my 2 dogs bring of course awesome CC as well.

I have been dueling my guildies and pugging/guild group tourneys past 2 weeks(when i rerolled ranger from mesmer). So my experience is somewhat limited.

The only specs that i havent been able to kill have been some really good bunker eles and a few engies that ran the trait that they recieve no damage from condtions when under 25% health.



Ive been having a blast and just wanted to see if anybody else has been using the Forge runes?




Aviendha Jr-Ranger
Shieldhog-Mesmer




*bolded so that we all know that I am new to class and that I only have around 40-60 tourney matches with this spec so experience is limited.

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also here is a link to the rune of Forge:

http://www.gw2db.com...ne-of-the-forge

though i think the 6th ability is a 90 second cd in game. Not sure though atm but will check later on and verify if it is 60 seconds or 90.

Edited by pojoman42, 29 November 2012 - 12:06 AM.

[momekic]

I had replied to this topic saying this spec is horrible, as a joke (I thought it would be easy enought to see the sarcasm) because this is my guildie, but I guess jokes are not taken well on this forum and it got deleted, sorry for that.

Anyway, this spec actually rocks. I adjusted mine to be more power focused instead of condition focused because that it my play style, but I still have the same traits and it works great. I used sword/horn and I used the condition removal/stunbreak signet as my third utility instead of one of the traps.

It is definitely worth a try with all the different weapons.