Hey Gaiscioch. Been playing my Sylvari Warrior almost constantly since release. I'm at the point where he's fully geared in Exotics, and I wanna play an alt, but I honestly just keep coming back to this build, because I can't find anything in another profession that synergizes as well as this one does, so I wanted to share it with you guys.
Yes, it uses a Longbow. I thought Longbow was weird too when I first picked it up, but after playing around with my build a bit, I think I really found a way to make it shine.
Here's a link to the build: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcRm0kV9MoRavmoRavma9MxxzmRbmab
For Sigils I put Superior Sigils of Battle on both Sword and Longbow, and a Sigil of Energy on my Warhorn. For Runes I go Soldier for condition removal on shouts. For my armor, I mixed Rampagers and Clerics, giving me Condition Damage, Percision, Toughness and Healing Power. For weapons I got named exotics with Toughness, Condition Damage, Percision. I have a bit of Crit Damage on my jewelry, and some from traits, so I didn't grab much gear for it.
Basically the way you wanna play this build is to weapon swap every time it's up, which is every 5 seconds. Weapon swapping gets you 4 stacks of might and builds adrenaline. Keep the Signet buffs up as much as possible too. When you build your first bar of adrenaline, wether you use your shout CDs or not, drop your Londbow burst on a target or juicy location, throw your immobilize on your target, get in close and blast em with Fan of Fire. This applies burning AND more burning on each arrow because of the combo finisher. Drop your blast finisher, giving you some extra might and hopefully frontloading some damage at the same time. All the while your auto attacks are putting on TWO stacks of burning every time your autoattack goes through your GIANT combo field.
Once you've exhausted your Longbow cooldowns, switch to Sword, leap in with your leap finisher, grabbing Fire aura, this should be JUST about when your fire field goes down... good thing they already have probably a good 15 seconds of burning stacked up... lay on some bleeds with your sword, and swap back once the cooldowns back up. You'll find you probably have a full bar of adrenaline again... rinse and repeat. :D You can even sneak in a sword burst finisher in there for some bleeds and a nice immobilize in your combo field if you have time. :D
Between condition removal on shouts, stun removal on Shake it Off, immobilize removal on sword leap, and cripple/frozen/immobilize removal on warhorn, not to mention permanant swiftness, you are damn near uncatchable. There's almost no reason to ever be somewhere you'd rather not be.
For Great Justice has a buff duration longer than it's cooldown, so use it ALL the time, but preferably when you need to either remove a condition, heal some health, or build adrenaline, hopefully all three for maximum effectiveness.
With this build you can keep 25 stacks of Might on you permanently if you're in combat for more than 45 seconds and being disciplined about your weapon swap, burst finisher, signet, and For Great Justice. You will have burn and bleed on your enemies pretty much constantly.
The heal is really a preference thing. I personally like the Signet because it's very low maintainence, and you can't interrupt something that isn't activated, and boy did I hate getting my heal interrupted, plus the condition removal on mending isn't even missed a little bit with everything you got in this build.
My main reason for switching from Rifle to Longbow was WvW keep siege and defense. Rifle wasn't really cutting it for me. Great for skirmishing and single target, but AOE is the gamechanger in WvW. The combo field on the burst finisher is super big. It's very useful to build adrenaline shooting the door, and then you can drop the field on basically any siege on the wall, it will hit, and it honesly hits way too hard to be ignored. People WILL move. It's fun to see a big group of enemies raining down on us on the wall, I drop my giant fire field, and watch em scatter. :P Lots of fun.
Anyways, just thought I'd share this build with you guys. I'd love any feedback or questions. :)
» Edited on: 2012-11-09 02:45:34