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Interesting video. If everyone on a group agreed, I'd also be okay with rare, even if it would make kind of doing phases and all the gimic a bit more tight, but seeing how really cheap and easy is to get exotics... I mean it's kind of a "just spend some of that saved up coin through leveling and get a more than decent base exotic gear and come to the raid" kind of thing, y know. It's like putting some effort on our side to join what it seems to be the late game of late games content. I think that is a more than reasonable thing to belive. Even tho I think that, this is a video I enjoyed and I'm happy to have found it, mind opening experience ^^

Has this been nerfed ?

Scrapper will always be at the bottom of my engineer's junk pile. The engineer is my favorite class. The RP is fun and i enjoy the gameplay.

Why is everyone's deadeye melee??

I'm coming back to the game after several years, and since I used to main Mesmer this is a great update on something to build towards. Do you think this build would work for WvW roaming? Anything you'd change for that mode? Thanks!

This pu ssy creator keeps deleting my comment, even when my comments didn't have any insult until now: Ok, lets be real. If you are a person who want to play an " OFF META BUILD" , then that means that you at the very least know what was the meta before or some time ago, then that means you possibly know that boons are important ( wich in this case, you used the console to provide the boon that you are in charge of, at the very least try to be in charge of your job wich is quickness). IF you are playing an OFF META BUILD, ok no problem, but if you are playing in rare gear, I will kick you for sure 100%, because you do not have limitations in the trading post you bought the game, even if you are coming back from 10 years ago, you should know that even dungeons can provide exotic, Fractals are in the game since 2012-2013, everyone know that every day you can clear Fractals and get some gold, that gold from clearing T1 fractals you can buy exotic or buy ur ascended rings from fractals. IF you recently bought the game you dont even know what kind of " OFF META BUILDS" are out there, you dont even know what is the difference of rare and exotic and ascended besides the stats, if you are new to the game you dont even know what quickness is, that is why new people start with Exotic CELE from the booster, I know that is a recent change but still, IF you are trying to play in rare gear ( yellow shit) without telling that to ur group in 2024 been an old player (because only old players know what kind of "OFF META BUILDS" are out there) you are a piece of sht, you are trolling your group.

i have a full ascended build and i cannot do more than 20k, seeing you doing 22k with yellows makes me crazy T_T

I agree wıth the point that you don't need to be a tryhard to do endgame PVE. However, rare gear is a bit too low imo. Exotic gear is already easy to get and at the sweet spot. Rare gear isn't much easier to get yet you lose too much. 28k over 22k is more than 25% DPS increase. It's not just about the time it takes to kill the boss. Because often times bosses aren't static DPS checks but they phase. Faster you phase, less shit you have to deal with. In some encounters there are even time limits that you have to kill certain things. Not to mention some builds require you to reach certain stat tresholds to be effective. There's also the issue with the boon uptime. Sometimes shit happens, sometimes mechanics require people to spread out and do stuff. So I think rare gear falls too short to be acceptable for its slightly more accessibility. You can buy Devona's armor which has Berserker stats for like 50 silvers a piece on TP.

good video, it would have help me if you had overlaid the math on the screen so i could get a good "visual sense " thank you , a fan of your vids

hmmm well the thing is that with people with rares usually don't really know how to play their class. cause your gear more shows your experience and your experience shows on the meter, in which the groups i've been a part of don't really care anyways as long as your not on the floor. i want a gear inspect cause im just a curious person and an off meta enjoyer, seeing what people are running especially for specific toughness targets. i really like heal bladesworn and heal renegade and those builds are extremely questionable compared to meta stuff but i do be here to have fun. obviously i can just ask but i think there is a surprising amount of personal variation that goes into builds it gets kinda tedious listing off gear. my main point is that i don't think you're giving the community enough credit and maybe its common knowledge its always skill > build. i only started playing a few months ago but i have cleared everything less challenging than htcm (soo2 10% wipe :( ) but i would not have progressed this far without how nurturing and helpful the community and the ppl i met along the way have been. me personally when i see a dps being out dpsed by a healer im like... is everything okay? how can i help you? but yeah im proud to be a part of this community

Just one question, sorry if my ability to follow the math isn't great. But, where you are saying "This is how much longer it takes", |is that assuming that everyone else is taking the most optimal build and gear and that you are the only one taking the less optimal? Or is it assuming that everyone takes the less optimal?

The gear check and build are usually just means to show experience of the player. If you do a raid you are investing your time and effort most people don’t want dead weight in their squad

Good video. I've only recently gotten into endgame GW2 and haven't run raids yet but a lot of discourse surrounding DPS and build choices feel really counterproductive. The last example with the celestial set is something I feel we need more of because PUG's cannot be trusted to bring utility, CC or sustain. For a particularily egregious example, I've noticed that running shout heals on a DPS warrior with 0 Healing Power will more often than not outperform a full DPS spec in Fractals simply because those heals will prevent party members from wasting time getting downed.

This is a math solution to a non-math problem. You can make another 53 minute video about not caring if 2 players afk during encounters as the content is so powercrept that 3 proper dps are enough anyways. If you want to contribute fairly to the success of your group, bring at least exotic gear, runes and sigils, it really is not expensive, maybe a weekly of the wizards vault. Why would others keep pushing for more if you stay complacent with the most average performance? IMO, that's just not the mindset experienced players should advertise.

How can you see your damage in chat?

I can confirm from experience that you can show up as a boondps in Celestial gear and not look in any way suspicious on the meter (although I only did it with condi builds). Also from what I've seen nobody generally actually bats an eye at the cake, ironically, I only got called out for it once in a training run, in the "live" runs you often see several cakes even. That said, I think this video has a bit of a Tragedy of the Commons going on. Certainly, one person can be wildly suboptimal and it's negligible, but if everyone is as negligent, you're approaching trouble. Even in your example, if you multiply the time loss by 10 (dps will contribute more, healers less, so it's about right), it's 160 seconds, and at that point you're already knocking on the enrage timer in Dagda CM. And even your "bad" examples have pretty good performance and a lot of thought put into them, one can mess up one's build much more than that. In my opinion, assembling decent gear and a good build is not such an ordeal (edit: far less than grinding out the gazzilion steps rotations), and having done that, you can kind of sleep on grinding the rotations and stuff, and it's still going to be perfectly okay, nobody gonna notice anything or give you any trouble. There's no reason to deliberately handicap yourself, why not let the dreaded "power creep" do most of the work?

Thank you for the build guide. I’m quite new still and was playing as a SB. However, I want to be contributing to big meta events by sharing boons and was thinking bout switching to this. Can you provide a link to the build and maybe say sth bout the rotation? I’m really bad with this still and just mash buttons often.

Hi Mandala, great and actually fun build. Been using it for mostly meta event and soloing hp. Btw any recommendation on food for the build?

Hello man! I`m newbie in game, u can give-me a build for D/D aprentice? I dont hava money in gama, but get lvl 80 recently...

Verdent brink itzel vendor by magummas breach is a major money save

Solid build thank you

@Mandala30 Great video <3 I wish you updated the shit out of it tho. I LOVE IT <3

Hi Mandala, wonder if this build is still viable? Also will it work if replace the staff with dual swords?

It may be broken, but it’s freaking fun. Set up one of my rangers this way and now I don’t want to play anything else.

No swords? They are fun

I am a raid untamed try Dragonhunter relic i found my dps went up 3k just from trying that. I watched groups of mobs hp melt.

i am a main thief and the only thing that fun about thief for me is only shortbow

Great build guide + some good mob fights which I wish all CCs would do, not just hit the test golem, it's supposed to be reactive! Keep up the great work, Liked & Subbed 😃

You can get a full set of exotic berserker armor for karma in Orr after the temple of grenth has been cleansed.

I think it's worth mentioning that if you have a little more budget, the named exotic sets are still exceedingly cheap. At least for the light and heavy armor the berserker sets (Zhed's and Davona) are both super cheap and end game viable. The medium set is a bit more expensive because of the runes it comes with.

From my own experience trying out thief open world builds from different sources, thief definitely has this "look what I need to mimic a fraction of their power" feeling compared to other classes. Where many, many other specs thrive, thief only just about works. A sad situation.

I am glad that I ran across this video. I have been away from the game for almost four years and had characters that I could not really remember how to play (other than my reaper main). I used the 80 boost that came with the Dragons add on to boost a revenant and tried Vindicator. Since I can usually only play solo, I was finding it too much a glass cannon in sustained open world combat. I tried substituting the Salvation line for Devastation and was not that happy with the result. I saw your video and used the celestial armor I got with the boost and found it a much better set up. True I did not get the huge hits a berserker/devastation could administer but I love the balance that this build gives. Thanks for sharing.

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I recommend a mix of marauder and dragon gear, 4 stat equipment is more efficient and vitality is better for survivability imo, especially with all the condi pressure in open world nowadays

Oooh interesting. At first i was like 'oh no another d/d build that will yeet me off ledges' but you didnt touch d3 😂

I like the build and its simplistic rotation, really does have that "smooth" feeling to it for open world but do you feel at all that it might be a little limited in its single target nature? Any ideas if that might be an issue for someone?

Great idea on the video , however I have one remark to make ... When I played on a fresh account back in 2021, I reached lvl 80 with around 5 gold and I was able to buy full exotic berzerker set (Named one). Weapons + Runes/Sigils were for ~ 5gold as well and the trinkets were another 5 gold . The reason why I`m saying that is because it took me 3 days to gear fresh account without actually being 100% sure what I`m doing with Exotic gear (better than rare). I`m only saying that ,because I think the target audience will be able to easilly get better gear than what you are showing and moving forward you might want to consider it .

i love the idea of budget builds! So good for newer players or us cheap skates ;P

Exotics are a pretty huge increase for almost no extra gold and you get things like free sigils and runes. You should not be buying the crafted gear (or crafting the exotic armor/weapons) anyways.

Great video keep the good job

If you're not absolutely gimped for gold, do the steps in the video and go for exotics, sort low to high and it's about gold a piece (right now that is). Gear that's specifically named after the stats is always much more expensive so you wanna go for the named variants. For open world you can trade some stats for vitality or toughness if you feel like it and have a much more enjoyable time doing stuff solo. you dont really wanna trade power or condi damage too much but still, going to HoT you're gonna have a rude awakening to positioning and dodging.

super helpful thank you! is this only worth doing at max level? or do you recommend doing for lower level like 40, 50 etc

this was super useful, thank you!!

Great video!

I did 42k single hit unleash on seitung elite mp with this lol

Can this work with soulbeast? Not a fan of the unleashed rota

One thing I wonder, as a fairly new player, is how these builds perform when you are on an even more limited budget: basically no food, as the cakes, according to the wiki, need a 9 year old character, and I have no legendaries, so I basically need to default to exotic gear for the most part (ascended still requires me quite some work to get my hands on and it is taxing on my gold and mats income). Another thing: are there options that allow a standard, full berserker gear power reaper to sustain well enough to solo champions? Going through the various story quests I found myself often enough in maps that did not have consistently enough people to ensure help when dealing with some of the non meta events.