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So, you are playing Guild Wars 2, and you like the open world in this game, but you are wondering what build you are aiming for.
Discover the best Troubadour solo build for Guild Wars 2 open world play, focusing on survivability, support, and efficient farming.
Key Takeaways
- Troubadour is a versatile solo build ideal for open world content beyond meta events.
- Maintaining all instruments active and managing notes is crucial for maximizing damage and survivability.
- Full celestial gear with specific runes and infusions enhances the build’s effectiveness.
- Relic choice depends on desired playstyle: vulnerability stacking or sustain via life steal.
- The build offers strong self-healing and stability, allowing it to face tank bosses efficiently.
Summary
- The video explains three types of open world builds in Guild Wars 2: tagging builds, glass cannon DPS builds, and solo builds.
- The focus is on the Troubadour solo build, which excels in completing open world content like achievements, side events, and story.
- The presenter, Lord Hizen, emphasizes the build’s balance of survivability and support capabilities during meta events.
- Recommended gear includes full celestial armor with double runes and expertise infusions, plus weapons like staff, scepter, and torch.
- Relics such as the relic of the sorcerer or mist ranger relic are suggested for vulnerability stacking or sustain.
- Traits focus on illusion and chaos lines to maximize condition damage, maintain vulnerability stacks, and provide perma-stability.
- Skill recommendations include shatter skills, shadow skills, and utility skills to keep instruments active and generate notes.
- The build benefits from the End of Dragons expansion’s jade protocols for stacking defensive and offensive buffs.
- Troubadour is noted for strong self-healing, perma-bonds, and stability, making it effective for solo play and boss fights.
- The video includes a DPS rotation example and encourages joining the creator’s Discord for community and content voting.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to Open World Builds
- 00:31Glass Cannon DPS Build Overview
- 01:06Solo Build Advantages and Content
- 01:31Presenter Introduction and Community Info
- 02:03Gear Setup for Troubadour Build
- 02:54Relics and Trait Recommendations
- 03:50Skill Choices and Gameplay Tips
- 06:08End of Dragons Expansion Buffs
- 07:46Build Performance and Closing Remarks
- 09:43Boss Fight and Gameplay Examples
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So, I'll make it short and tell you that there are three types of open world builds. The tagging builds aim to gather more loot while farming meta events with others.
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A glass cannon DPS build that aims to deal as much damage as possible during meta events while being carried by support players
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to increase your ego and see your name showing in the DPS meter. Nice, but struggle to survive alone. And finally, the solo build, which aims to complete every other content in the open world since meta events are only a small
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part of open world content such as achievements, side events, and story easily, and still do great as a support during meta events for good farming.
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And that is my field of expertise, and I have a long history to prove it. Especially
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since Guild Wars 2 is my favorite single-player MMO, and I dare you to change my mind. My name is Heisen, and I will be your guide to play the game in the right way. Single-player mode. Also, if you
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have any questions or you want to join my community guild, make sure to join my Discord server for news, also to vote for content since this video was picked based on votes in my Discord, and there will be more in the future. Without any
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further ado, let's start. Their wild hunt led them into the world where they experience tragedy and heroics, adventure and excitement.
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No prison can hold me. Adventure awaits. Huzzah! Wow! No! No! Off! Go away! That's what you get.
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All right, let's start with the gear. The gear that we will use for this troubadour build is going to be full celestial gear with double runes, including full expertise infusions. The infusions are optional, but it's good to have. The weapons will be staff, scepter,
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torch with fat sigils to maximize the damage and cleansing sigils to passively remove conditions during combat.
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As for relic, I would highly recommend using relic of the sorcerer to easily inflict 25 vulnerability stacks with this troubadour build. In case you want more sustain, you can go with a mist ranger relic to life steal with every
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hit you inflict on enemies. As for traits, since troubadour is all about spamming shatter skills all the time, I would highly recommend using both illusion trait lines to inflict more condition damage with every shatter skill and easily maintain 25
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vulnerability stacks and the chaos red line to easily maintain perma-bonds, which also include perma-stability.
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Shatterstorm to have additional F1 shatter to deal more damage. May the disillusioned to inflict torment when using shadow skills. Massive fragmentation to grant bonus to all of your shadow skills, which include crippled and weakness to inflict more
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vulnerability from the relic of the sorcerer. Illusionary defense to generate protection when using the F2 skill and more duration for every note. Chaotic potency to increase your total condition damage and reduce staff skills cooldown.
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Painful disillusionment to generate bonus bonds when using shadow skills and perma-stability stacks as long as you spam your shadow skills. Mayhem to inflict more torment when using your F2 skill. Life of the party to generate perma quickness and 25 might stacks.
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Portisimal will grant notes after using your F5 skill and will increase your stats by 4% for every active instrument, which is the main reason why it's important to keep spamming all of your shadow skills and keep them active.
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As for skills, second of the ether to mainly reset the cooldown of your staff skill three after using it to deal more damage and generate more notes to spam your shadow skills.
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Tail of the soul keeper to generate more bonds and generate two notes while your F1 is active.
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Tail of the tortured mastermind to inflict more conditions and generate a note while your F2 is active. Sign domination to passively increase your total condition damage, and it can be used to CC when needed.
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Tear of the August queen to avoid incoming damage, generate chaos aura to increase your condition damage, and refresh the duration of your instruments.
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Barrier raised against mental plot. The only thing you need to keep in mind while playing troubadour is to always maintain all instruments being active at all times to increase all your stats and make sure before using any instrument
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you must have three notes to increase the instrument's damage and duration. And by using your clone skills, any utility skills in the right order will allow you to maintain all instruments to be active at all times. Here's a quick example of
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troubadour burst damage after using it in the right way. And you can find the DPS rotation video in the description of this video.
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If you have End of Dragons expansion, it's good to charge your jade protocols to increase your defensive and offensive stats and your net wounds every time you enter combat. And you can stack up this buff up to 3 hours. So, it's really good
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to have. Troubadour might not be the best mesmer elite spec when it comes to dealing damage, but unlike other elite specs, troubadour has a lot of self-heal and easy access to perma-bonds and the spicy stability.
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For now, enjoy watching this build face tank bosses and kill them around 40 seconds only. Take care and have a nice day.
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Her vision unshakable. You should be more than happy to reflect those defenses. She said to be over reverse shot.
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Nice strong unshakable. She's blade-shing iron. Desist, my dear. You will be dead. Burn within her heart.
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Why am I being prepared to fight shark? Stirred within her heart as clockwork night struck the spider tempting eyes.
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Fresh. Stay within their heart. Three times more too much traffic shot. Within your heart.
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Scarlets and lessons never forsaken. Time's close to her vigil unshakable. Hopes and lessons never forsaken.
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Be gone little pest. She said her vigil unshaken. Desist, my ears, or you will be dead.
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The spider walk empty. The mad Scarlet Y. Eat my dust. It burns. Mag. Blade shot.
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I hate my dust. And lessons never forsaken. Council Hel times most dire. The mad Scarlet yacht.
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Her vigilant unshaken. As clockwork night struck mags out blade sharp. Be gone, little pest, she said.
Topics:Guild Wars 2Troubadour buildopen world solo buildmesmer elite specializationcondition damagecelestial gearvulnerability stacksmeta eventssolo gameplayEnd of Dragons
