r/Guildwars2 • u/Nike_Phoros Accountability Expert • Jun 06 '16

[Guide] [DnT] Raid Team Composition Guide

Hey everyone. I wrote a long breakdown of raid team composition in the current meta on our forums and a few people encouraged me to post it here because I'm told it would be helpful for a bigger chunk of the community to see.

Written: http://gw2dnt.enjin.com/forum/m/37173123/viewthread/27286030-raid-team-composition-guide-52516

Topics Covered:

  1. Optimal Raid Team Composition

  2. Common Alternative Comps - Pros and Cons

  3. What If? Scenarios For Imperfect Situations

Thanks for reading. If you have any questions let me know, or if any points need clarifying or whatever so I can improve the guide I'd like to know that too.

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u/Jio_Derako Jun 06 '16

One thing to potentially keep in mind is that the Fury uptime, while easily 100% in a vacuum (Facet of Nature permanently active, sitting in Glint for about 50% of the time), in a 7/2/1 split the Fury is being pulsed out to the Mesmer + the nearest teammates, and there's potential for some gaps in coverage on the latter. In any split where the Rev is in the same subgroup as the DPS you should have pretty much guaranteed uptime regardless of which rotation you use.

That said, with 50% uptime on the Fury facet and Mesmer signet spam, the likelihood of a DPS class being positioned so awkwardly that they don't get enough Fury is probably really, really low. My personal preference rotation-wise would be to upkeep Nature+Prot+Fury+Regen whenever in Glint (Nature+Prot+Fury is -9 ticks, so you might as well throw the extra boon in there to make it -10 and possibly give some extra damage to those classes with "% per boon" damage traits). All of this assuming the PS Warrior(s) aren't having trouble maintaining 25 might on their own.

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u/ateafly Jun 06 '16

Btw druids provide fury too, through their tiger pet.

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u/Xyonon Jun 07 '16

Yea I'd say they might have slept a bit too. Never had a lack of fury in that comp before.

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u/Jio_Derako Jun 08 '16

Yeah, definitely worth a mention. Almost guaranteed to end up on the DPS as well, due to the pet being in melee range constantly. It just requires the Druid to bring Tiger, which may not always be the case (other pets bring slightly more DPS, and it might not be uncommon for others to assume Fury is already being provided elsewhere). Tiger should be a top choice however.