Weirdest Build You've Ever Seen

Wierdest? A W/E running firestorm, until I realised he was running hamstring too, which immediately made it into the best build ever to be run in Guild Wars. Thats right on the box of the game.

Here's one a bit weird for you. ME. Lol. My primary (currently only) character is an E/W weilding sword and shield and the only "offensive" magic I have is lava font, which is absolutley horribly deadly in it's evil 5-7 damageness. d-: Really I use it for strategy against monsters, not against humans (I don't PvP yet and I might never believe it or not.) Lava font is handy because when a huge group surrounds me (or someone such as a NPC or a healer I'm trying to protect) I just drop one of those in the area and bam, the monsters nearly always turn and run. It only requires two seconds to cast and recharges quickly, so I can get away with using it a lot. Doesn't matter that the pitiful damage it does isn't even effective against old ascalon monsters, the AI just runs automatically on principle that it's an AoE. This buys me or the other person a few moments of breathing room for healing or whatever.

Ok, that's common knowledge probably. The fact that my primary fighting is a sword (with frenzy I might add) is pretty weird though. I thought about W/E, but, believe it or not, my main reason for E/W is that I just can't stand the sight of warriors... (Laughter cue card held up here.) Seriously though, I'm determined to find a way to make this build work, and it's kind of not entirely coming out badly. I suppose it's not as good as more experienced people will mange (I've been playing something like two weeks now -- I loose track) but, still, I manage to survive througha surprising amount I think. One thing I'm doing though is going the "clay fighter" route and adding a lot to earth magic, then casting armor of earth to raise my melee armor. Just recently I grabbed an icy sword hilt and added conjure frost to my répertoire to add extra elemental damage to my attacks (I know, this could hurt against those with good water armor and as soon as I find a good one I can afford I'm going to be carrying around a backup plain sword.) Unfortunatley, I have to carry sprint in place of my res signet because no matter how many times I say at the beginning of a mission that they should let me keep up between groups, no one does (this is especially a hassle when I need them to pause and let the thing wear off so I can run ahead and drop a lava font to keep a stupid NPC from dying.) Right now sprint still isn't enough to compensate for the slowness of the armor of earth spell, but, it helps a lot so I can keep up better at least.

As for the frenzy, well, I just can't stand how slow normal attacks are. I have a feeling I'm going to like assassin with the dual blades if I ever get the cash (or don't loose interest in GW) to get the expansion. Besides, between the extra armor and the fact that I lack the strength skill to compensate for extra armor, frenzy isn't too bad and all but necessary as long as I keep an eye on my health.

BTW, I'm a level 16 and I haven't gotten far enough to get many skills just yet. The way I see it, this build can go one of two ways. Either later skills increase the effectiveness and I end up with a decent character that doesn't suck, or, late skills don't help me much and I end up falling so far behind as to be useless with this character. I have my fingers crossed. Try to adopt the Earth magic line and you can beat Warriors at their own game when it comes to tanking.

Though, tbh, in PVE, Axes > Swords by a loooong shot. For me at least.

Though, tbh, in PVE, Axes > Swords by a loooong shot. For me at least. *cough* Blasphemy!

I once saw a n/mo using infuse health as many times as possible on his team mate (before battle even start). As soon as we got in his range, he used grenth's balance on us... lol

Oh, and they lost. the more common build for that is a N/Me with illusion of weakeness and some sup runes with grenth.
not effective but really fun (200+ damage)