Guild Wars 2

Would a Guard Build utilizing Renewed Justice [Radiance] and Inspired Virtue [Virtues] be an improvement for the groups DPS or not, considering a group setup like this:

Reaper
Reaper
Reaper
Druid
Guardian

Outside of low-enemy number Fractals (Mai Trin, Molten Boss, Uncategorized, Chaos) where one cannot maintain the F1 Spam.

Pros:
+ Might stacks (Combine with Boon-Duration food/gear?)
+ AoE Blindness
+ Shorter Virtues CD
+ Adding Burning to Reapers DPS

Cons:
- Forgo many DPS Traits
- No DH Virtues
- No Traps
- loses effectiveness as the number of mobs declines

How are you sharing burning, or did you mean epidemic bounces?

Hesacon.8735:

How are you sharing burning, or did you mean epidemic bounces?

Vanilla justice gives everyone a burn on hit on activation

On the subject, might work well on trash mobs. However, reaper squad rarely has problem with trash as they have epidemic in the first place. I mean the extra condition to bounce is nice, but you’re not providing much on bosses.

I guess the idea would be to stack a lot of burn on one enemy and then let the reapers “share” and bounce them around with epidemic.
Something like this (just thrown together in a few seconds):
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQRAsf7fnsABddilCBGCBEEhF/hSO8H/43KAqg6M7BnwME-TxhAQBA4kAIgnAgO2f4aK/qpSQAqfAiq/QKg80VB-e

Things I don’t understand yet:
- why can’t one use DH with it? with Zeal and Virtues only 2 out of 3 trait lines are set
- why would one consider Inspired Virtues a great source of party Might when it only gives 3 stacks for 5 seconds
- why make a build that looses a lot of viability in single target/boss fights and only shines vs. trash which usually gets mawed away anyway

My mistake, I thought only the guardian got the effect.

Nash.2681:

I guess the idea would be to stack a lot of burn on one enemy and then let the reapers “share” and bounce them around with epidemic.
Something like this (just thrown together in a few seconds):
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQRAsf7fnsABddilCBGCBEEhF/hSO8H/43KAqg6M7BnwME-TxhAQBA4kAIgnAgO2f4aK/qpSQAqfAiq/QKg80VB-e

Things I don’t understand yet:
- why can’t one use DH with it? with Zeal and Virtues only 2 out of 3 trait lines are set
- why would one consider Inspired Virtues a great source of party Might when it only gives 3 stacks for 5 seconds
- why make a build that looses a lot of viability in single target/boss fights and only shines vs. trash which usually gets mawed away anyway

Not claiming it is viable, It is for the most part not.

It was just a thought-experiment of mine, considering that Guardians have the ability to do so and Reapers can utilize Burning for a nice dmg increase.

Outside of that, yes. It loses quite a lot.

Or just take condi war+ condi engi

I choose the heavy viper as the precursor set because i wanted to play Condi DH on fractals. But even thought i really like it, its way worst that a PS Condi, a PS condi can deal the same damage and give everyone tons of might, Condi guardian will only be good if the next elite esp be a condi one unfortunately

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Virtue_of_Retribution

Sounds rly Painfull

Another reaper/PS is much better choice for that comp. Also running virtues in high level fractals is a bad idea.

otome.2673:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Virtue_of_Retribution

Sounds rly Painfull

Retal against necros/druids doesn’t hurt much at all. Also the 3s duration is so short it’d prob be over before it gets stripped or corrupted.

Chingiz.9167:

Another reaper/PS is much better choice for that comp. Also running virtues in high level fractals is a bad idea.

Of course, Reaper/PS would be better for an optimal group I guess it wasn’t clear from my OP so let me rephrase the question:

In this specific comp, would it be better for the Guardian to help the Reapers spread stronger Conditions (Add Burning) or to continue with one of the usual Builds (Hammer-Support, Scepter/Torch, etc.)

The Mightstacks are miniscule but this Set-up generates little might to begin with (Guardian crits and Blood is Power and Ranger Elite) and Retaliation is quickly stripped by the reapers.
There would be the option to utilize blast finishers in combination with firefields, though.