Guild Wars 2

Hey guys! I recently decided to create a super-tanky character that simply refuses to die and can soak up aggro for a long time. I’ve considered a few options, but up until now I’ve been building nothing but damage, so I’m not sure what I should be looking for. Here are some options I’ve considered and the pros and cons of each:

Power-Toughness-Vitality build – Seems balanced enough, provides health and defense, but ensure I can hit hard as well. However, since I would have no healing power, my heals wouldn’t be hugely effective, and it could be difficult for me to recover health.

Healing Power-Toughness-Power build – Seems a more suitable option, providing the ability to do some damage, but also provides reasonable defense and the ability to recover alot of my health with potent heals. On the other hand, I’d have no vitality, which would be a downside, despite the healing power.

Toughness-Healing Power-Vitality build – I think this is the build I like most. I’d lose some damage, but I’d have plenty of health and defense, making it harder for my enemies to drop my health in the first place, and good heals to recover it when I needed to. The main downside of this is that I don’t actually know how to build it, since there doesn’t appear to be any insignias for it at the moment.

This is going to be a PvE build that may eventually transition into PvP. I think the obvious class choice is Guardian, simply for the use of heavy armor and their trait lines providing suitable skills and abilities. But I’d like some input from more experienced players on what stats are the best ones to build for ultimate tankiness and what weapons/skills would be most suitable.

Thanks in advance for any helpful replies!

Engineers can hit some pretty high toughness I have to say. When running flame thrower for fun I usually have the highest toughness of any group, which keeps mobs stuck to me like white on rice. And as long as you make decent use of your dodges, taking elixirs will help you stay alive during the downtime between each endurance refill.

Necro, and the death shroud is not your last chance to cheat death. It’s a weapon. Forget the minions, and trait for your shroud with PVT clothes and HP runes. Use HP foods and find a sigil of generosity for your favorite weapon. Conditions? What conditions?

Senitel should be better than PVT.

SafeFatNoob.3156:

Senitel should be better than PVT.

I thought sentinel was PVT?

Maximum Potato.5923:

SafeFatNoob.3156:

Senitel should be better than PVT.

I thought sentinel was PVT?

Soldier’s is traditionally P/v/t, whereas Sentinel’s is V/p/t, where the capitalised stat is the primary.

Well, i run a Guardian with knight armour with more than 2k toughness and 100% protection uptime, it works wonders in PvE, i dont usually play WvW.

Build for my Guardian Knight Build

This build have enough toughness and can do enough damage to main maintain the aggro during the encounters

And another thing, you dont really need healing power as a tank guardian, with a low cd healing skill plus the virtue of resolve and the heal on booms applied you survive long enough, the healing power would take the must needed damage, away from a tank.

I’ve been playing a Guardian for the longest time, cookie-cutter bunker build in SPvP and something similar to hurlockbr’s build for PvE/WvW. While I’m not a min-maxer by any mean, nor I’ve ever played a full tank Guardian in Pve/WvW I suppose I know a bit about how the profession works.

With that in mind, my first advice would be not to focus entirely on 3 stats, and I’ll explain why later. Guardians are particularly tanky not for their heavy armor (which doesn’t do much really), not for their HP (smallest HP pool together with Thieves and Elementalists), but for their heals and boons. As such, going PVT on Guardians is, in my opinion, a crime against humanity. What you want is mainly Cleric ( Healing power/tough/power ) with other pieces mixed in, as you definitely need at least 14k-15k HP and some precision to boost up both your damage and your survivability (yes, survivability!).

(I’ll edit this post later as the subject requires a well thought out post and I’m in a bit of a hurry)