Guild Wars 2

I currently have between 2500-2600 armor for my ele and I’m trying to figure out if I might of gone too far into toughness for my D/D ele or if I’m good where I am. I use to be pure berserker so toughness is still pretty new idea to me

What are your overall stats?

2600 armor and 20 in Water is pretty solid for D/D, but it’d be nice to know your other stats to give some context.

elithrar.7143:

What are your overall stats?

2600 armor and 20 in Water is pretty solid for D/D, but it’d be nice to know your other stats to give some context.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmkbpR4gjDAEFm4iQxDWUeMTO2A-jAyAYLhQSEARAMnXEN2yWR0YVMYqTioavRR0qBA-e

Looks good to me. I’d maybe run Divinity or Traveler runes for the extra crit damage since you are already pretty tanky.

elithrar.7143:

Looks good to me. I’d maybe run Divinity or Traveler runes for the extra crit damage since you are already pretty tanky.

Thats what I was kinda thinking of. trim off the rune toughness for something to help with my declined dps.

I run a D/D ele critical damage focused in WvW, both roaming and zerging. It is a bit hard to play, but if you have practice it is quite fun. I usually play it with some ele mates in the same party with the same build. Tons of fun.

I have around 1300 toughness, the build:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmgbzR5QlDAkHn4SJiCPUeMTO2A-jkCBoLBkgAkoGI5pIasVWasVXCRqZAKbYaXJV9KySBIrwI-w

It’ll take a lot of toughness to get any significant increase in damage reduction. I like the stat (from other games also, I like to have high defense) but in practice toughness doesn’t seem to work as well as say, vitality or healing power.

There was an article on these forums about a week ago though, that showed you how to calculate optimal toughness.

From what I’ve read, and from experience testing it, around 1600 toughness is a good base to shoot for.

Works well with d/d/f, s/d/f and also staff. Gives you a nice tanks guard feeling and not a wet paper towel.

This is what I run atm both in d/d and s/d. In s/d I actually have more toughness but less vit because I go into earth for channeling toughness and FA.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmmbwxzgjDAUGm4i8wDlHzkjNA-jACBYfIYjBkEBkKIIJfFRjtPoIasabYqYER1yAUMGA-e

@ThiBash
I think you mean this one: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Guide-Survivability-EHP-vitality-vs-toughness/first#post791002

ThiBash.5634:

It’ll take a lot of toughness to get any significant increase in damage reduction. I like the stat (from other games also, I like to have high defense) but in practice toughness doesn’t seem to work as well as say, vitality or healing power.

There was an article on these forums about a week ago though, that showed you how to calculate optimal toughness.

Yeah I have to agree with this. I’ve tried builds with toughness and less vitality and/or healing power.

I’ve always had more success with vitality and healing power over vitality and toughness. Mainly because it is so easy to keep regen up on an Elementalist.

I like to keep high toughness builds with condition damage builds. Seems to be more synergy there.