Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

Just looking for your opinion on what gear (stat distribution) + build would provide the most well rounded balance of survivability and damage output. I’ve seen a lot of builds that heavily focus on one or the other, but not too many that hits a real balance.

This build would be primarily for soloing in Orr at 80 (for example), and for some WvW as well.

That depends alot on traits and utilities used in my opinion.

For example, If I run with an good condition removal, I go toughness because in my number crunches, it negates more damage the Hp can absorb by 3 to 8 ratio. But if I am using a build with a different focus, and have no condition removal I may go more Hp heavy.

As for damage, are you looking for condition damage or direct damage? single target or AoE?

I’m not sure if its a good balance, but my setup seems to do fine out in Orr and WvW (I don’t do sPvp). Primarily using rifle and grenades for DPS (though I swap in flamethrower and toolkit for giggles quite often).

Not quite done on my gear but when done I should have a little more armour and health than currently (i’d like even more, but give up a lot of damage for it).

Attack: 3460/3045 (rifle/kit)
Crit Chance: 41/35% (rifle/kit)
Critical Damage: 55/46% (rifle/kit)
Armour: 2092
Health: 19,112
Traits: 30/10/0/30/0

I keep elixir B and medkit 5 active as much as possible giving me permanent swiftness and fury (and 3-5 stacks of might), so 1 utilit is Elixir B, 2 is grenade kit, and the third changes on my mood – Elixir S often for the “oh crap!” usage.

Gear to get this is mostly bezerker and ruby gear, with a piece of solider armour and a valkyrie amulet (+ some emerald orbs in the armour). With a quick trait change, I can quite quickly swap to (almost) full glass cannon as well for the ‘static discharge’ build and working on karam for a full soldier set at the moment for when I want to be super tanky.