Guild Wars 2

anybody here uses AC set with its rune for the guardian? how do you like it so far in terms of stars n rune effectivity?

i have a few AC pieces mixed with other gear. and a few combinations that use the Monk runes i’ve come across are monk x2, water x2 and major sancuary x2 for max boon duration. or monk x3 and water x3 for max healing + boon duration.

as you can see they’re more “support” focused, but by all means not solely support. as with more healing, you can keep yourself and allies alive longer, perhaps just long enough to wipe your enemies out. and with boon duration, that effects all boons, including retal which in turn deals dmg to ur enemies.

i am quite liking it so far. i can’t give you effectiveness in terms of numbers but i like being able to have some boons have longer uptime. i feel i can get even better by taking even more notice of what i have on, when to pop them and use them best. definitely extremely survivable with the right build as well. go check out the “Healway” Guardian build which uses monk x3 and water x3

Boon duration is actually probably the best damage set for guardian, since you are boosting the duration of your might stacks, enabling you to get more on you at once. If you have sigils of strength and Empowering Might, you can easily maintain 10+ stacks on yourself at any given time. The additional duration on the other boons is just a bonus.

You can stack a ton of toughness and vitality, but you’re just hurting yourself if you don’t put any healing power in there.

My Guardian has 16k HP, 3300 armor, and +1400 healing and I can out-tank any Guardian with 20k HP, 4k armor, and +0 healing.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

If you have sigils of strength and Empowering Might, you can easily maintain 10+ stacks on yourself at any given time.

Maybe fighting 4 enemies at once, but not single target.

Yaki.9563:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

If you have sigils of strength and Empowering Might, you can easily maintain 10+ stacks on yourself at any given time.

Maybe fighting 4 enemies at once, but not single target.

If you have pvt gear and 4% crit.

haviz.1340:

Yaki.9563:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

If you have sigils of strength and Empowering Might, you can easily maintain 10+ stacks on yourself at any given time.

Maybe fighting 4 enemies at once, but not single target.

If you have pvt gear and 4% crit.

I have 45% crit and use both and don’t get that many stacks either. However, I don’t stack boon duration either. I just can’t see the use of sacrificing the other stats from other orbs/runes for only 4 seconds of boon duration. Its not worth it imo. And as Guanglai mentioned, the only reason to use boon duration is for the might stacks. Your other sources of boons either don’t last long enough or the CDs are too long.

haviz.1340:

Yaki.9563:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

If you have sigils of strength and Empowering Might, you can easily maintain 10+ stacks on yourself at any given time.

Maybe fighting 4 enemies at once, but not single target.

If you have pvt gear and 4% crit.

I’ve tested this nonsense with 60% might duration, 20% boon duration, 70%+ crit rate with 1h sword and even with all that you’re lucky to get 10-12 stacks. So no, some guy going 0/5/30/30/5 or with hammer (or even GS) is not getting 10 stacks single target.

Yaki.9563:

haviz.1340:

Yaki.9563:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

If you have sigils of strength and Empowering Might, you can easily maintain 10+ stacks on yourself at any given time.

Maybe fighting 4 enemies at once, but not single target.

If you have pvt gear and 4% crit.

I’ve tested this nonsense with 60% might duration, 20% boon duration, 70%+ crit rate with 1h sword and even with all that you’re lucky to get 10-12 stacks. So no, some guy going 0/5/30/30/5 or with hammer (or even GS) is not getting 10 stacks single target.

Realistically though you wont be doing 1v1 most of the time. Depending how you play though I guess.

KensaiZen.3740:

Yaki.9563:

haviz.1340:

Yaki.9563:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

If you have sigils of strength and Empowering Might, you can easily maintain 10+ stacks on yourself at any given time.

Maybe fighting 4 enemies at once, but not single target.

If you have pvt gear and 4% crit.

I’ve tested this nonsense with 60% might duration, 20% boon duration, 70%+ crit rate with 1h sword and even with all that you’re lucky to get 10-12 stacks. So no, some guy going 0/5/30/30/5 or with hammer (or even GS) is not getting 10 stacks single target.

Realistically though you wont be doing 1v1 most of the time. Depending how you play though I guess.

Trash isn’t, but most boss fights are (not to mention the loss of uptime from dodging).

Even on trash, you’re not conveniently having all the mobs nicely stacked next to you so you can get the most crits possible. There’s a lot of 1-2 target fighting on trash pulls as well.

My point is that people who say “I consistently maintain 10 stacks of might” are full of it because it isn’t remotely true. Can you get 10 stacks of might? Yes. Does it happen most of the time? Not unless you’re making a build specifically for that purpose which isn’t the standard 30 honor/virtues AH afk autoattack build with soldier’s runes or whatever.

actually just tested this without the sigil or extra boon duration on a 1h sword. Its possible to maintain 5-8 stacks of might on a champion consistently. With boon duration and extra might from sigil it should be relatively easy to maintain 10 stacks of might.

I’m running 30 valour and 30 honour.

For hammer it would be possible only in aoe situation. I get this often enough when running dungeons. on a 1v1 its impossible as weapon speed is too slow.

GS should be able to make 10 stacks if not then at least a consistent 8 with going into double digits for aoeing.

I main a GS and 10/+ stacks is usually inconsistent. I can maintain about 5-7 consistently on the average. I’m not saying its impossible for me to get 10+, but when I do, it only lasts for 1 second before the timer runs out and thats usually only when I WW. Most of the time though, I don’t get 10 or more.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

I main a GS and 10/+ stacks is usually inconsistent. I can maintain about 5-7 consistently on the average. I’m not saying its impossible for me to get 10+, but when I do, it only lasts for 1 second before the timer runs out and thats usually only when I WW. Most of the time though, I don’t get 10 or more.

This is plain GS or with Superior sigil of strength and +boon duration runes?

Don’t forget your fire fields guys…