Guild Wars 2

Hello, I just hit 80 about a week ago and I have decided on going damage guardian using a GS.

I have done some research and it looks like I should be going after power, crit, crit damage in that order. My question is how would i set up my traits? Currently i know they are wrong but i would like to know the standard damage guardian dps build.

Right now my stats are:

Attack: 3124
Crit chance: 34%
Crit damage: 75%
Amor: 2665
Cond. damage: 205
Health: 15.7k

Right now what i enjoy doing is running up and burning people lol and just going full kitten damage, i have done some research and many people say going for cond. damage is useless because it takes so much to stack, i know some people may ask what my gear is but i am open to suggestion on what type of gear, obviously full beserk is something i was thinking about doing. is this okay on a guardian rather than a warrior?

I want a little bit of health/toughness/cond damage because i seem to die in 5 seconds if i dont lol, also i was wondering of what skills to use?

I would just like some advice to see how my stats are and where they should be, also on how to usually build and what trait line i should do?

There are TONS of builds to follow online but i have no idea which one is actually legit. I have had many people tell me that crit chance is to come before crit damage and that my crit chance is to low where my cirt damage is to high. Is this true? If thats the case then i will definetly go towards more crit.

I know i have left out what my build is and what items but it is only because i dont actually know what to do with it so i have jsut made a random one, no thought process to it.

Thank you,

Cheqdaddy

Ignore Attack, it’s not a meaningful stat. Power is what’s important.

Secondly, gw2buildcraft.com is your friend.

As for actual builds, there’s a lot to choose from. If all you care about is damage, 10/30/30/0/0 Right Hand Strength/Monk’s Focus works well. Use with Berserker/Valkyrie gear. If you want more group utility while still having very high damage, 10/30/0/30/0 Right Hand Strength/Pure of Voice works well also. You’d take Empowering Might and Superior Aria in Honor. You’d use shouts with that instead of meditations. You can also mix it up and do 10/30/10/20/0 Right Hand Strength, and keep Empowering Might and Purity in Valor for conditions along with that 10% crit damage boost.

Ultimately though you’re going to want to play around and find a build that suits you through trial and error. These are just guides. That said, one thing is really important – if you’re building for damage, you need damage multipliers. They’re massively weighty in terms of effective power gained. 10/25/x/x/x is really standard in damage builds because of Fiery Wrath and Radiant Power, which give you a combined 20% damage bonus. That’s really big. In the Master trait tier of Zeal you can pick up Greatsword Power for another 5% damage, or Powerful Blades in Radiance for 5% Sword damage. What’s more, Elusive Power (Honor 25 minor trait) gives you another 10% as long as you’re not full on endurance. Considering how much you need to dodge as full zerk, that’s all the time.

Another thing – Carrying Signet of Judgement is always an option for shoring up poor defenses. It’s worth roughly 300 armor. That lets you cheat a bit and more fully spec into damage everywhere else, along with your gear.

thanks a lot i really appreciate it so what your telling me is to go crit and power mostly?

also providing the stats that i gave, what do you think i should change? should i get more crit/crit damage or attack?

You should probably get rid of the condition damage because it doesn’t help much for a guardian and focus on a bit more precision.

Indeed. Crit damage is worthless without a decent crit chance.

Cheqdaddy.4213:

thanks a lot i really appreciate it so what your telling me is to go crit and power mostly?

Power, precision, and critical damage all together. They all interact with each other. If you don’t have high power, your critical damage doesn’t have much to multiply. If you don’t have high precision, you won’t crit to begin with. If you don’t have high critical damage, even if you do crit and have high power, your multiplier won’t be any good.

I can’t really give you “goal” stats because there’s still lots of options out there for you and your stats will naturally vary with different trait specs. Plus, everyone’s gonna give you a different answer for that. Just figure out what works for you and your spec. But generally speaking if you have over 50% crit and 50% critical damage with 2k power or higher you’re at least on the right track for damage, assuming you have some multipliers in your traits.

Hey,

I have been playing around with a PVE/WvW build that uses high crit chance and damage with healing and toughness to give me a life stealing tanky guard.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.3|c.1i.h15.e.1i.h1|2.1c.h1j|1p.7x.1p.7x.1p.7x.1p.7x.1p.7x.1p.7x|1a.64.1a.64.1a.64.1a.64.1a.64.1a.64|0.u6ab.u56b.a2.0|54.7|v.19.16.1b.1i|e

Take a look it might give you some ideas.

Tweaked your build, Beren. 30% more damage, higher effective health. Kept the life stealing, dropped the Altruistic Healing which you really don’t need, especially if you aren’t running EM, a staff, or Inspired Virtue. The piddly healing from Magi gear wasn’t worth the power sacrifice, especially if you aren’t going to take Selfless Daring, which gains the most benefit from it. Also, any time you’re in content that you don’t need to be tanky for, switch Judgement for Bane and gain another 9% damage or so. Give it a try.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.3|c.1i.h15.e.1i.h1|2.1c.h1j|1p.7x.1p.7x.1p.7x.1p.7x.1p.7x.1p.7x|1c.64.1c.64.1c.64.1c.64.1c.64.8g.64|a2.u6ab.k56.a2.0|54.1|v.19.16.1b.1i|e