Guild Wars 2

Question:
Can a strictly GS gaurdian match the dps of a GS warrior? I was thinking a empowering might/soldier armor/strength runed/berserker trinket gaurdian compared to a shout boon/knight armor/strength runed/knight or valkyrie trinket warrior, each traited for high damage, would their dps output be comparable or noticebly different, I have a 80 warr that with a might GS setup can maintain near 25 stacks of might with semi decent survivability on soldier/knight gear, im curious that if I leveld a gaur can it be setup to have comparable dps on GS or does it pay a price for the gaurs inherent flexibility/uniqueness.

Question1:

Currently leveling my Guard, sitting at 53. I want to go more offensive, what is a good spec, gear and weapon loadout for pushing damage. I would also like to be viable in WvW. I’ve read the AH Hammer guide which looks quite interesting. Input is appreciated.

Question 2:

For a WvW/PvE focused player what gear is best for damage output while remaining somewhat tanky? Do we want Toughness or Vitality? Knights looks good but would Magi work?

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Answer for Morbios.1469 : Evades (questionable as to whether or not this is intended), stability, or teleporting. Sometimes also just bugged movement will run through it. Seems like you knew this already though.

Answer for Ark.2013 : Yes and no. As a measurement of flat DPS across strictly weapon skills, it can be close, and in some situations may even favor the Guardian (Whirl of Wrath hits on a 360 spin as opposed to Bladestorm, for example.) For burst, no. Warrior absolutely clobbers us in that. I would guess that the difference would not be as significant as most people would imagine in PVE, but it exists.

Answer for Bloodgruve.6038: Answer 1 – Try Greatsword and Staff for WvW to see if you like it. Altruistic Healing will still give you heals off of Staff’s might buffs. I don’t usually recommend hammer for WvW but some people like it. The rest of the question isn’t really short, but you’ll probably want crit, toughness, and vitality. Spec accordingly.

Answer 2: 30 points in Valor for Monk’s Focus or Altruistic Healing, Valkyrie gear or the new Cavalier gear if you want more toughness. Baseline recommendations are usually 1600-1700 hp, 2500-2700 toughness, 30-40% crit, and as much crit damage as you can get.

(Edit: Why would it filter 16 to 17k hp [with a hyphen instead of the word “to”] to “kitten?”)

Philosoraptor Question: Can one retaliate retaliation? hmmmm*

Serious Question: Can 1h Sword’s third auto-attack chain proc Sigil of Earth 3 times on crit?

IV Endu.8920:

Philosoraptor Question: Can one retaliate retaliation? hmmmm*

Serious Question: Can 1h Sword’s third auto-attack chain proc Sigil of Earth 3 times on crit?

Philosoraptor Answer: No. Retaliation responds to strikes, rather than damage procs.

Serious Answer: No. Sigil of Earth has an internal cooldown of about 2 seconds.

Q – i know that PoV has some issues with certain shouts proc-ing condition removal. are there any known shouts that don’t work with superior soldier rune set? (had SYS, Retreat and HTL slotted)

in TA exp for the first time the other day, fwd/fwd path. kept being feared like no other and none of my shouts seemed to effect it. i guess follow-up question, should i be able to remove or sit through fear using cleansing and stability, respectively?

I have a quick question. I know Guardian’s can’t be healers per se, but if I stack healing ability and trait +healing and basically put on my best face as a healer, will I suck soloing? I mean, the survivability of Guardians in general is great, but it won’t take an hour to kill stuff will it?

Woljnir.7810:

I have a quick question. I know Guardian’s can’t be healers per se, but if I stack healing ability and trait +healing and basically put on my best face as a healer, will I suck soloing? I mean, the survivability of Guardians in general is great, but it won’t take an hour to kill stuff will it?

Not necessarily, because it’s not as simple as stacking +healing or going 30 Honor. Even if you do take a lot of +healing gear, you’d have to try exceptionally hard to not have Power on your gear as well. So your offensive ability won’t be terrible; however, +healing generally doesn’t provide you with as much mitigation as it would an entire party, so it’s possible that, going solo, you’ve stacked so much +healing that either your toughness or vitality suffers.

Furthermore, Honor is thankfully a very versatile trait line. When soloing, you can just “flip” the appropriate traits on the fly. Use solo-appropriate traits while soloing (writ of persistence, two handed mastery, maybe Superior Aria), and switch out those traits when grouped up. Depending on where you put your other 40 trait points, you should be able to solo just fine.

quick question – iirc, boon duration applies to allies as well and not just myself, as long as i am the one applying the boon? what about specific “boon” durations? for e.g. retaliation that comes from say the Vengeful trait in the Virtues line? though i assume that for this specific e.g. it’d be purely for myself

looking into a boon duration build for fun.

Yes, trait boon durations (actually, I think retaliation is the only one) are purely for yourself.

thanks for the quick reply – follow up – what about rune boon durations? e.g. water x2, monk x2, major sanctuary x2?

Those are global.

On what kinds of blocks does defender’s flame proc?
Aegis, shelter, Shield of Wrath obviously. Probably protector’s strike.

But what about projectile reflectors like Sanctuary, Zealot’s Defense, Shield of Absorption, Zealot’s Defense? What about the reflect from Wall of Reflection?

Does Might of the Protector use exactly the same allowable block list as defender’s flame?

After a day, went to the mists and found the answer fighting the ranger bot.

Only Aegis, Shelter, SoW confirmed. Protector’s strike not tested.
No projectile finishers or the reflector conferred might or flames, although the aegis at 50% minor trait threw me for a while till I realized what was happening.

Only one of those blocks is duration based instead of stopping a limited amount of strikes. Therefore, the only way you could use defender’s flame as a poor man’s retaliation is with shelter, and that’s also the only way to get a high stack of might through Might of the Protector.

bringing this back up, since had another quick question.

does Radiant Power (Radiance 25pts) only increase a flat 10% as long as there is one condition or are conditions on your foe? i.e. more conditions don’t increase dmg done?