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Posted by: Adam Of Awesome.7802

Adam Of Awesome.7802

This is a support build with good survivability. It does do okay DPS too and you can further increase it by buffing yourself and allies. It’s uses are mainly for WvWvW but it can work in PvE just fine.

Your weapons will be staff and mace/shield.
You can change utilities of course.

16.1k health.
3k armor for those hard hits.

On a 1 second cooldown you & allies gain 10 seconds of Might each critical hit you do.
On a 5 second cooldown, you gain 10 seconds of vigor on a critical hit.
You have 34% critical chance.

1 condition removal every 10 seconds(healing signet)
60% chance on crit to remove condi (10 sec CD)
Virtue of Resolve active removes 3 conditions.
Virtue of Resolve heals for 456hp/3sec

Dodge roll heals you & nearby allies.
Basically permanent Vigor.
614 healing power (dodges heal for 743 per dodge)

20 seconds of 12 stacks of might on 20 second CD. (staff 4)
16 seconds of swiftness for you & 4 allies. (15 second CD)
You have access to every type of boon in-game.
+100% boon duration to make the most of boons

2.7k Attack Power
3k Attack power with max bloodlust (basically)
3.5k Attack power with max bloodlust and 15 stacks of might (easy to accomplish)
4 allies near you will also have might because of you.

You can have a browse through it to figure the rest out.

Link to build
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUEQNAW5elYgKC33RMEm4ES2DRKBRQsHYE8tRXFoIA-jQDB4NERzEDwEEQ0HCZZPCZJQSslhht6KalXBRvATdiIq2fAzpgIqWEAzYA-e

I would like to thank everyone who gave constructive feedback on previous builds. I hope everyone likes this one. Tell me what I should and could improve on, thanks.

(edited by Adam Of Awesome.7802)

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Posted by: Obtena.7952

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That looks interesting though I question why you would take the Revive trait over the shout cooldown … the strength of your build is boon uptime.

Consider this … with 20% cooldown, you get recharge on SY to 48 seconds instead of 60. That makes your average boon uptime from it 41% instead of 33%. Also, it’s not situational like reviving someone and the revive only gives 3 boons, SY gives … all.

I would dump Valour 10 and do 0/5/5/30/30. You have 1800 toughness, you get 90 precision from it. It takes 21 precision points to get 1% crit increase. On the other hand, you have the ability to blind alot of people with VOJ on a 21 second cooldown. More valuable for you and your friends I think.

As for gear, maybe my view is radical but you don’t actually benefit much from your crit rate.

1. You don’t have ‘on crit’ effects
2. You don’t have much crit damage

You can probably streamline the build a little more and focus on the select stats that make this build hum for you. I would lean more to a Cleric/Soldiers mix myself.

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Posted by: Amins.3710

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Posted by: Adam Of Awesome.7802

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That looks interesting though I question why you would take the Revive trait over the shout cooldown … the strength of your build is boon uptime.

Consider this … with 20% cooldown, you get recharge on SY to 48 seconds instead of 60. That makes your average boon uptime from it 41% instead of 33%. Also, it’s not situational like reviving someone and the revive only gives 3 boons, SY gives … all.

I would dump Valour 10 and do 0/5/5/30/30. You have 1800 toughness, you get 90 precision from it. It takes 21 precision points to get 1% crit increase. On the other hand, you have the ability to blind alot of people with VOJ on a 21 second cooldown. More valuable for you and your friends I think.

As for gear, maybe my view is radical but you don’t actually benefit much from your crit rate.

1. You don’t have ‘on crit’ effects
2. You don’t have much crit damage

You can probably streamline the build a little more and focus on the select stats that make this build hum for you. I would lean more to a Cleric/Soldiers mix myself.

I changed the revival trait to shout cooldown. ty.
If I swapped tough and prec on tough trait I would not only achieve 3k armor anymore, I would also sacrifice 1% crit chance. All for some more blinds which are nice but 33% crit chance and 3k armor is a must.

I actually do have on crit effects. read the OP :P

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Posted by: Obtena.7952

Obtena.7952

If you really want to take advantage of some crit, then I would recommend an ‘on crit’ sigil as well. You seem heavy on the endurance refill even though your vigor is procing alot. Might be worth thinking about.

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Posted by: fadeaway.2807

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Big fan of stamina refill on kill. Once the loot bags start dropping in wvw a stamina sigil guardian with some healing gear can almost guarantee the victory with constant dodge heals.