Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

I am testing a PvP DH bunker at the moment and having a quite successfull time with it – mind you in amber league but I would say I cleared that quite fast only had a 3 losses streak at the beginning and some single losses in between.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAW5en8cCtChVdCmCBEEhlEi6qACgDArBygUQe5j+rH-TJxHABffRACf/BAeCAFVGAA

Basically a Celestial Build with Runes of Durability. I also ran Sigil of agility for quite a while and found it very useful for getting a little headstart on stomps and some skills. the swiftness added to staff symbol closes the gap of Retreat ensuring 100% swiftness in combat. I might change it for Intelligence though.
Durability of course is nice with AH and portection is always good the added Thoughness and Vitality is creating a sweet spot for me. 20% boon duration has quite a good value in this build as well. simply a perfect rune.

I ended up with Test of Faith trap instead of Fragments of Faith which I only use if I expect heavy Hard CC. The beauty with test of faith is that people tend to keep their distance for its duration. Laying it on point is also quite good because of the protection right from the start of an engagement. Pushing and pulling people through with shield and F1 is a nice synergy. But really any trap works swapping retreat for another one is an option too bu I felt that the additional on demand condi cleanse + heal is much better in almost any situation.

I had 0 problems holding a point 1vs1 and even made 1v3 work for a lot longer than it should. Damage of course is kind flat yet I did win quite the a lot 1v1 as well.

FMW and Empower is my favorite support combo to set up burst or to heal up really quick in team fights.

Having all boons available is just the icing on the cake. ;-)
Would like to hear some thoughts.

a bit based on what i play wvw…. instead realying on the awfull healin power guards could drop that stat and use boon duration ?

since u had shield and sturdy guard always play by side of a team mate, tough to add cripple to shield KB, since shield kittens 5 targets.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAW5elsAhWhY7QwUIwPELLE1VA8AFAWCUBlgc038TPA-TJxHABffRAWqMAAPBAx3fAA

Also RF with that runes, cleans 2 condis to team, blocks phsisical atacks and heals the user also recharging virtues.

IMO, guardian is way to much dependable of shelter and RF to last longer in the front of the action where all kind of spikes and ganks happen.

Intersting thoughts on the rune choice butI fear the amulet will only shift suviveability to dps.

RF and Merciful interention are not good choice imo. with that rune set you would want to use that 6 bonus as often as possible which works well with FMW.

I will give it a try

yeah meditation on that could be removed, FMV with staff trait gets a 15sec fury and 7 seconds quickness, plus uf u have a revenant sharing the boon duration u might get interesting values on some guardian skills.

Did some tests yesterday. not conclusive yet but I did not feel that soldier power increase was worth losing 25% crit chance and 35% critdamage. the extra vialtiy and toughness wasnt a factor either but I only lost one game yesterday so I might have had some MMR luck.

breaking down my stats with celestial only 15% of my self healing comes from AH which was kind of disappointing. need to check my logs a little further. I would need 40+ Aegis procs as well to surpass AH which seems a lot it does heal quite well for teammates.

What I am sure of is that the heal trap is the way to go. Shelter is just not cutting it any more for me.

I did not need the rune of leadership in my current division but I think it will be the better choice advancing further. Taking Staff mastery would lift me to 100% boon duration with a Herald in team which would cause some serious uptime on several boons.

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breaking down my stats with celestial only 15% of my self healing comes from AH which was kind of disappointing. need to check my logs a little further. I would need 40+ Aegis procs as well to surpass AH which seems a lot it does heal quite well for teammates.
(…)Taking Staff mastery would lift me to 100% boon duration with a Herald in team which would cause some serious uptime on several boons.

Tks for the pvp tests with that build, atm ive dropped AH since imo is only usefull em used with empower, and on WvW frtonlines are aoe casters(pirate ship with random aoe spam at frontline hitting nothing), so i stay back eating my popcorn.

100% with rev? dammn that is excelent news lol, never tough was that much!

so had to change the build while moving higher in the league to good old magi amulet catering twards the bunker meta we are seeing right now. I still feel extremely strong in holding a point. unbreakable 1v1, 2v1 need very coordinated timing. depdning on the amount of CC and condis I expect on the other team I change the trap for fragments of faith. I am pretty much a bouncing hp ball but it works really well IMO.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAW5en8cCtChVdCmCBEEhlEi6qACgDAbDygUQe5j+rH-TJBFABTXGYhnAQ77PAwFBAA

This build is pretty fun but it definitely depends on the comp. I’m still in the lower leagues and standard Maurader DH is usually still a safe bet.

Sad that wanderer’s amulet does not have the same stats wanderer’s does in PvE.

If it did there would be some serious contenders for guardian bunker builds.

Short of that however I would suggest celestial. The condition damage is kinda meh but the other stats help & its power is still decent.

As for magi, If it gave power instead of precision it would be a great choice both in PvP and other game modes. However since it gives you precision & leaves you bone dry for condition damage & power I could never in my right mind suggest using it since you will be completely useless as far as helping allies get a kill is concerned. (been suggesting since launch that they change it to give power instead of precision for all game modes, I encourage others to do the same)