Guild Wars 2

Hi all,
I’d like you to take a look to this DPS build and critique it.
The base idea is to maximize the DPS by taking advantage from damage increases of traits as well as keeping up good support with shouts and condition removal with PoV.
With Fiery Wrath, Radiant Power, Elusive Power, Runes of Scholar and Sigil of Force I’ll get almost always 45% of damage increase that I’s quite a big deal.
As weapons I chose the hammer as main DPS dealer against bosses and hard mobs while the GS against trash, I don’t like Sword/Focus that much in PvE because it’s mainly a single target weapon and doesn’t give as much support to the team as the hammer.
So, here is the build, I’ll wait for your feedback. ;-)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJASRlYgyCXFSKEfIFRuAbGAkgVFiH2DM6xOC-jgxAYrARFCUyrIasF3ioxqrxUuER1SBExyI-e

Here I made a variation with Virtues traits instead of Honor, the DPS is roughly the same but I’d lose PoV (hard for me to renounce) in favor of a better self sustain
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJASRlYgyCXFSKEfIFSOjVCBtZAQEUVh4BrAGB-jgxAYrARFCUyrIasF3ioxqrxUuER1SBExyI-e

You can drop five points in virtues (10/25/0/30/5) and put them in zeal since you’re running GS and hammer and using a lot of symbols. Same thing applies to the other variant (10/25/0/10/25), but drop 5 in honor instead, since you should run master of consecrations at all times (it is better than the retaliation mambo jambo, that only works in pvp) it is better to move away from shouts (2 consc and 1 shout, the shout could be either HTL or SYG, or 2 consc and SotA for fights like imbued shaman). Also, play a bit with the second trait from virtues, you could change it between cleansing on F2, uptime on spirit weapons or unscathed.

Also, some guy is using rune of the ranger on his guardian (getting the extra damage from SotA i believe), here’s the thread link if you want to check it out: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/We-Got-Guardian-Builds/first#post2907228

This is my hammer dps build;
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJASRlYgyCXFSKEf4EhNDASw6DxD7BG9YHB-jgxAYrARFCUyrIasF3ioxqrxUuER1SBExyI-e

Good points Oxxy, 15 zeal is better.

Blazin Blunt.6908:

This is my hammer dps build;
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJASRlYgyCXFSKEf4EhNDASw6DxD7BG9YHB-jgxAYrARFCUyrIasF3ioxqrxUuER1SBExyI-e

Yeah, I like the build, I probably go with something like that.

Of course we are talking PvE right, cause if most of you went into WvW with these paper builds, you will grow seriously frustrated by your continued near-instant deaths coupled with being cow’d (spiked)?Thank you for the badges though….

Rigel.3092:

Of course we are talking PvE right, cause if most of you went into WvW with these paper builds, you will grow seriously frustrated by your continued near-instant deaths coupled with being cow’d (spiked)?Thank you for the badges though….

That’s clearly a pure PvE focus build. No way to go in WvW with those stats.

When i go in to WvW i change a couple of things but nothing gear wise, my WvW build on this char ( i say this char because i have to guards) is this one;

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJASRlYgyCXEyKEf4ERVh4h9AjwvjXPoYCZIA-jwyAYfAsFEhBgKAl8IiWTfgF3ioxqrx0uER127hoZzTtUAmLMC-e

With this you got almost 2600 armor which is good for about 30% dam reduction with an extra 10% of signet you are at the same point as someone with a little bit more as 3k armor, next to this you will have an almost constant 33% Protection boon on you so you can pretty much survive a zerg without to much trouble.

And when you solo roam or small group you hit like a truck and can take a battering without dying instantly.

So just some changes to traits and utility settings

Stemare,

You could look at a 25/25/0/20/0 build for GS/Hammer. This is the highest DPS for Hammer I’ve found. Very similar to Blazin’s build except you can boost both symbol damage and GSword damage a bit more. Switch out to 2h Mastery or Empowering Might when you’re using GSword too.

Bloodgruve.6038:

Stemare,

You could look at a 25/25/0/20/0 build for GS/Hammer. This is the highest DPS for Hammer I’ve found. Very similar to Blazin’s build except you can boost both symbol damage and GSword damage a bit more. Switch out to 2h Mastery or Empowering Might when you’re using GSword too.

No condition removal at all? (beside ridicolous signet passive)

I rarely have issue with conditions in PvE, I’ve run this build through a lot of dungeons including Arah and mid 30’s FotM without much issue. Throw Bane Signet on if you need more then the passive removal. If you wanna work with more Protection grab 2x Runes of the Earth, Grove and Water. It will drop your DPS down a bit but gives melee some good mitigation.

Condition removal ins’t for you, Blood, is for your group. I would drop PoV in no time if it didn’t affect my allies. Not having condi removal at cliffside fract, for instance, doesn’t seems right to me.