Guild Wars 2

just wanted some advice for those Guardian vets out there who’ve gone the more offensive route. i’m currently rocking all knight’s exotics, including trinkets, full Soldier Runes and play 0/5/30/30/5. pretty sturdy with decent dmg. i was thinking of putting a second set of gear together which is even more crit focused and can deal more dmg, undoubtedly sacrificing some “survivability”.

i was thinking:

• again, full Knight’s armour
• Berserker’s jewelry for a change
• Runes – Fire x3 and Hoelbrak x3 or Ranger x5, Lyssa (or any precision rune) x1

I went with Knight’s armour again because i don’t want to go completely “glass”. the knight’s still gives me crit chance, while giving me some toughness to take a few hits. is it worth it to go this route at all? would the berserker’s jewelry make a noticeable difference in terms of my DPS? or perhaps, go berserker’s gear with knight trinkets?

in terms of the runes, which set would be more beneficial?
i run usually with Hammer+Staff or GS+Staff depending. so i can easily stack mights, as well as having empowering might and VoJ activation so thought might duration would be pretty good. and instead of going fire x2, strengthx2, hoelbrak x2 for 60% might duration, it was hard to pass up on 100 extra power
and then the ranger + lyssa is just for even more precision.

and any other suggestions are more than welcome. happy to discuss. : )))

I wouldn’t go glass cannon let alone use berserkers gear. Our base Hp just isn’t high enough, nor do we have escape moves like thiefs(no im not saying thieves are op, their escape moves make them a thief) that allow them to go glass cannon/full dps.

Pve: Fail
sPvP: Depends
WvW: Fail

If you’re doing lower fractals or any other old dungeon, a full zerk or knight armor + zerker jewelry is plenty for a hammer build depending on how good you can dodge. If it’s for WvW, I’ll suggest using knight/zerker combination. For DEs, full zerk is better. Might stacking is great if you’re running dungeon regularly with ele, otherwise I’d use ranger x5 + lyssa or full ruby orbs.

Archer.1658:

I wouldn’t go glass cannon let alone use berserkers gear. Our base Hp just isn’t high enough, nor do we have escape moves like thiefs(no im not saying thieves are op, their escape moves make them a thief) that allow them to go glass cannon/full dps.

Pve: Fail
sPvP: Depends
WvW: Fail

PvE is not fail when you have the hammer giving permanent protection (yes, I’ve face tanked with zerker or knight/zerk before including Mossman on 20+ fractals).

PvP, it depends on how good are your awareness and position to decide how much error you can have. Zerker/Knight give less room for errors comparing to like pvt.

thanks for the replies, folk. this is mainly just to experiment with a different build. i’ll still keep my full knight’s gear so i’m not ditching one thing and switching completely to another. this game offers a lot so i don’t want to be stuck playing the same thing over and over.

if you read my post, i did mention i didn’t want to go glass cannon but see what combinations of gear or runes i could use to bring up my DPS a bit, and rely more on my situation awareness, dmg mitigation or dodging to survive. why not test my skill level a bit and there’s only one way to learn.

appreciate the tips, Trung. i’ll take a look at what you suggested. and mainly gonna probs be for DE’s / dungeons so i’ll try full zerk. and for WvW, you mentioned knight/zerker, as in, knight’s gear, zerker jewls?

For WvW & PvE I’m doing just fine in Zerker Gear / Weapons, Beryl (pwr/vit/+crit) Jewelery.

For Runes there’s a couple really nice ones for conditions: Lyssia / Soilder / Forge

x/x/30/30/x

I haven’t sPvP’d in awhile and alot’s changed in there in terms of builds so I wouldn’t know.