Guild Wars 2

I am seeking some assistance by you knowledgeable fellow guardians.

I play a Greatsword/Scepter+Focus shout guardian.

I have a decent setup, but I am looking to get more out of it. I would especially like to focus on more crit damage and precision.

Any suggestions? The only item I can’t replace is my prototype back slot. Too much time farming put into it to change. It is currently a Power Toughness Crit Damage ascended. Soon to be Beta version.

Here’s my current setup and stats:

Knights Helm
Valkyrie Shoulders
Ascalonian Breastplate (PTV)
Valkyrie Gloves
Knights Legs
Valkyrie Boots.

All of the above are with soldier runes which I will be keeping for the shout condition removal.

Valkyrie Emerald jewelry with exquisite beryl jewels and karka shell with beryl as well. Currently with Lost Seal of Usoku and Vassar’s Band rings. (If I need to upgrade these no problem.)

Valk Greatsword with force sigil (Any suggest on a new sigil, this was just in it and haven’t replaced at all.)

My ultimate goal would be to maximize Crit damage while achieving and keeping 20k health. Ideally also keeping toughness as high as I can.

I know this is a lot to ask but my head is swimming from all the numbers =( Please someone save me!

(Note: I have an emerald pendant I in my inventory that I haven’t decided to use yet if I should. Was thinking that Triforge as my goal would be decent. But not so sure now.)

Well it looks like you’re going pretty heavy into vitality which can be good but if you have good condition removal you won’t need that high vitality. So I think you can swap some of that out for precision.
Your armor level looks good but instead of using (it looks like your jewels have an emerald base) valkyrie gems in your jewels, I would swap those out for exquisite ruby gems.
You could also do the same thing to your armor. I had thought about the valkyrie armor at one point too to keep more offensive but in the end I went with knights for a good mix between offensive and defensive. Depending on your build, Berserkers could also be very viable for you and would increase your crit chance dramatically.
Regardless of which armor you go for, I would go with Berserker weapons.
For a sigil, I see good use made of a variety of them. Most often I think sigils of accuracy, blood, bloodlust, energy, intelligence, strength, rage, or the one that increase stacks of precision on kill (can’t think of the name right now).
if you’re looking for more offense still, I would recommend swapping out your rings when you can. those a good rings but the condition dmg is kind of lackluster for us. I would go for the p/p/c ones but of course if you’ve already changed a lot of your stuff and you feel you’re lacking on defense then I would just go for the defensive rings.

I think I started rambling for a bit but hopefully you can dig some useful upgrades out of this mess.

Below is what I run (I do mostly fractals atm). Full knights armor, 6x rune of the pack, emerald jewels with ruby gems, , p/p/c rings, p/v/t greatsword w/ sigil of bloodlust, berserker scepter of force, corrupted bulwark w/ sigil of purity (might swap this but I’m not sure), soldier back with ruby gem (just got the p/v/t fractal back that I need to upgrade to beta).
First pic without food buffs, second pic is with Master maintenance oil and loaf of omnomberry bread food.

Yeah. I meant to post that I am planning to upgrade my rings to Vine of the Pale tree and Bagh Nokh when I get the pristines/lucky with daily. I also switched to the Emerald pendant that I mentioned.

Those changes will put me at

18875 health
2862 armor
21 crit chance with 78 crit damage
2949 attack

Thank you for your input. Just swapping the jewels will only unfortunately be a swing of 450 health for ~2% crit chance. (Downside of ascended gear is less Gems. Only have 3. Two earrings and an Amulet.)

I was thinking that to obtain 9% more crit chance. I need to get ~189 more precision. That will drop me squarly on 30% crit. I could drop vitality to where I am at 18k health without too much problem. The problem is where do I drop it without losing too much in the way of armor/power…

The reason I want to keep a high vitality is that I play WvWvW in addition to Fractualizing. So I’m a hybrid of pvp and pve. Also too lazy to buy/store/switch gear between the two. The health combined with toughness and all our utility/blocks/condition removal are what keep me alive from the rogues and quite a beating from the rest of the zerg.

If I didn’t do wvwvw. I’d easily give up more health.

Thank you for the input. Especially the sigil. Really need to upgrade that. It’s only masterwork for crying out loud.