Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone ive trying to come up with a build that has the best of both worlds of survival and damage I feel like im on to something but I just keep dying from the simplest of things. Maybe its a skill issue on my part and maybe I need to learn to play but maybe someone can help me out it will help if i have other minds helping me work on this so I can hear different opinions to help me make this build work.

Here are my stats and i have with a 78 crit dmg rating and both weapons with sigil of accuracy to help pump out more damage

current traits Blind Exposure, Purity, Ret Armor, AH, Superior Aria, Empowering Might, Inspired Virtues

Maybe I need to take some crit damage out inplace of toughness or vitality idk but any help will be greatly appreciated its just getting super frustrating trying to figure this out.

Your stats are fine. You just need to think about play style. Your weapons are very dps heavy and dont give you much CC. In PvP it is essential. I suggest you take hammer instead of GS.

The hammer also procs protection often. It will give you -33% damage reduction which will help you in any situation.

Looks like your wearing vigil armour. If those werent transmuted, i suggest just getting exotics. It does help.

No idea what your runes are so cant comment.

what armor sets are you wearing? i can’t tell from straight numbers (though they look fine to me as well) but rather the combination of gear. many Guards will say 3k armor is a baseline, but i’d say give and take a few depending on your playstyle.

also, as KensaiZen mentioned, what runes do you have equipped?

lastly, could you elaborate on what you mean by dying to the simplest of things?

in terms of weapons, hammer IS a very good choice. especially with altruistic healing. although, the GS will work and you do have an extra AoE blind as well. but do check out the hammer and see if you like it. if you don’t feel it necessary, you could even run with GS + Hammer. i did that for a while and it’s really fun (then i’d obviously pick up 2handed mastery as well. it’s not necessary though, that’s just me.)

I’m using knights gear and a berzerkers chest and runes of soldier and OK cool I dropped my hammer for a bit but I always have one in my bag so I’ll give it a shot and I’m simple things or I feel as simple is theifs and other players who seem to not really be trying much. And if 3000 is baseline armour I’ll try to mess around with my armour again and bring it back up I don’t think I need all the crit damage anyway 80 crit damage seems a little too high

If you feel you die too much from thief class it is probably due to lack of practice against them. Their high burst damage is what you need to learn to avoid instinctively. The V keyto dodge is a must use hotkey. As soon as the thief hits you with a backstab, you should be rolling away from it. As soon as this happens pop all your virtues and start swingining or AoE. Your high crit should mean dead thief within seconds.

Playing against thief is very twitchy. Use GS5 then GS2 combo if you even think the thief is nearby. It will most likely hit without it showing the damage.

For protection, use blinds and aegis. Thief needs to recover initiative after they use thier skills on you. If you deny yhem hits 1. You avoid their burst 2. They dont have initiative to continue the fight.

If you’re running blind exposure I think GS is better than hammer. Your stats and build also seem fairly aggressive, so your best bet would be to kill the thief first. If it’s a P/D thief you can just forget it, but if it’s a backstab one you can block it (with virtues) or weaken (which is on your build) and unload on them as they try to spike you (they will die first).

You can practice working damage mitigation skills into your damage rotation by tanking veteran or champion mobs without moving or dodging, then when you’re comfortable, use everything against other players.