Guild Wars 2

So my current build is a sheer survival build based off of Brutaly’s Crithammer build.
My Stats are as follows, and in the image below:
Power: 1468 Attack: 2422
Precision: 1779 Critical Chance: 45%
Toughness: 2165 Armor: 3437
Vitality: 1295 Health: 14,585 Healing power: 542

Gear: I wear full Knight’s Armor, with Precision/Vitality/Healing Power Weapons. Trinkets: Two Cleric’s earrings, Two Knight’s Rings, and A knight’s amulet.

Ok, so the main idea of this build is to survive as long as possible, and pretty much never hit the floor. It does a kitten good job of that so far, but i’m here asking any experienced Altruistic Crithammer Guardians if they see any ways to improve this build’s survivability.
A few of the changes i have been considering, are 1. somehow getting Writ of persistence so that my protection in melee range is 100% up-time. 2. Swapping my clerics Trinket’s out for more Knight’s trinkets hopefully boosting survivability via toughness and crit, (although i’m not sure how vital my 542 healing power is, or how big of a difference it makes). 3. Possibly switching the weapon as well, to Knight’s or Power/Vitality/Toughness.
As a side note, any advice on how to boost my stats as much as possible would be appreciated. I personally feel that my stats are on the low end, but can’t explain why, nor can i see the effect of it in combat, being i’m pretty darn hard to kill.
If i forgot anything, or think of anything else, i’ll add it later. Otherwise, thanks in advance. -Val

Edit: Sigils: [Hammer-Blood] [Sword-Purity] [Shield-energy]
Runes: Dolyak ⁶

It says “bad link” , copy/paste/edit etc. din’t work either.

Alright, Edited with a screenshot of trait distribution and other info listed. Deleting the build link.

Bump, because id really like to see if anyone has some input.

Thats an impressive build. It beats out my build in almost all stats with only a minor loss in Max HP.

Power: 1,761
Weapon Damage: 954
Crit: 22 (+15% from Trait)
Toughness: 1,730
Defense: 1,272
Health: 15,545
Healing Power: 415
Rune of Earth x6
Cleric Exotic Armor

The key difference between our builds though is I rely on Monk’s Focus for Meditation healing to survive (and it does a kitten good job of it). I’ve heard altruistic healing is also viable, I’m not sure which one is better though. I would anticipate though that the build you’ve proposed gives alot more freedom and versatility. Crits are very powerful, and with the additional Might with every crit, even more damage is inflicted. In addition, not being tied to meditations for heals allows you more versatility in Utility skills without sacrificing battle/survivability potential.

I would have to agree that PTV is definitely the best build for a Guardian in my experience.

As a Guardian enthusiast I sign off on this build as very excellent for survivability and killing power. I’m personally very interested in it and will most likely work towards replicating it myself to see how well it works. It looks very promising.

Thanks for posting this.

(Btw, it also lets you make use of the Hammer, and Hammers rock. I’ve been wanting to use mine more for awhile now.)

I can try to help you out if you just state what you use it for, dungeon, wvw open world pve. I assume dungeons!

But two things i can state in general.

1. Clerics accessories isnt favorable for a crit hammer due to lack of critchance. Check out the guide, there are two masterpiece earrings that are a match made in heaven if its a bit healing AND crit you want. You can get them for karma in cursed shore. In general i would go full knights if its survivability you want.

Compliment that with master maintenance oil and food that has 60% life leech on crit and 33% life leech sigils. They seem to stack and this is just OP if its a combination of dps and survivability you want.

But boring as hell tbh, just spamming skill 1 for 80% uptime on protection, throw in a SY and HtL and a virtue to fill in the protectiongaps when needed. In a lot of the instances i just set skill 1 to autoattack and use the keybord to be at the right distance to the target.

2. Switch out the dolyaks to soldiers. Dolyak give you about 30 hps, which isnt boosted by healing power if i remember correct, which is just nothing compared to removing one single condition with your shouts. The more shouts you use the more this is true.

Personally i prefer larger symbols in both pve and pvp, this generates far more crits, its easier to be in “range” to be with in the symbol so you “get” the boons.

Well thanks for the answers and the PM brutally. Thank you Clairvoyance. I’ll play with some different things and see what i end up liking