I have played the “Healway” build for a few weeks now, and I would like to alternate with a more damage oriented build. I have seen people in game dealing very good damage while maintaining good survivability, but I’m having a hard time building something similar (my guardian is not my main character). All the dps builds I end up with are definitely too squishy.
I have already searched the forum and tried 25/10/30/0/5 and 10/30/30/0/0. These builds look very popular but it seems that I cannot play them well ^^’.
Could someone more experienced that I am give me some advice or direct me to a more adapted build?
As the title imply, I have a preference for roaming and solo play.
Basically open the fight with empower and a line of warding maybe, do stability with VoC, switch to hammer and smite condition and start smashing their face in, I stack healing power and use precision oil/-condition duration food, with the fury up and might stacks and retaliation I can burst alot of people down, 1000 healing power my meditations heal for 2300 and dodge heals are nice too, so I burst with the fury and might, then heal a bit with dodges + staff/hammer CC back and forth, works pretty good for me.
Running 25/25/10/0/10 right now with zerk scepter/torch and hammer. Knight armor, Pack runes, zerk ascended amulets. Thinking about moving 5 pts from virtue to honor for more dodge rolls but +20% damage with aegis makes for some nice opening damage and midfight torch 4 burst.
For solo WvW, 1v1s, etc. decent toughness, good crit, really high power, max crit dmg, and perma vigor. The key is to always start out with Sce/F. Use the shield on focus not to block, but for huge burst. Wait a split second until it explodes, then use Sce 3 and Judges Intervention. from there Sce 2. After that either autoattack with Sce or swap to Sw and teleport and auto away. If you use T #4 twice thats also a really big range nuke. On YouTube, if you search Got Boons, he runs an almost exact similar build to mine, except less survivability. When you look at the link i gave, it doesn’t put in Right Hand Strength, so the crit chance is actually 51%. On the 15 its getting a buff. Grab Focused Mind so
meditations will give fury.
I will say this though. Other burst builds have it a lot easier. Mostly thief and warrior. If you really wanna get big numbers, roll those two. That being said, the shield on focus brings them to ~40% when it explodes. NEVER unless your buying time to get away, use it for just the blocks. The damage is too good to waste it
