Guild Wars 2

What do u think of this Mace + Focus Build?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUQQJApdlYgqCXGSKEf4ESmCRCBxUgRf01DK6hYIA-jwCBoLAYMg0HgEBAJQFRjtMMIlNht6KaqFYqSER1eDFRrWKgIGGB-e

Greetz

been dying to make mace more useful. I may try this out, although I might make one change… but ill see

Yeah it would be great when u test it so i can improve it because i like Maca + Focus for Guardian. So yeah have fun with it and when u can make it better post it.^^

Mace is a great weapon, the problem it has is sticking to enemies. There’s no gap closer and it’s attack range is rather small.
Guardians are notoriously slow even with Runes of Speed/Traveler. You can be kited very easily when you don’t have gap closers.

Whenever I use mace as an offensive weapon I feel like I’m forced to use Judge’s Intervention just to be able to stick to my target a bit better.

This is from a PvP perspective, for PvE go ahead :>

Looks very solid. A few things to min/max…

I’d replace Stand Your Ground with Hallowed Ground. The retail you can already apply by using the mace symbol and focus 5 while standing in it, and it’s AoE. Any other profession’s blast finishers will also do this for you. With that I’d also change the Honor minor trait to larger symbols instead of shout recharges.

Instead of the two dolyak runes go for broke on the boon duration and add 2 Superior Monk runes (from AC dungeon). This will give you another 15% and extend everything you are doing.

You seem to be focusing a lot on that crit chance, but I don’t see anything taking advantage of it. Your focus at least should have an on-crit sigil.

Consider taking 5 out of Virtues and adding 5 into Honor. the boon damage increase will benefit greatly here.

I’d recommend staff as an off-set weapon to make best use of symbol traits and AH. You will be a healing powerhouse and have respectable damage output. If you want to go totally nuts put a life-stacking sigil on it.

Zach.3264:

Mace is a great weapon, the problem it has is sticking to enemies. There’s no gap closer and it’s attack range is rather small.
Guardians are notoriously slow even with Runes of Speed/Traveler. You can be kited very easily when you don’t have gap closers.

Whenever I use mace as an offensive weapon I feel like I’m forced to use Judge’s Intervention just to be able to stick to my target a bit better.

This is from a PvP perspective, for PvE go ahead :>

This. Mace is junk for non-PvE and “clunky and weird” (like that Warrior hammer skill) in PvE.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUQQNApdWlYgiDHGSKEf4ESODRCBxPoRXPooHihA-jwCBoLBDjRRk2Ag+AMBqIaslhBpuNsVXRTtATViIq2boIa1SBExwI-e

I change some things but i am unsure about the Sigill!!!

You may want to specify whether this is for open world PvE/Dungeons/WvW etc.
It would help people know what you’re looking to achieve.

At the moment i only play pve, wvw comes later.

Darkedge.5064:

At the moment i only play pve, wvw comes later.

Not with a mace, it doesn’t.

hahaha poor mace.

the GS + mace/focus symbol build is not bad. better for roaming then anything though. and you have to kind of fight on point – which can be tough in WvW if you’re opponents know what’s going on.

very strong in PvP.

If protector’s strike only activated against opponents within it’s radius, it would be a far more viable option in wvw imo. I currently rock a torch to abuse burns on opponents smart enough not to attack and to respond with a few ranged attacks when they try to create distance.

Can u tell me a good GS + Mace/Focus Build?

to me personally, symbol builds work best in WvW/PvP and the basis of a symbol build is x/x/30/20/x

Valor – self sustain through Altrustic Healing or Monk’s focus
Honor – III and X for larger and healing symbols, respectively

most symbol builds seem to run with AH since you get boons from your symbols but i personally prefer the meditation variant.

i’ve been playing with 15/0/30/20/5 recently or maybe even switch to a 20/0/30/20/0 for vuln on symbols to see how that works. if you can get two symbol drops on someone, you can get up to 8 vuln stacks iirc, so you can time for some burst then. the symbols can tick pretty high, add in burst from GS2 or Mace 3 (though mace 3 is harder to use in PvE since mobs hit slow).

i’ve seen variants like 5/0/30/30/5, 0/5/30/30/5, 0/10/30/30/0 as well..

if it's for PvE mainly, you can try something maybe like.. x/30/x/20/x. with a high crit chance base and decent crit damage, pick up right hand strength from Radiance for the mace and it'll crit like crazy.D in Honor stick with the traits you have now and use shouts. just thinking out loud now. in PvE with a decent power, high crit rating build, i've seen mace crit up to 5k on the third hit of the auto attack. symbols tick for 1.2k+ per tick. so it can get pretty nasty. and time shield of wrath (focus 5), and then activate protector's strike (mace 3) for both to go off at the same time for MASSIVE burst. those are two of the most hard hitting attacks of the Guardian. and you get sustain from the symbol, and auto chain, and more blocks, so you can afford to go more ballsy with gear.

mace works in pve, but it wont work in pvp because you will be kited for days