Guild Wars 2

What’s your main weapon of choice for damage?

If it’s the Greatsword, I’d suggest dropping the points in Radiance and going Zeal instead.
Symbolic Power increases Symbol’s damage roughly by 25%, which is quite a nice boost even though it has a 16 sec CD, but it’s AoE boost that works great in dungeons.

Blind Exposure if it’s still the same, it only applies 1 stack of Vulnerability for a whooping 1% extra damage. Not really worth it in my opinion.

Radiant Power is a a great damage booster, but it’s so far in the Radiance line that I don’t think it’s worth it unless you’re really benefiting from the Traits.
Those points could go somewhere else, such as the Valor or Honor lines.

Valor increases your Critical Damage, which is something you should stack a bit if you want to do a decent damage.
Honor improves a lot of skills and also damage, there’s Traits here that are comparable to the best damage traits in the Radiance and Zeal lines, such as Empowering Might and Elusive Power.
You can also get some other Symbol boosting traits here, such as longer lasting or larger fields, both great for AoE damage in dungeons.

For gear, if all you plan is doing dungeons or killing monsters, full Berserker set and trinkets is more than enough, you get a bunch of Power, Critical Chance and Critical Damage.
If you trait more in the Honor line your health won’t be so low as well, and with the high amount of crit already you won’t need points in Radiance either. I don’t know the math, but after you have a certain amount of Crit Chance (I’d guess 30~40% is a good value), it’s better to get Crit Damage for better damage overall.

But if you don’t want to use full Berserker armor, you can swap the Berserker set for a Soldier’s for example (Ascalonian Catacombs/Honor of the Waves) to trade 16% Critical Damage for 224 Toughness and 224 Precision (about 10~11% CritChance) for 2240 Health.
Another option is getting Valkyrie if you want to keep your Critical Damage but want to trade Precision for Vitality.

The best armor types for Guardians in my opinion are Berserker, Valkyrie, Soldier and Knight. Just pick which type of Guardian you want to be and focus on that, or build an all around status build, that works too.

I use both evenly for damage just depends on the situation. But I usually do open up with the Greatsword.

I’ve used that build before. It is solid. Zeal is pretty weak traitline. The one you have is better. Blind Exposure is awful, basically equates to 1 sec of vulnerability.

I’d replace blind exposure with radiant fire since you’re using a torch. Guardians don’t stack vulnerability very well to begin with.

Thanks on the fast responses. And will take the feedback to make some changes. Was wondering if I removed the 5 points from virtues and added them to valor for the extra toughness and crit dmg?

I’d keep the 5 points in virtues, the added boons you get from each virtue is invaluable.

Would like to know where I could make some improvements on my build? Currently running with full Zerker armor and weapons, mainly use GS/Hammer and Staff ( Staff is knight) and using runes of the soldier. Also have 75% crit damage. Not sure if this will help but my traits are 0,15,30,20,5.

For my Tanky dps build my main weapon has always been the Greatsword. Secondary I’ve been using the hammer, but ther Mace/Focus works exteremly well.

Mace/Focus is actually my favorite 1h set up. Protector’s Strike is extremely powerful, had a 7k crit with it before. Block and huge AoE dmg?! Yes plz! Then you have Shield of Judgment for even more blocks. Running the standard 0/5/30/30/5. Really happy with my stats. Great vit, tough, and my dmg is decent too with 57 crit dmg. Also x6 runes of Soldier and Pure of Voice means I never have to worry about conditions.

Harbinger.8637:

For my Tanky dps build my main weapon has always been the Greatsword. Secondary I’ve been using the hammer, but ther Mace/Focus works exteremly well.

Mace/Focus is actually my favorite 1h set up. Protector’s Strike is extremely powerful, had a 7k crit with it before. Block and huge AoE dmg?! Yes plz! Then you have Shield of Judgment for even more blocks. Running the standard 0/5/30/30/5. Really happy with my stats. Great vit, tough, and my dmg is decent too with 57 crit dmg. Also x6 runes of Solider and Pure of Voice means I never have to worry about conditions.

Nice stats, don’t you run a mix of knights and soldier’s gear? What is that buff next to the tool icon buff?

ZuperTrooper.9145:

Would like to know where I could make some improvements on my build? Currently running with full Zerker armor and weapons, mainly use GS/Hammer and Staff ( Staff is knight) and using runes of the soldier. Also have 75% crit damage. Not sure if this will help but my traits are 0,15,30,20,5.

I have a pretty close traits to you, but I use 0/10/30/25/5, the reason is that 15 in radiance you dont get as much as the 5 extra in honor which gives you Elusive Power that adds 10% damage if you endurance is not full, and since you going to be dodging a lot…10% extra damage is way better. Plus you get a little more HP…

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Harbinger.8637:

For my Tanky dps build my main weapon has always been the Greatsword. Secondary I’ve been using the hammer, but ther Mace/Focus works exteremly well.

Mace/Focus is actually my favorite 1h set up. Protector’s Strike is extremely powerful, had a 7k crit with it before. Block and huge AoE dmg?! Yes plz! Then you have Shield of Judgment for even more blocks. Running the standard 0/5/30/30/5. Really happy with my stats. Great vit, tough, and my dmg is decent too with 57 crit dmg. Also x6 runes of Solider and Pure of Voice means I never have to worry about conditions.

Nice stats, don’t you run a mix of knights and soldier’s gear? What is that buff next to the tool icon buff?

I use Knight, Soldier, and Valkyrie. Also that’s not a buff, just commander icon.