Guild Wars 2

I think I may be a bit low on power… any thoughts? I’m in pretty much all knights gear w/ power, precision, and condition damage, and making up the HP via soldier runes. I’m wondering if crests might be worthwhile at this rate, or maybe swapping out a knight piece of zerkers.

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What are you specifically going for with your build? Are you doing fractals? Just general PvE?

Your power is a little on the lower side, but your higher precision will compensate for that with extra crits, to a degree.

I run a 0/15/5/30/20 fractal blind spamming build. You’re not too far off from that, really, if you retraited. Your vitality is a little low, but with precision like that, and omnomberry pies (or omnomberry ghosts), you could keep your health up pretty well. Knights armor is great because it gives you POWER/precision/toughness. Also, Emerald jewelry/gems are the same, but you don’t want to over do it and sap your vitality.

Generally, as a sort-of-rule, you want to keep your health around 17k if you plan on doing anything serious. I run something like 16.5k when I’ve got a scepter/focus up, and almost 18k when I’ve got a greatsword. (my GS has 179 Power, 128 Vitality, 128 toughness, IIRC) Toughness will get you further in higher level fractals from what I’ve heard. I do pretty darn well with my build at lvl 30, but I haven’t attempted anything higher than 30 yet.

If you want more power, but also want to survive, try the AH template 0/0/30/20/10.

Then wear all zerker gear to maximize damage output. The toughness you get from the knight set won’t help as much in endgame PvE imo. Dodging, knowing when to proc aegis, and when to use shelter and renewed focus and self-healing is a lot more useful. And some areas you’ll find dps > anything else due to the bosses being easy but having high hp. For the highest damage output, use ruby orbs. But I went with rune of lyssa for the 6th ability (remove all conditions, gain all boons for 5sec).

Edit: And this can get you to lvl43 fotm at least from my experience.

ArcTheFallen.7682:

If you want more power, but also want to survive, try the AH template 0/0/30/20/10.

Then wear all zerker gear to maximize damage output. The toughness you get from the knight set won’t help as much in endgame PvE imo. Dodging, knowing when to proc aegis, and when to use shelter and renewed focus and self-healing is a lot more useful. And some areas you’ll find dps > anything else due to the bosses being easy but having high hp. For the highest damage output, use ruby orbs. But I went with rune of lyssa for the 6th ability (remove all conditions, gain all boons for 5sec).

Edit: And this can get you to lvl43 fotm at least from my experience.

Yeah, there’s a lot of debate around this. There’s a reddit post by a guard who is running the same build as me, and the same gear priority as me, and he is at lvl 63, but I think there’s a lot of leeway here. If you just adjust your play style to suit what you’re wearing you can ALMOST make anything work.

Hickeroar.9734:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

If you want more power, but also want to survive, try the AH template 0/0/30/20/10.

Then wear all zerker gear to maximize damage output. The toughness you get from the knight set won’t help as much in endgame PvE imo. Dodging, knowing when to proc aegis, and when to use shelter and renewed focus and self-healing is a lot more useful. And some areas you’ll find dps > anything else due to the bosses being easy but having high hp. For the highest damage output, use ruby orbs. But I went with rune of lyssa for the 6th ability (remove all conditions, gain all boons for 5sec).

Edit: And this can get you to lvl43 fotm at least from my experience.

Yeah, there’s a lot of debate around this. There’s a reddit post by a guard who is running the same build as me, and the same gear priority as me, and he is at lvl 63, but I think there’s a lot of leeway here. If you just adjust your play style to suit what you’re wearing you can ALMOST make anything work.

Agreed. But to the @OP if you use GS/Hammer and want to do an AH build, definitely keep at least 0/0/30/20/5 and plan the rest of the 15 to whatever else you want.