Guild Wars 2

By build is below, please comment on it if you would like but my real questions are these:

1) What armor stats and runes should this build focus on?
2) What trinkets, weapons, and sigils should I get?
3) How much does Monk’s Focus heal for each time?
4) Focused mind makes meditations instant but some of them have no cast timer in the tool tip, is this useful?
5) How many conditions does Save Yourselves draw to you and can contemplation of purity be used immediate after?
6) Is this build the best way to optimize burning damage?

Scepter/Torch & Greatsword
Zeal 10 – Fiery Wrath
Radiance 30 – Inner Fire, Radiant Fire, Right-Hand Strength
Valor 30 – Meditation Mastery, Focused Mind, Monk’s Focus
Healing – Signet of Resolve
Utility – Judge’s Intervention, Contemplation of Purity, Smite Condition (Save Yourselves might be better)
Elite – Renewed Focus

Thanks!

4) I don’t think it’s useful at all, as the cast times are so low anyway.
5) I believe it’s all conditions, if people are close enough. And yes it can.
I do it myself, it’s quite funny. It’s like taking out the trash.

Why hello there my exact same SPVP trait build.

The stats I use in PVP come from the Knight Amulet… which unfortunately is not like the Knight stat in pve!

Since this is PVE, I recommend a split of Knight and Valkyrie stats.

In PVP I use Forge runes, though I really should change that.

Since you’re leaning towards high radiance, you should only get right handed weapons. In PVP I go Sword/focus and Scepter/Shield. Since this is is PVE, I would still get Sword/Focus, but maybe go with Scepter/Torch. Hold on to a Shield for WvW though.

Monk’s Focus heals for a little less than 2000.

Protip: Focused Mind is total garbage. Smite Condition takes .25 seconds. Merciful Intervention takes .75 seconds. The other two are already instant. Since Merciful Intervention is trash, you’d only be using it to save .25 seconds. Do not waste a valuable skill slot to save .25 seconds. Get Retributive Armor instead.

Save Yourselves can draw as many conditions to yourself as possible from the nearest 5 people. Sometimes its a non-issue. Other times you can receive 25 stacks of bleeding and die 4 seconds. This has only happened like twice for me.

Yes you can use contemplation of purity immediately after.

The best way to optimize burning damage would probably be something like 20 zeal, 20 radiance and 30 virtues. Do not ever focus purely on burning damage though. Its entirely supplemental.

Here’s a trait build I recommend

Zeal – Fiery Wrath
Radiance – Signet Mastery, Powerful Blades, Right-Hand Strength
Valor – Meditation Mastery, Retributive Armor, Monk’s Focus
Utility – Judge’s Intervention, Contemplayion of Purity, Smite Conditions. Do not use Save yourselves unless you get the shout CD reduction. You can sacrifice retributive armor for that.

Elite: Summon 7-Series Golem (Stay bad human losers!)

Also note: Inner Fire doesn’t occur when you light yourself aflame with that torch skill. Its misleading. What it means is when you’re afflicted with the burn condition.

Guardians either go meditations or shouts. They rarely go both. The default Meditation build is 10/30/30/0/0. The default Shout build is 0/10/30/30/0. I use Meditation in pvp and shout in PVE/WvW. They’re both great.

Focused mind isn’t garbage but would be better if all meditations started with cast times..it allows you to use smite condition on top of other skills and chains without interrupting them, the same way virtues and shouts work..this opens clutch condition removal without stopping your current actions or just added burst since it his pretty hard in an offensive build..still the trait is far from must have but its not as bad as most think imo