Guild Wars 2

hey all,

pve (dungeon, fractal, and solo) guardian here. been getting bored with the standard 0/0/30/30/10 EM/AH build recently and wanting to try some new stuff!

my new experiment is a 1-handed sword Monk’s Focus build. 0/30/30/5/5, main features being spammable VoJ for the blind and might stacks, right-handed strength, and healing meditation skills. I’m wearing a 70/30 split of berserkers/knights gear, with all ruby jewels.

my damage stats are great, but the problem this build has is a lack of HP… I’m slightly under 12k due to having zero vitality gear, and only 5 points in honor where you’d typically find 30. I only switched over to this build last night. I love the damage, versatility, and fast pace of all the meditations, but I’m wondering if that low HP is going to get me into trouble in fractals at higher levels etc. An Orr temple boss 1-shot me last night and got me thinking this could be a problem…

just curious to hear thoughts about HP totals and how little is too little.

The fact you’re even thinking about it and that you got one-shotted pretty much answers your own question.

For me personally I’d say it is far too low simply because I’m not good enough to survive on such a low health pool. The absolute minimum I’d have is 14k and so far I’ve never even gone that low.

Ive never had a minimum or maximum HP. in fact I do not own 1 piece of Vit gear.Its about your tactics/toughness. If it was about HP, warriors would be king.

Sandcaster.9648:

hey all,

pve (dungeon, fractal, and solo) guardian here. been getting bored with the standard 0/0/30/30/10 EM/AH build recently and wanting to try some new stuff!

my new experiment is a 1-handed sword Monk’s Focus build. 0/30/30/5/5, main features being spammable VoJ for the blind and might stacks, right-handed strength, and healing meditation skills. I’m wearing a 70/30 split of berserkers/knights gear, with all ruby jewels.

my damage stats are great, but the problem this build has is a lack of HP… I’m slightly under 12k due to having zero vitality gear, and only 5 points in honor where you’d typically find 30. I only switched over to this build last night. I love the damage, versatility, and fast pace of all the meditations, but I’m wondering if that low HP is going to get me into trouble in fractals at higher levels etc. An Orr temple boss 1-shot me last night and got me thinking this could be a problem…

just curious to hear thoughts about HP totals and how little is too little.

I’ve been doing lev 40’s fractals for a long time and I have alot of success with 0/30/30/0/10, there are times where people are dying horribly on lava boss and I have to tank him infinitely and I respec to get the vigor on crit among other things, if you use the orrian truffle dodge food it helps make up for it, I believe not having the 10 in virtues to alternate consecration duration/cds or unscathed defender is a bad idea, those 2 traits are insanely important imho.

I do not touch the meditation traits however or use any of them almost ever in pve.

Your problems with HP I would just say swap in more survivable gear where you need it until you really master avoidance, I would never wear my full berserkers in some of the tough boss fights, get 2 sets of gear or more.