Guild Wars 2

Hi guys
So I’ve been playing the meta for quite a while now in PvE and I love it, Great Damage and same or even more support than the common Guardian Builds. But sometimes playing the same spec all day in PvE feels a bit repetitive. GS & S/F give the most damage with a lot of good support, but I wanted to try something similiar but a bit different, GS & Staff. Now I know I will lose on damage, but I think with this I gain a bit more support and since I pug most of dgns, and when I ask for zerker I allways get some Ele that despite being zerker doesn’t know what stack means (stack it’s not only getting all fuzzy together and hug, might stacking is also included), this if I get and Ele at all, I think Staff really helps with Empower. Some of you might already have tought of this but I would like your opinions in what you think of this setup to use as for a change once in a while, not a fixed spec.

Btw despite playing the meta I witch weapons all the time when needed for certain tasks, but as soon as combat goes I go back for GS & S/F, this is and alternative for combat

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJARWlsApUo9CxZI8DNR8Ql9Y8ixodfQtBQDA-ThRBwAX3fU+dT9H86CyfJAA8EAMrEkMA6LA-e

The build also has acess to stability without needing to get SYG, even though I’m pretty sure SYG will be needed in some parts, I just hadn’t any idea where to put the last point so might as well get stability

Lovely feedback

I’m not really sure what your going for when you say gs/staff then say you switch back to gs/sword for actually fighting.

Having points 4 and 5 in zeal would be purely for damage and putting those 2 points into radiance would give more. There’s not much of a point in putting 30 points in virtues since you don’t need stability and removal at the same time and can just swap the trait around for the few times you need more stability. If you plan on using staff for might then strength runes would be worth thinking about. If you plan on sticking with gs/staff only and camping gs then 5/5/2/0/2 seems to be the optimal setup when you don’t need more support and is about 1k dps less than 4/6/2/0/2 gs/sword rotations with group buffs so it’s not so bad if you want some variety.

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I’m not really sure what your going for when you say gs/staff then say you switch back to gs/sword for actually fighting.

Having points 4 and 5 in zeal would be purely for damage and putting those 2 points into radiance would give more. There’s not much of a point in putting 30 points in virtues since you don’t need stability and removal at the same time and can just swap the trait around for the few times you need more stability. If you plan on using staff for might then strength runes would be worth thinking about. If you plan on sticking with gs/staff only and camping gs then 5/5/2/0/2 seems to be the optimal setup when you don’t need more support and is about 1k dps less than 4/6/2/0/2 gs/sword rotations with group buffs so it’s not so bad if you want some variety.

What I meant was that with the actual meta, I sometimes play with staff but for trivial stuff. Cleaning the path in TA, or lore the spiders in AC, nothing more than that.
Also this wouldn’t be a replacement for the meta that I actually use and like it quite a lot, just for some days have some variety in the combat style, and since most runs with pugs there is no might stacking (And I most of the times ask for zerker specs … ppl seem to not care what the party says as long as says the path they want to do) the staff helps.

I guess I’ll stay with the same spec