Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing GS/M+S with Cleric’s equipment, and its been keeping me in the middle of the fight without too much trouble, but want to try something else now.

Because of the quick hits on the scepter with relatively short Smite recharge, I was thinking of going crit (I’m sure plenty others have… the forum’s search feature is crap otherwise I probably would have found the info I wanted). I’m trying for something that can hit at range and solo PvE with decent survivability. I don’t have a lot of money/karma (just got to lvl 80 on my first character), so I’m just focusing on weapons, armor, upgrades, and traits. Here’s what I came up with… with signets for my utilities.
Scepter and torch for midrange/melee crits, swapping to hammer for protection and crowd control.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3|b.1g.h8.f.1g.h17|2.1k.h1a|1n.7h.1n.7h.1n.7h.1p.7h.1p.7h.1p.7h|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|0.u27b.k68.k18.0|0.0|e

First of all: Glacial heart is an useless trait. You don’t need that. Second: retaliation is useless in PVE and you don’t need that there and third: empowering might is more of a support trait and plays really well with altruistic healing. It’s not really ment for solo play.
Change those traits and invest a bit more into power and toughness. The radiances GM trait gives you plenty of critical chance. This is a solo build so I guess you can live with that but later on you might wanna change to a bit more tanky build and switch torch to focus for instance.