Guild Wars 2

Zeal’s not the best for soloish play imo. However, running 10/25/30/0/5 has been pretty good running with others in an assault role.

I actually was screwing around last night with random builds and tried a 30/5/30/0/5 build with GS heal and meditation healing. It Actually worked decently well in group vs group combat. i had to go partial hit and run tactics but it actually had decent survivabilty between the slow and steady GS heals and the bursty meditation heals. I think it could do pretty decent with full zerkers gear with some knights/soldiers trinkets.

Hmm, maybe it’s just that prefer Hammer over GS

Curious, how much does Symbolic Power increase the symbol damage? 10%?

Not sure, but it really isn’t worth it to try for. The only symbol that does decent damage is the GS one, which at most I have seen crit for about 1k. If the Staff symbol did the same damage I would considering making a symbol bombing build, but sadly it is just hard keeping people on them for any meaningful length of time.

Welp my build just got blown up by the new patch. Thanks Anet!

“Vigorous Precision: Increased vigor duration to five seconds. This effect can now only trigger once every five seconds.”

OK, Since the patch I have found that our damage is now alot higher, with a dip in some of our survivability. My new spec is as follows:

10/30/30/0/0

Zeal:
II: Fiery wrath: 10% more damage to burning foes.
Radiance:
V:I Blind Exposure: Applies 3 stacks of vulnerability to blinded foes
X: Powerful Blades: 5% extra sword/spear damage
XI Right-Hand Strength: 15% extra crit when using 1h weapons
Valor:
I: Meditation Mastery: 20% faster meditation recharge rate
VI: Retributive Armor: 5% toughness is given to precision
XII: Monk’s Focus: Meditations heal

Had to ditch burn on block and AH for the 2 meditation traits. The key is now blowing your enemy up with stacked vulnerability and the extra damage from burning. With Sword/focus you can apply up to 9 stacks of vuln very quickly, with another 3 coming from activating your virtue, which will also give you the burning you need. My sword auto attacks are now doing up to 2k damage per swing and my Zealots is doing upwards of 6k

I had to drop my Greatsword and switched to scepter/torch for my off set. The root is a good gap closing tool, smite is always decent, just wish the auto attack was faster. Torch #4 is great for making sure you have burning up, and the throw has done up to 5k+ to people. #5 on torch has sadly lost some of its use though. Before it was a great way to heal due to the multi hit attack and decent size cone. Now I more or less just use it when people are too grouped up together, as the scepter #1 actually does better damage at close range with over 1k crits.

What did they buff I’m knee deep in wintersday recording atm lol…….Damn I better not have to do paladin again lol….

1)Unscathed Contender: Increased damage from 10% to 20%.
2)Strength in Numbers: Now activates more quickly when entering combat, and scales from 0-70 defense instead of being capped at 30.
3)Blind Exposure: Increased to three stacks of vulnerability
4)Shimmering Defense: Increased burn duration from three seconds to seven seconds.
5)Binding Jeopardy: Increased vulnerability from three stacks at five seconds to five stacks at eight seconds.

Were all the trait buffs. Blind Exposure being the big damage increase.

I may need to change too I’ll look into it tommorrow.