Guild Wars 2

Valkyrie amulet guard, thanks to the latest patch, it finally works! I mean, its not great, but its boat loads of fun.

I went Sw/Sh and GS.

Valor 2-1-2
Radiance 2-3-3
Firebrand 2-2-3

I took Litany for heal, 3 meditations and mantra of liberation for elite.

The idea is to pop the mantra to get retaliation, giving you 50% crit. If you use judges intervention you’ll get fury and burn giving you another 30%.

You pretty much have 100% chance to crit when using sword, and 84% chance to crit when using GS. With this build you have reasonable HP, cleanse and sustain, with lots of chances for quickness during a teleport GS2 or Sword 3 burst.

Its definitely not meta or anything, but I love making valkyrie builds work.

Yea but you hit like wet noodle with 150% crit dmg and no condi pressure. I played celestial in wvw and its not bad.

Ragnarox.9601:

Yea but you hit like wet noodle with 150% crit dmg and no condi pressure. I played celestial in wvw and its not bad.

Valkyrie gives lots of ferocity iirc. It’s power, ferocity and vit.

Ramoth.9064:

Ragnarox.9601:

Yea but you hit like wet noodle with 150% crit dmg and no condi pressure. I played celestial in wvw and its not bad.

Valkyrie gives lots of ferocity iirc. It’s power, ferocity and vit.

I forgot, was reading soldiers, need to get some proper sleep.

Good use of free stats. With quickness and shield you have 2.8k+ armor, plus your previously mentioned crit rate hovering around 80-100% with retaliation and Fury. I think you could get away with something similar replacing Firebrand with Zeal, trading defense for damage.

Play the exact same build with vanilla and DH and its pretty sweet.

When i play vanilla i swap DH for zeal/virtues (depending on mood) and use sword/scepter. Played 5 games last night and topped damage and/or kills in all of them, even the two games i got steamrolled in.

Zeal/radiance/valor is just mean with scepter.

Valkyrie and radiance is pure love tbh.

I love that arenanet is slowly making valk builds playable on different classes

valk thief is fun too.

as much as i dont like firebrand….the major trait 2 and elite are just too good

The change to Radiance is all sorts of fun, I just wish we had a dps alternative to Valkyrie, something like power, ferocity and condi damage.

I did make some valkyrie gear for open world, and I hope they fix the retaliation trait on firebrand, because it wasn’t working with the heal’s mantra charges.

RabbitUp.8294:

The change to Radiance is all sorts of fun, I just wish we had a dps alternative to Valkyrie, something like power, ferocity and condi damage.

I did make some valkyrie gear for open world, and I hope they fix the retaliation trait on firebrand, because it wasn’t working with the heal’s mantra charges.

Until they buff Guardian’s base HP, no amulet w/o at least +560 to vitality will work in sPvP

Darknicrofia.2604:

RabbitUp.8294:

The change to Radiance is all sorts of fun, I just wish we had a dps alternative to Valkyrie, something like power, ferocity and condi damage.

I did make some valkyrie gear for open world, and I hope they fix the retaliation trait on firebrand, because it wasn’t working with the heal’s mantra charges.

Until they buff Guardian’s base HP, no amulet w/o at least +560 to vitality will work in sPvP

I mean, there are some guys who make no HP guard builds work (Arken comes to mind). Just takes a bit more finesse and you gotta understand that you can’t just jump into the middle of everyone and expect to live for very long.

@OP

Valk is all fine and well, but especially with PoF, there will be ALOT of boon hate. Daredevils, spellbreakers, necros, condi rev, and mesmers will usually be able to leave you just a bit salty as they tend to strip quite a few boons. Only problem with running valk and the new retal trait is that if you somehow LOSE the retal, your damage just takes a nosedive off of a very steep cliff.

As of the demo weekend, power-based firebrand works about as well as core meditation guardian; i.e. DH is completely superior.

However if tomes see the buffs that we’ve suggested, it could end up being very effective. Team-based support on one end, and potential for some nice bursts on the other end: CCs on ToJ and ToC paired with exiting the tome + quickness + burst isn’t something that DH brings in melee-range.

Yes, assuming you hittting a burning target and have radiance teaits: guard realy doesn’t need crit chance on 1-handers and the vita is far better served. I personaly get my Crit to 20% and then go Valk