Guild Wars 2

I know they’re are no “tanks” in GW2 or whatever but, i’m thinking of tanking up my guardian. Is it possible to get into 2300 to 2600 toughness?

Yes, it is possible. I believe I am close to 2400 at the moment.

Karma armor with Dolyak runes, knights jewelery, knights weapon. Not at home or I would gt you exact stats.

Really? 3000? can you tell me how those numbers are achievable?

Zelcova.4173:

Really? 3000? can you tell me how those numbers are achievable?

Opps, I’m gonna put my foot in my mouth. My bad, I was thinking of armor instead of toughness o.O ~ Removed my other post

Hahaha you jerk got my hopes up for nothing lol. I’m sittin here thinking WOW 3000 TOUGHNESS! then you’re like never mind I mean armor. Oh well.

While the topic is around, how much armor should a relatively offensive Guardian shoot for if they aren’t going 30 into Valor for Altruistic Healing or Monk’s Focus? My guardian is currently sitting in Masterwork gear while I build up the supplies to craft some Knight’s Draconic and I’m not even close to the 2900-3000 mark that I’ve previously seen people mark as a good place to try to be.

My guardian currently has 3.2k toughness (with the shield) and 3065 (with 2 handers and other non-shield off hands. ).

I do not think it is possible to reach such a level of toughness. With my set, my toughness is 1,930 which is 3,141 armor.

I’m using full power/toughness/vitality exotic soldier runed armor, exotic emerald knight jewelry, and Soldier’s Spineguard of the knight. All with exquisite emerald jewels. The only thing I use not focused on defense is my two weapons which are both berserkers. Even if I switched them to power/tough/vit I really doubt I would reach that much toughness.

You can get quite a bit +2400 I believe. This was some of my older gear with wasn’t even max/min.

Health kinda low in that last pic. I think average is 15-16k, and I’m usually at 20k because I’m more wary of conditions etc.

Found my old armor and modified it. 2263 Toughness, could be higher if I got the right runes. If I had Divinity it would easily be over 2300 or if I mixed some Toughness runes. Yes I know my Vitality is pathetic, but it doesn’t really matter.

Perfect Inscriptions and Purity means I lose three conditions every ten seconds, also all my weapons have Sigil of Purity (60% chance on crit to lose a condition). On top of Inscribed Removal. Plus Signet of Judgment w/Perfect Inscriptions is 15% damage reduction.

Also add in Altruistic Healing and it’s really tanky, and it hits fairly hard too.

You have very high toughness, but your survivability is extremely limited by low vitality and +healing.

It’s really about finding that proper equilibrium. If you play with the Mace and stack +healing you can self-regen yourself a lot to the point you never have to use your big heal except in emergencies.

If you’re stacking toughness, be prepared to get your melted kitten handed to you by anyone with even a moderate amount of burn/bleed/poison output.

Vitality should always be your go-to defensive stat. Toughness is for people who plan on tanking more then the rest of the group.

These are my current stats and I find them to be about the perfect balance for what I like to do. Soldier Runes in the armor and a mix of Pow/Vit/Tgh and Pow/Pre/Tgh armor sets and accessories.

Definitely possible to go higher in any stat.

I thought that 2.5k was the hard cap on any stat? Thought I ead that somewhere, could be wrong though.

Using a Gear spreadsheet I calculated that using 100% knights gear and 5x one set of toughness rune, and 1x another, you’d have 2340 toughness (30 points in toughness line of course)

Sorrow’s Embrace rune of the forge give nice toughness boost. I prefer those compared to dolyak. Same toughness, no vitality but protection and extra healing

My armor is 3350k with a 2 hander. My gear is pow/vit/tough, trinkets are knights with the exception to my back piece which is koss on koss. I also have 6/6 dolyak runes, and can probably squeeze out 15 to 20 more toughness depending on the ascended rings and crafted infusions.

I think the baseline is to shoot for 2800-3000 armor. After that, you’re probably giving up some effectiveness somewhere else.

Using traits, full knight and warrior def banner and food

My toughness is only 1,754… now I feel like I need more.

you can say that again. 4k armor??
does it make a big difference in terms of dmg reduction? or anything notable at least?

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.0|c.1n.a4.e.1n.a4|2.1n.0|1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7n|31j.d16.21j.d1c.3v.d1c.31j.d1c.3v.d1c.2v.d1c|0.0.u690.0.0|40.1|0.0.0.0.0|e

Highest possible tough you can get without banner buff. 54% dmg reduction, which is quite huge.

Harbinger.8637:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.0|c.1n.a4.e.1n.a4|2.1n.0|1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7m.1n.7n|31j.d16.21j.d1c.3v.d1c.31j.d1c.3v.d1c.2v.d1c|0.0.u690.0.0|40.1|0.0.0.0.0|e

Highest possible tough you can get without banner buff. 54% dmg reduction, which is quite huge.

Just for fun:
switch Dolyak runes for Runes of Mercy ( +400 toughness when ressing )
Find someone dead in the battlefield
Pop Tome of Courage ( +50% on pre-trait toughness )
Start ressing

= 4246 toughness

I might run arround ~2300tough with ~23k health
on max tough might go to 2500 native w/o boons or food but healh drops almost 10k

this might be more ocurate:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJApOmIyKISsHa8jb86RClIDB-jkxAYsAmALiGbZsIasabMNMRUtJvIa1CBobMA-w