Guild Wars 2

Really new to the game and was wondering what stats you look for when buying a scepter and torch for leveling? Any tips for the build? Also how bout when I swap out for GS? Thanks in advance,

Srogi

relatively new to the game / first MMO. i run sword and torch, and i love burning so i mainly go for condition dmg, etc. and precision for crits. though i haven’t extensively studied the effects of condition dmg – i’ve heard it’s not a HUGE incr for Guardians. but i love setting people on fire lol

hope someone can help more than i did lol

Was trying to find out if more people go for power, precision or condition. Hope we can get an answer. Thanks.

Condition dmg is great for solo questing. As soon as you are in group situation it loses neary all its benefits (for guardians) because of how the burning (our only condition that does dmg) mechanics works.
Buring stacks in duration, meaning when you apply burning to a target already burning, you just increase its duration. There is no guarantee that this is the condition you applied to the target.
I’m not entirely sure, but it’s possible that the increase in duration is affected by your condition damage, but… there is no difference in 1 min or 2 min burning duration when facing an enemy with normal health pool.

I use the valkyrie items, to compensate the low health pool and boost my crit dmg. Trinkets and runes/sigils are precision/crit-chance

For any Guardian build I find that the following combo of +Stats are best: Power, Toughness, and Vitality.

Interestingly enough, these are found on the PvP items but I feel that they are best for PvE as well.