Guild Wars 2

I dnt go on my guard much but my question was which would be better in dungeons, staff for might stacking or sword/focus. my traits for s/f and I’m not sure which 1 would be better for group dps.

can’t you use both? if you want to have a staff for the support you should be replacing the GS for that.

or just use staff to stack might just before going into combat and swap back to your GS

If your sole purpose is to stack might and increase group dps I suggest a correctly traited S/F. Staff might is useful, but the duration is short and you get rooted and unable to attack while casting, effectively losing 1/5 of your group dps for 2.5 seconds. Maybe consider taking Empowering Might in a group setting to not overstack might.

I’d take staff if I had Altruistic Healing traited and wanted to carry a PuG.

I tend to run GS and S/F but will swap into Staff for a quick Empower (+ Virtue of Justice w/ 5 in Virtues) before any encounter and then back into GS for the free +DPS.

staff always
replace the sword with a mace. combo happy off yourself and bring your team dps up with might / retal and heal on top of it.

you can stack upwards of 15+ vuln and multiple blinds if you trait this right. Throw in the right shouts and you can take down a silver mob w/o ever taking a hit.

People on the dungeon’s forum hate when people recommend mace for guardian. If you want to follow the meta for dungeons use dps builds, healing power scales up very poorly in this game, having 0 or 1000 healing power doesn’t make much difference, power+precision+crit damage on the other hand scale up dramatically, and they benefit from might and vulnerability stacks.

In pve killing stuff faster >>> outhealing damage

In other words, NO MACE! EVER!

I hope you are a troll, because:

might stacks from Empowering Might are too shortlived to do much for your team at all
and retal is the worst boon in PVE.

not to mention that sword stacks more vuln than mace.