guards and thier dungeon weapons
You’re pretty safe using GS. After that, it depends. If you want max DPS, sword and Focus. There are instances where a Staff is useful and our best ranged weapon is Scepter.
Hammer is also a safe fractal weapon if your eles dont complain about light fields.
Hammer is a safe weapon in general, particularly paired with gs. Scepter is always good for range or large hit boxes for smite.
I personally like hammer, as the damage is high, and it’s useful in dungeons and wvw, allowing me to keep the same weapon for both modes.
ahm oki
so gs/hammer and scpeter focus and a staff would be a good base to start with
thx for the info
You need a secondary weapon too. Mace would be good to get. It’s the best secondary for hammer builds. It’s about as good as sword for GS builds for now. Sword will suck after the specialization patch though and mace will be really good. Honestly you can just cheap out on a staff and get a rare one or something unless you play ele as well. You don’t really use it to fight in dungeons.
ahm oki
so gs/hammer and scpeter focus and a staff would be a good base to start with
thx for the info
Scepter is a situationnal weapon. It’s the best choice only for a couple of specific large, slow bosses. Otherwise there are always a better choice. Even if it’s not the best choice for high level fractal, in pugs it can be hard to melee so a lot of ppl are using scepter anyway, just in case they need to get out of melee range for some bosses.
Staff is useless. You should never ever use it in combat. The only place where you could use it is in TA to remove the blossom. Personnally, I prefer when the thief do it because taking a staff even in secondary is still limiting my dps as a Guardian.