Guild Wars 2

I use a 80% damage build with some beryl and knight trinkets, but I get melted in 1 second, what should I be building?

What build are you running (trait setup)?

First to be noted, you can have straight knights, but if you aren’t a player with a strong understanding of the game, being a mesmer will get you killed. Plain and simple. But, if you are having trouble, use all power precision toughness and keep trying. Also, if you are using a shatter build, not only do they have a high skill floor, but they are rough dealing with condis, in this meta, you need it. Consider using a Condi PU build or phant build until what I’m calling the PPP or triple p, the post PAX patch… Then condis will be toned down a bit, and shatters may be cool again. We will just have to see huh?

If you get melted, it can be one of these things:

• you are in the wrong place (for example, you take full spike damage)
• you are not using your defensive cooldowns properly (invulnerability, evasion, blocks)
• you are too squishy: get more health (pvt gear, invest in the +vit traitline) and consider hoelbrak (-20% condition duration) or melandru (-25% cond, -25% stun duration) runes. -condition duration food is a must

80% damage?! Sounds like you made too much sacrifices for damage. Lower that to maybe 40-50% crit damage and you should still reach 25Kish HP and 2000 toughness. That shouldnt melt quite so fast.

You can only melt if your positioning is wrong, you can go as glassy as possible, just dont be in the wrong places, or have a blink if you dont feel confident

woah whats your toughness?glass is not good in a gvg ore zerg.

- most important thing is positioning, timing, group organization and mobility
-dont spread much, track commander(always leave a limited distance with him maybe 2 dodge or ~1200,1500range, dont be in bomb, away from chase liners, thiefs, ranged..
-dodges, usage of skills(cd managment)
- if u be in burst often, (main blob, or get CC where has spike)
-examples, maybe pulled, your mistakes, limited areas, when u effected by conditions or CC that effect mobility or piercing gates blobs,
-your gear doesnt give survivel enough, u need stun breakers.. (Blink, distortation.. etc)
- gears, for anti damage per second (DPS), more effective health pool(EHP), if u get more psychical armor, or or for condition damage i can suggest more vitality (or how much hp u get from others+self, how many clearence give some more tips)
dont be shy to use more pvt if it let u survive, dead man cant do any damage+support+tank its effectiveness decrease to %0 when dead maybe while u sacrifice %30 damage it goes %70 instead of %0 :P