Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, I noticed they add another amulet in pvp, other than Cavalier and Magi: Knight’s Amulet, that has Toughness as a major stat, and power/precision as a minor stat.

I wanted to see if it could work with warrior builds, so I tried these 2:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-o;1NKVP0a4gL-60;9;4J-J-T28;218;257AINl3L;1G3G3G3G38e

Classic GS/LB build, for someone that never got used to Frenzy and Bull’s Charge (I don’t like relying on long cooldown skills).

And this one:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-o;1NKVP0Y4gL-60;9;4TO;0E28A29;55;0Iol3S;1H7W3H7W38r

This was something fun I used to play with zerker amulet: full glass cannon, full stacked on GS damage and Might to see dumb numbers.XD I wanted to see if with Knight I could add some tankiness.

What I got:

1. You are forced into power runes, and probably also investing into strenght, to reach a decent amount of power (1900/2000)
2. There is some crazy damage going around these days, eles are more frequent, Ranger pets are brutal, but worst of all is condition. You have much more armor compared to zerker, but you also have 4k health less. That is much more evident in the second build, where I don’t have nor cleansing Ire nor dogged March. 1v1ing necros becomes a pain.
Morale of the story: yay for direct damage defenses, nay for condition vulnerability. This means you need to invest more into condi cleanse.

What can be done

First build: change runes of the scholar to runes of Hoelbrak, add Signet of Stamina instead of Dolyak Signet.

Second build:

There are some options here

A) Give up stability for signet of stamina (and then guarding your bunker)
B) Give up FGJ for signet of stamina: probably as of now we can stack enough might without needing it.
C) Give up 10 points into strength to get Dogged March in defense. We’d drop below 2000 power, but we have might stacking, so it won’t matter much, while we might able to fend off Necros more easily, and use the aoe from LB to its full potential (or use Axe instead of LB)

What do you think?

Is there someone alse who tried messing around with this amulet?

I tried the amy since i saw your post, works a bit better for my ham warrior than a zerk amy. I use mending and zerk stance though its not a full counter to condi classes. The high toughness is good

With this build I am pretty resistant to condi classes:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-o;1NKVP0d4gL-60;9;4J-J-T28;218;257AINW4I;1CoF2CoF28u

Maxed out all condi cleanse I could get

It has awesome survivability and good AoE, which should make it a very good teamfighter, but can’t take down bunker-like builds alone.