Guild Wars 2

I need some build advice I’m not running a glass cannon but with FotM after level 10 I seem to die a lot more which might be the groups I run with but it made me doubt my build so I just want my build balanced between damage and survivability.

4/6 of my armor pieces are power/toughness/vitality the other 2 are power/precision/critical damage all have soldier’s runes. All jewelry is knight except back piece which is ascended in power/toughness/vitality.

As slot skills I use mending for healing, endure pain, for great justice, shake it off and signet of rage.

My stats are with food:
Attack 3167
Critical Chance 39%
Armor 3205
Health 24682

I use a greatsword for melee and a rifle for ranged.

Traits are:
20 points in strength with berserker’s power and slashing power.
30 points in defense with turtle’s defense, last stand, defy pain.
20 points in tactics with leg specialist and shrug it off.

So any advice?

Your build is actually quite survivable. It’s farther into the survivability area than most warriors go. Personally, I would switch the tactics traits to discipline traits because Fast Hands is so good, but that’s just me. Also, for your skills, I’d switch FGJ for Fear Me, which works defensively in fractals very well, as FM goes through Defiant.

Part of your deaths may be because of your groups, but keep in mind that no class in this game is meant to be able to survive a whole lot of damage. Dungeons are meant to be difficult and you’re not supposed to be able to stand there and take hits. Guardians have wards and shields to prevent damage, not to take it.

I run less survivability than you, and I don’t die very often in Fractals, but part of that is also because I run mostly with groups with one or two of my friends that use TeamSpeak, which makes it much easier to coordinate what you need to do in Fractals.

Catinka.5476:

I need some build advice I’m not running a glass cannon but with FotM after level 10 I seem to die a lot more which might be the groups I run with but it made me doubt my build so I just want my build balanced between damage and survivability.

4/6 of my armor pieces are power/toughness/vitality the other 2 are power/precision/critical damage all have soldier’s runes. All jewelry is knight except back piece which is ascended in power/toughness/vitality.

As slot skills I use mending for healing, endure pain, for great justice, shake it off and signet of rage.

My stats are with food:
Attack 3167
Critical Chance 39%
Armor 3205
Health 24682

I use a greatsword for melee and a rifle for ranged.

Traits are:
20 points in strength with berserker’s power and slashing power.
30 points in defense with turtle’s defense, last stand, defy pain.
20 points in tactics with leg specialist and shrug it off.

So any advice?

It’s a good build, I run a hammer PTV 10/0/30/30/0 build with more vitality than you, but lower crit chance. The only thing I would suggest is to drop Defense to 20 (Defy Pain is a little iffy in a lot of opinions), and go 30 Tactics for Vigorous Shouts, maybe also swap Shrug it Off for Lung Capacity. Two healing shouts will give you an extra 3k or so hps every 20 seconds. Besides that? Eh, duck more!