Guild Wars 2

I’m interested in trying to make my own build, or playing with the builds to try and find something that fits my playstyle or something I enjoy that I can call mine. I have tried a variety of other peoples specs, but have always ended up changing a few of the traits, gear to better fit how I play.

I’m not asking for people to link builds for me, all I need to know to get started is what the stat caps are, are there any Diminishing returns and when they start for these stats.

1. What is considered a safe amount of toughness/vitality, aka whats the minimum amount of toughness/vit people try and reach in their builds.
2. What is considered the minimum amount of power for a power build.
3. What is the minimum amount of crit and crit damage for crit builds.
4. What is the minimum amount of condition damage for condition builds.

If someone with knowledge of build making can answer this I would be very grateful. I like toying around with various builds, but I do not know the preferred amount of stats to get started.

Thank you for your time.

Anybody wanna help a brother out?

There is no diminishing returns unless you have over 100% crit chance.

It’s all playstyle preference. And you don’t even mention your playstyle (PvE, WvW, tPvP). Basically, the only answer that anyone can give you is you need to try it out yourself.

For warrior:
If offensive focused, most will tell you to have a minimum of 3K power and 50% crit. But there is no real “minimum”; if you can add it and can survive long periods of time, do it. Only focus on condition damage bonus if a specific bleed/burn build type (otherwise ignore it). Tough/Vit weighting deals with Effective Health Pool and there are plenty of resources to review to understand. You need to understand that EHP is completely borked when facing high-condition encounters.

However, you’ll never figure out the answer to your question from the boards because it relates to your own playstyle. You’ll need to test this yourself in game.

@Skamlic Perfect thats exactly what I needed. I’m not looking to make any specific build at this time, just needed an overveiw of the stats.

@Artaz Thanks for the info as well. I didn’t post my playstyle preference because I didn’t want people to post “here, use this build”. I like making my own stuff, even IF it turns out to be something someone else has had similar, its just a past time hobby for me that I have done in a lot of my previous MMO’s.

Thank both of you for your assistance!

Yea, I am working on a mace-mace build and it is devestating in solo against some classes. Especially eles get dominated by it. Interupt them with instant skills and block their burst and return a 4.5k hit. I am not very good at it yet thou, need some practice because your skills are close range.