Guild Wars 2

I run hammer /GS in full PVT gear with soldiers runes and azurite trinkets and 0/0/30/20/20 for traits. My question is; should I be running full sentinel gear instead? Damage isn’t that high right now so would it be better to go balls to the walls full frontline tank? Anyone have experience using both sets?

Well sentinel gear is like 24g per piece of armor…

I have experience with both sets, I got full sentinels and full pvt. My preference goes to full pvt with some knight jewelery. I will already get 30k health which is definitely enough in big zerg fights. Full sentinels + WvW bonusses + food + right build does give you 38k+ health which is amazing to troll around with. You’ll feel like you are unkillable. But 4% crit chance and 0% crit dmg and low power will make your damage real low. Going to make a post about reaching 41k health soon and hoping to get 70k+ in rampage ^^.

Anyway, I prefer pvt because with some balance you can still dish out great damage. And you need enourmously good regroups with your guild to heal up all the health of a full sentinels set. I have used full sentinels a few times on serious occassions. But that was when I had to hold the frontline against a group almost 5 times our size. So had to protect our damage dealers and keep them out of the choke point. So my damage was irrelevent.

Conclusion: stick with pvt and get some crit chance and dmg in there to get those numbers.

Full PVT. You don’t need much HP as a warrior to be the frontline melee

PVT + Knights. Full PVT is overkill.

elithrar.7143:

PVT + Knights. Full PVT is overkill.

Agree, you still need atleast 40% crit chance buffed and a bit of crit dmg

What about stacking up sigil of perception kills instead of a little bit of knight gear? 25 mobs aren’t that hard to find.

Or maybe couple that with a knight equivalent weapon?

Krikr.2094:

What about stacking up sigil of perception kills instead of a little bit of knight gear? 25 mobs aren’t that hard to find.

Or maybe couple that with a knight equivalent weapon?

Works aswel, aim for 40-42% crit chance buffed on bunker builds, don’t care how you reach it. If you go bloodlust or perception stacks, it all is the same in the end.

Only problem is that if you get downed, you lose your stacks and your damage will be lower.