Guild Wars 2

Carighan.6758:

Aero.4829:

Besides a player with 2k toughness will die just as fast to the zerg as a glass cannon.

The problem for most people in WvW – who end up having their team driven off – is that they think exactly this, and hence forego defensive stats.

The problem is, collectively (as a large group), you don’t lose due to each individual player going down in split-seconds to a coordinated 40+ people assist-train.
You go down due to the absurd amount of “fringe” damage flying out, softening everyone up. Every little bit this affects you less is more “wall-ness” your group as a whole exhibits, as you don’t fall back to gain range or distance. If too many of your group withdraw a few metres, the group as a whole gets pushed back as the remaining front ranks die in seconds.

Hence, defensive stats are extremely important in WvW. Not for your individual survival, true. And only you having them won’t make a difference, true. Everyone having more defensive stats is a pretty guaranteed upper hand in any major stand off.
Plus it makes attacking material easier since each player can stay in the arrow hail longer.

That’s my point exactly. Hence my question, how much Armor/Health should I aim for before I start focussing on more DPS orientated stats :p

Same issue here, I tried buying items from the tradepost when it was up at 3-4 this morning, kept getting a bug so I gave up. I log back on and all my gold is gone. Got no items either :/

EasymodeX.4062:

That’s odd, I didn’t think the Spatial Surge ticks accumulated since they are (or were) slower. Suppose I’ll have to look tonight.

Sidenote: your 4k damage number makes a hell of a lot more sense if you’re talking about 3x 1.3k crits. Like I said my gear is horribad (for a power build) and I expect that I’ll double my damage with real gear, so that would make sense.

They do accumulate, I found out when I noticed that the third “tick” always was the sum of the first and the second(unless the third crit). This insinuates that the number you see at the end is indeed the total of the entire attack, and that each tick hits for an equal amount unless it crits.

That’s the thing though, in WvW you cannot count on not being hit because of the sheer amount of damaging skills flying around :p

Does anyone else have some suggestions btw?

EasymodeX.4062:

For WvW I like to have 0 Vit, 0 Toughness.

For power gearing, I would basically start with a baseline of full Berserker, and I would switch out slots to Valkyrie (Pow, Vit, crit dmg if I recall correctly) until you find the balance you want.

Doesn’t that turn you into a glass cannon that tends to die alot though? With the huge runs back to where I was when I died this is sort of something that worries me..

Hey everyone!

After being 80 for a few weeks I decided to finally start working on my main gearset for WvW (basically the only thing I enjoy doing at 80) but I’m sort of unsure about the stats I should aim for..

The build I use is the following: http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fgAQNAsdhkwzIrJJOzI6LHlCs7dSFUd5D4G I did not list my utilities since those change alot depending on the situation I’m in.

With this build I know that my main damage stats are Power, Precision and Crit Damage. My main question is related to the survivability perspective though.

In short: How much Health and Armor (not toughness) do you think I should have before I start focussing on my DPS stats? I’m looking for a balance between nice damage and survivability. Enough health and armor to survive, but not so much that I start hitting like a wet noodle.

I was thinking of around 21K-23K health and 2000 armor? Is this enough to survive in WvW, and will I still have enough DPS stats available for doing some decent damage?

If anyone has an idea for decent values to shoot for, feel free to post them here!