Guild Wars 2

spoj.9672:

Chew Magna.4830:

spoj.9672:

The meta for dungeons is dps and zerker gear. So if your serious about dungeons, going for an altruistic healing spec will make you a laughing stock.

This “meta” is a big load of bull. Find a build you like, play with friends and guildies who also play builds they like and just have fun. Not everyone who plays this game wants to constantly do speed runs and blow by all the content.

I play a healway guardian in dungeons with a hammer and have tons of fun with it. Normal pve is a joke with it, just run into as big of a group as you can find and aoe them all down.

What you described is not the meta though… I was informing him of the optimum way to build in dungeons. Not everyone is so against building so they are most effective in the content they are playing. If you want to play with healy and tanky builds thats fine. But they arent viable for serious and efficient dungeon runs.

Well that lil discussion helped me understand dungeon runs “meta” a lil better. I mean I’ve seen others post that you can play whatever you want in pve, doesn’t really matter etc, although it’s nice to know I should be able to find dungeon runs regardless of my build/playstyle. Just really depends on the individuals I’m running with.

spoj.9672:

The meta for dungeons is dps and zerker gear. So if your serious about dungeons, going for an altruistic healing spec will make you a laughing stock.

Ahahaha well that’s good to know. I don’t want to be backtracked and shunned from dungeons just because of my speccing, Thanks for the tip.

tanshiniza.8629:

Here is a DPS Guardian build based on Hammer/Staff that I played for a while and was pretty darn fun.

http://tinyurl.com/ljnsyqz

You can use the staff for healing/ranged+mob control and the hammer for DPS and mob control. The Altruistic healing and boons while give you some reasonably good survivability and remember to keep dodging

That’s very useful and gives me a good feel on what I should be speccing for, but I see you used the term “was”, do you not play this style anymore? If not what kind of guard do you play now?

spoj.9672:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83935-dps-hammer-synergy-with-lightning-hammer-elementalist/

Good hammer build for dungeons.

Oh great this is very recent and a video to go along with it, thanks alot.

Hello, I’m fairly new to GW2 and pretty much just learning about all the mechanics/playstyles throughout the game. I have tried different prof/wep combos and etc and have come across a playstyle I really enjoy. Guardian-Hammer from a PVE aspect, as I’m mainly a PVE player when it comes to MMOs(not too huge on pvp and will probably focus on that later on, if I’m ever tired of PVE content).

So pretty much I’ve been doing a ton of research over the past few days on what kind of build I should follow for this kind of playstyle but not really seeing anything up to date/helpful and decided just to make a post. So my question for you lovely folk, can somebody either link a helpful guide to assist me with this kind of guardian playstyle and/or inform me what traits to spec into. ANY information will be much appreciated. Thank you!