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Hey obal, great guide as usual. Out of curiosity why do you not run rhs in your s/f builds? Especially the 20 25 0 0 25 that you mainly use even pre-nerf? Sorry if it’s already been asked search function on this forum doesn’t work for me.

The saddest thing about this thread is I see good ideas which will never see the light of day in game because Anet doest see enough gem potential from pve.

If youre interested in finding a pve guild you can try out for [Only] the guild im in if you want to =P (shameless self promotion for the win!) We’re in NA, mainly BG but no required server I believe.

Out of curiousity are you more interested in dungeons or WvW

I recommend starting with p3. Thats supposedly the easiest. Also let your group know youre new in the LFG thats really important if you want understanding people, will take you longer to get a group though. Good luck

Fade.6725:

Dolan.3071:

Oh I have to play with a mic!? And only heavy classes!? I play how I want, get out of here you filthy elitist scumbag.

O.o oh sorry i didn’t mean to sound that way, the mic is for communication because it’s easier than typing in chat and i don’t think i ever mentioned anything about heavy classes the first classes i mentioned had 2 that take a bit of damage if they get hit and that was only suggestive classes.

Hes just joking dont worry about it. This subforum has seen alot of kitten from people who come here for help and then tell us to screw ourselves cos they ‘play how they want’
EDIT: Listen to Durend hes giving pretty solid advice.

This is my thanks to DnT members. I used to be a condi war in dungeons. Ive now converted to full zerk. Brazil, nike and obal I enjoy your gw2 videos on YouTube. Point is no matter how much you feel your arguements for zerk in dungeons have fallen on deaf ears you have convinced some people of the optimal way. Thank you for taking all the crap from the community. Thanks to you guys I started enjoying dungeons and because of that found an awesome guild with awesome people.

Heard hybrid actually is quite good not sure though. Anyone can confirm?

AP is never a good judge because you get more AP spamming Living Story and dailies then you actually do from dungeons. I’m neutral about most of your points but your idea of AP being used to judge a player is something I cant agree with.

Update your signature oxx6yyyy

Switch after youre done

Quick question stacking sigil on staff yay or nay? If not then where.

Dub.1273:

Oxxy.7068:

Black Box.9312:

Dub.1273:

Someone using a good build who doesn’t know how to play is still doing much better than someone using a trash build who doesn’t know how to play.

A dead zerker deals infinitely less DPS than a live player with a suboptimal build.

There was a thread on the guardian forums, Dub made the math (i think it was him) and someone in 10/25/0/10/25 can spend almost half of most fights dead and still deal more damage than that paladin 2.crap build.

That math was even against his berserker 3.0 build. And in bad conditions for my build (can’t keep aegis, only 3 boons) i could stay dead almost 66% of the fight, still dealing more damage than him, assuming he’d stay alive all fight spamming sword autoattacks. And hell, he even uses staff.
I might do a check against that 2.5 build when i find time.

Edit: did the maths and posted on youtube, to his 2.5 build:

Oh, the 270%? more damage was even compared to his berserker 3.0 build.

Comparing 10/30/0/5/25 to 2.5 build in usual circumstances (unscathed contender up) gives me 3210 vs 19277 E-Power (i factored in a 30% modifier by rotation, assuming he’d only use gs) at 0 Might. That means 10/30/0/5/25 is about 600% as much damage as this one. When i think about his actual playstyle in comparison to mine, also thinking of group buffs it’s: 3210 vs. 33610, which means about 1100% more damage.

Edit2: I actually factored in RHS for both, GS and Sword but was at 109% critchance with it anyway. Causes a loss of less than 2%, though.

Edit3: Wow, 3 minutes after my post he blocked me on youtube and deleted my comments.

Good to know i’m still know despite my really crappy guardian abilities that i’m not the worst. Once again thanks everyone above for your suggestions!

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

Main things to do IMO, is aegis blocking for teammates through things like timewarp or feed back if dodging outside of the bubble means death IE lupi P2.

Examples of when to save aegis to make timewarp super effective.

-During Abomination Boss Arah P2. Block his jumps during timewarp so your teammates won’t have to dodge, and they can power right through. If you don’t have a mesmer, then keep an eye out for when teammates may need that aegis pop
-Lupi Phase 1 melee, if a timewarp is popped during this phase, block his kick so your team can continue melee’ing.
-Pretty much anytime when you can spare your team a dodge during critical moments is key. Which is why I keep bringing up timewarp.
-Being on VOIP with yoru group makes this super easy to call out.

Aside from Timewarp, or boss specific examples, you should use aegis to help teammates avoid a tough blow. I rarely(pretty much never) use aegis as a means to save only myself(doesn’t mean you can’t).

Wall of reflect is one of our strongest skills, so know when to have it equipped. Which is a lot of places in arah, and in fractals. Get use to the skill, because it is amazing….

I realized I have a crap ton more to say, but I don’t have time to finish, so I’ll come back and edit. But parting words for now, take guardian role seriously because I sure as hell do

I do too thats why I’m asking here. Thanks for all the time youre putting in to help me I really really appreciate it =)

durend.6237:

Wow this has gotten off track.

OP doesn’t need help learning the game, he already has that from warrior which – if his guild name is anything to go off of – he plays berserker style.

He knows how to survive with the build/gear he has. What he’s asking for is things like “use aegis on the dragon’s tooth for the destroyer boss in CoE so your team mates can keep up dps and not dodge”.

Anyway, I’ll probably have to still suggest strife’s guides for this. He does a great job of explaining mechanics for most of the encounters, despite many of the guides being out of date. From there, look up videos by obal/dub/brazil/etc and you’ll be able to see how tactics have improved since the older videos.

Thanks for bringing the thread back to topic. Yeah I have experience full zerk with my warrior what I need to know is guardian specific stuff like you mentioned.
Thanks for the help and suggestions so far guys! =)

Ethics.4519:

Bright.9160:

I heard this build is really strong and has some great potential.

LOL! “I didn’t go guardian just to make a glass cannon, that’s just ridiculous”

No sir, it’s called not sucking. That’s also when I stopped listening, and couldn’t take the “I’m too cool to put inflection in my voice” tone.

Wish I could help you, but I kinda despise guardian gameplay. I love having them in my party, I just couldn’t play one. But like everybody else is saying, stay away from subforum for any class =).

I went back to actually watch it I initially only checked the traits. I’m still cringing. No worries it’s ok.

Bright.9160:

I heard this build is really strong and has some great potential.

OMG I NED TO SWEETCH TO EET NOW.

Reason I didn’t go to the Guardian subforum is because i’ve heard bad stories of that place. Mainly posted here cos all I ever do I dungeons and its what I want to be good at.

Edited for phrasing

Using the 10 30 0 10 20 build. Its completely my fault I should be putting up aegis/stability/whatever but fail to do so on time. We’re semi organised so everyone depends on me when i’m guard and i hate to let them down in both senses of the term.

Hello everyone.
I played nothing other than a warrior until recently when I made a guardian which is now level 80. I’ll make it short and sweet, I suck horribly and got my guildies killed again and again in dungeons.
The reason i’m here is to ask for anything that could possibly help me out (besides practising which i’ll be doing anyway). I want to get better at this. If possible videos of guardian perspective would be really nice. I want to get better at this kitten.
Thank you in advance and have a good day.

EDIT: Build is 10 30 0 10 20, zerk armour and trinkets.

You’re not horrible, don’t worry from my experience warrior is easier than guardian.
Also bump because fun guild.

Love this guild if you like dungeons and are fed up of the random chance of pugging give [Only] a shot.

Time Glitch.2460:

InfinitySoul.9240:

I’d rather not encourage cleric guardians. Maybe mix it with a timer to complete the run in a certain amount of time. Make it a bit more challenging with better loot.

Seriously?

You don’t want to encourage diversity?

Because right now all there is is DPS Zerkers.

I don’t mind diversity, but what i’d like is viability in those builds, right now zerker is king in organised groups and before running other builds is viable changes have to be made to make them so.

I’d rather not encourage cleric guardians. Maybe mix it with a timer to complete the run in a certain amount of time. Make it a bit more challenging with better loot.

Does is kitten anyone else off that a living story question with half the views got a dev response while theres absolute silence here?

Bumping cos this is more important than if Tequatl the funless has backstory

There are some groups out there who are willing to help.

Someone taking noobs : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Arah-Vet-here-to-help-you-with-Arah-runs

A no-rep guild teaching : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Arah-Vets-grouping-together-to-do-Arah-Runs/first

If I remember right they’re both NA so if you’re on EU look for your equivalent. Worst come to worst still don’t have a group and you’re on NA I would be willing to try helping you.

EDIT: Check out DnT’s guide to Arah P3 it should help you get a bit familiar before trying it out.

Since its been so long since the posting date i just wanted to ask if you guys are still active and if you have moved on from just Arah in to other various content or focus on Arah with some other content mixed in. I’ve been looking for a PvE guild and i wouldn’t mind a focus on Arah anyway. Sorry if i missed any questions like mine replied earlier in the thread. I’m kinda lazy to go through 9 pages of recruitment requests.

Might want to try corruption http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Corruption

or if you dont like on kill stacking

Sigil of Agony for extra bleed duration http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Agony

Sounds pretty solid with a good amount of condition removals, do you use dolyak for the stability or do you keep it on passive for the damage reduction?Also what weapons are you using?

Thanks I didnt notice that before! I’ll give it a shot =) if you dont mind could you share your build?

Hey guys, first time posting here so please excuse me for any mistakes I make regarding the forums. Probably evident from the title i’m looking for advice/opinions on my build I currently run in PvE (I know most people feel zerk is the best to run in PvE but I prefer doing a condi build) and WvW.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=Vt;4RKkN0P4ZL-60;9;5TT9;227A18A0;3aZF4;2NX8aNX8aQ-kxNE57;404192C3K_P59eWPs4R0;9;9;6FFFFFFl

Main point of this build is to combine survivability with condi damage. The undead runes give 5% of toughness as condi damage, a nice boost since I wanted survivability.

Traits in Arms line are pretty standard for a condi build, in grandmaster i chose Furious (Crits = triple adrenaline) because flurry imo is a good source of bleeds and that way if i’m lucky i’ll have another flurry ready as soon as possible.

The last 10 points I put into Tactics for Leg specialist, because there are now cripples in the auto attack and in WvW small fights i can use savage leap to get an immobilize to follow up with a flurry.

So yeah that’s my build please give advice and criticism(constructive please) on how i could improve it.

Thanks =)