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I know that for thief, +% damage traits, rune/sigil bonuses, and the like do not affect condition damage, so I would assume that it would be the same for guardian.
+duration% sigils stack. All sources of +duration% stack additively.
+damage% and +crit chance% sigils do NOT stack, but will not cancel each other out.
(Note that +damage% does not affect condition damage.)
Tested this first hand on my Thief. No promises for it working correctly on other classes unfortunately.
Leashed by a RL friend into this server, only to have them quit shortly afterward. So I’d rather stay on Tarnished Coast.
Anyway, I have an 80 warr that’s great for PvE and an 80 thief that’s great for WvW. I have absolutely no interest in RP of any kind, and I’m not looking to make RL friends. I don’t want to sign up for your silly guild website, I don’t want to attend your ingame RP events, and I don’t want to hop on vent just to chat with the guild. I come from PvP servers on other games, so being on the unofficial RP server is driving me mad.
Here’s to hoping there’s a guild out there that doesn’t live in the sheltered world of RP.
Downed state is a great buffer against glass cannons in PvP, but quite irritating for everyone else. I’d say some subtle (PvP only) changes would make it better, such as:
Immediately incur max downed state penalty after you’re downed, so that you will instantly be defeated instead of downed until the penalty expires.
Either remove the ability to rez defeated players, or make it slower AND make defeated player health decay over time so that if a rezzer is forced to stop rezzing, the progress they made will be lost.
Remove rally from kills unless the downed player lands the killing blow. Really, this mechanic just has no place in PvP other than 1v1 where you both down each other.
Downed state is good (even in PvP), but just a little too effective at preventing deaths. It’s clearly designed for PvE where enemies hit much harder and players and enemies both die far less frequently.
Hidden Kill trait in the Critical Strikes line grants its 100% crit chance while stealthed via a buff with the icon Kaizer linked.
Warhorn condition conversion/offhand is another option. Shouts versus banners depends on other party member builds. Shouts with Soldier Runes are just easier for a wider audience especially PUG groups but banners support specific party builds better (i.e. Mesmer gains protection on regeneration boon for instance).
I don’t use GS – I prefer Axe/Warhorn offhand condition conversion for dungeon use since a nice wide area Weakness debuff/Vigor boon is extremely useful. Obviously with so many non-melee friendly boss dungeon fights, you need a rifle or longbow as the other weapon swap.
Lifesteal should supplement your survivability but it is hard to really rely upon it (even with a 90%+ crit rate build).
I use either Rifle or Axe/Warhorn as my secondary weapons for these reasons, switching them out as the situation calls for. As for lifestealing, combine with a warrior’s high potential for passive regeneration, it really can boost your survival to reliable levels as long as you know which attacks to dodge.
Life steal makes a lot of sense if you run with a decent critical rate (i.e. at least 40% without buff). Otherwise, regeneration takes the cake.
Passive regeneration and lifestealing are by no means mutually exclusive. If you’re going to max regeneration, why not max all methods of restoring life?
Life steal food is the best food for dungeons, especially on a natural high hp/armor class like warrior.It’s pure gold.
@Nerevar
Dual axes are worthless outside of Orr event farming.Either get a shield, or mace(preferable mace). It will not slow down the auto attacks and will provide a ton more.(mass knockdown?yes please!)
Dual Axes make best use of lifestealing food hands down. A Shield is great and all, but the threatening mobs tend either scoff off or be completely immune to stuns most the time and shield stance is far too short for such a huge cooldown. Offhand Mace is nice, but a line-AoE is not my style. Warriors don’t have any great tools to force enemies to clump up, making it hard to fully utilize offhand Mace’s stun. On the other hand, offhand Axe’s huge radius and 360 degree AoE allows it to minimize this weakness.
I run a full healing/leech build and I’ve had great success with it.
Link: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcRzzo9coRNamoRNam0pfx0VkmoRb
Dual axes because both 2 and 4 hit twice per attack and 5 hits a very wide area very fast over a decent amount of time.
I use Power/Tough/Vit armor with Prec/Power/Tough orbs due to lack of gold. (I’d prefer to upgrade it to Knight armor, not bothering looking at rune options til I can get that much.) Knight jewelry and weapons. Sigil of Blood and Accuracy in weapons.
The most important part of my build is Omnomberry Pie, which grants 66% chance to steal ~350 life on crit. It doesn’t sound like much, but it does not have a cooldown, and coupled with dual axes rapid attacks and wide AoE it can generate a large amount of healing. This allows me to use Precision as a defensive stat, keeping my DPS competitive while remaining very tanky.
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Male Charr says “Kill ’em all!” when fury is applied.