Guild Wars 2

Warlord.9074:

My opinion is I am upset that ANET caved to the complainers this time. What DNT did has absolutly no real world impact or in game impact on them. They don’t like somthing they read on twitter that had nothing to do about them boo hoo.

This is my opinion I grew up in a generation where we didn’t cry to get what we want if you did that you were called a wimp and were told to man up. Obviously people have the right to cry foul when something is not PC now. But I don’t think this is even in the same boat as PC. People just are bumhurt.

I wish ANET would listen more to its player base about other more important issues. Like PVP balance. State of warriors and Theifs. How unhappy people are with WvW right now. Instead they devote their time to caving to complaints like this. It’s sad its why this game is so bad.

We need to make America great again.

A senior member of DnT broke the spirit of the partnership with Anet and Anet decides to no longer continue formally associating with DnT?
Thanks Obama Anet.

Aim for Power, then POWER precision, then POWER precision ferocity, as they become available. That will give you the most bang for your buck as a DPS spec.

First off, there’s no reason to run anything but Zerker ever in PvE. In fact, considering I’m playing PvE, I may as well be on my warrior (or the one token mesmer) if I want to be truly optimal. But hey, I hate waiting an hour before finding a 100% optimized party, so I like doing things a little bit different to maybe keep my pugs alive.

In respects to the gear, the difference (in my super unoptimised test build of 0/15/30/20/5) between full Zerker and full Zealot’s is fairly massive in terms of how well I can heal. Zerker Selfless daring is 329 while zealot’s is 1043. That’s not negligible. Run a mace with Mace of Justice and it hops all the way to 1293 healing. Given the vigor uptime from the very high crit rate, a guardian can become a decent healbot. Each roll is about a 10% heal on myself, while the completely unnecessary number of blocks gives tons of leeway in preventing being one-shot. (Perhaps even more so than full PVT). I decided to run 30 valor for the crit dmg since I had to find some somewhere. The Altruistic Healing has been a fair amount of sustain thanks to the boons guardians throw around. It makes keeping above 90% health for scholor runes ridiculously easy. I’d say this new gear has made mace play interesting now, if nothing else.

When I swap back to my trusty sword, however, I become more conflicted. Those 1k healing rolls are still very respectable, in my opinion, but in using them, I have to drop either 5 in virtues, making Justice spamming a fair bit less effective, or drop valor by 5 (or even 10), further ruining my crit dmg while also wiping away that health buffer that makes keeping scholor active almost entirely effortless. It still manages to work well enough regardless, but wielding a sword just feels entirely more natural in a Zerker set.

So I was wondering how many (if any) of you have been testing out the new Zealot’s gear. At a glance, this new stat combo seems like something guardians can pretty uniquely utilize to keep a decent amount of DPS while really aiding their support capabilities. Have any of you created a build that takes advantage of this?