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Like I said it all depends on the next up date because I haven’t finished leveling my guardian up, but anymore advice on this subject is welcome and thank you to those who contributed!
Okay, I redid my build. Tell me what you guys think…
I looked over everyone’s suggestions. I appreciate the feedback and I feel that I should have outlined what I wanted from my guardian. Also, this build might change drastically depending on the next Halloween/trait update on the 15th. Anyway this is what I wanted…
I don’t have much faith in healing power because I feel that it only means I get up from being downed more often. This is my first heavy armor character and I feel that I should emphasize more on toughness, therefore eliminating the need to get up at all. I’m not disillusioned to thinking I’ll be some super tank. But I am using the sigil of perception, which resets every time I go down (a problem I have with all my other characters). Not only that but also, I feel I’ll be more useful to a group if I can survive heavy damage. Groups depend on warriors and guardians to pick them back up and act as walking walls in dungeons. I want to be able to do this.
I also want to have a crit build over condition damage because all my characters already do that. I have an condition ele that I love playing and my ranger used to be condition until I decided to wipe that build and wait to see what the new update is bringing. So for this character I just wanted a crit build but I wasn’t sure how to balance the crit damage and precision with power. About where should my power and base damage be for a crit build.
Finally, I picked the SY and CoP utilities because I decided that for normal play it would be a great boon booster / survival balance and the Stand Your Ground is for group support, say for instance for AC or TA dungeon runs. However I do intend to switch out the CoP with Wall of Reflection when needed. That is why I went with the boon duration.
And about the previous comment on the “well rounded character” vs the “excelling at one thing” charcter, that is of course a matter of perception. Keep in mind that I do zero PvP and WvW. I play PvE exclusively for now. But I am not offended by any of the comments and I look forward to any and all further suggestions that take in to account all of the information I have just provided.
Can someone take a look at this Guardian build very carefully and point out any glaring flaws. I feel its balanced and unconventional. However, this would be my first guardian so…
Thanks all!