Guild Wars 2

Something else to keep in mind w/ Greatsword and Condition effects is your combos. If you use 2, your symbol creates a field of light, and your 3 whirl will remove conditions. As long as you get used to symbol before whirl, you’ll just naturally drop conditions.

I recently hit 80 with a guardian, but my focus was generally on support not specifically efficiency in solo PvE. Either way, killing things in PvE, a greatsword is going to be your friend, and valor traits will help you out in that regard as well, giving you more damage, and allowing your greatsword to heal you.

While we do burning damage I think for the most part condition damage is one of the least desirable stats.

The power of the greatsword is in AoE, so you need to be able to survive about 3 targets at once, so you can’t skimp on your defensive abilities. For defense I’d say either focus on Toughness/Vitality if you’re going full out offensive, or Toughness/Healing if you’re mixing in some healing utility. You’re almost always going to find power on some kind of gear, even Cleric’s gear is Power/Toughness/Healing, but you can mix it up to suit your play style.

Don’t worry too much about your trait choices, each time you buy a new book they reset for free, so at 40/60 you can re-evaluate with what you’ve learned.

As a disclaimer, you’ll see everywhere that almost everything is opinion/playstyle based, and it’s true, though if you aim for a certain goal there are going to be better choices, but with a little thought, most are obvious. Stacking healing isn’t going to make you kill things faster, etc.