Guild Wars 2

I believe you would gain 10 skill points

The booster doesn’t increase the character experience you gain from crafting, it increases the chance of gaining extra crafting experience, meaning you hit the next tier with less mats and such

The strength of the omnomberry pie depends on your crit chance though. For high crit builds I’m sure it is fantastic

Though if you craft while under level 15 or so you may gain an extra level or two as the experience curve is different for the low levels.

the plus healing would give a tiny benefit, the condition removal would only apply when you use your #6 skill.

I personally use Mango Pie with my AH build, it brings my passive regen up to 200/s with virtue of resolve.

Niptease.8971:

Guardian 1 hand sword attack #3 is similar, if I am not mistaken.

The guardian skill only blocks ranged attacks, has a longer cooldown, and unless they’re right in your face (aka you can melee them) the projectiles tend to miss.

Zeal is a pretty meh trait line, especially Zealous Blade (It’s like a 25 point heal that is unaffected by healing power). You’ve got a lot invested into aegis but virtue of courage has a 90 second cooldown. I really think you’d be better served going with a 0/10/30/30/0 altruistic healing+shout build or something similar.

It’s been like that since launch

No it hasn’t, only difference is orbs have been removed, but 12-13k is still possible. I hit that high on PvE bosses which have more defense than most players in WvW.

dekyos.1548:

Yeah that engi video is old. I have a very similar build and only get crits of about 5k with grenade barrage, not the mythical 11-12k he was getting. I also play my engineer very well as I’m sure several JQ and SoS players can attest to. We don’t have a magic 2s kill button.

That being said, I don’t find the warrior’s instakill ability that big of a deal. They have to set you up for it and the build they do basically ruins everything else the class is actually good at. If they want to neuter themselves for cheap kills, won’t hurt my feelings.

Yes that engi video is old but grenade barrage has been buffed in WvW since then….

I just looked at the notes and it appears they fixed this typo. It now says that they prioritize players

You’ll have a lot more offensive stats (Power, Precision, Crit Damage) but less vitality in zerker PvE gear, as the SPvP zerker amulet has some vitality on it.

Using a Gear spreadsheet I calculated that using 100% knights gear and 5x one set of toughness rune, and 1x another, you’d have 2340 toughness (30 points in toughness line of course)

I’ve noticed that when I down an enemy using steal I don’t get an item as well.

Daecollo.9578:

“I was just killed by a team of operatives!”

Did they stunlock you until you unsubbed?

My main is a glass cannon thief and I thought I’d try something a bit different for my next toon. I thought perhaps a Guardian with a mix of Knight and Valkyrie gear would do the trick. This build will be primarily for WvW where I generally run around solo or in a small (8 or less) guild group.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJARSlYgSDHHSLEfIFRuA7DEETBGz41DIGxGC;TIALIGWA

Quick Overview:

0/15/30/20/5

Radiance: Signet Mastery
Valor: Meditation Mastery, Focused Mind, Monk’s Focus
Honor: Superior Aria, Two Handed Mastery

Greatsword/Hammer

Smite Condition
Judge’s Intervention
Hold the Line
Renewed Focus

The general idea is to use Virtue of Justice as much as possible to spread blind and to give allies might, while using Hold the Line to keep the group defensively buffed and using my meditations to keep myself healed.

As for gear, I’ve determined that Knight Armor (with Emerald Orbs, I’m not exactly Mr. Moneybags) with Valkyrie Jewellery and Knight Weapons would give me 1858 Power, 1538 Precision, 1446 Vit, 1794 Toughness, and +66% Critical Damage.
This equates to about a 33% critical chance and around 16.2k health (which would be buffed up with food)

Thanks in advance for your comments!

It depends. Surviving in zerg vs zerg combat is more about your positioning than your gear. If you get focused in a large fight you’re going to die. Zerker gear is favored here in my opinion (as are grenades with their 1500 range and aoe but they aren’t required as traited rifle has 1200 range just like most other professions). If you’re going to be roaming around more solo/small group you may want to mix in more toughness and vitality.

ColdSnowden.6071:

“5-6k grenade barrages”

Mine don’t seem to be anywhere near this powerful, am I missing something?

Also, I can’t seem to reproduce 4k hits using unload with my thief anymore, it was WvW and we may have had stonemist buffs, but that wouldn’t make that huge of a difference right? Now it seems my thief is hitting more like my engi, around 2k at most.

Full glass build on my engi (About 2600 power with 25 bloodlust stacks up and 93% crit damage) and the highest grenade barrage I’ve ever gotten in WvW was almost 17k. In dungeons (so orbs aren’t a factor) highest I’ve seen is around 14.5k