The problem is, Crit Damage is the most optimal choice in terms of stat point costs for Ascended trinkets. So I’d rather go with Cavalier Ascended trinkets, Soldiers/Sentinels everywhere else, and completely sacrifice Precision, which you can get from Traits, Sigils, Boons, and Buffs instead.
Yep, well aware of how crit damage optimisation works. I think you are missing my point (which admittedly I didn’t make very well
). What I am saying is you that when you try to put crit damage and precision into a tank build you are turning it into a balanced build. That is the answer to your question of “why are T1 warriors are tougher than me?”. Answer: You are doing balanced (partial tank) and they are doing full tank.
Try this: http://goo.gl/cojkHW
(also use a bloodlust stacking weapon)Not sure how accurate intothemists.com is (and I’m not near my gw2 PC) – but that ends up with:
Health 28712
Armor 3290
Attack 3423 (not including Bloodlust stacking)
Critical Hit 4% (i.e., zero extra precision)
Critical Damage 15% (incidental)
Condition Duration (self) -65%
Stun Duration (self) -30%
Healing Power 300
Boon Duration 10%
Burst Recharge 15% (incidental)
Condition Duration 15% (incidental)Apart from traits, everything involves stacking power, toughness and vitality in some form – then the build focuses on stun reduction, conditon reduction and dodging.
You have 3 stunbreakers (my favourite is Stomp), banner for rezzing the downies and buffing your team mates, 20% stability uptime and lots of dodges. F1 skill and weapon swap give 50% endurance return (extra dodge) and the two stances are giving you 8 seconds vigor. You have Blast finishers (stomp, warhorn 5) for water and lightning fields.
Sigil of Restoration is constantly healing you while people in the enemy zerg (that you have tagged) are being finished. That sigil keeps your sustain really high.
I haven’t had time to test the Healing Signet after the buff so I’m not sure if that would be a better replacement for Healing Surge.
This really depends on guild comp. If you have, say, 5 Wars and 5 Guards in your frontline, all running Soldier Runes, that’s more effective condition removal than Melandru + Lemongrass Poultry Soup.
But if on the other hand you run solo a lot, or with pug/militia zergs, or guild groups that don’t require specific builds, then Melandru + Soup + Dogged March + Cleansing Ire is a better option for dealing with conditions.
I think shout heal builds are better in PUG groups to keep the PUGs from dying. Guildies generally can look after themselves.
Melandru does stun duration reductions in addition to conditon reduction. In a T1 zerg ball the amount of warriors doing Earthshaker is usually off the scale. Reducing those stuns to nearly nothing makes a big difference to not getting steam rolled by the hammer train.
Even if you ignore the stun duration, then look at what you give up for that condition cleansing – it will be 1 to 3 utility slots taken up with shouts (depending on how many shouts each warrior runs) on all 5 of your guild’s warriors. Running Melandru means you can now get rid of your shout utility skill(s) and shout traits and put something better than a shout in its place.
You can also replace the shout traits with something useful.
Imagine your 5 condi clearing warriors now running Stomp.
Bodies flying everywhere while they use perma vigor to dodge the hammer train.
you’ve got it
the argument between melandrus and soldiers/shout build is basically settled in the fact that the shout build is made for higher sustain/con clearing. but you are basically immune to condis with melandrus, thus you can take more useful utilities like higher stability uptime or stomp.
especially with the buffed heal signet, you dont really need the burst healing from shouts anymore if you’re built right.
I guess so. But i’m still going to be cautious of them from now on and just assume that they’re hostile. Better safe than sorry.
You should assume everyone is hostile, but don’t think that a guild would be more so because of two thieves at ganked you at some time on some day on some match-up.
I didn’t even fight back because I thought that maybe the other people there would be like “hey knock off the crap, we’re just hanging out”. But they didn’t seem like they would have listened anyway.
No, people that come to gank will not listen to their fellow players that tell them to stop. Why should they?
if people are having a duel or just hanging out, they butt in and then act like they’re awesome and dance on the corpse of the person they kill who usually doesn’t even fight back.
Dancing and jumping on corpses is kind of a thing on Maguuma. It doesn’t have to do with thinking we’re awesome (though we are), we know it enrages players and coaxes them to makes posts on the forums about it.
I’m sorry to hear that a couple of killjoys ruined your time, but that’s just a risk you take. For me, it’s worth it because I get to meet some pretty cool dudes.
oh u saucy wench u
As scary as it was to suddenly see 30+ Maguuma turn up those duels were great fun so thanks to all of you too! I (at least) hope we can do that again sometime.
I know I’ve a lot to learn especially going up against the Soldier [DERP] Mesmer that slaughtered me (white sylvari ele) a few times.
mist forming right when fight starts probably not the best idea