Guild Wars 2

Syn Sity.5826:

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Nikaido.3457:

mkaito.6981:

Everyone is DPS. There are no other roles in this game.

Or you can be a “staff guardian” and act like the in game equivalent of a flowerpot, useless, just standing in the corner of a room.

I might actually post “No-Guardians” on my lfg.. at this point I’d rather have condition necromancers..

You really don’t know what a guardian can do then. It is unfortunate for you that you’ve been paired with guardians that want to see big numbers rather excel at what they do best.

When i play guardian things I can personally guarantee;
No one will ever get one shotted by crusher
No one will ever fall during uncategorized fractal
No one will ever get poison blossomed to death/knocked down/dumped on in twilight.
No grawl will get through on fire shaman
no one will ever have more than 2 conditions for 10 seconds
stacking will work 90% of the time
everyone will have 12 stack of might/10 vulnerability when you need dps
bosses will be blind on their major attack

These are just what comes to mind. A good guardian won’t do much damage, but that is not their purpose. A good guardian can pretty much ensure no one ever dies unnecessarily. To list lfg-no guardians- is the most asinine thing to say. No other profession can bring this much to the table in one build with adjusting traits according to the environment.

The irony of this post is incredible.

Agreed!

Thanks for testing this.

Is it safe to assume that the 8% dps difference will scale up with higher precision, due to sharper images? My Phantasm crit chance is at 85% with foods up and caps out with Precision stacks and Banner of Discipline. I’m running 10/20/0/25/15 with s/f – s/s for PvE.

For a duelist buid, I’ve been considering 0/30/0/20/20 but I find it hard to justify the 30% Phantasm damage loss from traits. A better option might be 0/20/0/25/25 or 0/25/0/25/20 but the duelist cd will be at 16 sec compared to Swordsmans 12 as I prefer Blade Training over Duelist’s Discipline.

Worth it?