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Boon (Retaliation) Duration?


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I'm currently working on a Retaliation build for my Guardian, so that I can play a supportive DPS with my friends. I was wondering, is 100% Boon Duration plausable, and even worth it? Considering Guardians gain +50 Crit Chance and +250 Ferocity from Retaliation, is it possible to have retaliation 100% uptime? (I already have 96% Crit Chance with Sigil of Accuracy, 81% Chance if I choose to run Greatsword instead of Sword/Torch + Axe/Shield).

Is there an Armor Set/Mix that gives Power, Ferocity, (preferably) Toughness and Boon Duration? Toughness because one of my masteries gives Power based on Toughness. I really like Tanky builds, and with Wanderer, I can get to about 166% Crit Damage with 70% Boon Duration, but I'm stuck. Please help! I really want to make an interesting Radiant Firebrand Guardian.

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You can essentially take the radiant hammer build from metabattle's pvp section and tweak it for pve. Realistically you don't actually need 100% retaliation uptime because there'll be very rare situations where you are actually in combat 100% of the time. You have a plethora of ways to get retaliation so just use that to pad up your critical chance while in combat. You can get 100% without sigils already. 50 from retaliation, 15 from one hand strength, 10 from burning targets, 5 from base (even though it says 4) and 20 from fury (meditations makes this easy)

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You don't need any boon duration for a perma-retal Firebrand.

Using the Greatsword symbol, Hallowed Ground and the elite mantra is already almost 94% uptime. Then, you can pick Healer's Retribution or take the Virtues traitline (+25% retaliation duration as a minor trait) for 100% uptime.

As for your crit chance, you have 5% base, Radiance gives you 60%, a berserker Greatsword with Sigil of Accuracy is another 15%, for a total of 80%. With fury, you have 100% crit chance.

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Oh, it looks like I was mistaken, I forgot to calculate the 10% from attacking a burning foe (Considering how easy it is to do with Guardian) from Radiance. So considering that's 5% base + 60% Radiance +7% Accuracy, +20% Fury = 92% Crit Chance, which should be easy to push into 100%.

So, for armor base stats, I guess Valkery Armor? or a Mix of Valk with Cavalier?

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