Guild Wars 2

I know I know, there is NO true tank in this game…

I saw a Vid of a Guard who could solo Kholer

Could a War pull this off? I have my Guard to 40 but the lack of ranged ( And the fact that I did not pick a HUGE CHARR ) bothers me….So im not even 100% sure how a War gets its Heals ( Making them able to tank? )

My warrior can solo face tank Kholer, it’s slow and painful but very much do able. The chosen race makes no difference as most race specific abilities are rubbish anyway.

I’m lvl 80 with full exotic Power/Vit/Tough equipment (only the rare jewellery though). For Kholer I use mace/shield x longbow to help get him away from his allies. For skills I drop a banner of defense and banner of tactics at the bottom of the stairs leading up to Kholer, slightly around the corner (the distance at which Kholer will attack but his allies will leave/be distracted by the NPC), I do this before starting the battle, allowing enough regen to last as I pull him down (you cop a bit of a beating from his allies especially if there’s a ranger in there, also do note he usually opens up with the spin pull fairly early.)

As far as traits go, I’ve gone 10/0/30/30/0 from memory. With 50% falling damage (not really relevant for Kholer.) can’t remember exactly where they go but I’ve gone with: banner cooldown reduction, mace skill cooldown reduction, shield skill cooldown reduction, shout cooldown reduction, healing banners, oh and turtles defense. For skills I use healing signet, banners of defense and tactics as mentioned above, elite skill is usually signet of rage. The third utility skill can really be anything, I usually go with For Great Justice to try and speed up the battle. Sorry I’m all over the place here, I’ve got runes of the dolyak as well for bit of added regen.

As far as the method goes, you’ll get a knack for learning the order of his attacks, one inflicting poison you will want to counter/block to not cripple your regen. One attack will cripple which you WANT him to land to utilise turtles defense. There’s one unblock able attack which you don’t want to waste a counter or block on. And of course the almighty wire spin, which counter can avoid the wire as you casually walk out of range, block can last the entire spin, or just dodge.

On a side note its the passive regen saving you, combination of banners/healing signet/adrenal healing (don’t waste your adrenalin, keep it at full)/rune of the dolyak.

I find that as the battle goes on he seems to do less and less damage, where I mostly go AFK and tap 5 when he goes to do the wire spin. Hope this gave you an idea of what the warrior is capable of

Possibly, He was only using 2 heals, his main heal (which is a very nice heal btw) and the regen buff from the Save Yourselves shout. The signet he was using does have the passive effect of reducing incoming damage, but the most interesting choice was the fact he was using a hammer, which is generally a CC weapon and mostly considered useful for pvp. A mace/shield or mace/focus would have mitigated a lot more damage and offered a lot more healing. I would love to have been able to see his spec. All in all though, with his weapon and skill choices, that’s not nearly as tough as you can make a guardian.

They were using an Altruistic Healing build (heal yourself when you apply a boon), and the hammer auto-attack chain creates a protection applying symbol which then gives near (if not) constant protection as well as healing you a bit as it keeps reapplying, and you can use the No. 2 to apply retaliation while damaging. They could have been using healing symbols as well, but I only watched a little bit.