Guild Wars 2

I’m sorry for intruding in the pvp forum about this but I asked my fellow guards and they were too busy focusing on DH. Just want to know about any new bunker builds since HoT release. I’ve tried many but without minstrel I fear I’ll have to change the build drastically just to stay alive. All ideas are welcome. I also don’t want this to turn into a minstrel conversation. We need to find how to go around it since apparently support it unhealthy for the game. (pointing at you druids. I guess our classes switched spots eh?) Please help teh sad bunker.

the whole Core guard is outdated……

just my opinion

Zoltreez.6435:

the whole Core guard is outdated……

just my opinion

More or less.

Each of the core trait lines has numerous major and minor traits that could stand to be shuffled around & or merged.

Some traits also feel like they are in the wrong line.
Also a decent number of traits make it so you want to either use certain abilities every Cd possible or never use them to take advantage of passives.

Sadly I think karl will never address this as he has on numerous occasions confused different abilities/traits with each other and shown via posts that he has no idea certain problems exist with the core design (such as hammer/mace constantly overriding combo fields, sword AA often missing etc…)

Only solution is to run druid IMO. The elite specs are basically ANET shuffling around specs that already existed in core and giving them a twist. If your major issue is health pool related, just go druid. Stack up on aoe CC to make up for lack of boonsharing and you’ll be golden for soloQ. I’m not sure how druids are faring now in comp after the minstrel removal.

SlayerSixx.5763:

Only solution is to run druid IMO. The elite specs are basically ANET shuffling around specs that already existed in core and giving them a twist. If your major issue is health pool related, just go druid. Stack up on aoe CC to make up for lack of boonsharing and you’ll be golden for soloQ. I’m not sure how druids are faring now in comp after the minstrel removal.

Bunker druid is actually still doing decent, much better then guard at any rate.

Mainly because they don’t have to sacrifice practically all their damage to bunker.

I have been trying it with Apoc gear lately & using either short bow or sword/torch as my offset then using glyph, protect me trap or glyph, protect me, sun spirit. (just hide the spirit behind a corner).

The pressure it can output is still pretty nice but the healing & condi cleanse is amazing.

So no actual builds or ideas?

Try this bad boy out http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Druid_-_Celestial_Avatar

Timston.1976:

So no actual builds or ideas?

The only bunk guard build is the same one as pre-HoT. The only real thing you might want to look at is maybe taking Force of Will over Pure of Voice, simply too alleviate the HP issue. Granted this does cost you a ton of condi cleanses, so you might want to shuffle that depending on enemy comp.