Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone.

I’d like to welcome you to my thread on Guardian Burst Damage. Firstly… whomever believes in this false pretence that anything lower than 17k-18k HP on a Guardian is a fail build please don’t read on. Your continued ignorance is really not progressive OR healthy. You can do anything damage orientated at 14k just as well or better with smart play! That and with casual play/hot join this build is good but you will get Zerg’d.

My explanation behind the (Updated) build:

Now in sPvP this build thrives when you run with a point defender/supportive team-mate. Let him/her run in and soak up the aggro from other players(He/her is your distraction) With that in mind, most people look to Guardians as defensive…they will not know what has hit them when you sneak in and burst them down.

Ok so you don’t always need that ally to assist you in fights, but there can be a timeline that you must burst your target down before some utilities simply run out, or in fact your enemies are back off cd. This build is more than capable of 1v1’s/2v1’s!

Whilst the choices in Zeal/Valor/Radiance are obvious, the 20 points in Virtues is an incredible god-send. Do NOT ignore these benefits when tweaking. You don’t need to tweak I’ve done that for you!

Rather than going in too much detail let me explain the way I “Rotate” my abilities..

Open with the GS. Do not use Judges Intervention immediately, this is your only break-stun. (However you can use this as a shock to tele to a squishie target and take them out of the fight early). Leap at your target and start with Binding Blade whilst activating VoC & VoJ & then pull in your targets to use Whirling Wrath.

Now you have just given yourself Protection/Stability/1.5k Burn/Retaliation and you are currently nuking down a whole team in a well placed pull. On top of this you can also use “Purging Flames” for condition removal and additional burn damage. You are now an AoE powerhouse!

If at any point you find yourself in trouble result back to your meditations and roughly a 4k heal. JI to get out of a sticky spot, and SC for condition removal.

Following this the enemy are going to know what you are capable of… by switching to your Sword/Torch you now get to apply the pressure on a single target! (One would hope it’s marked/already & low from your initial burst). Blink to you target and activate VoJ and use Zealots Defence for more burst. If your target is starting to range you use your torches 4th skill in hand with the whole 5th skill. What I mean by the whole 5th skill is that you have 10 ticks of damage that can vary between 1-5k a hit. Self explainitory really.

Well those are the essentials….

Here’s the build:

Build
*New updates to build (Not in Video)

Here’s my youtube channel of my Guardian Gameplay:
*I only have this footage of the build in use at present as it’s new to me, I hope to create a tutorial video very soon, and show you some in game footage of putting it to practice.

1080p on my Channel

Video

Thanks for taking the time to read. Constructive C/C welcome…I’m sure I have more explaining to do around the build. Please don’t jump on the flame-wagon straight away, at least test the build.

Wrong forum? Meant for Guardian one I think.

Build link is broken.

Now, I think Aodan already went over this nicely on Guru, so I won’t add any more.

gud bild dood. +6

http://tinyurl.com/aj6a2pb

I think I found the right link, so should be good for people.

(I got this one and tinyurl’d it from the same post made on gw2guru made by what I assume is the OP)

Hope that helps peeeps.

I’m using a10/30/30/0/0 – GS/Sword+Focus build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8dlYgiDnGSKEm4Eh1DCCQ/VVIeXPgoDbIA;TsAg0CnoQygkAJLSOkkItoYYxGCA

It’s kinda similar to yours but I go for radiance instead of Zeal, I find the zeal line is useless beyond 10points and radiance has some good options.
Right Hand Strength makes your sword a beast and you use the greatsword for leap,pull and whirlwind basically. Also since we are using a lot of blind abilities, “Blind Exposure” is a natural selection, which not only applies 3stacks of vurnerability for 5seconds,but allows us to have a condition on the opponent for the extra 10% damage from “Radiance Power”.

I use “Retreat” shout instead of “Stand your ground”,because we are slow as hell,but that is preference between mobility or stability. The speed also helps up with whirlwind to hit moving targets.

…edit: Wait a minute we got trolled by a necro.

Luvvo.3284:

Hello everyone.

Whilst the choices in Zeal/Valor/Radiance are obvious, the 20 points in Virtues is an incredible god-send.

I stopped reading after I saw Zeal trait tree picked up.

DaliIndica.9041:

http://tinyurl.com/aj6a2pb

I think I found the right link, so should be good for people.

(I got this one and tinyurl’d it from the same post made on gw2guru made by what I assume is the OP)

Hope that helps peeeps.

Focused mind is useless more or less.
Purity is always what you want to go. along with signet of resolve it provides so much condi removal you don’t have to worry for smite condition – so you can focus on using it to simply heal yourself nor keep for many stack of bleed

In case people haven’t seen, this thread was originally posted 3 months ago. Probably time to let it die again.

But I’m a necromancer… I bring dead things back to life <3