Guild Wars 2

So for almost a year I’ve been playing, and on and off doing sPvP with my guardian and Mesmer. I do fantastic with my mesmer as a shatter condition build focused around confusion, and torment.

My problem is, that my mesmer by far, seems to out survive my guardian, even when he is taking damage.

I’ve sat here, and I’ve tried every amulet, literally every rune, readily available in sPvP, every sigil, and virtually if not every trait combo I can find, or have thought of myself, Yet I cannot seem to achieve the effect I see a lot of other guardians doing, where they take little to no damage in a direct 1v1 fight, but are still able to hit with devastating force.

Time and time again, I’ve tried searching for guides, but since the feature pack, all of them are highly out of date, as a lot of the traits have been replaced, or just overhauled, to the point the calculators have empty slots, because the sites updated, but not the builds posted by people.

So now I’m here asking for help on how to pull this off. If ABkittenELY possible, I’d love to avoid just being another GS guardian in sPvP, but if it’s the road I have to go, then so be it.

two options

Bunker for sustain but no dmg
Medi for burst dmg but no sustain

Or these two options:

Glass cannon burning
Spirit Weapon burst

But the current Engi/Necro meta has really put Guards in a bad spot, there isn’t enough condi removal in our set to deal with that kind of dmg right now.

Actually there is a really fun build using the first trait line XIII trait. You basically just play defensively while passively burning everyone around you to death. I can post the exact build on here later when I get home. But with the build you can easily take on three enemies solo.

No guard build can easily take on three decent players so don’t hype up a “god build” for the OP…

As to your answer, there are many builds for a guard. Bunker, glass burst meditations x/6/6/x/x, glass meditations with better sustain 2/1/6/1/4, and many celestial variations that optimize sustain and outpu. If you tinker the celestial setup you can find a nice middle ground to suit your play style with a nice stat balance.

Medi is 2/5/6/0/1 T_T