Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone,

How do Guardians perform with an appropriate build in Small Group Roaming?

When played competently etc. of course. I will be mainly duoing with a Thief friend of mine, and will be building quite tankily in order to be able to take a lot of the aggro when he stealths.

I’m still in the process of deciding between Thief and Guardian and I find Guardian to be better at everything apart from this, so I wanted all of you guys’ input

Many thanks.,
The Baws.

Perma-swiftness is a huge help in small group roaming, but this is a real weakness for Guardians.
If run with a group that can help you out with extra swiftness buffs, then Guardian is great for roaming.

The Baws.5164:

Hey everyone,

How do Guardians perform with an appropriate build in Small Group Roaming?

When played competently etc. of course. I will be mainly duoing with a Thief friend of mine, and will be building quite tankily in order to be able to take a lot of the aggro when he stealths.

I’m still in the process of deciding between Thief and Guardian and I find Guardian to be better at everything apart from this, so I wanted all of you guys’ input

Many thanks.,
The Baws.

Any thief would love his Guardian companion

When your thief friend goes invis you will get all the focus fire. When people see its a guardian and a thief they will probably give you most of the pressure.

I don’t have a guardian but I believe the popular roaming spec for guardian is healway build. As long as you are beefy enough you should be ok.

I would recommend grabbing the new Runes of the Traveler with its always on +25% movement speed. Unless there is another way for you to get perma swiftness then go with that.

A successful 5man needs 2 guardians that abuse the lack of boon duration nerf. Anything less than 2 guardians is just making it kitten your self.

Zenguy.6421:

Perma-swiftness is a huge help in small group roaming, but this is a real weakness for Guardians.
If run with a group that can help you out with extra swiftness buffs, then Guardian is great for roaming.

Guardians dealing with swiftness in a small group means it’s a small group.

You bring guardians for protection and stability. Leave the swiftness to the warrior in the group.

Just switch in and out your warhorn from your bag and stop being lazy.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHPXQTkR3jWIPwkSidQzuow/videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/Dustep1/videos
For 4-6 vs 12+ Staff + GS (eventually hammer) is way to go, focusing on healing power and a some precision/crit (since from group you will keep having great amount of stacks.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxDeepsGaming/videos Solo/duo/trio GS/Sword&Focus is way to go. Tankyness for outnumbered actions while you take damage and thief is free to burst people down.

Last night i duo roaming with a thief of my guild. That work really well.

I have a AH build, very tanky with good dps and good amount of healing power. I have a LOT of blinds, blocks, might stacks and condition removal trough shouts (PoV).

He play very tanky thief with condition damage. With a lot of blind and interrupt.

We can mitigate a lot of damage via blinds and blocks, i have a lot of healing to myself, and regeneration, if he is about to die i can nuke him with healing more than 50% of his health pool instantly.

We cant nuke someone, but they cant nuke us, and we have a LOT of sustainability. We win over time in most situations.