Guild Wars 2

hello everyone!

i have been playing a thief for a very long time but i feel like playing a guardian for WvW and I want to know a proper build thats tanky and good for zerging (Primary focus) but also puts a fair fight in roaming (Secondary focus) as well, any advise will be great!
I have my primary focus on GS and Mace/Shield but can anyone enlighten me on other weapon set tanky builds?

Staff and hammer, over 1k healing power, stamina sigils and you are good to go.

Junkpile.7439:

Staff and hammer, over 1k healing power, stamina sigils and you are good to go.

reduced cd on shouts and soldier runes and cleanse on shouts.

eithinan.9841:

reduced cd on shouts and soldier runes and cleanse on shouts.

I run this, it’s a blast. In the current meta, condition removal is huge.

For utilities, I use Regen/prot shout, stability shout and one other shout that varies – Retreat for swiftness is what I mainly use, although I switch to stability field for major keep fights.

Party up with the commander on the map and stick to him like glue. You will keep him moving and alive. If he has good movement in combat you will farm bags all day long.

You can do like this build its a healing build with hammer and staff and soldier rune so shouts will remove conditions.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJASWlUg67WFSLEf4ESmCRCBxegRZUHdpwhSIA-j0CBYLgoNCyE1Q0HAZRFRjtyqIas6FY6SRWpSI1jTa2lQIFA-w

thanks guys for the advise!

i came up with a build but dunno if i should put it in place: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJARWlYgqCnFyvDf4ERVh4h9AjZsjXPcYCZIA-jkCBIjAoNQEEQUBAZPCjJQKqVWFRjVZDT9iIq2guIa1SBcxYA-w

its focused on dmg and armor for zerging but no crit chance, is that a bad thing? any thoughts on this? thanks!

TuBrown.4510:

thanks guys for the advise!

i came up with a build but dunno if i should put it in place: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJARWlYgqCnFyvDf4ERVh4h9AjZsjXPcYCZIA-jkCBIjAoNQEEQUBAZPCjJQKqVWFRjVZDT9iIq2guIa1SBcxYA-w

its focused on dmg and armor for zerging but no crit chance, is that a bad thing? any thoughts on this? thanks!

I would suggest you switch your rings and pants to knights and you’ll get a lot more precision. You can also take the minor valor trait to convert some toughness to precision. And energy sigils definitely. Also I would suggest either 10 in radiance reduced recharge on signets (your heal) or 5 in precision and 5 in virtues for the extra boons on your F1-3 skills (synergizes well with altruistic healing). Be careful with save yourselves, it can be great to save your team but you can also kill yourself with it lol. You can take sanctuary and put 10 in virtues for recharge and longer sanctuary. Purging flames is also nice.

TuBrown.4510:

I want to know a proper build thats tanky and good for zerging (Primary focus) but also puts a fair fight in roaming (Secondary focus) as well, any advise will be great!

Well, you can’t have both.

AH is the only WvW zergy spec. Other specs are not tanky/not tanky enough.

TuBrown.4510:

hello everyone!

i have been playing a thief for a very long time but i feel like playing a guardian for WvW and I want to know a proper build thats tanky and good for zerging (Primary focus) but also puts a fair fight in roaming (Secondary focus) as well, any advise will be great!
I have my primary focus on GS and Mace/Shield but can anyone enlighten me on other weapon set tanky builds?

You can’t have both in the same spec. Bunker/support zerg builds are focused around triple shouts with soldier runes and honor 30 PoV, and lots and lots of vitality and toughness. They are ridiculously effective in the current meta, and if you’re following a commander who knows what he’s doing you’ll farm bags all day long (staff 1 for the win, that thing tags just about everything on screen), but they also happen to be utterly terrible for roaming, especially solo, where you need movement (so sword 2 + JI) and a lot more dps to burst down people, and where the triple meditation build is a much safer bet.

There are other possibilities as well but you really need to know what the hell you’re doing for those other ones to work at all, so I’ll let better players than me do the talking on them.

yeah looking back i was thinking that you can’t be spec’d for both i just want to follow my commander and be a hella lot tanky, im thinking of adding a sigil of momentum to test a more tanky build with a GS/staff. But so far thanks for the advise everyone!

Only video you need to watch about being a guardian in a zerg.

I really hope that they nerf staff. Is’t most boring, annoying weapon in the game and animations make me puke, but i have to use it because it give so much loot.

Why don’t you post this in the guardian section of the forums?

In fact, if you went there now you may already have answers to this question.