Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow Tyrians!

I’ve been playing guardian almost exclusively since headstart and I thought I’d share a build I came up with that I have found both very adaptable and very powerful.

This is build is a little on the defensive side so if you’d like bigger damage it would be wise to look elsewhere although this build does decent damage while remaining durable.

Here is the build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fUAQJASRlcgyCXGSKEmIFRuA7DAETBGh/1DKmQGC

Now I’ll explain why I put my point where i did.

15 in radiance:
this is mainly to buff Justice. Now our justice aoe blinds, causes vuln., and resets when we kill something.

30 points in valor:
5% toughness to precision is good, and aegis @ 50% health is good but the reason we take 30 points here is to make us tanky, do more crit damage and… HEAL WHEN WE APPLY BOONS. This is so powerful because these heals stack. So we apply protection to the whole party, we get healed 5 times. And this build makes spamming boons a priority.

20 points in honor:
We put points here to allow us to apply might and vigor when we crit. This makes every crit heal us. We also get better healing and vit from this tree.

5 points in virtues:
boons attached to our virtues (this makes justice spamming even better).

This build does not tie you to any weapons so you can use the best weapon for the situation. I find I like the hammer for control and also applying aoe boons with the blast finisher, and a dps counterpart which does rapid hits (more crits) this can be either gs or sw/torch or anything really. We take hold the line for the boons and retreat because aegis and swiftness are great. Purging flames is always a solid choice.

for gear I focus on toughness and precision, with some healing, vitality, and power.

Anyway tell me what you think, and sorry for the wall of text!

I use pretty close to this and with staff #4 am just about untouchable.

ya, staff also works well with this build. I find not limiting yourself to one set of weapons is very beneficial.

I’ve tried a build like this in SPvP and it didn’t seem very effective due to only healing for about 128 or so per Boon even with Cleric gem and Guardian Runes.

Yes you get a lot of those 128 ticks, but once you’ve activated all your shouts that’s it, and if you’re going Crit to proc the AoE Might, we can only get like 58% crit at most (not counting the 6 seconds of Fury once every 40ish seconds) and with that much crit you’re pretty susceptible to dying inside a stun.

The build I’ve had the most success with (though am getting bored of) uses Block on Burning, and all our weapons that can Block

Altruistic Healing is awesome, I’ve been using the same attribute point distribution for a while as well, just picking some slightly different traits. It’s more of a PvE build, but it does ok in WvW as well. I wouldn’t recommend it for sPvP though.

I use a similair build, but mine is slightly different.

build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fUAQNAR7dlYgyCXFSKEf4ERWhVi9AjZsjXPooDZIA

As im alrdy lvl 80 i dont rly solo a lot anymore. I usely do dungeons now, so i need a build for group. This build is based on using shouts, and with the last trait of honor my shouts also remove conditions and apply boons, thus giving me even more healing from a shout through altruisic healing.

The elite is pretty optional, i usely take my asuran attack robot elite. In some places a wall of reflection is nice to have. I swap it for stand your ground, and then switch the traith of vitues to VI

Also signet of resolve is the best, the passive is nice and its the best heal for the guardian.