Guild Wars 2

So a friend just said he was dualing some 1 in wvw and a guarding jumped in and claimed that he hit my friend for almost 20k with 2.8k armour (mesmer). the only thing my friend really noticed was the whriling wrath emote skill (sceptor skill 2?) anyway is there some kind of bug or a really high dps guardian build that do 20k nearly instantly out there ?

Typical burst setups would combine focus “shield of wrath” with any of those mentioned abilities to provide another big hit.

What I can see happening in that scenario is at least 3 vulnerability, 3 might,
With that you get:
SoW + VoJ + Chains of Light + Smite + Leap + Smite Condition + WW = around 13k dmg
(if all smite strikes hit, which is almost never)

Add in 200% crit damage, you can get about 26k damage, if you are really lucky on all crits and smite strikes to land.

my #2 scepter average dmg hits like 8k dmg with 175% crit dmg.
2 AA until they reach (and then you JI) hit like 1.5k each so 3k
JI 2k
smite condition 2k
sow 4k (on 3k armor)
and burning 700 dps so average 6 seconds its 4k

Is your friend a real 80 with appropriate gear or are they up-scaled?

Outside of that, sword/focus, shield of wrath and wait for a few ticks while setting up target like CMF said. Then JI and it pops, then of course add in smite condition, swap over to GS, etc. You can down unexpected people rather quickly if the stars align and the RNG is kind to you. No difference than any other class though. And if you don’t down them, and they recover, it is a 50/50 chance you will die.

That is, my opinion, what makes the full zerk guardian build so interesting. It takes a bit of skill, usually intense when out numbered, and zergs, well, you just need to be careful. If I see a Guardian setting up a fight with shield of wrath I know their game and they will usually die.

Oh, there was a bug with spirit weapons for less than 24 hours and spirit weapons but this wouldn’t apply if this just happened. Several threads on crazy numbers using those

If your friend is on JQ/BG/SoS then that guardian may have been me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQjbQ4sphDs

SubHonour Guard.6498:

If your friend is on JQ/BG/SoS then that guardian may have been me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQjbQ4sphDs

Or the numerous other guardians who run full zerk on TC.

Back on topic though, a zerker gaurd can EASILY drop 20k in an opening combo. You don’t even need a greatsword, I do it with my hammer.
Shield of wrath (6-9k) + JI/Ring of Warding + Smite condition (1-4k) + Mighty blow (4-7k) + Zealots defense (6-9k)

Also keep in mind the guardian damage multiplying traits. I run unscathed contender and fiery wrath for an extra 30% damage on the initial hit. With Shield of wrath, they can’t break your aegis which gives 20% damage, and fiery wraths procs on JI which gives 10% damage. Blind exposure also adds 3% damage but I prefer to run Searing flames in that slot to strip stability for my ji + ring combo

SubHonour Guard.6498:

If your friend is on JQ/BG/SoS then that guardian may have been me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQjbQ4sphDs

What’s your build if I may ask? It seems very nice ^^

There’s several random builds in there that I was messing with but most of it is the PvE 4/5/0/0/5 that’s explained here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE

I wouldn’t recommend it for serious roaming.

Me killing svanir in 4 secs, sorry for the quality:

Hammer – Scepter Focus, best insta dps in my opinion. If you burst correctly you can kill any glass and balanced class with this burst (even some tanks).

If it was shield of wrath your friend saw, then there is an exploitable bug that has been around since launch that lets you do 20k+ damage with it, even against reasonable armoured classes ( although it’s not spammable, which is probably why anet never bothered to fix it ).