Guild Wars 2

Burn Guardian for Raids

This is a burn guardian for raids. I managed 17.2k dps on a medium hp golem fully loaded with conditions, without food, and with the realistic buffs (as defined by qT) shown in the screenshot.

The basic rotation is you stay in sword for 2 Symbol of Blades, but in Scepter for 3 Symbol of Punishments using Purging Flames and Zealot’s Flame while off CD.

With Food, it should be competitive with the other condi builds or meta Guard Builds considering it can also get another 5k damage in burning for each additional enemy cleaved by Permeating Wrath. This makes it ideal for bosses with some amount of Adds, such as Gors, Sab, Sloth, or Xera.

Unfortunately this doesn’t compare to zerker guard DPS. Really wish they would buff burn guard.

This is without food. Those numbers from qT are with Best in slot food.

Plus you are ignoring the affects of Permeating Wrath. For every extra enemy you cleave, your burn damage will increase by 4-5k. So at 2 adds, you will be dead even with the power builds. At 3 adds, you will pull head and be competing with DD and Necs with epi. At 4-5, you will not get as large of increase since your sword aas only hit up to 3, but your symbols will trigger extra procs. So situationally, this could be the highest damage in pve.

Except you’re rarely going to have an opportunity to take advantage of Permeating Wrath. Believe me, I was one of the first on the condi guard hype train leading to HoT, I have a full set of ascended vipers gear sitting in my bank that never gets used anymore. Burn Guard doesn’t work, and it pains me to say that just as much as it pains you to hear it.

Anything below 25k dps is not viable

Westwater.1095:

Unfortunately this doesn’t compare to zerker guard DPS. Really wish they would buff burn guard.

they need to fix SW, would be cool to have a burn build with decent SW…