Guild Wars 2

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Hello, I’ve been quite a while away from gw2 and I came back within the latest update and when I saw those nice boost to radiance line I thought “why not”. So, I’m trying to create a new build for my guardian.

I know that “we should all run full berserker” and all, pls don’t kill me… But this build is not meant for raiding. I like to run around doing events, sometimes fractals and meta maps. So the purpose of this build is to create an hard to kill guardian with some group support and a good dps.

I tried this build in exotics and it seems to me that it’s working… but I’d like to hear from you what could I change to improve it.

About the build:

- shouts are my favourite utility skills and here have a triple function:
1) provide perma retailation which triggers many traits and gives us 70% crit chance without fury
2) remove conditions
3) give us a good uptime on protection and fury (with the trap it is 100% on fury)

- runes of durability are here because I wanted to give extra … durability… with some more prot uptime as well as vitality and toughness and the extra boon uptime was needed to keep the retailation uptime close to the cap (it is only 94% uptime without using the healing to proc it, though)

So that’s all, I guess. Thank you in advance for your input.

Yes, Zeal/Radiance/DH full zerker would have a higher damage output, using traps and the new (hopefully not bugged yet) Sword of Justice with signets.

But for fun (why would we play the game if we cannot get any fun?), I believe the Virtues line would be really interesting because you apply retal on virtues, retal time is increased by 25% and you can renew VoJ with radiance line. With this, you could achieve easier the perma retal and even drop one if not both shouts for something else.

So Virtues line instead of Honor would also give new option to condi removal and an extra stun break with traited virtues. Did you test this?

I made a similar build but with zeal/rad/DH.
I built it arround aegis and block, together with wrathful spirits you have actually a pretty good Retal uptime and pretty much permablock.
With virtues though you can achieve perma retaliation.

Thank you all for the help.

Mikau.6920:

Yes, Zeal/Radiance/DH full zerker would have a higher damage output, using traps and the new (hopefully not bugged yet) Sword of Justice with signets.

But for fun (why would we play the game if we cannot get any fun?), I believe the Virtues line would be really interesting because you apply retal on virtues, retal time is increased by 25% and you can renew VoJ with radiance line. With this, you could achieve easier the perma retal and even drop one if not both shouts for something else.

So Virtues line instead of Honor would also give new option to condi removal and an extra stun break with traited virtues. Did you test this?

Thank you for the imput. Virtues was my first choice in place of Honor but then I thought that with Virtues I’d had low condi removal (just f2).

Between, I have a question: how do you “survive” as guardian? I mean, the only way that I can think of when I want to “survive” are meditations and altruistic healing. Are there other ways to survive fights which involve a constant damage? (of course I’m talking about pve/fractal not raids)

Kjeldoran.3849:

Thank you all for the help.

Mikau.6920:

Yes, Zeal/Radiance/DH full zerker would have a higher damage output, using traps and the new (hopefully not bugged yet) Sword of Justice with signets.

But for fun (why would we play the game if we cannot get any fun?), I believe the Virtues line would be really interesting because you apply retal on virtues, retal time is increased by 25% and you can renew VoJ with radiance line. With this, you could achieve easier the perma retal and even drop one if not both shouts for something else.

So Virtues line instead of Honor would also give new option to condi removal and an extra stun break with traited virtues. Did you test this?

Thank you for the imput. Virtues was my first choice in place of Honor but then I thought that with Virtues I’d had low condi removal (just f2).

Between, I have a question: how do you “survive” as guardian? I mean, the only way that I can think of when I want to “survive” are meditations and altruistic healing. Are there other ways to survive fights which involve a constant damage? (of course I’m talking about pve/fractal not raids)

On fractals I just play full zerker with full damage traits (zeal/radiance/virtues) – except I use Hunter’s Determination instead of Zealot’s Aggression on DH. I don’t have problem with survivability on T4, I guess I’m used to the mechanics of the class and fractals (I only have problems on bad pugs, but its rare on T4).

On open world I don’t have any problem with that as well, except on open HoT maps, there I change all my trinkets to soldier (I can get one shot on full zerker) and change radiance to valor to help a bit more.

Kjeldoran.3849:

Thank you all for the help.

Mikau.6920:

Yes, Zeal/Radiance/DH full zerker would have a higher damage output, using traps and the new (hopefully not bugged yet) Sword of Justice with signets.

But for fun (why would we play the game if we cannot get any fun?), I believe the Virtues line would be really interesting because you apply retal on virtues, retal time is increased by 25% and you can renew VoJ with radiance line. With this, you could achieve easier the perma retal and even drop one if not both shouts for something else.

So Virtues line instead of Honor would also give new option to condi removal and an extra stun break with traited virtues. Did you test this?

Thank you for the imput. Virtues was my first choice in place of Honor but then I thought that with Virtues I’d had low condi removal (just f2).

Between, I have a question: how do you “survive” as guardian? I mean, the only way that I can think of when I want to “survive” are meditations and altruistic healing. Are there other ways to survive fights which involve a constant damage? (of course I’m talking about pve/fractal not raids)

I cannot speak about fractals or Raids, but open PvE. Mainly to kill champions on your own.
I use active defences of guardian. Blocks, aegis, the condi remove trait of DH, shelter, mace, focus etc etc.
Together with sword and procession of blades trap you can burst farely well with very strong defences.