Guild Wars 2

Hello, all

I recently built a 0/0/30(I,X,XII)/10(V)/30(II,IX,XII) Guardian with Sword/Shield+Greatsword, Barbarian Amulet. Using Shelter as a heal and Smite Condition, Contemplation of Purity and Merciful Intervention. Using Hoelbrak as my armor set and Superior Sigil of Purity on both weapon sets.

My aim with this build was to dish out a decent amount of damage, be able to sit in retaliation while giving some support to teammates. How does this fare against other Guardian builds? How could I tweak the build to make it better?

P.S.
I only play sPvP

Probably use lyssa runes instead of hoelbrak, they work very well with absolute resolution (you don’t have to spam elite immediately after cleanse). I don’t know about the purity runes tbh, you are losing a bit of DPS or could just use energy runes for an extra dodge, and you get a random cleanse every 10s if you are lucky.

Stability from virtue is generally better than stunbreak because it lets you stomp/revive, or just put those 10 points somewhere else, tons of great traits lying around.

Barbarian amulet is basically never used, because vitality is just not worth as much as the other stats. You should either just go zerk or soldiers (still decent DPS because of fury).

Otherwise this is the direction meditation builds are heading, we don’t need any points in radiance now that we can use 2 handers with fury from meditations. You might consider hammer instead of greatsword, but they are pretty similar without judges intervention

Well, I am well aware of the fact that Barbarian’s doesn’t provide nearly as much effective defense (and perhaps damage?) as Soldiers, but sitting at 35-40% crit chance instead of 4% seems like a great tradeoff to me since I am sitting at 30% crit damage. I’ve only played this build for a couple hours so I’ll try different setups and I will definitely look into Lyssa, especially with the +30% boon duration this build benefits from. Thanks!

If you’re traited that deep into Vitures, you’re better off going shouts then meds. Also Sigil of Purity is terrible because it can proc even when you don’t have a condition on you.

I’d say try something like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8elUgyCXFyvDf4ESOjVCBxPgRXPcoEihA-TsAg0CnIySllLLTWyssZNyYJyGCA

or this one

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8elUgyCXFyMEf4ESODRCBxPgRXPcoEihA-TsAg0CnIySllLLTWyssZNyYJyGCA

Harbinger.8637:

If you’re traited that deep into Vitures, you’re better off going shouts then meds. Also Sigil of Purity is terrible because it can proc even when you don’t have a condition on you.

I’d say try something like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8elUgyCXFyvDf4ESOjVCBxPgRXPcoEihA-TsAg0CnIySllLLTWyssZNyYJyGCA

or this one

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8elUgyCXFyMEf4ESODRCBxPgRXPcoEihA-TsAg0CnIySllLLTWyssZNyYJyGCA

I did try shouts but I feel like having three meditations on a 20% shorter cooldown gives me more survivability. I understand that having +30% boon duration makes shouts much more worthwhile, but I’d rather be able to have a couple condi cleansers + heal. Plus, I get 5 1/2 seconds fury per meditation which is pretty good for damage.

I got rid of Sigil of Purity and went with Superior Battle (3 stacks of might on swap) on GS, Sigil of Superior Accuracy on shield and Sigil of Superior Bloodlust on sword.

I think you are looking to run a symbol build. It sounds like something that is up your alley: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Silven-s-PvP-Guardian-Build-Guide/first

I run a staff, mace/focus version with a zerk amulet and jewel. I use SY instead of purging flames.

VoJ (I use justice is blind), Focus (Blind and 3 blocks), Shelter, Renewed focus are the main forms of defense.

You use this for point assault.