Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I have never really played a guradian before but I’m interested in possibly playing a DPS/medi build and was wondering what you guys could suggest to me in terms of builds for this purpose.

Also, I need to either buy a new char slot or delete a character.

Hmm lets see, theres the mesmer I never play ever but I might again becuase its getting everything it ever wanted with the patch, my thief thats a muel but has 500 weaponsmithing, or my beloved necromancer that has legendary and 2 400 crafting skills, since the patch is utterly undwhelming towards it.

Sorry if I seem unhinged. I’m depressed and bitter about today’s skillbar and I feel both maimed and disillusioned inside.

Grind dungeons for a few days, sell everything and get a new character slot. The updates are not in yet anyway.
Gw2skills seem to be down.

Meditation Guard 21614 (+condi removal)
Fiery Wrath/Meditation Mastery/Focussed Mind/Monk’s Focus/Unscathed Contender/Absolute Resolution

Meditation Guard 25601 (+burn uptime +damage modifier)
Fiery Wrath/Inner Fire/Radiant Fire OR Powerful Blades (for sword)/Meditation Mastery/Focussed Mind/Monk’s Focus

Shelter (please use Shelter. SoR optimal healing range at 4k hp, can be one-shot/interrupted too easy)/Judge’s Intervention/Contemplation of Purity/Smite Condition/Renewed Focus
GS/Scepter Focus OR GS/Sword Focus
Fire/Air/Hydromancy choose.
Strength/Pirate/Ogre/Flame Legion/Pack/Traveler Runes
Full Zerk (for medi guard go zerk or go home. Your pressure is your sustain.)

Coming into fight instagib:
Focus 5 -> Scepter 3 (optional) -> Judge’s Intervention + GS 5 (optional) -> GS 2 -> Smite Condition (if condi present)
Use blinds and blocks to stay in melee range. GS 3 your only mobility and use it to LoS. Otherwise please stick on target. Guards have no disengage so it’s win, or die horribly.

Ralkuth.1456:

Full Zerk (for medi guard go zerk or go home. Your pressure is your sustain.)

That’s a terrible idea. Go 6 in radiance and get RHS so that you can run valk gear instead, and actually have a decent amount of survivability.

I run a 2/6/6/0/0 myself, but those two in zeal can go anywhere you see fit really. 0/6/6/1/1 and 0/6/6/0/2 are both good as well. Sword/focus is a necessity as your primary weapon set, while your secondary can be either GS, hammer, or scepter/torch. Both shelter and signet are good for heals; you can use VoC to give yourself aegis while healing with signet so it’s really just a matter of whether you want the lower cooldown or the larger heal. I run air and energy sigils on both my weapon sets, however fire, doom, hydromancy, and ice are all good choices as well. As for runes, unfortunately the movement speed boost from traveler’s runes is almost a necessity if you want to be able to keep up with anyone, as your mobility is quite limited. If you find that you can manage okay without it though, strength, hoelbrak, pack, or privateer are also excellent choices.

For playing it, it’s pretty straightforward. Stick to your enemy the best you can and try to unload your damage as quickly as possible. Open up with JI to give yourself fury and surprise the enemy, and use smite condition whenever you have a condition on and you’re in melee range.