Guild Wars 2

This isnt a thread about how poor we are at ranged but a thread about the options we do have. If you want to complain about the ranged capability the door is —-————->

Thought it was time to discuss the validity and road map to get a ranged guardian.

I seen several of threads and posters asking for builds or advice to help them with the ranged guardian and personally i just hate caster classes.

As we all know we are lacking in that area but shame on me if i didnt try so i figured lets start a thread and see what people have to contribute with.

So for the past two weeks i been trying to find a setup that works in wvw and that is 100% ranged.

So weapons are obviously staff and scepter but the traits and gear i come up with is a bit different.

First of all there are some stuff that i found that dictates the build so lets start with those.
1. Ranged only is poor for roaming and small group game play. So we are talking about lemming trains or organized guild play.
2. When you focus on ranged the pressure is lower and you dont need as much survivability.
3. The condition preasure is considerably lower.

So what trait distribution did i end up with.
I picked 20 in zeal to get fiery wrath and 10% extra damage on the scepter.
25 in radiance to get 10% extra damage and since i ended up with mostly ranged utilities i actually invested in signets.
15 points in honor to get heal on dodge and larger symbol and 5 points in virtues since not taking them is just stupid in any build.

How did i end up playing this. Well after a couple of nights i found the pace and position this just behind the frontline and ranged it can actually do wonders. Just follow the pushers and lay down the symbol over the front (hence larger symbols) and inflict vulnerability and when you see a specific target you swap to scepter and chain lock them with knock back (signet) smite, root and 4 or 5 aa and ofc burst with torch 4.

If you are into ranged gameplay its worth a shot.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNArfWlYgqCHEyIEgIFRuAbGB0gVKin+wPoRA-jUCBYfBKRtIasVWFRjVNLQqawqkYKXJ1ceRz2zBVKA9EGB-w

Now what have you guys found out about playing the guardian as purely ranged?

Why going rune of soldier if you have only 1 shout? In my opinion there are better runes for your build.
Actually for roaming i would take a mediation build, as it gives you more survivibility and the damage is compareble.

Tome of wrath is probably our best ranged option. Our effective range is really around 600, beyond that it is difficult to land most of our ranged attacks, but at medium range we are pretty strong.

Our range is fine for pve, and I will be kitten ed as hell if they nerf our wand damage.

Guardian is balanced by having slow-moving projectiles.

On paper I’m not a fan of the build =/, but it may be effective in gameplay.

Concentrating on the Valor and Honor trees with a mix of zerker/valk gear is going to give you more damage and similar survivability. I understand the reasons for the zeal and radiance traits, but that 20% damage some of the time and 10% from using the scepter isn’t going to make up the damage and utility from 0/5/30/30/5 zerk/valk.

Just my 2 cents.