Guild Wars 2

Hey Guys, thought id open this thread to share some of our favourite attack sequences/strategies in a PvP and WvW setting. I currently wear full knights gear/soldier runes and serker trinkets. Main weapon is hammer with sword/focus offhand. I absolutely love this attack chain! If you get it off successfully, a glass cannon thief will be dead half way through and most other medium to tankier (depending on what class, this works great vs. an off guard ele.) classes will be down to about 1/2 life or so depending.

Utility Skills:
-Judges intervention
-Save Yourself
-Stand your Ground

Step 1: While walking towards your target, you start with the #4 skill on the hammer. You don’t even need to be next to the player and it comes as more of a surprise if you’re not. Midway through casting Banish you cast Judges Intervention. Its instant so it wont break the channel of the banish. Starts off with a nice little CC and some burnt toast (i know a lot of you already use this and know about it).

Step 2: If you connect with the Banish, cast Save Yourself and and hit #2 on your hammer (Mighty Blast). This will close the gap previously created by the opener.

Step 3: Hit #3 on the hammer, this is the next CC of the chain. You should be able to get this off JUST as they come around from the banish.

Step 4: Switch to Sword/Focus, hit #3 and get the entire duration of that sword attack with no worries of dodging. Most of the time the GC thief is dead by this point.

Step 5: Hit F1 and give yourself some fire power (and might as traited) and start swinging your sword like a mad man. If your aegis isn’t popped yet, let them hit you first to absorb the first shot. Next is #5 on the Focus (Note that if you hit #5 first when aegis is still up, BOTH aegis and a tick of your shield get absorbed). Chances are if they survived this chain they’re going to be dodging away from you ASAP so the shield’s up button is always nice, and if they don’t turn and fire the shield does some pretty decent damage.

Step 6: As mentioned above, the first thing most classes will do in a panic is blow their dodges to get the hell away from you. Let them, and pop #2 on sword to gap close and blind. Take a couple more swings as you feel fit.

Step 7: The moment your getting the target close to death or need a gap closer, switch to hammer for another mighty blast.

I feel that the transition of this attack cycle is really smooth and well timed with each other. Against someone who doesn’t see the first 2 CC’s coming you can deal a ton of damage in little time which swings the fight in your favour quite heavily. In WvW camp sites/small group fights, and PvP nodes, its sometimes nice to be able to banish a player further from his team mates to isolate him down. You can also really utilize some “on swap” sigils in your focus while retaining the ability to put something a little more useful on your sword (sigil of air works nicely).

Give it a try, tons of fun!

I am using exactly these weapons, but flailing about randomly. This is just what I need to get more effective. Thanks!

What build are you using for this Dirty?

Hammer AH Build, I’m favouring Judge’s Intervention midway through Hammer #5. Then Banish, #3 Hammer then the #1 chain into Mighy Leap. OP’s chain looks a lot more thought out in 1v1, and I’ll look into it, but working on the fringes of tower attack/defence battles this tends to set me up well enough (I tend to work more on a support role, and pick off those enemies who try to sneak into flanks etc)

I did have particular success with my ‘chain’ in a 1v1 against a Mesmer who was camping the road out of our Borderland keep though. He was spamming laugh emotes at every one of our realm who tried to get past solo – so I went to /sleep in the road – triggering Hammer #5 and JI from a prone position put a dent in his ego.

The build you choose highly situational and depends on how you feel like playing. Personally, I play 0/30/30/10 Monk Focus build and sometimes swap out Stand Your Ground with Smite Condition for added healing/condition removal. AH Build still is very strong if you chose to run with the zerg as will get the healing from your group, but in smaller roaming groups I feel you will gain more out of the MF build. Another nice point is that you get a blind with Virtue of Justice in the radiance tree so time your ViJ well as an added defence tool.

Radiance tree:
Slot 1: use II or VI, depending if you want a faster heal or added vulnerability for more offensive power. I personally use VI for the aggression.
Slot 2: use IV, adds fury on fire (your opener), for more aggression.
Slot 3: XI right handed strength to buff up your sword attacks in the chain.

Valor Tree:
Slot 1: I use I, Meditation mastery to get get more JI, more Smite Condition, and more Heals for you
Slot 2: Its a toss up between purity and retributive armor. I personally use VI for more precision (im pretty offensive if you havent noticed :P).
Slot 3: XII Monks Focus, no competition

Honor Tree:
Slot 1: Use I or VI depending if you want added heal on or retaliation on aegis break. I choose retaliation.

A general note: I find that “support built” guardians are extremely weakened in a wvw setting now as your big heals only affect up to 5 people. Support comes in the form of wall of reflection, sanctuary (for hallways and sieges), staff empower, etc and can be done even if you are speced in an offensive manner by switch when the time is right. But yea you get tons of survivability pre-built in as a guardian so i really like playing aggressively. Just my personal preference

Yeah, healing support guardian is gone imo.

Hammer immobilize on an unsuspecting opponent, attempt Ring of Warding, if it works use Banish and Mighty Blow, switch to greatsword and do Whirling and Binding Blade. If I can pull them I can usually finish them with auto-attacks or close the gap with Leap of Faith. I usually chill the opponent at some point with the hammer which helps.

Relatively easy stuff to pull off in midst of the usual WvW chaos. Not necessarily in 1 on 1 situations though.