Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow guardians,

Im looking for advice on building my GS/Hammer guardian, oriented on PVE/Fractals. I tried a lot of combinations and builds but sw+f/sw+torch not seems to fit with my playstyle.

I would like any advice about this combination GS/Hammer and it its viable on high end fractals pve

Thx in advance for help

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

Read that. Obal has his hammer build in there. Hammer is useful in high level fractals for its perma protection. Outside of that, the weapon is very lacking in dungeons, since higher damage is preferred over protection. But if you in a terribad group, the protection can be nice.

I don’t remember what obal’s switch weapon is for his hammer build, but generally if you running hammer its for the protection, so you don’t switch off it much. But using his build as a basis, you can figure out your own style.

Thx for reply mate.

I have read his amazing guide but he combines Gs or Hammer with Sw+Focus mostly, so Im not sure if his builds will fit in GS/Hammer build that is what im searching for

For fractals you mainly stick to hammer since the whole reason to run the build is perma prot. The thing that changes is the weapon swap.

For things like dredge where you need to pull mobs you use a greatsword.

For things you need to pull to a LoS spot like ascalon you use a staff to blow an orb up on them and get them to come and put a line of warding down where you LoS them to keep them interrupted while you apply blinds and dps them down freely for a bit.

For bosses where blocks are needed like mossman, archdiviner, dredge suit you use sword/focus for shield of wrath and swap back when you can.

You can camp GS for bosses and mobs that you don’t really need perma prot for if you really want like bloomhunger.