Good Guardian Build for hunting in HoT
Well there’s two trains of thought… “kill stuff faster” or “stay alive longer”. Solo roaming the Maguuma zones has put me in the latter camp. A lot of enemy types will put you down in seconds if you don’t know their attacks or get caught off guard.
A decent core-only build that works for me is Zeal/Honor/Valor. Honor is solely for the duration and healing from symbols. Zeal is to enhance the damage from symbols. If you don’t want to use symbols you can get rid of those two traits and use Virtues and Radiance, which puts you back into the ‘kill stuff faster’ camp. The blinds from Radiance are very useful though because the enemies hit hard.?
For Valor I trait Smiter’s Boon, Stalwart Defender, and Monk’s Focus. My weapons set is sword/shield and scepter/shield. Slot skills are Litany of Wrath, smite condition, bane signet, signet of judgement or wrath (I flip between the two; can’t make up my mind), and Renewed Focus.
Everybody craps on Litany of Wrath, but with the Valor traits it’s an effective skill. HOT enemies throw conditions around like candy in a parade. Plus it is a large immediate heal when traited, because Monk’s Focus processes twice and the AOE from the smite goes towards your heal as well.?
Sword is very important as both a gap closer and an AOE blind. The arrow frogs will tear you a new one when you try to fight them ranged, but they melt quickly if you get in their face. Works well for pocket raptors too.?
Shield is good for an extra block plus AOE knockback. The extra toughness when traited doesn’t hurt either.?
When you do get DH just use Bane Signet and 4 traps… everything blows up pretty quick.
Just my two copper. Best build? Nah, but in time you’ll find what works for you.?