Guild Wars 2

(All typed up and ready to be mailed any/all of your Guard-minded friends, and curious foes…)

Air Force – Guard : GS – Ham or Stf (Possible staff variant; up to you)

2 – II

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6 – I, X, XII

6 – III, IX, XIII

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With Sassin or Zerker ammy n’ Speed (Extra 25% constant movement speed, and increased vitality!) or Strength/Hoelbrak (Increased might duration/dmg, and/or reduced condi duration time!) runes

Air and Force (you’re already doing constant AOE dmg, why not just increase it by 5%??)/Fire (always a great addition if you’re wary on the SigOfFor) sigils on both weapons; or, at the very least, the GS and/or Ham

Sidenote: Strength sigils can/could be used in place of Force; suggested when using RoStr/Hoel over RoSpd

Heal: Shelter
Utilities: Smite Condi – Judges Inter – Contemp Purity
Elite: Renewed Focus

First off I’d like to say that I’m not 100% certain this doesn’t already exist out there somewhere, but it’s a combo I’ve found works in almost any area of play; and well at that, hope everyone enjoys it as much as I do!…

Few tips/tricks:

Start Banish —> Judges Inter -->Finish Banish (Makes both this skill, and Ring of Warding much easier to land on quick moving targets) [Sidenote: Them being on fire also procs your Fiery Wrath trait adding an additional amount of dmg to the dmg you’ll already be dealing, plus its own dmg!]

Use your Hammer’s #2 skill Mighty Blow in and on as many combo fields as reasonable with regards to your current circumstances (Two Handed mastery trait helps out quite a bit along the way with this build by reducing both weapon’s, entire bar’s, cooldown time by 20%; and believe you me folks, that adds up!)

Use your Greatsword’s #4 skill Symbol of Wrath before using Leap of Faith to wrap yourself in prismatic, retal/vuln giving, light… (See: Light Aura)

Feel free to fire away with any questions/comments regarding this build; it both can be and has been tweaked to suit particular purposes in the past but for the most part I find it to be a great combo in most any situation! From 1v1s to 1v3s, WvW to sPvP, the large AOEDPS output+Condi cleanse+Constant leaps/teleports and heals will keep your foes on their toes and your allies alive; stay Guarded my friends…

Sincerely,
Sir Palomid
(Gilded Guardian)

Hi there!

I currently use a variant of your build. I feel that with Speed runes you do not really need the Force of Will trait. So I put these two points in Radiance and Virtues or both points into Virtues.

21641 gives some added utility and +1 blind (but in this case you could run the traditional 21614 build).

The next one is my favourite: 20642 with Master of Consecration and Purging Flames utility. PF can really help you to pull out some nice combos with Fiery Wrath. The AoE burst condi removal helps your teammates and it is a FireField to blast.

Hitting somebody in the Flames with Mighty Blow + Glacial Heart + Fire/Force while Intelligence Sigil is equipped is a death sentence for any zerker.

Hello there!

I do like the idea of moving the last two around in lieu of FoW, as well as the MoC build style, however; two extra reasons to put the last two in said line is that the minor adds 10% dmg when endurance is not full and Guards just so happen to have the lowest of three possible health pools to begin with so adding extra Vitality is filling in one of the Guardians few real glaring gaps game wise…

Sidenote: (Regarding the extra 10% dmg, some would/will say having to dodge extra lessens the amount of dmg one could do; though DPS Guards, Medi at that, are very bursty and as such not much time is needed to do an incredibly large amount of AOE dmg in a short amount of time [Personal record 36 in 6, AOE; combat logged, sure someone out there can do better lol]…Not only that but Guards no longer get as much Vigor on as low a C/D as we once did so keeping up with it isn’t much of an issue anymore…)

SuperSidenote: [Each time you dodge you also heal yourself and allies; bonus!!!]

Though I really do like the other combos you brought forth, Glacial Heart is one trait in particular I’ve been meaning to “tinker” with in the near future!

Palomid: +1

We got different playstyles. This is good

Even with Vigor and Heal on dodge I try timing my dodges to avoid the big or unblinded hits. This means that my Endurance bar is full most of the time. If I have to do a double dodge it usually means that I’m going to loose the point anyways and that +10% damage won’t help me too much (except against pewpew rangers. If I double dodge their LB burst it’s usually a game-over for them).

While using on-demand Burn ability helps me to time my burst, keep up the FieryWrath bonus AND save my precious dodge for the “sad moments”

Also one more suggestion: If you go 6 into honor try using Rage runes. It has an incredible burst potential with FW, Elusive Power, +5% damage from Force sigil, +5% damage from rune set bonus and Intel sigil.

Dodge-Banish-JI-MightyBlow+Fire/Air proc-swap to GS-WhirlingWrath. If somehow your foe stunbreaks out: pop PurgingFlames-GS5-GS5-leap. This is devastating as hell (the only problem: I’m not good enough to play full zerker-no support build. I have to L2P a bit more So I usually run Rage+Barbarian Amulett).

EDIT: you just gave my some nice ideas! If I could manage to put the ElusivePower-UnscatchedContender-FieryWrath in one build… I could give some “WTF o.O” momentsto my opponents.

(Eh, but I also like to give some support at mid… so it’s likely a 66666 build with 2 sets of Runes)
I gonna give it a try tonight.

That we do mi amigo, and that it is lol!

Also, let me know how that build works/worked out; glad to hear n’ good to know there are others out there who aren’t all too caught up in the current F(lavor)otM

PS: Try adding Scholar runes to that UC-FW build; whole extra helpina WTF-ery!!! xD