Guild Wars 2

I have been playing my guardian for awhile now. I hit 80 a couple weeks ago. I notice that most posted builds on various forums are almost always 30 Honor and/or 30 Valor. I’ve been scratching my head, and trying to figure out a good 30 Virtues build. The reason? For one, I’ve been wanting to come up with something a little different than the typical cookie cutter builds. For two, I just cannot understand why people wouldn’t at least use 20, but preferably 30 on Virtues. In addition to the chosen mini buffs given on each level, i.e. like Inspired Virtue, it also increases the duration of all boons by 30% and also recharges your virtues by 30%, to me that seems almost essential, given just how long recharge rates for them can be. On top of which, when exploring, with the addition 30% boon duration matched up with 20% faster recharge on shouts, the +33% run speed buff seems to me to be a true Godsend. The problem I have having though, is that unfortunately, the major traits on the Virtues line seems to be a little lackluster compared to the others. I think if Arenanet would actually look into the idea of redoing the line of major traits on Virtues traits. They just seem to be lacking a lot compared to things like Altruistic healing. Regardless though, I am hoping and praying someone could assist me with my idea of a good working pve build with 30 points in Virtues. I’d appreciate if anyone would not only post up a build suggestion, but also include a good recommendation on both what weapon(s), armor stats, runes, sigils, etc. that might actually work with using 30 points in Virtues. I’ve also seen on a few other posts questions about both food and similar things that can also boost boon duration, like Giver’s armor. I appreciate any honest suggestions for my idea. Trust me, I have already spent the time here, Guild Wars 2 Guru forums, and more, to see repeated comments of, “Look at this build here,” or “Are you blind? Look at this YouTube video here” kind of thing. I have looked at some of them, but the problem is that the majority of them are very very outdated, and were posted up weeks or even months before the most recent in game changes were taken into account. Yet, I’ve seen many people in game being like lemmings and seem to think those outdated sites, videos, etc. are like tablets handed down by Moses, but then complain constantly in game for why those builds aren’t working. They just don’t seem able to grasp the simple concept of Guild Wars 2 being a living breathing game that changes from minor to major on a weekly basis. Any given location found for farming, any location found for power leveling, or any build that was considered “The ONLY build people play”, might have made you a walking God a few months ago, but due to game changes, that former Godlike build, simply doesn’t work anymore. Thanks again for any ideas and suggestions for what I asked. I look forward to reading any responses I get.

What type of content do you want to focus on? It’s hard to recommend a general build because so many different areas of the game will require different builds.

It isn’t worth going 30 deep into the Virtue tree. Every 10 points is only an extra 1s on most boons versus passive + 100/+ 100 of a specific stat you need in the other trees.

Unfortunately it feels mandatory that you have to go 30 deep into Valor and Honor. Both trees are very well balanced on their stats and traits.

Check out the “Healway Guardian” it is a viable 30 virtues build.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/WvW-PvE-The-Healway-Guardian/first