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Posted by: Sepreh.5924

Sepreh.5924

Hey all. After getting several characters to 80, I have decided to roll a Guard. To be honest, the main reason I wanted a Guard was so that I can deck him out in white knight looking gear and equip Twilight. The other main reason I am interested in Guardian is boons. My current main is a DD ele and I love the ability to apply boons to myself and my party.

I guess my main question is the best way to make my guardian as mobile as possible. Now, I know he will never match the mobility of my ele but I do like being able to break lines in WvW and I have heard that guardians can be pretty good at that. Is there a good way to jump in, break the line to open it up for the rest of the team to flow in and jump back before being put down?

Thanks ahead of time for the help!

Legendary Sepreh, Necromancer
[SYN] Synyster Legion | Dragonbrand Server
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Posted by: akamon.2769

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there are a few ways to be mobile, namely:

1) Swiftness – Symbol of Swiftness (Staff #3), Retreat (Shout) and Save Yourselves (Shout) and if you trait for boon duration, which you might since you’re into boon giving, you can achieve “perma-swiftness”

2) Leaps – Leap of Faith (Greatsword #3); some even consider Mighty Blow (Hammer #2, also one of our hardest hitting skills) a leap, but it’s range is only 300 so not exactly lol

3) Teleports – Flashing blade (Sword #2) and one of my absolute favorites in WvW is Judge’s Intervention, with 1200 range! (Meditation skill)

so having greatsword and sword/combo would allow you to do something like that. you can port in, do your dmg, and then after you’ve caused your ruckus, you can get back out and help your team to clean stuff up.

side note, another few skills noteworthy that can aid in helping you withstand attacks (apart from our innate ability to survive) or getting back out from the middle of an enemy zerg:

1) Shelter (Heal skill) – heals with a 2 second block

2) Renewed Focus (Elite skill) – 3 seconds of invulnerability while refreshing all of your virtues. know that if you havne’t used all your virtues, you can spam them while your invuln. is channeling to get the most out of it

3) if traited, your Virtue of Justice (F1) can AoE blind, Virtue of Resolve (F2) gives you a small heal and regen, Virtue of Courage (F3) gives you one more block and even stability. so you can see using renewed focus can be pretty strong. while helping your survive an onslaught of focus fire.

and in terms of boons, there are multiple ways to do that. one obviously is via shouts, a lot of self combos and a blast finisher on a short CD helps (might blow) as well as your various consecrations that provide much added utility in WvW.

hopefully other Guards who play a more mobile style can contribute annd correct me if i left out anything.

Akaimon | Jolly Good Guardian
Akaigi | Warrior Made of Wood
[CDS] – Sanctum of Rall

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Posted by: Sepreh.5924

Sepreh.5924

That is awesome man, thank you for the advice. Much appreciated

Ill jump onto WvW after work today and try some of those skills out to start to learn to really play the class

Legendary Sepreh, Necromancer
[SYN] Synyster Legion | Dragonbrand Server
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Posted by: akamon.2769

akamon.2769

there are a bunch of great WvW Guards out there as well.
most of them play quite aggressively, very mobile and offer support in various forms

i’ll be right back with the links to their threads ; ))

IncomingRay – one of his latest vids features a triple meditation build, which offers a lot of mobility you can check out
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/PVP-Videos-GS-Hammer-in-group-WvW-with-no-AH/first#post1303162

Amin’s Zealous Defender – crazy dmg and really gotta be on your toes to play a build like this i feel
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/New-1-23-Videos-WvW-DPS-builds/first#post1282315

Zaphiel Faires – shy saway from the staple builds you see floating around ; ))
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Zaphiel-Faires-WvW-Roaming-1-Guardian/first#post1320683

Oozo – lot of fun videos from this guy
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/AD-Guardian-WvW-Movies/first#post1346745

Akaimon | Jolly Good Guardian
Akaigi | Warrior Made of Wood
[CDS] – Sanctum of Rall

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