Guild Wars 2

I am looking for suggestions on Guardian builds. None of the chosen traits really thrill me or seem more useful than others. Nothing really "grabs" me when I sit down and try to come up with Trait Builds. My eyes start crossing, my brain hurts... and I end up just throwing in the towel.

Can some of you perhaps post your Trait Builds here.. tell the rest of us why you chose that build setup?

Well there’s hundreds of builds out there which is why I love this game. No build is right or wrong just depends on your playstyle.

This is a pure offensive build I like to run. All your dmg revolves around buring. I know some people won’t like it because it’s squishy, but if you play smart the dmg is insane.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fUAQNAsfRlYgCBnCSJEm4ERWBWa94f9LgVPin8yHA

I’m sorry I didn’t spend the time posting a link to an example but..

Meditations guardian is pretty neat for those who are more selfish. All variations of it use 30 points in valor with the 20% meditation recharge trait and the meditation-healing trait. ^^ perhaps someone will link an example

What is your playstyle, and what do you actually like doing in game?

You can’t really advise on a build without this info.

For leveling, pick up Renewed Justice (15 Radiance) and Inspired Virtues (5 Virtue). After that, it’s all preference.

Xethos.3179:

I’m sorry I didn’t spend the time posting a link to an example but..

Meditations guardian is pretty neat for those who are more selfish. All variations of it use 30 points in valor with the 20% meditation recharge trait and the meditation-healing trait. ^^ perhaps someone will link an example

Greatsword Offensive Meditation:
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#Mccz0mz0mrnaomrnvmapx0VMMozob

Spirit Weapon:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fUAQJARGlYgSBHCyNkiI/ALtPQwKF7TeYK0YGB

Meditations:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fUAQRAsd7OlYgiDnGyNciw6BBPo/qKEvrHQMiNE;ToA5WStUbp0iaKzUipsT5mSOF

My own build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fUAQJASGlYg6CXGyIkiIThIHp9BCi9QjZcj3CA
For solo PvE the utility skills can be switched with Signets and the traits are adjusted accordingly. For Dungeons you can run Shouts and Consercrations, depending on what your team needs/wants.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fUAQJARWlYgiD3FSKEfIFRWBRaVggVPi39sHmCNmRA

this is my build, good for solo and group play, lots of support and damage and decent survivablility. Utillities you need to change based on your situation, if you dealing with alot of ranged in a dungeon, Shield of the avenger is a life saver, best of all is if its too dangerous for GS you can switch the chosen traits into a really powerful Spirit weapon weapon build as well.

Zealous Blade heals you for 25 HPs per hit, that’s next to nothing; put those 5 points somewhere else until that trait is fixed.

DesertRose.2031:

Zealous Blade heals you for 25 HPs per hit, that’s next to nothing; put those 5 points somewhere else until that trait is fixed.

What level is that at and is it with healing power gear?

SiNoS.2147:

DesertRose.2031:

Zealous Blade heals you for 25 HPs per hit, that’s next to nothing; put those 5 points somewhere else until that trait is fixed.

What level is that at and is it with healing power gear?

Pretty sure it’s base 25, no modifiers allowed. Also, it’s a grandmaster trait, hence why Zeal is a horrible line unless you’re a spirit weapon guardian (imo).

Draeka.5941:

SiNoS.2147:

DesertRose.2031:

Zealous Blade heals you for 25 HPs per hit, that’s next to nothing; put those 5 points somewhere else until that trait is fixed.

What level is that at and is it with healing power gear?

Pretty sure it’s base 25, no modifiers allowed. Also, it’s a grandmaster trait, hence why Zeal is a horrible line unless you’re a spirit weapon guardian (imo).

Eh i’ve looked at it but never actually used it is why i asked. Everything else we have scales greatly with healing power. If this doesent my guess is its pribally a bug.

it adds to the passive regen and still keeps me up, every little bit of health (Which actualy procs pretty quick when sigil of rage procs) helps me survive, and i definetly notice when its not there.

I use something like this often:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fUAQJARWlYgyC33RGEmIFRWBRazggAs+Q8wUgR4D

It has a fair bit of damage (mostly focused on critting), and those crits give might to everyone around you and yourself. You have the 10% extra damage to burning targets and 10% extra damage to targets suffering conditions, so between the burns from your Virtue of Justice (which refreshes on kills) and the vulnerability from your symbols you can usually keep a condition on them, often burning for 20% extra damage total. Inspired Virtue works nicely with the reset on Virtue of Justice, and the last 5 trait points went into Virtues to help extend the might buffs you’re giving from your staff and your crits and it’s not unusual for me to switch in Hallowed Ground or Wall of Reflection for appropriate situations (and then I would switch the major adept trait to Master of Consecrations).

Man I wish the forum’s “Subscribe” function worked, I totally forgot about this thread!

Thanks all for the great conversation and suggestions on the topic. You have given me several ideas with which to work. I want to gear my Guardian more towards offensive damage dealing, maximizing damage output of weapons and abilities as best I can. I’ll start rummaging through some of the ideas posted here and see what I can come up with.

Thanks all!