Guild Wars 2

I see a lot of people posting here looking for effective builds lately and so ill just leave this here

First things first. I use this build to command however it is extremely effective with some slight tweaking in nearly any situation you want except maybe solo roam zerking. Though you will have almost as much Crit chance as a zerker guard. The build plays to all the major strengths of a guardian like Group buffs, ground controls and condi cleanses. The difference is that it does all of those things while maintaining reasonable dps ie: regular 2 and 3k crits with some 4k thrown in ( was higher before 15th) high hp (21k) and high armor (3.4k or more ). While playing this build you’re going to be able to survive situations that other classes would find invariably fatal. So its bears to make the point that if you’re commanding in this build you’ll need to consider your group on zerg rushes and not get kitteny. also this does not mean u can stand in the center of a zerg pressing 1 you will still die if you play stupidly
Heres you go. Feel free to ask questions.

The Build
Traits- _0 0 6 4 4 _
Utilities _Shelter(Signet of Renewal Situational), Save Yourselves, Stand Your Ground, Purging Flames (Contemplation of Purity Situational), Renewed Focus.

Weapons: Hammer/Staff or GS/Staff. GS is slightly more offensive obviously however in zerg warfare a hammer can drastically change a fight with a well placed Ring of Warding. I prefer Hammer. Staff is irreplaceable. Every guardian who zergs in WvW should be running it. Line of warding and #4 heal + buff is essential.

Stats: For Head through boots run full PVT armor. For all of your trinkets and rings run full Knights. For weapons I personally run Sentinel but PVT or PPT are also fine.

Runes & Sigils _ Full Troopers Runes. Exquisite Emerald jewels in trinkets. For Sigils Run Perception and Accuracy on your hammer/GS. On your staff run Purity and Water.

Traitskills_
Valor: V,VI,XI
Honor:II, IX
Virtues: VI, IX.

Why would you use trooper/soldiers runes when you only have one group wide shout on your bar?

For Food and oil you want to use Omnomberry Bread and Master Maintenance Oil.
Also Grab the WvW Guard Vitality buff if possible.

fadeaway.2807:

Why would you use trooper/soldiers runes when you only have one group wide shout on your bar?

Your group condi cleanses come from alot of other areas and its more about removing conditions on yourself. + Save yourself pulls conditions off of those around you anyways.
1 less on you after that is useful
Note: im fairly certain the pull happens before the cleanse. Ill test it out as i’ve always just assumed it does. If not, another rune set could be worth looking into.

fadeaway.2807:

Why would you use trooper/soldiers runes when you only have one group wide shout on your bar?

Apparently soldier runes even work for non-group shouts.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_the_Trooper

Forgot to mention this is only exotic armor

Jackmo.3428:

Forgot to mention this is only exotic armor

If u have ascended trinkets u dont need more