Guild Wars 2

I’ve been fooling around with a range condition build. With some ability to heal in the backline. While still able to push in with a group, and survive and cause some havoc. I’m very happy with what i have so far. But it’s missing some things.

http://tinyurl.com/mrlmftg

Couple notes
I use perplexity runes which are not in the builder.

Bonuses
I can get bleeds, and burns, and confusions on opponents pretty non stop.
3 Sources of aoe damage. I honestly change my utilities a lot. Swapping out radiation field first. But i have it on the build, because i do use it. My aoe staff hits, proc bleeding, burning, and confusion.
Very high condition damage.
Line of warding causes nice confusion.
Pretty fun and unusual guardian play style.

I built this in the sense of other shaman, or chain mail wearing healing/damage casters.

Cons
The lack of permanent swiftness is really killing me. Sometimes i put retreat on my bar, with shorter shout cool down. Between that and staff it seems ok, but seems sub par.
I’m not as tough as most guardians, but that’s ok, since i play at range a lot. Moving in with staff when the initial crazy is over.
I’m not sure if permeating wrath is worth it. Since i think i might be better served without it. Since from what i understand it’s a pbaoe on my position.

Any thoughts besides (don’t run this build you are guardian be shouts) would be greatly appreciated.

Jester, what exactly is the build really being designed for – is it largely for WvW roaming or small group roaming? If so, personally, designing this as purely a condition build is or has severely decreased the builds survivability in a WvW environment, in my honest opinion – in other words, there are far better WvW Guardian builds to be had that would grant greater sustained and burst damage along with survivability than this current designed build. But in the end, give it a run in a WvW environment.

Rigel.3092:

Jester, what exactly is the build really being designed for – is it largely for WvW roaming or small group roaming? If so, personally, designing this as purely a condition build is or has severely decreased the builds survivability in a WvW environment, in my honest opinion – in other words, there are far better WvW Guardian builds to be had that would grant greater sustained and burst damage along with survivability than this current designed build. But in the end, give it a run in a WvW environment.

Can you please link any of them that are not asura based? I am currently running this build http://tinyurl.com/q2nj6mm and am focused on roaming/camp flipping and run with one other or solo for the most part.

I’ve been running it in WvW. I wouldn’t have posted it, if i hadn’t tried it for awhile :P Ive done pretty well 1v1 with it. I has some nice synergy. It still needs some tweaking tho. The build is mainly for running with the zerg, but i think the conditions have caught a few people by surprise.