Guild Wars 2

Background:
My guardian is now 70. I spent the first 10 levels or so experimenting with the different weapons, liked greatsword and used that since the headstart week until last week. I read here about the hammer builds and decided to try it out. I found I die way too often. Yes it’s probably me I know and not the build. I switched to mace and love the survivability so far.

What I would like help with:
A self-healing survivability build (Traits) for solo PvE. I work graveyard and as you can see I’m a casual player so when I play the middle-range zones are usually dead and I need to be able to handle small group content by myself. I am liking mace but open to any weapon that fits.

I’ve tried a number of the healing traits like altruistic healing, monks focus, and zealous blade but never found one that works very well. (Probably because I don’t know the right combination of traits to use with it.)

The build I give here might work for you:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Viable-Pure-Combat-Build/

(4th post down)

It’s another Monk’s Focus build, but the post contains a bit of a how-to as well. I prefer the Altruistic Healing route these days but that works better the more people there are around you since it procs per person buffed.

Thank you, I will try that.