Guild Wars 2

Looking for a guardian build with high dps on GS and Hammer that can be also tanky in dungeons?

Guess you want the AH build with knights gear then. Its good while you get use to the guardian and for pugging. As you gain more experience there is no need and you can switch to a full dps beserker build which still provides team utility and support.

spoj.9672:

Guess you want the AH build with knights gear then. Its good while you get use to the guardian and for pugging. As you gain more experience there is no need and you can switch to a full dps beserker build which still provides team utility and support.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWfgaA_MJw0

When will you warrior wanna bes understand that Ah and anchor builds have their own niche in endgame PVE? I won’t bother explain to you the details because those who share your mindset are braindead CoF farmers. I will just have to point you to the lvl 48 fractal guide

Hunter.4783:

When will you warrior wanna bes understand that Ah and anchor builds have their own niche in endgame PVE? I won’t bother explain to you the details because those who share your mindset are braindead CoF farmers. I will just have to point you to the lvl 48 fractal guide

Wow clueless post out of nowhere.

Oh? Considering i pug fractal 48s daily i would say i have a pretty good idea wtf is going on. Im assuming you think the dude who made that guy also has no clue what he is talking about either.

Geez Hunter, why the hostility over Zerker gear users? Some of the people here know how to play with it and still survive just fine.

That’s not to say that everyone can do that, but unless someone actually says “Zerker gear is greater than all and anyone that does otherwise sucks,” you don’t need to be so hostile.

Spoj is right to a degree. Some people cna do that. Others, like me, can’t go full Zerker, so he’d be wrong in my case, but he isn’t completely wrong with that statement for others either

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Geez Hunter, why the hostility over Zerker gear users? Some of the people here know how to play with it and still survive just fine.

That’s not to say that everyone can do that, but unless someone actually says “Zerker gear is greater than all and anyone that does otherwise sucks,” you don’t need to be so hostile.

Spoj is right to a degree. Some people cna do that. Others, like me, can’t go full Zerker, so he’d be wrong in my case, but he isn’t completely wrong with that statement for others either

This is exactly true. There is no real need for an anchor. 1 anchor in high fractals is ok but its not actually needed. When you go above 48 ive heard there is no point in AH anchor at all. The dmg from trash is just too high to worry about survivability. This is why even in high fractals the best groups are 4 beserkers and 1 anchor(optional).

@Hunter
I pug high fractals as a zerk guard and am fine most of the time. I have my old AH knights set carried around if I need it though. I dont switch back to AH traits ever anymore though. As I dont need to. People can make zerker work, just because you cant doesnt mean we are all wrong to use it….

Also that AH build guide is old. Strife no longer plays. DnT dont use an AH guard anymore as far as im aware. They use a dps guard (they might still use 1 anchor in fracs though). Check the latest guard vids on that channel.

Bro we aren’t talking about Strife’s build specifically, Strife is just a guy who is running the same content as me and a bunch of other guys. Strife is not the endall, be all guru of the guardians.

If a group or pug is able to make it through a lvl 48 fractal on daily basis they have some idea wtf they are doing and their opinion is equally as valuable. This is not WoW anymore.

With this out of the way, if you ran a lvl 48 fractal (which i doubt you do but anyways) you would notice that completion does not equal efficiency. So you can run it with 5 DPS classes and have a completely chaotic experience, take 3h to complete it, spend 1h at harpy boss, or throw in an anchor guardian (anchor =/=)Full soldier) and have a more enjoyable experience.

An anchor does 2 things:
1- Can take an extra hit, which is HUGE because its enough time for your endurance to refull or extra DPS time
2 – It attracts boss and regular mobs like a magnet. This means that while you are dodging and blocking hits, that warrior is throwing 34k 100bs (or whatever axe autoattack does). That mes is duking it long range and that thief is not wasting DPS time stealthing and rezzing your sorry kitten .

THAT is what an Anchor does. Whatever you lose in personal DPS, (which is not much mind you) you gain by having a more controlled environment. An anchor lasting an extra 2sec while focused by lvl 83 dredge = an extra 2 sec of your party which can DPS and not less likely you will wipe and reset the pull

This is what I like to run. 10/30/0/30/0 Hammer. I like this a lot because you can push good damage and still take 33% less damage, along with anyone in your symbol. Take note of the runes and Writs, increased Protection allows you to live in Protection full time as long as you stick in your symbol and hit stuff. Pop Save Yourselves at the start for 15 seconds of Prot. Back out and let your scepter and omnom pie heal ya up when needed. Guard Hammer, IMHO, is the ultimate in melee support. Just so much damage mitigation.

I run DPS gear but mix in more Soldiers till you’re comfortable. I have run this setup in almost all explores and FotM 32, haven’t cared to go over that. Normally the groups are GC and we do just fine. Main thing is find a playstyle you like just be mindful of your dps output, it helps so much to kill stuff faster.

What I like most about this is that you can adjust the traits to semi-optimize most weapons and it can move from ‘DPS’ to more support when needed. I will rarely end a dungeon with the same traits as I started.

GL
Blood~

Hunter.4783:

Bro we aren’t talking about Strife’s build specifically, Strife is just a guy who is running the same content as me and a bunch of other guys. Strife is not the endall, be all guru of the guardians.

If a group or pug is able to make it through a lvl 48 fractal on daily basis they have some idea wtf they are doing and their opinion is equally as valuable. This is not WoW anymore.

With this out of the way, if you ran a lvl 48 fractal (which i doubt you do but anyways) you would notice that completion does not equal efficiency. So you can run it with 5 DPS classes and have a completely chaotic experience, take 3h to complete it, spend 1h at harpy boss, or throw in an anchor guardian (anchor =/=)Full soldier) and have a more enjoyable experience.

An anchor does 2 things:
1- Can take an extra hit, which is HUGE because its enough time for your endurance to refull or extra DPS time
2 – It attracts boss and regular mobs like a magnet. This means that while you are dodging and blocking hits, that warrior is throwing 34k 100bs (or whatever axe autoattack does). That mes is duking it long range and that thief is not wasting DPS time stealthing and rezzing your sorry kitten .

THAT is what an Anchor does. Whatever you lose in personal DPS, (which is not much mind you) you gain by having a more controlled environment. An anchor lasting an extra 2sec while focused by lvl 83 dredge = an extra 2 sec of your party which can DPS and not less likely you will wipe and reset the pull

You didnt read my post did you.

High DPS guardian tank build for PvE?

For me arguebly the best one is Strifes Anchor build