Guild Wars 2

Considering a recent post on reddit claiming the strengths of Guardians at high level fractal play, I was really interested in finding out the optimal build for achieving this. There’s a few different options I’ve been going through over time and I can’t seem to settle on which one is best.

• Divinity’s : All stats equal, overall stats are higher than other builds
• Knight’s : All-out on Toughness to reduce incoming damage and make heals (such as heals from Altruistic Healing) much more efficient.
• Cleric’s : Maximize Healing, Secondary Toughness and no Vitality. Since fractal damage is % based this makes outhealing some of the attacks much easier
• Soldier’s : Pow/Tuf/Vit – more dps? The guy that reached level 63 uses this but I can’t figure out what’s the best complete setup (incl traits) would be..

At higher end fractals, build is to stay alive, so P/V/T is what it sounds like. But I dont’ think armor sets/traits is as useful as utilities—-which he is referring to. I’m at 38, but having wall of reflection and shield of the avenger makes a HUGE difference in higher level fotm. So 10 in virtues to get 20% cd reduction + it lasts longer for consecrations and have two guards that supply that and you are pretty much good to avoid fractals with agony that procs from long range attacks/huge # of mobs that range—which can be found in the beloved grawl fractal.

Edit: Baseline is the only reason why guardians have a great strength in fractals is our range blocking utilities. Otherwise, everything else is whatever—aka not 10x more worth it to have us than any other class.