Guild Wars 2

Hey, all, so, I’ve been playing a DPS warrior for a while, and that is all I’ve known. Dying is a given, being that I use berserker armor (yeah, yeah, I know, it is a DPS race, and, sometimes, I bit off more than I can chew with mobs). I want to change things up. So, I want to build a brick house of a guardian, but I don’t know what traits, armor, weapons, etc. to use. Any advice?

I’m still a noob at the game but this youtube channel has some pretty good guardian builds it seems. https://www.youtube.com/user/Tapdatmouse/videos

Please dont link garbage on the forums.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8dlUgiDnGyNEf4ESmCDEBxUURw31DIKiaIA-jkyAoLBZ6TgpCQZvioxWZJiG7AoKbM1LRUt9WRzkLULEggxA-w

Doesn’t get much more bunkery than that, You get decent healing from all the meds, extra dodgerolls and you can still dish out some damage when you have fury up (again compliments to the mediations). If you feel like you don’t have enough crit chance, swap some of those soldier pieces for knight and trade vitality for precision.

Tapdatmouse has nice builds, but they do need certain tweaking to individual playstyle, or they won’t work as good in practice as they do on “paper”.

Edit: this is for solo/duo. Anything more than 4 and you’ll be better off running shouts with altruistic healing instead.

I go 5/0/30/30/5 with full cleric set and meditations. trait for symbols and meditations.
As for weapons I rotate Hammer, Greatsword, and Staff, only using scepter when its absolutely neccessary (Arah/Fractals).

With this build, your symbols heal, your meditations heal, you heal, your virtue heals, and you have a ton of toughness. URKULES NEVER DIES

0/0/30/20/20 is what I run too with Soldier/Knight trinkets/armor and Soldier Runes.

It’s pretty much the epitome of laziness and you will never get killed unless you continue to facetank things instead of utilizing perma vigor.

IV, VI, and XII for Valor. II and IX/VIII for Honor. VI and IX for Virtues.

Compounded with the epitome of laziness would be using Hammer + Staff. Just use 1 hammer which grants a symbol for protection which consequently heals you due to Altruistic Healing. If you want to actually do some damage, switch GS for Hammer.

Utility skills is typically a mix of consecration skills and shouts depending on the situation. I usually use wall of reflection, purging flames, stand your ground, hold the line, retreat, and save yourselves.

The beauty of this build is you can roll with WvW with it, dungeons with it, and fractals with it. The only issue is your DPS is pretty much garbage, but it’s also kind of comical when you’re the only one in your party that pretty much walk into mobs and feels like nothing has happened.

Reroll warrior.

Nobody is unkillable. Especially not the guardian.
You cannot out-heal an enemy that is built to deal high damage.