Guild Wars 2

I play an Engi, and my condi removal is poop. That said, what can I do to help counter these sorts of guardians in PvP? I tried to rock as much condition removal as was feasible, but it seems to proc a lot, much more than I can keep up with. Are there any weaknesses to this sort of buid?

Removing the burning isn’t actually the way to go. The whole point of the guardian burn build is to apply single ticks of 1k+ damage each as frequently as possible so that it can’t be removed. There’s a few ways guardians will apply it, so you can start to look for it.

1. Blocking. Defender’s flame is an excellent way to apply burning with each block. That being said, it means you want to shorten the fight so they get as few blocks in as possible and avoid shelter. If they’re crafty they’ll run Runes of the Guardian which means 2 seconds of burning per block. This is probably the most deadly of the sources.

2. Judges intervention. It really can’t be countered, but if they teleport you should condi cleanse since JI has a decently long duration of burning.

3. Cleansing Flame. It’s a fairly obvious combo field. Dodge out and cleanse as soon as you can.

4. Virtue of Justice. There’s three ways they may use it.
1. Standard way – every kittens (sometimes 3 hits, but it’s hard to pull off since they lose meditation heal or the crutch of the build the 33% burn dmg.)
2. AoE around them with Permeating Wrath. Stay at ranged.
3. Actually activating it. If you see their virtue of justice flash, it’s coming.

In all, it’s a tough build to beat since it’s based around blocking and surviving to deal burning. Using ranged burst, either power or condi is probably the way to go. It’s going to be a tough fight to out bunker them but it can be done.

Tl;dr; bursting, staying at range and keeping the fight as short as possible. Don’t focus on removing the burning, it’s only suppose to tick once or twice.

condi guards are also glass, so burst them.

Charak.9761:

condi guards are also glass, so burst them.

Somewhat true. It’s hard to make a successful burning guardian without using 6/4/x/x/x or 6/x/x/x/4 as a base now. Not much place to put those last 4 trait points. Burn PVP Guardian will need 2 offensive stats and one should be Condi obviously. Reliance on condition damage doesn’t make a Guardian more enabled to outlast.

On the other hand, there are many stat combos on amulets suitable for condi and combined with the right sigils/runes, it’s a pretty wide spread of options to make good burning. Burning PVP Guardian builds are definitely not predictable but you can probably be assured if you are getting VERY short and frequent blasts of burning for around 1K damage, they have a 6/x/x/x/4. Cripple/Immobilize them and go ranged ASAP.

Not all of them are glass >.>
I run Valor with my condition guard for might on block don’t try to remove or go defensive.
- Don’t attack and stay away from focus 5 and Shelter(Balthazar Runes)
-Evade the poison on swap it’s predictable also the dps skills 2 sec burn on VoJ is enough to maintain it.
-Keep him at range the range dps to activate burn is low even with scpeter or sword
-Try to get him by your self in many situations I use 2v1 to gain more might from dps specs
-If you are condition make your confusion and poison hit if you’re zerk keep the CC up
-Use your removal wisely the burn might still be on you when he’s downed.

fight fire with fire ….

http://www.wolfineer.com/2014/05/351/

if you go condi you can go through them if you manage your condition after his cleanse
if you go power just range him to death

he will use carrion for more hp than he is glassy
or some other mix variant but still 2500 armor and 15k vitality

put pressure on 1 points and harrass from range and gl

so glad condi gurad are more commonly used