Guild Wars 2

Hello all guardian’s. I am a mesmer/warrior player coming back to the guardian class, my first toon was a guardian and I would like to come back to this class as I have been working on its ascended gear.

The question that I have for the experienced guardian players here is if the build linked below is a good guardian build? Note that I normally do PvE stuff and rarely do WvW so this will be mainly for dungeons, fractals, etc. I hope I can get some input from you all, thanks.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR8dl0ApXoNDxfH0ENR8gY5nWVGox1zOeD-TBBXwAA2fU+FS3QQ1feoEMAwBwvx3+Gs8yLv8yL3vL/7y/+bA-e

Altruistic Healing is pretty selfish and unnecessary sustain stuff in dungeons. Your utility bar seems pretty random. Apart from that you’re not too far off.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR8dlsApXolCxZI8DNR8QlbKOG2+BtQlBQDA-ThRBABXt/o8DPdD5dRAA4JAQp6PmpEEA-e

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR8dlsApQolCxZI8DRR8QlVKa9H0CbQlBQDc1RA-ThRBABXt/o8DPdD5dRAA4JAQp6PmpEEA-e

These are pretty much the 2 common builds for dungeons depending on how much utility you need. You can swap some utilities, traits and weapons depending on the encounter.

Also this might be helpful:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

Keksmuffin.1450:

Altruistic Healing is pretty selfish and unnecessary sustain stuff in dungeons. Your utility bar seems pretty random. Apart from that you’re not too far off.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR8dlsApXolCxZI8DNR8QlbKOG2+BtQlBQDA-ThRBABXt/o8DPdD5dRAA4JAQp6PmpEEA-e

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR8dlsApQolCxZI8DRR8QlVKa9H0CbQlBQDc1RA-ThRBABXt/o8DPdD5dRAA4JAQp6PmpEEA-e

These are pretty much the 2 common builds for dungeons depending on how much utility you need. You can swap some utilities, traits and weapons depending on the encounter.

Also this might be helpful:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

Thanks for the input Keksmuffin. I really like the second build you posted as that seems to produce the most damage output.

However, is it viable that I develop berserker armor or could I utilize the ascended Knight’s armor I already have? I had a lot of ascended toughness chests that I procured from my fractals run and thought it be best to suit on my guardian, I am now hoping I didn’t make a mistake in that assumption. So would the knights ascended fitted with runes of the scholar work almost just as well?

Its your choice Aither for you armor. You shouldn’t play with knight if you want a good build. Zerker will also push you to understand more the games mechanics and improve your game because each mistake will be costlier. Your dmg will be improve which will help more you team than a knight armor. But at the end its really only depend on what you want to do.

IMO, doing anything besides zerker will just develop bad habits and slow you down, except maybe when you’re not familiar with the dungeon at all. But it doesn’t seem to be worth it to me to invest much in non-zerker.

If you have 252,000 karma, you can buy a exotic zerker set of armor at the Temple of Grenth in Cursed shore after it is taken. It may be worth the trip down there

However, these can’t be salvaged.