Guild Wars 2

Hello fell Guardians,

I just hit 80 with my guardian coming from playing a mesmer but I am a fairly new player all around. When I hit 80 on my mes I just bought the Balzahar temple set with karma and stuck with it. I found I did OK all around, but I want to be more serious with my guardian.

I am thinking I am going to need multiple sets for the different things I do. Trait wise I am running 0/5/30/30/5. For utilities right now I have been using Judge’s intervention, Purging flames and Smite condition.

I want to play a high DPS guardian. I don’t want to be super super squishy or anything but I would like a high focus on damage.

Please give me your recommendations for; A dungeon armor set..and a WvWvW armor set. Those are the two things I care about doing well.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

CryxTryx.9208:

I want to play a high DPS guardian. I don’t want to be super super squishy or anything but I would like a high focus on damage.

Zerk or Knight or a mix of the 2.
Especially if you have a guild/organized team as backup and all of you are playing DPS and using speedrunning tactics, go for Zerk gear – if you’re not confident/experienced enough or you’re pugging, Knight might be a wiser choice.

CryxTryx.9208:

a WvWvW armor set.

In a zerg, for 99% of the situations, Soldier.
There are few other options (knigh, cleric, zerk, mixing up) depending on build and playstyle, but Soldier is the overall most balanced set.

This is for PVE only:

Trinkets: Zerker
Armor (the only anchor): kngihts
Amor (doing anything else): zerker.

I’ve been following Obal’s recommendations here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guardian-Video-Guide-for-Fractals-Shown-at-48

The links to the builds don’t work, but if you google the build names, you’ll find the youtube videos.

Here is an older post of mine:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/members/Xystus-3241/showposts

I now have the following Armor sets(trinkets are all zerker)
Prefix / Runed
——————————-
Knights / Soldier
Soldier / Soldier
Berserker / Scholar
Berserker / Divinity
Berserker / 2x S Water, 2x M Monk, 2x S Monk (Boon Duration)

My weapon sets now follow Obal’s post, with an extra GS with Fire just for fun.

CryxTryx.9208:

I am thinking I am going to need multiple sets for the different things I do. Trait wise I am running 0/5/30/30/5. For utilities right now I have been using Judge’s intervention, Purging flames and Smite condition.

I want to play a high DPS guardian. I don’t want to be super super squishy or anything but I would like a high focus on damage.

Please give me your recommendations for; A dungeon armor set..and a WvWvW armor set. Those are the two things I care about doing well.

Be aware of the inherent conflicts between the things you want to achieve. AH builds are nice stuff for WvW and they can make dungeons quite easy, too, but they are not high DPS builds. High DPS looks more like 10/25/0/25/0+10, but is more squishy.

As for the gear, berserker is the way to go for dungeons. In WvW, I personally prefer a mix of knight’s armor (with soldier runes) and zerker trinkets, works fine. Soldier is not really necessary and probably even not the best idea for an AH build.

What else is there besides Berserker gear?

Just want to thank everyone for taking the time to respond to me.

Sounds like I can’t really go wrong working on a set of Berserker gear and then having a few Knights and/or Soldier pieces to swap out as the need presents itself.

I’ll check out those links to and see what else I can learn, thank you.

Edit: As for the traits, I thought by having defensive traits and offensive armor I was reaching a nice mix of being able to pump out some dps with out being totally squishy, maybe I am just hurting myself here?

Nah, offsetting your traits vs. your equipment is perfectly viable, there are lots of good builds you can come up with that way. with a 0/5/30/30/5 and zerk exotics you should be golden. Get some karma PVT (what else you got to spend that karma on?) and craft some Knights pieces to swap in, just like you said.

Yup perfect plan. I’m on it!