Guild Wars 2

Greetings. Just rolled a Guardian, in order to enjoy something other then my warrior, and wander around enjoying the PvE aspect of the game. However, I’m having trouble finding a Guardian build that works for me. I dunno if it’s my inexperience or lack of skill playing a guardian, but, I just dont seem to have the survivability I expected, and all the Guide I can find talk of zerker gear and DPS, etc etc. So, Hopefully I can get some good responses here. So, TLDR;

Solo PvE Build. I’m doing Story. I’m Doing Hearts, map completion. MAYBE running into group events as I find them. I’d like a build that allows me to do these things, without dying suddenly if I suddenly get swormed by 3+ mobs at once, like has been happening. Maybe I suck, whatever. Need a Beginner Guardian freindly build, with gear options, etc.

Thanks in advance.

Try to get atleast 15 in radiance first, I’d say (and take blind exposure). That way you can spam VoJ for blinds. Also, I’d recommend running sword/focus + GS, tons of blinds on the weapon skills for those. You can easily rotate all of them to avoid getting hit. Learning how to do this will help you out a lot in harder content.

If you’re looking to run a DPS Oriented Guardian, I recommed you check this sticky guide for DPS Guardians.

The first post has a video that explains the different builds and also shows you weapon types and rotations. I’m using the 20/25/0/0/25 build, up to level 36 doing PVE and so far have been close to unkillable. I just blind everything and then cut it to bits.

That thread is an amazingly good guide.

Nodrey.3948:

I’d like a build that allows me to do these things, without dying suddenly if I suddenly get swormed by 3+ mobs at once, like has been happening.

What I’d use is a 15/15/0/0/0 build at level 40 with Greatsword and Hammer while you’re learning to play guardian. Once your familiar and can avoid most hits switch to GS/S+F.

When fighting several mobs, you have two possibilities:
- you separate them, kiting one and killing it, then going to the next one
- you gather them and control them.

Separating mobs is rather trivial but is long.

Killing them at once is harder. Here’s how I do it:

If they are ranged, they probably throw projectiles, so I drop a wall.

Then in any case I use binding blade (GS5, once), then I drop my symbol of wrath (GS4) then pull (GS5 alt). Now I blind them with leap of faith (GS3) and finally I deal my damage with Whirling Wrath (GS2). Then, if they’re still up, I switch to hammer and control/dps them. Then I proceed to the normal rotation described in Obal’s builds. Also, pick good skills to mitigate damage (blocking heal) and use your virtues to avoid the big hits. You already play a warrior so you should know the tells to those big hits. With a warrior you usually tank, dodge or evade those. With a dps guardian, you can dodge or evade but rarely tank. In that case, you have to use your damage mitigators. This works at any level but becomes more and more effective as you level and get more powerful.

Once you advance you’ll want to get Vigorous precision and stack precision. This is a training wheel. Once you’re comfortable, put those trait points somewhere else unless you keep the GS/hammer build.

10/25/0/10/25 is the best for soloing.

spoj.9672:

10/25/0/10/25 is the best for soloing.

This or 10/30/0/5/25 is also nice if you don’t need the shout cooldown or doing content without reflections.