Guild Wars 2

I’m looking for a WvW build that uses Sword/Focus + Hammer with meditations and traveler runes for roaming. I want it to be semi-durable so that it can function in a zerg if needed. Basically – just enough durability for the heals, blocks, etc. to keep me alive while I dish out some pain.

I’m looking at 10/0/30/5/25 or 0/0/30/15/25 for the traits, though I’m having difficulty putting together a gear set that brings the right combination of Power, Precision, Vitality, Toughness, and Crit Damage.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Would something like this allow me to meet the goal, or are there any modifications I can make to make the build more efficient?

0/5/30/30/5 for anything guardian, unless youre driving or boon supporting in which case u should be running double stability 0/0/10/30/30.

i run PVT armor with melandru with my offensive meditation build. the only other runes id consider would be hoelbrak. my fav combo of utilities is SoR or Shelter, Smite condis, JI (both on low CD for heals and fury), and SYG. personally, i cant do without the stability because it ensures you deliver your burst and stomp successfully.

i have sigil of purity on my sword. with melandru + lemongrass, SoR passive, purity, smite condis, and pure of voice, you’ll have some decent sustain against condis. any less condi removal and you’ll melt very quickly.

for food, i’ll do butternut squash if im not worried about condis, and lemongrass otherwise. maintenance oil. if small gang, trinkets are a combination of celestial and zerker. if larger fights, knights/PVT. i made my build work with sentinel hammer and knights s/f. with food crit chance is about 45%, and crit damage about 70%.

you dont need any more offensive imo, this hits like a truck if you time the combo well: pre-cast shield of wrath, initiate zealot defense, then JI + mighty blow when channel finishes, and top off with smite condis. it’s reliable 10-15k burst which will get your team kills.

but youre right. it’s difficult to get all the right stats for an offensive build. the best way to play a roaming guardian is with full celestial, but that kitten is hard to grind and im not doing it personally. i had to experiment a lot until i found the stats that worked for me.

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Is Celestial really the meta roaming guardian? The power is quite low in comparison to any build I’ve put together. Does the extra 17% crit damage and 500 con damage really do anything to make up for a loss of 400-500 power?

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I have been running this all weekend since reset, for small groups and smaller zergs sub 30man its been great.

Im actually not in the ascended armor yet, running the exotic version but this is the goal im working towards.

I have also found by swapping the weapon set to clerics and signet to mercy and honor 30 to battle presence i make a petty solid combat healer in a pinch.

weakness, Conditions. I tried running clerics GS and Staff once charged to 25 blood lust on another weapon, and with the runes of speed was able to keep enough pressure on necros and mesmers when roaming but its an uphill fight. Atleast with the necro im not getting to many conditions handed back, and the staff is very capable at cutting illusions down fast.

there are ways to tweak celestial to have enough power. it’s not meta because almost no one has the gear. but the stats are quite impressive. reason u go for celestial actually is for the healing power, which u can get up to almost 1k. that means a lot more sustain.

mistsim.2748:

there are ways to tweak celestial to have enough power. it’s not meta because almost no one has the gear. but the stats are quite impressive. reason u go for celestial actually is for the healing power, which u can get up to almost 1k. that means a lot more sustain.

+1 for this, there are ways to tweak it.

I feel that in the current bursty meta anything less than 15k HP is just free loot bag unless you’re running 1500+ healing power with full support build.

I wont speak about roaming because I don’t do it on guardian. But for organised play with 20+ I run this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJfwG0r6sU

And yes if you go full cleric or full celestial you will probably die in one push from an organized group