Guild Wars 2

I tried making one, but I have such little experience with guardian that it was a massive flop. Anyways that being said lemme get straight to it: I was wondering if one of you kind cohorts could link me a build for hammer/ sword&shield. Thanks in advance! :^)

For pve?

Why do you want sword/shield with hammer? GS burst would be better damage. The only point in using sword for hammer builds would be to utilize shield of wrath as an additional block for tougher bosses that attack a lot like archdiviner. Focus offers better dps and utility all around as well.

For pve the usual builds are these

Max Utility = 3/5/0/4/2

• Best for Fractals
• Best for beginners, people that or struggling, or people that want pve to be even more faceroll
• You can take 10 out of Radiance and put it to Valor for Strength in Numbers for more survival or Virtues for Absolute Resolution for condition heavy content

Max Damage = 5/5/0/4/0

• Best for some Fractal bosses where utility is worthless but prot is still good (Lornarr, Ashym, first Archdiviner fight)
• Best for dungeons if you feel the need for the prot but where you don’t need much/any utility like AC, CoF, CoE

I really like the feel of hammer and sword as board, anyways I was looking for an sPvP build to clarify, sorry for not being more clear

sword doesn’t work in conjunction with shield, try mace

You’ll excuse me if I find the above response to be ill-thought through, and I would very much appreciate anyone shedding some light on how to make these work or at least a non-weapon-specific power build

shield goes most with mace because mace is more close combat and static weapon and has also heals as mace or with scepter for range damage . sword has teleport and reflects that fit more with focus because 5 of focus is a shield that you can move and damage same time.

it is all about your style and how you want to play . if it is ok for you the sword /shield it is ok for everyone.

p.s. the shield 5 skill for roamers is ideal anti-stealth thief utility , because it knocks out them from their stealth

You can also go with Hammer/Mace + Focus. The third skill of Mace – though cant be used to “burst” like Shield’s fifth skill and prevents you from doing anything while channeling – allows you to move around while using the skill and block an incoming attack on a relatively short cooldown of 15 seconds. So if heavy punishment is imminent, just swap to your Mace + Focus and counter the attacks with the combination of both Focus 5 and Mace 3 while healing away with the auto attack and Rejuvenation.