Guild Wars 2

been testing this build lately:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAR7dlsAhqhY5QwbIwPEHJEVe/+vAEvBZQZeX2AIBA-TZBFwACuAANOIAVLDA4JAsb/BA

I’m liking it more than the standard zeal/valor/virtues medi guard with marauder ammy. the revive bubble and heal on aegis offers much more support than a pure power build and that 225% crit damage is no joke on 2.2k power, scepter auto attacks are critting for 1.2k and smite conditions are critting for 3k

your GS2/JI/SC combo can pretty much erase any light armored classes if they aren’t at 100% and has a dodge available.

It looks like a cross between full glass zerks and marauders. It looks fun, i’ll try it when I get back from vacation :p

it hits like a full glass but has the vitality of a marauders by sacrificing an offensive spec (zeal or radiance) for honor’s force of will (and revive bubble/aegis heal)

killed a few rangers with scepter auto attack hitting them for 5k in 3 shots to their chagrin.

you can also swap out the wurm runes for warrior runes, it basically is a wash between 100 extra power from warrior or 200 extra ferocity from wurm, but the 8 sec weapon swap from warrior runes is pretty nice.

This might work well in 1v1s, but in team fights and more competitive organized play you’re going to be a handicap to your team. Primarily due to the lack of peel on Guardian to go with that damage. As soon as a fight is tipped out of your favor numerically, you’re screwed. (Especially if they know to focus you)

Although, admittedly for trolling around pvp and general entertainment value this would be fun.

Rune Darkmoor.3269:

This might work well in 1v1s, but in team fights and more competitive organized play you’re going to be a handicap to your team. Primarily due to the lack of peel on Guardian to go with that damage. As soon as a fight is tipped out of your favor numerically, you’re screwed. (Especially if they know to focus you)

Although, admittedly for trolling around pvp and general entertainment value this would be fun.

this build isn’t competing against a bunker guard for team support, it is competing against marauder power medi guards, of which it does more damage than at the cost of only 1k HP.

Well done Darknicrofia!
The strange thing is that I ran almost exactly this build (doom sigil in the second slot for the scepter) for a week after the patch but with Marauder and I still had no chance to survive

I will give this a shot this weekend… Some bug has been fixed since so I might able to survive better now.

And please fellow guardians!

Let those builds comin’!

Happy Guardin’!

I don’t get the build. With this, you have 223% critical damage but I thought there was a hard cap of 200%. Why the extra ferocity when it’s not going to help you?

lol what? crit damage has never been capped at 200 or any other number outside of what you can boost with gear/food/runes/sigils

Seems just worse than running Zeal over Honor, from Honor you get 300 Vitality and Vigor, everything else is almost completely irrelevant. From Zeal you get several damage modifiers and Shattered Aegis for insane potential AoE burst.

shattered aegis crits for about 1.2k in marauder amulet, not really that much of a game changer.

the revive bubble is way more useful in a group fight imo.

I was theory crafting the OP build’s treelines and found that Knights + Pack runes was a more tanky version of Marauders as well. It’s basically a bunker power build that’s able to self sustain itself against almost any class 1v1 and lasts respectfully well in 1v2 considering the amount of damage it can produce.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAS7dlsAhqhY5QwbIwPEHJEVe/+vAEvBZQZeX2AIBA-TZBFABC8AAa4IAUz+DRXGAgLCAA

Felt the build was appropriate in this thread considering it was OP’s original tree.

This is what I’ve been running since post patch. You are the first person I have seen running the same thing. It is more effective than the marauder build imo because it has near the same defensive stats, but you hit so much harder and heal for more (BC force of will’s new healing effectiveness buff), meaning more people are dead faster and you have more sustain.
Anyone who is thinking about tying it, do

Shattered Aegis crits for 2.5k-3k against glass cannons and you can proc up to 5 of them at the same time with Virtue of Courage.

shattered aegis has never critted for close to that amount on a marauder amulet. from my testing, 1.4k is about the highest I’ve gotten w/o getting into situational kitten like 20+ stacks of might on a 15+ vulnerability squishy.