Guild Wars 2

Hey Forums, so I’m currently getting more into PvP atm after hitting level 80 on my guardian and I need some help for tournament PvP. I really want to go full team support with my guardian and I prefer staff and mace/shield. I will give you my current build and I’d like for some helpful feedback to make it better at bunkering 1v3 situation and doing really noticeable team support.

Current build: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmcczmM9MmvCNmmvCNm9MxxaVsqVMqc

I’d really like some help from all my fellow experienced guardians! All help is really appreciated. Really want to run paid tournaments and be a good asset to my team

I’m not going to tell you how to build. You’re going to be a lot more effective (and happy) if you make your own build and understand every choice.
What I am going to say is that going full-blown “support” isn’t the best idea in PvP (especially where 5v5 is concerned) because you’re putting a lot of effort into supporting a team you only spend actual time with 50% of the time. As a Guardian your own survivability should come first (because that’s what’s expected of you).

Therefor, I’d suggest that you take 10 points out of Virtues, and put those either in Valor or Honor. You don’t lose out on that much (if any) support, but your own survivability will rise significantly.

And bunkering 1v3 has as much to do with your build as it has with your and your opponents skill.

Lastly, think about your weapon selection. Look at every weapon you have and think about which kind of situations that weapon is useful and how often such situations occur.

Ok thanks for the feedback! I’m going to respec the points and see how it works out

Bump ~ Would like some additional help from all my fellow experienced PvPers with this build please!

With the way current meta is working, it’s not possible to last longer than 30 seconds against 3 players, even with all cooldowns up.
With that said, you shouldn’t be stuck in a 3v1 situation in a tournament setting. Imo, you should not be building around a 3v1 setting, but more a 2v2, 3v3, or 4v4 setting.
The best way a guard can do that is by maxing out on his cc capabilities. The more he can CC and lockdown a target, or peel for his team, the more useful he is in a teamfight. You also need a sufficient amount of condi removal, as well as regen and upkeep.

Here is the build I’m currently running:
http://www.intothemists.com/calc/?build=-7s-3x;0NF-40B3RG-90;9;69TT;44;014A289U-k67;1ZF18ZF183NP
edit: copy and paste into browser. “Bad link”

Sometimes I will swap Sanctuary for Save Yourselves vs very heavy condi teams, and trade out Consecrated Ground for Vengeful respectively, but this is the build I run most of the time. IX in Virtues is a great condi removal and X allows for clutch reses/stomps when Stand Your Ground isn’t up. 1/4 second cast time on Sanctuary allows for some very clutch reses and even stomps.

Hope this helped.

Good specs all which have been linked to this topic and all of them are for a little bit different kinds of situations and play styles. It is true that GW2 gives multiple choices concerning builds, and that’s what I like. I’ve played quite similar spec as a bunker about 2-3 months ago, mace-shield and staff with heals. Though I realised the same that that kind of support role is not necessary in TPvP because low amount of players in the field at the same time who you are supposed to support.

Then I’ve tried pure dps with sigil of rage, and god I loved that kind a high dps and quick dps mode! But that build died for lack of cond removals, which made me to think build all over again. So then we come to the build I use now. Have to say first that people have their own way to play and people prefer different kind of skills and stuff, so don’t worry if my build or some other’s build wont work on you. Just make sure that you learn each thing of every build you see so you can create your own one.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmcozcMzM9bxGGzsbMzms8khV7khk70z7kiH7070z7kIa70V7owX7ofF

Simply, this build is based on blocks, blinds and condition removals with a little amount of DPS. I realised with a bunker build that when you don’t do any damage to attacking enemy he’s just gonna keep going with the DPS until you’re down. When you have a little bit more DPS than usual bunker does you are much more difficult to win when you can actually fight back. Rune of Lyssa gives your elite skill to remove all conditions (especially good when attacked by loads of condition damage). Also you’re “Smite Condition” removes every 16 seconds one condition and heals about 2k. I have found this build quite good against for example bunker guardians. I have as much stamina as bunker does but I can actually kill him with that DPS or at least make him vulnerable for thief or someone else to finish up. With all those weps (mace-shield, sword-focus) you have 4 blocks just from the wep skills and you remove conditions with Virtue of Resolve, Elite Skill, Smite Condition, Focus’ second skill and with Healing skill’s passive effect. TIP! You can also switch “Retreat” to “Judge’s intervention” which gives you another Meditation skill which heals and teleport. But speed buff or teleport with more healing, that’s a tough call.

Hopefully these points help even a little bit.

And remember to use all of your skills! Build all of your specs by thinking all skills and traits to the very end, like use meditation skills with good buffing traits (like Valor’s “Monk’s focus”). Every skill must have a reason why you need it to your build and also think at the same time if you can have that same benefit from some other skill combination.