Guild Wars 2

i have manyhigh dps friends. looking for a build that can take alot of damage and heal decently , utlitliy and CC is a bonus

And any tips on how to play the build alog with what are prefered stats appriciated

anyones just lookinfor a tank/suport with mainly heasl

You’re not going to be able to main heal like you do in WoW-like MMOs. Support is actually more like League of Legends support, where you do a lot of things (including some healing) to help your team while dishing some damage.

For traits, I suggest going 30 into Honor (Vitality/Healing Power). It’ll make your heals stronger and give you some much needed vitality (Guardians have some of the lowest base health). If you want to go heavy support, invest heavily in Virtues (Boon Duration/Virtue Recharge), since you want boon duration (longer regeneration, protection, etc.) and the additional methods to give boons (pop a virtue to give a boon, etc.). For more tankiness, go into Valor (Toughness/Critical Damage), which has a lot of great tanky traits, like +90 toughness/20% shield recharge.

For weapon choices, it’s hard to beat Mace/Shield for pure tankiness. From mace, you have a symbol which heals, an ability which blocks the next attack, and a basic chain which does an aoe heal on the third attack. The shield provides a protection boon every 30 seconds and projectile reflect/heal every 40, plus additional armor. I like the staff as a support swap, because Empower can make your DPS buddies do a lot more damage for 8 seconds and provides another heal; symbol of swiftness can be a heal with the right traits, and the #2 is another weak heal. Another good options for support is Sword/Focus. You get a blind on a 12 second cooldown from sword and a projectile reflect. The focus gives a bouncing blind/condition removal for support and a 3-attack block for tankiness. The sword’s chain is strong single target DPS as well.

For healing, I like to take Signet of Resolve, simply because it’s the biggest self-heal and provides passive condition removal. Healing Breeze can be used if you need to heal your group more, but I find it’s usually less effective and hard to aim for max effectiveness.

For utility slots, I love shouts. They give great group buffs and are almost always useful. I run with “Retreat!” to give my party Aegis/Swiftness and “Save Yourselves!” for condition removal and making me awesome/stun breaking. My third utility is either “Stand Your Ground” for stability or “Hold the Line” to give the group protection and regeneration.

I’m not a huge fan of our elites. Tome of Courage is good for crazy healing when you need it, but Renewed Focus is nice, since you can pop all three virtues, then use Renewed Focus for a bit of burst healing, defense and offense at the same time, and it has half the cooldown.

Pretty much what I shot for is defensive/tank with support/healing capacity, as much as we can. I went full honor/valor and 10 radiance (for the signet cooldown reduction on my heal). I use primarily meditations (contemplation, smite condition) alongside one consecration (purging flames) and the tome of courage. I’m in full cleric with mace/shield as my primary and staff as my backup/support weapon.

My job is basically at the front of the line dropping the mace symbol and trying to stay in it and keep myself and anyone brave enough to join me alive until whatever we’re fighting is dead. Occasionally I will fall back and pull out staff #4 to help out with damage, when I can. It works out pretty well for me.

All that being said, I’ve never understood why farming the STORY mode is so popular.

Story mode CM gives you a TON of experience. Almost an entire level.

Bloody Zac.8960:

Story mode CM gives you a TON of experience. Almost an entire level.

I had assumed it was that kind of player, thanks for the confirmation :P

Personally, you have to do the dungeon enough in explore mode to get the tokens to buy the armor. I’d go mad if that’s all I did to level as well.

DirewolfX.5861:

For healing, I like to take Signet of Resolve, simply because it’s the biggest self-heal and provides passive condition removal. Healing Breeze can be used if you need to heal your group more, but I find it’s usually less effective and hard to aim for max effectiveness.

Just as an aside, the sylvari racial Healing Seed is really nice for group heals. For any other sylvari support guardians out there, I highly recommend trying it out, particularly in dungeons.

I ran with 3 Els, a thief, and my ranger. Whizzed thru sub 20-min run, yippee fill the bags and your bar.

It’s not like you need a defensive anything, just coordinated party.

So whatever guardian build you like to play will work just fine for CM-Story.