Guild Wars 2

Hi,
I try to play guardian for days now, and I must say I’m bad. it seems I don’t understand the skills and basics.
I play with sword/focus and greatsword, smite condition, judge’s intervention, stand your ground, monk’s focus build. Knight’s amulet. Most of the time, 2-5 seconds after I start a fight, I’ve lost half of my health, I see red number everywhere and I’m under the effect of a lots of conditions. I’ve tried to kill guardians who were laughing at me, because I wasn’t doing much damage, but they seemed to hit me really hard. I understand it’s a problem of skills, and I’d like to have some advice, even basics, to improve myself.
Thanks !

The problem with sPvP is there isn’t much flexiblity in stats. This especially applies to Guardian who really can do 3 things only. 1. Full Support, No AH or Monks Focus. 2. Ah or 3. Monks focus. I can’t replicate my stats at all in sPvP, so i end up with 20k+ hp, but kitten for crit damage/crit rate. I feel the only effective sPvP guardian build is just pure Bunker, i.e just standing in place and taking damage until your friends come to kill/take point.

Hey spleen if you are using monks focus, the meditations heal, I suggest using some healing power gear, will make you heals go up a lot more with smite conditions every 16 sec providing you with a really nice heal in between your big heal. A guardian has a lot of options to mitigate damage which is their specialty, so to play successfully you want to stop damage before it hits you, guardians can also be excellent killers, It will just take a bit to learn the class more, and a little knowledge. I have no problem providing you with some info, and hopefully the rest of the guardian community can to, if you are just looking for a fun SPVP build I recommend at least going 15 points in the critical damage tree for 2 things, the blind on virtue of justice is great, and the 15 point minor trait that resets virtue of justice every time you kill someone. This ability allows you to always be able to guarantee to make the enemy miss multiple times. What amulet are you using? And is your heart set on the focus for an offhand weapon? With a little bit more knowledge of what stats you are using and what you want to do I can help you more.

Thanks for your help ! I use 0/30/30/10 atm, with sword/focus and knight amulet, since someone else recommended me. he also advised me to play 5 vs 5 first, and I must say I feel more comfortable know and a bit less useless ^^