Guild Wars 2

its been over 2 year i play my guardian due to all the nerfs i seen happen to them. I lost my touch on playing with them and i no longer know whats a good burst build for them.

I seen certain builds that helps them support/tank but im looking for a solid damaging build that doesn’t have to do with staff.

If anyone care to help me with a build please do, i always like the great sword but im not sure if its any good. Any good builds on traits let me know please and thank you.

just go to metabattle.com or look at the meditation builds

also gw2 don’t support duels, so i wouldn’t research that part too much

GW2 DOES support duels if you’re good at rotating, which is hard for a class as slow as guard.

As for the OP’s request, the meta builds are generally for team play which is something you won’t have to worry about as a guardian since you’ll, like, always be in the thick of things. For duel builds, the best (easiest) duel build is probably 60611 condi with carrion amulet and krait runes. You’ll be a walking torch with this build. Any other zerk build has probably existed for a very long time and can probably be found on metabattle.

Is the condo build consider a noob build? I need something that isn’t cheese to
The point where people QQ about it. In the meta build site I couldn’t find a great sword build most of it support team builds which isn’t what I want. Sorry if I’m Being picky.

Technically, there is no “uber skill” guardian build, at least in relation to the other classes. You spend your time basically auto attacking and blocking/blinding in between your own damage bursts.

That being said, my recommendation for “uber dueling” for guard would still be 61610 with zerk instead of carrion, while taking fiery wrath, focus and scepter related traits in the zeal line. As for valor, the usual meditation traits. As for the utilities, the usual, except you swap contemplation of purity for bane signet. As for runes, I use pack, but you can swap for traveler if you’re fine with dropping some power for some mobility. For sigils, you take fire and rage.

Now, on paper, condi builds would demolish you, except you have 2.5k power without might. You’ll have to end engagements IMMEDIATELY which isn’t hard at all when you can open for nearly 10-12k WITHOUT procs (heavy golem dies instantly). With focus mastery, you can be more liberal with your SoW (use your head and don’t burn it jumping into the center of a group fight). If you’re going tete a tete with your target and NOT ambushing them, open with scepter (which does a crapload of damage on its own) and burst at your discretion. Cool part about this build is that if you’re in range, you can burn the signet’s active to whirl again without having to worry about them running out of range (be sure to use it AFTER they’ve burnt stun breakers). Nothing but raw zerk damage and, in my opinion, requires for you to be as sharp as you possibly can be.

As for how this fares against meta is up to you. You’ve got the burst to shred everything but a shoutbow in the first 60 seconds, but you’ve only got smite condition to defend yourself against their conditions, so be ready to either go hard or go back to spawn.