Guild Wars 2

Hey, Im a new guardian here and im hoping someone can tell me how to make my guardian build a little bit more tanky in sPvP?

wear a tankier amulet…?

Hi grimpool!

as Darknicrofia said wear tankier amulett.

Nowadays the zerker guardian’s survivability is in question. You have to use active defence to live. It takes skill and practice. But if you do not have time to learn you won’t… Slap on a Carrion or Marauder or even Soldier and practice with those until you get the feeling of the new enemies…

My 2 cents…

My current hybrid build:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Bg-s;1NFV30G3cFV90;9;4nQO;0147248036;4Tw-6X;1Bk-2Bk-21a

20,6k HP and 2600 armour: tanky enough to solo (but slow that’s the point of the GS… otherwise mace+torch would be more beneficial… if you don’t bother about speed than get these…).
nice group support
immune to condi for like 5 seconds… (you can cleanse the bomb faster than they apply it…)
nice DPS
good point denial (except for foefire…)

I’ve played around with med guard in spvp post patch for a bit and surviving using the new berserker’s amulet doesn’t really seem any harder for the most part despite having only 12k hp and 2300 armor.

You need to practice until you have the muscle memory to cleanse key conditions the moment you receive them, stun break as soon as you get cced, and manage your overall survivability by cycling through your dodges, blocks, blinds, and invincibility.

Damage went up by a lot in pvp with the new patch and survivality stayed about the same so… pvp is a mess right now.

I have to agree, the Guardian seems really squishy now. & that’s just PvE. I can get hit by 1 attack from a boss (that has no casting animation & no tell) & lose 1/2 my health in less than 1/2 a second. I wasn’t like this when I was on my zerk before. Really confused as to what is going on.

Marauder is enough is you’re looking to replace pre patch zerk.