Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow Guardians,

I’m pretty new to this game, been playing for about 3 weeks and got my level 80 Guardian and managed to get him in all exotic pieces, except for the back piece. I, like most newbies who come play the game and are just learning, did some research and found a couple builds that I liked, and took them into WvW. I was using the “Healway” build, and I thought it was pretty swell, was pretty tanky and didn’t die too often, however I found my damage to be lackluster, and that may have been because I only have an exotic weapon but still. So I messed around with the traits and the slot skills and found a combination that I think works pretty good together.

Now I’ve ran this build in WvW in zergs and in occasion I would get caught up in a 1v1 or even 2v1 sometimes. And it has done decently well, but I still feel like I am missing something.

So if anyone has any suggestions on anything please let me know.

My Build

If you feel that the damage is lackluster you are most likely

1) Not good enough at Retal management yet.
2) Underestimating the power of your autoattacks.
3) Getting kited too much.

Healway is a great build but it does have it’s weaknesses. Realistically you are never going to win against for example P/D thieves and PU condi mesmers, whereas you should have a much better chance against for example power based Thieves and shatter Mesmers. Honestly for solo roaming I would swap to my Mesmer or Necro because yes, you could win a 1v3 with a healway Guardian too, but you are going to spend half an hour doing it.

My best advice, if you wanna roam with healway, is to find a friend who can roam with you. A healway Guardian coupled with a condi Engineer, shatter Mesmer or D/D Elementalist are all top of the line compositions for roaming duos.

Healway isn’t a bad build, in the right circumstances. 2v1, 1v1, and/or roaming isn’t where its supposed to be. Its a group support build so trying to solo roam is giving up things without gaining the benefit for doing so.

As for your build, its not really doing anything, a mashup of sub par traiting. Going all the way to 30 in honor without AH is a bit of a waste even in a wvw build.

The game is also rather strongly gear based, going mostly cleric/soldier means that even with buffs you are going to have poor direct damage and no condition damage of note. Which is fine when you are group support in wvw. It means you hit like a wet noodle in solo environments.

I think what I see here is somebody not knowing their class, grabbing a niche build, not understanding what its for, then tinkering with the build without knowing what they are doing. Its like buying an fuel economy hybrid and then not liking the high end performance of it and attempting to install a super charger to it (hint, it defeats the purpose and doesn’t accomplish what is intended).

You need 3 things for roaming.

1.damage

2. Escapabilty/chaseability

3. Sustain

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQRArd8elUgSDHHyNEf4Eh1DAeQ/VVIeXPgYEbIA-jUCBYfDim+IwEIRM1UQM3UZtYqIas6aYKXAqYLqWGA9xA-w

This build offers all of that. Change the food to omnom berry ghosts and youve got extremely high sustain, really great dmg, tons of blinds, blocks, and dodges for defense, and soft CC through hydromancy sigils for chasing/sticking on people, and teleports with sword and JI to either get away or chase.

(Dont use hydromancy/energy until the March 18th patch. 2 on swap sigils are bugged in that one will put the other on CD, without getting the benefit of the second. Just use energy/accuracy for now. Should give you plenty of time to get the gear anyway)