Guild Wars 2

Got the game a week or two ago, and I’m really liking the Guardian, specifically a Hammer/Greatsword one. Although I’m usually awful at making builds (which probably carried through to this), I wasn’t seeing what I was looking for on the forums. I’m sort of after something that will work for WvW roaming or general 1v1 or small group PvP. Although the Guardian mainly seems to be a tanky support class, the tankiness combined with the decent number of CCs, closing attacks, and what seems like ok damage makes me feel like it will do well enough.

This is what I came up with in terms of a build

I went with Signet of Resolve for the heal mainly because of the high heal amount- more heals will help me stay alive better. The slot skills are 2 closers and the Bane Signet for its knockdown. Although Signet of Wrath has a longer stun, the increased damage from the Power addition of the Bane Signet seems preferable. However, I may switch to Wrath because of the Zeal traitline.

Traits:
Zeal 10- Going for the vulnerability here, which works with the 25 trait for Radiance.
Radiance 25- Removal of boons and decreased Signet cooldowns are somewhat self explanatory. Keeping burn up (with Virtue of Justice popping or just letting it do its thing) also ties in with the increased damage from the 25 point trait.
Valor 0- Didn’t see much good here, honestly.
Honor: The vigor aids mobility. The Aegis heal is to aid survivability, with the 20% decreased cooldowns on 2h skills will help keep CCs and closers available.
Virtues-10: Fairly simple, more damage while Aegis is up to help get opponents down.

As for gear, I had been building on gw2buildcraft before noticing that the traits were outdated, but I did have the whole gear set together here.

That’s about it, I guess. Some feedback from more experienced players would be nice, as to what I should change or if this would even work at all. Thanks in advance

Conditions are going to chew you up. You have one passive remover that’s it. Zero when it’s on CD. Unscathed Contender is extremely gimmicky and bad. Only really works if you go scepter.

I recommend you only put five into virtues, and put the other five into Radiance or Honor. Since you’re using two signets, I’d say Radiance so you could get one of the following; Inscribed Removal, or Perfect Inscriptions.

Also dump Binding Jeopardy for Fiery Wrath. 10% more dmg is going to help a lot much then five stacks of vulnerability which can be cleansed.

Pure of Heart is pretty bad too. Better off going Writ of Exaltation since you are using gs/hammer.

if you’re going for Binding Jeopardy, i’d recommend taking the scepter as well, which is pretty much an instant immobilize. with Signet of Wrath, Scepter 3 and Hammer 3, you can stack up to 18 stacks of vuln. though argubly, many think that Zeal II, 10% damage on burning foes is moer consistent and adds more DPS overall over time. and your immob goes on cooldown. though i tried it and it’s quite fun to play too : ))

so if you do, and if you take Harbinger’s recommendation and split your 10 from virtues and go the full 30 with Radiance, you can think about picking up RHS as well which adds a ton of crit chance to when you use the scepter. though, if you’re intentions are to keep hammer and GS, then go for inscribed removal maybe for more condition removal since you’re running two signets already.

i think what you’ve listed could work though.
and the valor line is not too shabby actually. 300 toughness. 30% crit damage. and i love the meditation traits.

lastly, maybe try http://www.gw2skills.net/editor : ))
they’ve done a rehaul, so split between PvP, WvW and PvE. and as far as i know, everything’s updated to the latest.

Well changed it like you guys suggested and ended up here. I do want to stick with GS/Hammer, at least for the time being, so I’m not really interested in switching to Scepter. As for the Valor line, it seems more like a support set, at least to my rather untrained eye.

There were many less changes then I expected, though xD Thanks for the help.