Opinion about Guardian builds
The first build (with Altruistic Healing and Pure of Voice) is considerably better than the other one.
Unless you’re in a good organized group that provide steady access to Swiftness, you’re going to want to change one of your weapons to Staff.
You’re probably also going to want to use Shelter. It’s generally far superior to Signet of Resolve.
Finally, try to take note of how much you actually get out of Wall of Reflection. It’s not a bad skill, but if you find yourself not using it very much or it not doing very much, you could swap it out for another Consecration or maybe for a third Shout.
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what do you think about empowering might?
Pretty good trait. It helps with Altruistic Healing, although in WvW I personally prefer Two-Handed Mastery. You need to find what works for you.
I used to take AH with EM for WvW frontline but very quickly dropped EM for Two Handed Mastery. Its so much more useful when using Staff/Hammer.
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This question has plagued me ever since I played wvw on my guardian, so I ended up taking both.
I use purging flames/melandru for my condi removal so I don’t need Pure of Voice. But my opinion isn’t going be too popular, so….
Two handed mastery is better for utility and EM is better for self-sustain due to the incredible synergy with AH. The ability to heal yourself by just hitting a bunch of enemies can make surviving big blobs pretty trivial. 2hm is superior on a hammer because it simply has too much utility, including Mighty Blow, immobolizes, warding rings.
On the GS though, I would say that 2HM is useful but not necessarily better as it’s more of a damage weapon. Interrupting your AA for WW is not a dps increase and trying to spam that off cooldown can be a liability. While leaps are incredibly useful, they aren’t exactly something you spam off cooldown, at least not to the degree of use of what a hammer can do. So it comes down to having more pulls.
What you shouldn’t say is “Take 2HM for empower” because you are not going to be able to spam that off cooldown either in any real fight. There is however, that orb of light heal.
IMO, the more organized your group is, it would lean closer to 2HM because of better might stacking and healing; also if you can coordinate your CC without having some silly ranger knocking people away then you may consider 2HM more.
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(edited by ArchonWing.9480)
EM is a crutch… Faster cooldown on your wards, blast and empower is more useful.