Guild Wars 2

Mainly for CoF, possibly Arah as well. I leveled my guardian purely for DE farming, I haven’t looked much into other builds since I just put most of my traits into whatever would help me get loot credit better. But now, I’m pretty exhausted doing DEs whenever I need money or karma so I decided to have fun in some dungeons.

Anyway, I’m looking for good weapon combos, traits, stats, ect. Any help is appreciated.

I’ve been using one for quite some time now and I like it, never got problems tagging mobs even during Orr chaotic DEs (haven’t been there lately during prime time though), and since it focuses on AoE, I find dungeoning easy as well.

Zeal 30 – Fiery Wrath, Greatsword Power, Zealous Blade (yes, this one)
Valor 10 – Retributive Armor or Meditation Mastery
Honor 30 – Writ of Exaltation, Writ of the Merciful, Two Handed Mastery

People complain alot about Zealous Blade, saying it’s healing is subpar, and even though I don’t find it insanely useful, it is a nice healing when you’re hitting alot of targets at once, and Symbols damage procs it as well.
Plus Symbols’ healing and area, makes AoE tagging/damaging/survivability great, as well the damage (from the Zeal minor Traits).

I swap between Greatsword, Staff and Hammer, usually Staff and something else.

During boss fights or heavy AoEs, I pull the Staff, wait until (attacking of course) 5 seconds on Swap, cast Empower, Symbol of Swiftness, swap to Greatsword, Symbol of Wrath, Whirling Wrath.
You can do this every 15~20 seconds because of Symbol of Wrath’s cooldown, it gives 12 stacks of Might to everyone plus about 7~8 stacks of Vulnerability for 5 or so seconds, while healing you for quite a bunch (I farm mobs like this, pulling 8~10 with ease).

For stats, since it’s just PvE farming, you can go full Berserker for max damage, or mix in some Valkyrie/Soldier/Knight’s for a little more survivability if you’d like.

The main issue I have with this build is that I don’t get to use Swords and their awesome skills.