Guild Wars 2

My alt guardian is fast approaching 80 and I have been looking at various builds and advice. However alot of the discussion is for the high end and I have no intention of becoming that good at my guard (it is an alt). So looking for guard builds and gear setups that are fun and allow a bit of leniency in either dungeons or WvW. Anyone have some suggestions?

If it helps I am an average/above average player and run mostly with mixed groups of guildies/pugs (guildies range a bit in ability as well). FotM 26 is just hard enough to be interesting without being stressful.

If your not planning on playing them higher end dungeons/WvW..then I would suggest healway. The armour/rune setup is fairly reasonable as they are not in demand items. However the sigils of superior energy are about 4 gold each. It doesn’t do the best D.P.S, but it has fantastic sustain and group benefits.

When I use it in dungeons I rarely have team members go down provided you know the dungeon well and know what utilities/shouts/virtues to use at the right moment. You truly can prevent entire team wipes if you play them skillfully.

I enjoy healway

But that’s just because i’m a fanboy of healing people to full health with a virtue and staff 4 and being a boon dispenser.

ya you’re going to have low dps but thats why you have team mates

Also healway works in dungeons. I just used it in Ac, cof, se, cm, and Arah. Only 1 wipe in total with pugs.

I enjoy a build that’s around 3/4 offensive and 1/4 defensive. 10/25/30/5/0 with knights armor (runes-whatever suits you…I use divinity), zerker trinkets and weps. This will give you very good damage with just enough toughness to be able to screw-up a couple dodges.
Good luck!

Flintbrow.7985:

I enjoy a build that’s around 3/4 offensive/defensive. 10/25/30/5/0 with knights armor (runes-whatever suits you…I use divinity), zerker trinkets and weps. This will give you very good damage with just enough toughness to be able to screw-up a couple dodges.
Good luck!

Kinda agree here, as far this is out of my gameplay style its when im more effecient (zerker / valkyr and knights).

Chiming in here for Healway as well. I’m a cheap kitten when it comes to trying out new builds, and I started out Healway with only rares. I used 2 water runes and 4 altruistic instead of the 3 water/3 monk that the build calls for, so I lost out on a little bit of healing power while still maintaining the boon duration.

The fundamentals of the build still work with such cheap equipment. It is a VERY solid build to try for a fresh 80. You won’t be doing OMGWTFBBQ damage, but you will be extremely hard to kill, while being decent DPS and support for yourself and anyone around you.

Give it a try.