Guild Wars 2

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQRApd8flsApVoNDxcI8DNhARZZA0AYfC1wceZEkBA-TZhAwArLDYd/hRPAAAHEgOnBAA

So I made up this build yesterday. It’s a bunker guardian with 3.4k armor, 16.8k health, and 1k healing power. BUT this build kills things as well by having almost 100% uptime on burning. By using runes of the guardian with defender’s flame and searing flames, every time I block an attack I cause almost 3 seconds of burning and remove a boon. Add to that purging flames, zealot’s flame, and judge’s intervention, and the burning never ends. It doesn’t matter how many times they clear condis because the burns re-apply all day. I fought the svanir NPC and he had well over 20 seconds of burning stacked on him when he died!

5 on demand active burns
4 on demand blocks (3 of them can block multiple attacks, every block is 2 burns)
1 passive block (virtue of courage passive aegis)
Every burn removes a boon 10 sec ICD
2 teleports
2 stun breaks
3 on demand AoE blinds
Several condi clears
good team support 3 AoE condi removals, 2 regens, protection, retaliation, stability, plus AoE virtues when activated

just kite and dodge and time your blocks well. use your blinds and dodge rolls if blocks are on CD. Use your teleports and torch #5 to pressure. Use shelter around 2/3 health but make sure you block as many attacks with it as you can because the burn-on-block has no ICD. In an emergency pop all your virtues and use renewed focus. Remember never, ever, ever dodge-roll during renewed focus cast I’ve facepalmed so many times seeing a guardian do that lol….

forgot to say I have tried this in some 1v1s and it was very powerful. still have more testing to do but I was really surprised how effective it was, even though I don’t know the skills really well yet (have never used sword or torch on guardian til now)

Where is your CC to take your opponents off points?

And is PF enough condi clears for your team and yourself with this condi meta?

No projectile reflects?

How do you fight ranged opponents w/o getting off the point?

Blasino.3128:

Where is your CC to take your opponents off points?

And is PF enough condi clears for your team and yourself with this condi meta?

No projectile reflects?

How do you fight ranged opponents w/o getting off the point?

Well I lost line of warding but that was my only CC on the standard 0/0/2/6/6 build anyway. I only had 1 stun break before and now I have 2. I never had projectile reflection before, just blocks, which I have more of now. I never could leave the point before but now I can up to 1,200 range because I have judge’s intervention to port to it if someone tries to contest it. I lost condi removal from shouts which is 4 clears total, but I gained 3 clears from purging flames, the passive clear of purity trait, and the purity sigil. There is a little bit less AoE clearing for allies though so I guess that is a drawback, but purging flames works for allies and so does cleansing flame.

edit: this is the build I was running before

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQRApd7flsApVo1CxeI8DNBFBldHS/6xOCLYCXFAA-TZRDABH/AA0qMAT7PAwRAQiTCAA

While it’s an interesting build, that’s not really the point of a bunker guard. Bunker Guard is used for support, this is pretty much just a tanky 1v1 build. Very little team synergy. Other classes can do that better.

I’m sorry, but this is probably one of the worst builds I’ve seen. Tons of healing power but no healing skills. Low HP and insufficient condi removal for the meta means you’re dead in seconds.

All this negativism. He tested it out and said it was powerful. At least try it before you shoot it down because it’s not standard. :P

I did try it out. And it plain doesn’t work. Anyone that can bomb condis on you will kill you. After having switched to 3 medis and heal on medi it worked out a lot better. When you have that much healing pwr from gear you need to have skills that support it. OP’s build only have regen for extra heal, it’s imo not enough.

Doesn’t fulfill the purpose of bunker guard at all which makes it mostly useless, unless it’s good for home point bunker (doubtful).

Valid points, but isn’t some of this L2P?

Has 2 less heals (one small, one unreliable) than if I had staff, but I gain 2 AoE blinds so as long as I can master how to use the blinds effectively I can mitigate enough damage to offset that.

I do lose line of warding which is the one thing I really feel like I’m missing.

As far as healing power with no healing skills?? Shelter, virtue of resolve passive and active, aegis heals on removal, dodge rolls heal (with 2 energy sigils and vigor on crit), ray of judgment, symbol of faith, and mace auto attack….. That’s 9 sources of healing, only 3 of which are personal heals.

Condi removal – purging flames and ray of judgment are nice, but the biggie is cleansing flame. AoE curing a bunch of condis on up to 3 allies with 12 sec CD. Since it’s targeted AoE, it takes more skill than just a 1-click shout, but much lower CD, and does good damage.

I just think the build is harder to play but has potential to be possibly even more effective if I can master the timing of aoe blinds and cleansing flame.

Plus, I’m burning all the enemies nearby with nearly 100% uptime no matter how many times they clear it.

Yesterday I fought a necro 1v1 in Lich form on a point and killed him without going below 90% health or using any utilities. I’m sure he was newb though >.<