Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I’m looking for a little guidance on how to use my guardian in pvp. I’ve had my guardian almost since launch, but have never really experimented with him in spvp. I made a build that I’m pretty satisfied with, but it does seem to have its short comings (currently he’s a glass cannon, in a since). I’m using him as a burn guardian.

Weapons: Sword (Bursting)/Torch (Smoldering), Staff (Battle and Water)
Amulet: Carrion
Rune: Balthazar
Heal: Guardian – Utilities: Judge’s Intervention, Contemplation of Purity, “Stand Your Ground!” – Elite: “Feel My Wrath!”

Radiance: Inner Fire -> Radiant Fire -> Amplified Wrath
Zeal: Fiery Wrath -> Kindled Zeal -> Shattered Aegis
Virtue: Retaliatory Subconsciousness -> Supreme Justice -> Permeating Wrath

If anyone has any tips or suggestions to offer, I’m open to it!

If you want to make a pure condition burning guardian, I can show you my build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQRAsd7flsAhyhYzQwbIwPEH+DVOJmwM0GAVQdeD3L4DA-TZRGwAAOCAZ2fgZZA0nEACPAAA

No support and stability but 2 breakstun , movement skills, blind and block skills, immobilize and some range damage and defensive skills.

Sword, scepter and torch can be the best weapons to stack burn (expecially torch with it’s skill 4 and also the skill 5, that pass through objects and hit AoE. Also clean a condition per pulse on allies.)

Anyway, there’s a thing that you absolitly Need while you play a guardian in sPvP: Survavibility. We have 12k hp (20k with Carrion, but no toughness), if we don’t use traits and skills to heal a little we fall quickly. That’s why I prefer Renewed Focus on Feel My Wrath, because recharge your virtues and give you immunity to everything for 3 sec, with 2k of heal by trait.

If you’re a dps use always meditation (you can chose how many and what meditation use) to obtain heal, fury, mobility and condi-clean.
Zeal can really help you to deal high direct damage, but without meditation you have only a healing skill to survive, that frequently is not enough.

Staff is good to stack might, but isn’t good to stack burn why haven’t skills that hit fast like torch skill 2 or sword skill 3, helping you to stack burn.
You can chose to use inner fire (like nyou actually do) and use the GS, that hit fast with the skill 2 and help to deal direct and conditio ndamage.

If you want to try a direct damage build, there’s one:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAR7dlsAhyhY1QwbIQQEHxDVeMexYsGANQBc33YIHA-TZBFABCcRAEvMAK7P02RAAgHAAA

After all that, you can make a build by your own and find that it work very well for you. If you want to have stability use stand your ground, if you like the staff use it, if you think that you don’t need meditation’s heal and fury chose the traits that fits better your playstyle.

Play like you want to play. have fun is the only thing that matter in a game :-)

Hi there!

You can have a look at my build too! I use this since the patch…

Ammy: Carrion
Rune: Flame Legion
Traits:
Radiance (1-5-8)
Valor (2-5-8)
Virtues (3-5-7or9)

Weapon: GS and usually Hammer (yeah, I know how silly it sounds…)

Sigils: Hydromancy and Bursting in the GS, Intelligence and Hydromancy in the Hammer.

Heal: Shelter
Elite: Renewed Focus for more Condi cleanse.
Utilities: Purging Flames (the core of the build), Judge’s Intervention, Contemplation of Purity for even more condi cleanse (but you can fit Feel My Wrath! or Stand Your Ground! into this build easily…).

GS is your opening weapon if you are a +1. Get advantage of the Whirl finishers in the Fire/Light Fields! Your CC has a long CD so make sure you use it before swapping to Hammer. In Hammer you get less access to burn (only passive procs, the F1, the JI and the Purging Flames but it’s likely that you used at least 1-2 of the actives). But you have intelligence sigil so your first 1-2 attacks hit like a truck (likely mighty blow and the zealot’s embrace). It’s a standard hammer gameplay from now: try to catch your enemy with one of your CC skill.

If you are in a teamfight the Hammer is your main weapon (what a surprise! :P).
The Purging Flames can really shine here:

aoe condi cleanse
aoe burn
fire field for might
fire field for Whirl (more burn)

But you have some blinds (F1 renewed-by-justice, GS leap)
Full condi reset if focused (CoP)
AoE condi cleanse (Absolute Resolution)
AoE Fury (your meditation skills)

You gain access to 4 long CD crowd control ability but apart of the Banish they are all AoE or Piercing.

And you have two excellent burst skills on low CD: Whirling Wrath and Mighty Blow (extremely telegraphed and slow but still great for a Hybrid build…)

Combine this with your Feel my Wrath and you will see where I’m getting this from!

Note:

I know that not using torch in my hybrid set is a negative. But these weapons give me what I need:

burst
some mobility
lots of CC
aoe

any other weapon combination and I only get more burns (apart of the focus).

This build is NOT a burn guardian! It’s a build with nice CC and physical damage and some burn as backup and pressure tool.

I’m also aware that this build is extremely weak against kiters. JI, GS leap (for some extend Mighty Blow) and that’s it. You can do some more pressure with Purging Flames at range but… Do not fight a kiter 1v1! If there are many in the opposite group play teamfighter!

Hope this helps!

Happy Guardin’!