Guild Wars 2

As a guard i really enjoy roaming around in WvW and experiencing quick skirmishes with myself or with a small group of other players. I’ve also came across this 0/0/20/30/20 build i’m lovin’ that gives me 300 health every tick, 3k-3.3k armor, 20k health around 3k power and over 1k healing power but 0 precision.

I’m starting to ‘win’ at a higher ratio than dieing now but the problem is i’m finding a lot of small challenges when running around with the guard:

1) If the enemy runs away at around 20-30% health its unlikely i’ll be able to chase them down even though i’win’ the fight i just dont kill many.

- likewise if you need to run away you’ll be in trouble.

2) While the mace and other weapons with on-your-spot symbol skills are great with the symbol healing ticks, we are barely in positions where we can optimize them. This is because there are so many ranged classes/enemy AOe spells/need to dodge roll. Even if you d activate an increase movement speed skill, you’re only keeping up with them for that boon moment, provided you are within hitting range.

3) (This is more of a non-high-hp-guardian problem) because of having low base hp, if you devote more of your points to power, anytime you reach below 60-70% health you may be putting yourself at risk of dieing in a single moment
t – even if beyond 2-3 secs later you would of been fine.

While many of these challenges are just what they are, challenges to be overcome – i do support guards been given a bit more ease to overcome these (rather than handed to them).

You’re problem is youre not spec ing for any damage whatsoever, but you’re going all out on survivability. If you don’t want people to just run from you need more damage, and possibly different weapons with JI.

Try mixing it up. Meditation builds are in a very good place right now due to the ability to burst damage and burst heal. I can chase down just about every class (besides thieves and some warrs) with GS3, Sw2, and JI. Bags on bags on bags.