Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone.
I made this build for WvWvW. Found it versatile with high survivabilty (a must for me) and good dps potencial.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8elYgKCnFyvDf4Eh1jBSQDiVAjXPcoEZIA;TwAgzCtogyAlAKLUOokQtaY8x+jJBA

I’ll explain my decisions:

I – AH’s heals are lame and I won’t survive becouse of that. But it goes well with Healer’s Retribution. With 2 shoults and a buffing signet, I can keep retaliation up for a long time.

II – Inscribed Removal with 2 signets avaiable, Purity and Signet of Resolve’s passive grant me good condition removal.

III – Sword and Shield is a good combination and Honorable Shield makes it even better.

IV – 30 points in Radiance helps me having better DPS.

V – Sword and Greatsword help me keep close to my target. Despite of Salve Yourselves’s high cooldown, it also helps on that.

VI – Renewed Focus recharges my virtues so with Virtue of Resolve up again, I can get another stack of retaliation.

I want a tanky dps build. More “tanky” than “dps” to be honest. In other words, wanted to be survive a lot without having an ignorable dps.

Please tell me if you find this build consistent. I’m not asking if you would use it, I know everyone has a different opinion. Just tell me if I missed or misinterpreted something.

Thank you.

Forgot to tell you the gear: Soldier’s Armor and Knight’s Trinkets and Weapons.

HEAL SKILL means your number 6 skill.
Healer’s Retri isn’t gonna trigger off everything that pops green numbers.

Yea, I noticed that. Despite that, what do you think?

I think this build is kind of messy.

I will comment on your comments.

I – AH’s heals are lame and I won’t survive becouse of that. But it goes well with Healer’s Retribution. With 2 shoults and a buffing signet, I can keep retaliation up for a long time.
AH heal not lame, did you know AH heal also work with our virtues? You can heal by just using virtues and Renewed focus

II – Inscribed Removal with 2 signets avaiable, Purity and Signet of Resolve’s passive grant me good condition removal.
Since your using Signets the passive of SoR is not enough and too random to help u. I find that using Pure of voice with soldier runes can better fight conditions

III – Sword and Shield is a good combination and Honorable Shield makes it even better.
Its hard to use sword in WvW because of the abilities. #3 wont hit for crap and leave u standing there like a big target. The #2 is good but does not deal damage and the dps for sword is one of the lowest for guardians. I advise taking a scepter since its the second highest DPS and also have a immobilizer. I feel stopping the opponent to help your party deal damage is better then chasing him alone and in the end getting gank

IV – 30 points in Radiance helps me having better DPS.
If you going for cri, get around 40% or dont even try to get DPS.

V – Sword and Greatsword help me keep close to my target. Despite of Salve Yourselves’s high cooldown, it also helps on that.
Save(Not Salve) is a double edge sword, please remember that you draw all condition around you, your build does not remove condition fast enough.

VI – Renewed Focus recharges my virtues so with Virtue of Resolve up again, I can get another stack of retaliation.
True.

Please remember that retaliation deals a flat damage of 325 and it does not reflect the damage. You will still receive 100% of the damage. So retaliation is kinda useless against burst damage users like warriors or thief.

And if your planning of using your sword and going into the thick of battle, shelter is a better healing spell cause the amount of damage that will be absorb will be higher that all the other healing spells can heal.

IMO… Monks > AH if you can swing it into your builds. AH is now too relyant on others being around you for it to work without the many vigor procs it gave before. In PvP you can’t always count on other people to always be in range for that trait to work.

+1 to the use scepter > 1h sword. This will also give you a ranged option.

Your build doesn’t have selfless daring… that makes me cry manly guardian tears T.T

Great consideration, folks.
I already have a 37% critical chance and it’s growing, since I’m switching my Soldier’s trinkets (all greens) for Knight’s (all exotics).
Thank you for explaining me how retaliation works. I didn’t know it was a flat dmg.

Meditations = Solo
Shouts = Party

If you are playing solo in WvW then your playing it wrong. And the buff for shouts like Hold the Line has regen and reduces incoming damage by 33%. Also shouts has a faster cooldown then meditations.

I think AH is on par with Meditations. Just see if you want to solo or not. But as i said if you play solo in WvW then you playing it wrong.

@Orson
The shield #4 also heal u when u buff 5 persons. I usually would recommend a staff because of empower which can heal you for around 6k hp but its your call. Remember that you can reequip out of combat, nothing wrong carrying an extra weapon. Staff has an extra speed buff to boost for chasing people with your party.

@DeadlyRush
I run a 2 meditation build. I just wanted something tankier without sacrificing too much my dps.
I use sword/focus and scepter/torch, but I’d like to wear a shield and switch the scepter for something else. I have an amazing burst dps, but I want to have more ulility, even that I must give up on some of that dps. I usually party with a Thief (friend of mine) and I was hoping I could help keeping him alive, buff him and CC without having the disposable dps of a bunker build.

In a few words, I want a good 1×1, 2×2, 2x?? (?? goes from 1 to 4) build, that gives me great survivability and support skills with some (some, not huge) dps. What I want is closer to a bunker than to a glass cannon build.

I would love to hear suggestions.
As I said before, I wear Soldier’s armor and Knight’s weapons and trinkets (still working on trinkets). Keeping that would be great.

Thank you!

@Orson
What you are saying is impossible. You want great survivability, support and DPS. I suggest totally getting DPS out of your mind. What you want is a hybrid and you wont get the best of all worlds.

As you said you are running a 2 meditation build which already does not support your friend in any way.

Having a build for 1v1 does not mean that the build will be good in party fights. If you fighting in WvW with only 2 person, then i suggest forget about support and directly going for meditation because there is no perfect build which can be played in every situation. I always change my build in WvW depending on what is happening. Switching out shouts for wall of reflection etc. So there is no such thing as 1 build to rule them all.

Meditations it is, then. Thank you very much.