Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I’m looking for some builds that you can vouch for to use in Fractals 40+. Some explanations on why you use certain gear / traits / weapons would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi thisisu.7504

Different fractal required different utilities and weapons, it’s very situational IMO. However, skills that you must use is Wall of Deflection and Sanctuary.

For Gnawl Stage, you need to have Shield, Hammer, Scepter for the CC to prevent hostage being killed. At the final boss, you need Wall of Deflection (to deflect boss agony attacks), Shield of Avenger( to protect teammate from Lava worm’s attack, and pull all of them with Greatsword (5) finish them off quickly), and my personal favorite, Sanctuary to revive down ally with Focus (5) on.

For the Asura stage, for start, you need Wall of Deflection ( to deflect electric ball Knockdown & attacks from Harpies), Hold Your Ground (to immune to KD), Shield of Avenger to absorb all attack from Harpies). At mid boss, poison kitty robot, you need Shield of Avenger to absorb the poison aoe, in case ur the only Guardian in ur team, u need Sanctuary pop out at where the boss stand to pro long the shield absorber effect after spirit shield is worn out. At final boss, when all kitty robots functioning, first you should do is, pop out Shield of Avenger, at the middle with the boss , and Greatsword(5), pull all of them together, they should be down in a moment.

At Underwater stage, i prefer to pop out spirit weapons to assist my dps, pretty straight forward. nothing important to highlight, depend on your play style

At Giant stage, nothing much here too, to avoid being blowed out by the duct at the ramp, use Hold Your Ground, Retreat helps too.

At Dredge, Shield of Avenger is your best friend, same goes to Wall of Deflection. At final boss, just use a Retreat , Wall of Deflection (if Dredge boss spilling bombs), and range weapon if ur not confidence in melee with them.

I’ll post again, off to eat =p

to yLoon,

from your experience shield of the avenger is still viable after the nerf?
I have tried it on harpies on much much lower fractal than 40… and it was eaten in like ten seconds

I used it last night on that one and it worked pretty well. Seemed like it didnt last quite as long as before but still got the job done.

i have yet to reach 40+ fractals, but i find with my build (AH) to be useful for my survivability but not for my group.

I can see how shield of the avenger can be useful, i have yet to try them out in the previously stated situations.

As stated, weapons/skills are very situational. As for builds, standard AH builds are still the go-to and work well. I’ve personally taken a liking to 20/20 honor/virtues over the standard 30/10, though.

Hi Lalangamena.3694, yes, spirit shield is absolutely viable even after the nerfed.

To continue from previous post, here it goes~~

At Ascalon stage, turn left from the tent and run along the perimeter to reach to first boss,when stumble upon first wave of mobs, let our charr comrade to storm the front, then Focus(5) & (4) One hand Sword tele blind, swap to GS leap to blind them, also Virtue of Justice to Blind(Radiance 15 points) them constantly in order to keep ur team alive. First boss is easy, get the burning oil down. In the town, take a keen look on mobs name, projectile mob such as Monk, Elementalist, Archer, you should storm the front and immediately pop out your Wall of Deflection, again, GS leap and VOJ to blind them constantly blinded to keep ur team alive. Pop out Hold The Line too. When you reach till the heart of the city, same thing, cast wall of deflection whenever possible, sanctuary to block the door if luring the melee mobs (warrior).Final boss, nothing much to say, at 50% HP, he will use firesword and almost could one shot you, stay range i would advise.

At Swamp stage, I use, Save Yourself, Retreat, Contemplation of Purity, Staff. and Hammer. Save yourself to support tangle, tipped off teammate,. Staff to support teammate if you are not carrying wisp. At final boss,if Tree Boss, use wall of deflection.be keen on boss attack pattern, then you will know when to pop out the wall, try to help out teammate by protecting them with the wall, they will love you. At Mossman,the annoying boss, I use scepter, focus, sword and torch on him,he is just too annoying and too unpredictable. Utilities i use Retreat, Sanctuary and Hold the Line.

At Svanir stage, what i normaly did was rush into the fire, pop out Sanctuary, n lights on all of the stack. without killing them. Yes you could kill them at lower level, but at 35 onwards, you will die in a second, so just bait n light up fire. At Ice ele stage, i choose wall of deflection to protect teammate from adds projectile, sadly boss ice attack cant be deflected. I prefer Hold the Line and Retreat here. Avoid running into mid if you got teleported randomly, run along perimeter without falling to rendezvous with teammate, so to avoid aggro adds adds.Final boss, nothing special, i choose Save Yourself, Hold the Line, and Retreat for him. Always run to the ice block fall area area and dodge his blue breath.

To conclude this, heres my build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQBR0GSRkVQk2MIICxZgR4fVgiA

I only can say, Master of Consecration is a must, others you can play however you like, as long as being a dps build,not some rubbish supportive build coz IMO supportive build is a burden to the party in fractal.

Thank you for your advice, yLoon.5289 — much appreciated.

I particularly liked this idea:

For Gnawl Stage, you need to have Shield, Hammer, Scepter for the CC to prevent hostage being killed.

Our 5 skill on shield does have a nice knockback

What do you think of Virtues I – Increased damage by 20% when you are affected with Aegis? I don’t use it on fights that require reflects but for everything else it seems pretty nice. Although I’m pretty new to Guardian and am not sure how long my Aegis is staying up.

Regarding your build, the Valor tree has so many good selective traits, I am surprised you only have 10 in there. I then assume your gear is all PVT for the loss of points in traits.

thisisu.7504:

Thank you for your advice, yLoon.5289 — much appreciated.

I particularly liked this idea:

For Gnawl Stage, you need to have Shield, Hammer, Scepter for the CC to prevent hostage being killed.

Our 5 skill on shield does have a nice knockback

What do you think of Virtues I – Increased damage by 20% when you are affected with Aegis? I don’t use it on fights that require reflects but for everything else it seems pretty nice. Although I’m pretty new to Guardian and am not sure how long my Aegis is staying up.

Aegis usually ends as soon as the fight starts, unless you have an extremely blind intensive party, fighting something that doesn’t hit back, or has 100% perfect dodge record as a melee fighter with no other avoidance tricks.

thisisu.7504:

Regarding your build, the Valor tree has so many good selective traits, I am surprised you only have 10 in there. I then assume your gear is all PVT for the loss of points in traits.

Well , its very simple.
Yes, i agree with you, there is a lot of good traits in Valor, however,
I traded 100 Toughness with +20% dmg (5 on Radiant Power, 5 on Elusive Power). My style I prefer DPS build over any other things hehe.

20% when Aegis is on, this is very hard to achieve unless you go full range, with scepter and torch.Keep in mind, with Focus (5) and Aegis, attack will penetrate Aegis first, not Focus (5). To make this work, i suggest Vigorous precision is a must.

thisisu.7504:

Regarding your build, the Valor tree has so many good selective traits, I am surprised you only have 10 in there. I then assume your gear is all PVT for the loss of points in traits.

At higher levels you’re gonna be 1-2 shotted regardless of your toughness. Active damage mitigation is what you want, not passive.

Valor only decent traits are v,vi and xi and i,x,xii if you have at least 2 meditations which are mostly used in solo play.

I hate sheild of the avenger, and i hate it even more now. I think it’s a wasted slot. It may still maybe have some use in harpies and lava eles, but I don’t us it and most of the people i run with don’t either. I’ve seen cleric support and pvt type builds work so far, i prefer cleric’s. as above, get master of consecrations for wall. I don’t worry about condi removal much but I’m sure that the new fractals will be all about condis because ANet always wants to hassle us.

I also don’t like the valor tree at all (the AH tree). 5 for aegis recharge is great. 10 for purity isn’t bad. if you go 30, then you can do the shield cdr for 20, but i don’t use shield much so idk if it’s worth it. the healing tree is super strong, and the virtues tree is good too – i like the improved resolve, but it’s a lot of points, you’d have to skip either battle presence (liking this more and more and more) or AH.

I actually just read your post. Go do some fractals before you worry about 40+. I don’t either bother with the 40s anymore, the loot doesn’t justify the effort. I don’t think anyone does 50s after the recent nerf but I don’t follow this stuff anymore so I’m not sure.