Hey guys, this is a build I’ve been mucking around with in sPVP, and I like it alot, so I thought I’d share it with the masses.
There are three concepts in Guardian that I love – holy fire, blocking and retaliation. Not retaliation the boon per se, but more the idea of smacking your enemy in the face (SoW/Prot Strike) when they try and hit you. I wanted to make a build which was true to these concepts and focuses on them. Turns out, it’s not all that bad.
So I started with a fairly standard Mace burst meditation build and added in a full Guardian Rune set, and Defender’s Flame, the outcome is remarkably punishing. Why? Because neither of two bonuses have an ICD, or if there is, it’s very small and I’ve never noticed an enemy not get burned when a block occurs. Moreover, there’s a decent range on them affecting your attacker, probably like 900ish I’d say, maybe more. I’m not positive on this, but it may not even require LoS.
This adds something like 800 in burn damage onto every block with my build without any requirement for additional condition damage investment, and it’s likely most of the time, these will go unpurged given their short duration. However, you can still inflict remarkably long burns, I’ve seen them up in the 15s range during Shelter, which suggests no ICD but can’t always be sure with other people around.
So that’s it, hope you like it, try it out and go smush some people up ! Didn’t want too huge wall of text, so if you have any questions about how it plays, or whatever, just ask. Space out your blocks and time them, use them defensively, not all at once to burst 20k, but bit by bit to waste CD after CD from your opponent, until he’s just a walking sack of meat on fire.
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