Guild Wars 2

I recently resumed playing Guild Wars 2 and was overwhelmed with the changes in the Builds and Traits. I find it quite better now since the system is more streamlined and the traits seem to work more closely with each other. (There are no partial points to a tree making the build neat, in some sense.)

I play mainly as a Guardian and I have been trying to read through the new builds now, and I haven’t come across any builds dedicated to support or “tanking.” Most builds are all built around Zeal-Radiance-Virtues. Every other build has also been built around Berserker equipment. The first thing I did, as a result, was to get me a set. I haven’t given it a whirl yet but I suppose I will do that soon. I just don’t know how the survivability is now compared to before, without the Honor or Valor traits being used.

I’ve never made use of the Zeal and Radiance Trees before so I am a bit lost with how to build my Guardian for PVE now. Aren’t there builds focused in Honor or Valor anymore? If anyone can point me to some guides that would be awesome.

You can run a Honor/Valor/Virtues + Shouts build with zerk gear in PvE and do fine. The damage will be decent but not optimal and its very survivable and supporty. Useful especially as you relearn stuff.

I sometimes run the standard GS+M/T zerker build with zeal-rad-virt, but I drop virtues line (GASP!) and use honor, and drop torch for shield – since I am not using torch I run the ret trait in radiance. I run the mace trait or res trait, the aegis or empowering might trait (depends on group comp) and then writ of persistence. It gives me almost constant uptime on the mace symbol if i want it. The new shield stuff is great. I swap my utilities around alot, but what i have in the link are what i use the most. I find the build is flexible and gives me alot of sustain, support, and still good pretty good dps. Give it a try if you are looking for something a little more supporty.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAR5elsAhehYzQwVIQQEHxDVNAag6F3D/3WY3g89RB-T5QGwAAOCAj2fAaZAA

Garimeth.8725:

I sometimes run the standard GS+M/T zerker build with zeal-rad-virt, but I drop virtues line (GASP!) and use honor, and drop torch for shield – since I am not using torch I run the ret trait in radiance. I run the mace trait or res trait, the aegis or empowering might trait (depends on group comp) and then writ of persistence. It gives me almost constant uptime on the mace symbol if i want it. The new shield stuff is great. I swap my utilities around alot, but what i have in the link are what i use the most. I find the build is flexible and gives me alot of sustain, support, and still good pretty good dps. Give it a try if you are looking for something a little more supporty.

I was also looking at this route as well – in any case if more support was needed I would just probably swap out the GS with a Hammer to create more damage mitigation with Symbol.

I’m pretty happy that the Mace is getting more exposure with the new builds. Despite being slower than the other 1H weapons, it actually packs quite a punch and offers great sustainability also.

I would probably play around with my gear and see what I can come up with – I have three sets for my Guard at the moment. (Knight’s/Soldier’s/Beserker’s) I thought I would never have to change my Knight’s set for PVE but I guess the changes in the game is pushing me to do so.

Thanks for the comments, y’all.