Guild Wars 2

Hello!
I came back after a year and a half of inactivity. Jumped on my guardian and started playing with the burn and Spirit Weapons. Here’s the build.

6/4/2/0/2
Zeal – Shattered Aegis, Spirit-Weapon Mastery, Amplified Wrath
Radiance – Shimmering Defence, A Fire Inside
Valor – Defender’s Flame
Virtues – Improved Spirit-Weapon Duration

Main: Greatsword
Secondary: Sceptor, Focus
Sigil of earth / Sigil of Geomancy (Both sets)
Switching weapon gives Bleed(3): 280 dmg per tick

Rune of Balthazar / Rampager Amulet

Burn Damage Uptime
Spirit-Sword Damage Per Hit:
Burn Damage: 2 seconds = 1550 (2 ticks)
Regular Damage: 521

Spirit Weapon Hammer:
Attacks 3x every 6 seconds: 4,650 (6 ticks)
Regular Damage 174

Keeping DoT uptime isn’t an issue at all. Because of Defender’s Flame, Aegis(3x), Shelter (main heal and causes aoe burn when finish) and Shield of Wrath

Using Judge Intervention for coming back up immediately if stunned, downed, etc and needing to come up close to switch weapon for bleeds and Whirl Wrath

Everything else is pretty much straight forward. The biggest Con would probably be the swords up-time but they’re usually up in dire situations. Some one in game said spirit wielders are one of the best in game for 1v1 but I can’t vouch for that.

You organized everything else so nicely… but can you give us a link to the Build on gw2skills.net? (Editor = http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ )

Been looking for a Spirit Weapons build that might suit my style, this seems to be along the right lines…

How do you remove conditions reliably?

Also, I feel like Fiery Wrath would be a way better bonus than Shattered Aegis for a build like this? Burning is a pretty key element, and 10% damage to burning people is pretty big.

Yea forgotten about that :P here you go. Build Link

10% damage didn’t seem like a lot to me in group fights, especially short fights. it’s really only a 30-50 damage increase on crit shots. The way I see it you’ll have 5 Aegis total doing 1230 for sure dmg, not including an increase in might. Definitely in zerg fights, V will deal this damage a whole lot quicker.

But that was just my personal opinion.

As for conditions removal on this build, you can alternate to Purging Flames or even change out you hammer… but you’ll be trading in damage for little condition mitigation.

I’m leveling a Guardian right now and while the untraited Sword alone is pretty ridiculous, it lasted a bit longer and did quite decent damage after I buffed it with Staff #4.

By “Aegis (3x)” I assume you mean the passive VoC proc, active VoC, (elite), active VoC again?

@Seras
Yes assuming you have your first free shield up from Virtue of Courage, (1), Enabling Virtue of Courage, (2) and your elite skill (3)
You also gain an aegis when you’re below half health from Valorous Defence (4)
And if you heal back up once that triggers, (5)
I use that combo all the time, unless of course I know I’m about to get zerged down. With all my blocks and aoe, it’s not uncommon to bring 3 people (especially melee) down to half health before I die.

(Sorry for not replying sooner, am out of town)

i have a quick question, does the bow actually heal? It says it rains down healing arrows, but i have yet to catch a glimpse of healing and the tooltip doesnt mention how much it heals for or if its healing scales with healing power :O

Riox.6129:

i have a quick question, does the bow actually heal? It says it rains down healing arrows, but i have yet to catch a glimpse of healing and the tooltip doesnt mention how much it heals for or if its healing scales with healing power :O

Yep, it does heal, in AoE around it with a rain animation. According to the wiki, it does not scale with healing power.