So I’m currently leveling my first Guardian. I’ve been maining warrior and I’m tier 28 in fractals. I’d like to focus my Guardian build toward fractals and I’d like to hear what the pros have to say. I’m definitely leaning towards tanky over dps, but I’m somewhat ignorant on Guard builds.
Do an AH/EM build 0/0/30/30/10, get altruistic healing and empowered might.
GS/Scepter or hammer/scepter but I prefer GS for its Jade Maw perk and mob pull.
Then go all out in zerk gear.
10 in virtues is for unscathed contender for dps. But you can increase consecration duration when you need to whip out wall of relfection.
With this build, each virtue becomes a spike heal if your party members are nearby. Shouts also give you some good healing. Works well for Renewed focus too so you can spike heal like 3 times in a row. Shelter -> all virtues -> renewed focus + all virtues. And with all zerk gear, you can do good dps. Any other type of gear wont do you much better since you traits are your defense foundation and can let you survive up to 30 at least (that’s where I’m at)
[VZ] Sky Avalon – Guardian (Main)
Master of all Professions
sPvP Rank Dragon – 8 Champ Titles – Ruby Division
Hmm, that does sound nice and what I’m looking for. The zerker gear scares me a little, but I could at least give it a try. Do any parts of the build hinge on crits? Just wondering if I could switch out the zerker gear and still use the build if need be.
Well, EM is based on landing crits, and the idea is to equip sigil of strength for your GS which also relies on crits. Since we lack fury, it helps to focus on zerker gear to make the most of your crit dmg (close to 3x the damage on crit) and your might procs from trait/sigil. And when EM procs, it heals you because of AH—the more procs the merrier!
[VZ] Sky Avalon – Guardian (Main)
Master of all Professions
sPvP Rank Dragon – 8 Champ Titles – Ruby Division
I use the same build with Knight’s gear and/or Pre/Healing/Vit (with Berserker’s for my ascended slots, since the options there don’t have much variety anyway.) You get a passable amount of crit damage from the Valor tree alone, so you don’t have to focus on it as much. Making up for the lack of precision, however, is mandatory.
I’ll also say that you should be using more weapons than just those three. I can think of situations where I’d prefer each of our weapons over the rest in Fractals.
Sounds good, think I’ll be giving it a go. I’ve gotten pretty good at dodging with my warrior so that experience should help me with this build.
Oh, things to add on. Run some COF to get your zerk gear (you can transmute later). And for utilities shelter + renewed focus for sure for fotm.
The other 3 should be mostly shouts for most effectiveness. I use retreat, save yourselves, and judge’s intervention as my default but switch for hold the line every now and then.
Switch to wall of reflect and shield of the avenger for ranged battles (im sure you’ve seen this for harder fracs).
My traits include AH, EM, 20% cd reduc on meditations, remove conditions every 10 seconds (since you have shelter and not signet of resolve), 20% cd reduc on gs, 20% cd reduc on shouts and unscathed contender. If you aren’t using meditations, I highly suggest using the shield bonus instead of the meditation cd reduction. If you are a focus kind of guy, you can trade it out for something better like 5% of toughness to prec and whatnot
[VZ] Sky Avalon – Guardian (Main)
Master of all Professions
sPvP Rank Dragon – 8 Champ Titles – Ruby Division
