Guild Wars 2

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJARWl0Apfn1CxdI8DNRCRlV+hdG8Bl51DQAkAA-TZwIAAwDAAA

Running soldier’s armour. Haven’t runed it yet because I am poor.

How would you rate this? It’s not meant to run zerker, but rather heal you and allies, to keep up the dps without them dying. After all, a dead unit does 0 damage.

Why not take healing breeze to heal your allies, as signet only heals yourself?

Unscathed Defender is not really usefull, as you’re not gonna DPS. which will make fights longer and harder to keep up your aegis. – Also I don’t see any aegis skills besides your virtue.

Why not have condition removal like purging flames (reduces condi duration + condi removal)

It feels like a mix and match, 2 mediation skills, 2 shouts – that’s having your traits really spreading out.

I’d suggest to remove your GS and replace it with Sword/Scepter – this will add 1 blind and 3 blocks.

Change Force of Will with Battle Presence, as the 300 vitality does nothing for your teammates, presence will give them more passive healing.

Would you then recommend Vengeful instead of Unscathed?

I chose Signet over Breeze, because the casting time is quicker for heal, and it will also remove conditions every 10 seconds, though I suppose the breeze would keep team alive longer.

I didn’t use Purging Flames because then I would have to remove MI, which is a good group heal, and allows for emergency escapes. And the trait heals as well when meditation is used.

What would you recommend instead of pure of heart since I only have 2 aegis, 3 if I used Renewed Focus, which is the only viable Elite skill, unless I were to use Mistfire wolf to add to DPS.

S/F would give me 3 aditional blocks, maybe but GS allows me to cleanse with SoW+WW or SoW+BB (4+2 or 4+5)

Edit: My bad, thought that the increased vitality was to everyone, not just myself.

New link with my changes: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJARWl8Apfn1CxdI8DNRChkVRsz8p01kittenA-TZwIAAwDAAA

0/0/6/6/2 is a good build frame for what you’re looking for, but consider changing out some of the traits and skills.

For Valor, scrap Defender’s Flame. It’s really not a worthwhile trait unless you’re going for a hybrid build, in which case you would likely be running offensive gear and meditations anyway. Suggestions would be either Purity if you need the extra condition removal, or Retributive Armor to up your crit chance so that you can get that vigor that will allow you to dodge and heal more often. Also, Monk’s Focus is really only viable for full on meditation builds. This build would be much better off with Altruistic Healing, since you’ll be providing team support through frequent boon application anyway.

In Honor, instead of Pure of Heart consider taking 2 Handed Mastery. The reduced cooldown of your staff 4 skill alone should be enough to make up for this, but along with that you’ll also be able to access your GS burst more frequently to be more effective in combat.

Finally, it’s my opinion that Unscathed Contender is, for the most part, a gimmick. Generally the only time you’d reliably have the bonus would be at the beginning of a fight, and since this is not a burst build, you wouldn’t gain much from it. The second variant of the build with Vengeful is a much better choice.

For skills, I personally don’t like Healing Breeze. It requires you to navigate behind your team and ensure that you’re going to hit them with it, which just doesn’t happen when you’re meant to be at the forefront of the fight. I like both Shelter and Signet of Resolve for different reasons, so I’d whichever one of the two you’d prefer would be best.

And finally, don’t bother with Merciful Intervention. A build like this almost requires Stand Your Ground to be effective, because the party stability is just far too valuable to your team and will do more to secure a kill or an escape than an extra heal once every 50 seconds. On top of that, the boon application to your team would proc AH, which would help to keep you alive longer. Stick to staff 4, dodges, and VoR for your party heals.

Maybe something like this would do the trick for what you’re aiming for: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJARWl0Apfn1CxVI8DNRChkVRs/Eq01XCcA-TJxHwADeCALLDob/BAXCAA

Shortly put, damage mitigation> damage outhealing. IF you want some personal survivability, mix a bit of gear, but stay close to the meta. Speaking for pve, obviously.

I’m confused. You made your build in the PvP section of gw2skills, but didn’t use any amulet or runes and you are talking about soldier gear. So I guess you didn’t check and just wanted to show your trait and skills, but that’s a PvE build?

If that’s the case, then its terrible.

1) Staff have no use in PvE except for TA. If you REALLY want a staff, then take hammer (its a good weapon on its own. GS without a sword is not that good). Use your staff on engage, then keep your hammer until the end of the fight. Otherwise, take a sword/focus over your staff or a sceptre/focus if you can’t play without a range.

2) Your build is all over the place. You have both medi and shout, and don’t boost neither of them completely.

3) You put trait to improve your retaliation, but only have 2 source. Retaliation is bad anyway in pve since mobs attack slowly.

4) You have a trait to heal on aegis, but you have limited source of aegis.

5) You have a trait to deal burn on block, but you don’t have shelter or a focus? Anyway, the only reason to bring more burning on a guardian would be to trigger fiery wrath, but you don’t even have it in your trait.

I think you need to define exactly what you are looking for so we can help you with a build that will help you more.

whoops I forgot to change the utilities.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJAWRlsApcoVDxbI8DRRCRldR8fBoN4c9DEAJAA-TphFwAAOCAKOEAMeAAz2fIxFAwZZAA