Guild Wars 2

I played Guardian since headstart. I am however a bit out of touch with builds.

CoF P1 boss hits this AoE attack every 10 seconds or so.

This person is asking me to party-wide Aegis on every AoE attack, so that he does not have to use the dodge button.

Even at 30 in Virtues and 20% cooldown on shouts, Virtue of Courage + Retreat,
I cannot get Aegis up every 10 seconds.

Please link me to the build that can do this.

Pop F3 for the first AoE (but always after the circles appear, otherwise the appearence will simply kill your aegis), Retreat for the second, then RF and again F3 for the third. At least the first two versions of Alpha should be dead by then. However, in my experience it’s a) not 100% reliable that aegis prevents all damage, even when stacking, and b) dodging that stuff isn’t difficult.

€: Oh, I just noticed that I didn’t read properly. CoF isn’t CoE …

You are so kind x). If I were you, i would ask him to GTFO,=D
No such thing as Aegis every 10 secs.

yeah you got stuck with a bad player, that blamed their failure on you. I run full zerk on that boss with classes other than guardian and I rarely get downed in that boss fight. You have all the time in the world to dodge or move out of that huge AOE ring.

But yeah F3, Retreat, Renewed Focus then F3 is the most Aegis you can output within a given window, so no need to rebuild.

Unfortunately you can’t give aegis to your party every 10 seconds, but what you can do for that specific attack is use shouts convert conditions to boons by going 30 in the vitality traitline. The 3 shouts combined with 2 blocks from retreat and virtues are more than enough to keep your party condition free on that particular boss.

Feral.3609:

Unfortunately you can’t give aegis to your party every 10 seconds, but what you can do for that specific attack is use shouts convert conditions to boons by going 30 in the vitality traitline. The 3 shouts combined with 2 blocks from retreat and virtues are more than enough to keep your party condition free on that particular boss.

That or you just press dodge.

That player was just incredibly bad/lazy/both. CoF P1 endboss is one of the easiest bosses in the game to not get hit the entire time. But to answer your question, I guess you could….

0 seconds: from having F3 passive
10 seconds: retreat
20 seconds: F3
30 seconds: RF (with 6 runes of the monk, causing an aegis to go up)
40 seconds: F3

and that’s that. But don’t do this. Like I said, that guy is just bad.

Turtle Dragon.9241:

I played Guardian since headstart. I am however a bit out of touch with builds.

CoF P1 boss hits this AoE attack every 10 seconds or so.

This person is asking me to party-wide Aegis on every AoE attack, so that he does not have to use the dodge button.

Even at 30 in Virtues and 20% cooldown on shouts, Virtue of Courage + Retreat,
I cannot get Aegis up every 10 seconds.

Please link me to the build that can do this.

Wow, seriously? I would just tell that person to quit being so effin lazy and L2FP. That is the easiest boss in the entire game but I guess knowing how to pull it off can be a good thing to know. The only way I know is stated in the above post.

well, while aegis is on cd you can use sword #2 / gs #3 / focus #4 or voj to blind and prevent big hits…or just easily dodge
some ppl are just retarted like one you had to deal with

Interesting challange, lts think for a while:
I would suggest starting with traited for cd “Retreat!” and use RF and Monk runes, so lets analyse:

1st aegis: Retreat at 48s cd
2nd aegis: F3, Retreat at 38s cd
3rd aegis from Rune of the monk and RF, F3 refreshed, 28s on Retreat, RF on 90s cd
4th Aegis F3 again, still 18s on Retreat, 80s on RF and 63 (if you have 30 in virtues) on F3
5th aegis, and here we got problem, still 8s cd on retreat, 70 on RF and 53 on F3. As idiotic as it might sound, I would suggest getting downed and ressed within time window between 4th and 5th aegs, to benefit from Valor Trait Courageous Return which refreshes your F3 if you rally. If you managed to do it, than our chain might continue, if not your fellow party member gets 1hit KO and ragequits.
6th aegis can be pulled from just refreshed Retreat, so we have: 48s on Retreat, 53s cd on F3 and 60s on RF.
7th, 8th, 9th and 10th aegises (time needed to refresh Retreat again) can only be pulled from rallying BUT you will get permanently dead before 9th aegis due to death penalty. You might be ressurected by other team members but I think it would take longer than 10s even if all of them were traited and geared for faster revival. Not sure what if they had quickness on them, anyway you could try to repeat process after Retreat is refreshed, because than you would get F3 and RF almost at the same time.

Got another awesome idea: we could try to benefit from Pure of the voice trait (however it would require us to use another 30 in Honor, so build would need to look like x/x/15/30/30 which is ofc impossible). Since Pure of the voice converts burning into AEGIS and last cof boss heppens to apply burning quite frequently on all party members, with a bit of luck you could use another shouts to convert burn instead of dying on 5, 7, 8, 9 or 10th aegises.