Guild Wars 2

Just for fun I went through the book Edge of Destiny and picked out all the moves that Logan Thackeray did in combat.

What I came up with so far is the following:

• Uses a “War Hammer”
• Does a lot of overhead Slams to take out enemies (Mighty Blow)
• Dodges…a lot
• Waves hand in air and creates a “blue curved wall” that stops projectiles (Wall of Reflection)
• Paints blue auras in air and blocks attacks, Rytlock says he is good at “Retreating” (Retreat!)
• Paints thin blue line on ground and trips following enemies (Line of Warding or Circle of Warding)
• Covers hammer in blue aura before a big attack (Not sure on this one, either Virtue of Justice, or some other “power up” like attack)
  edit: mighty blow, looked at it in game and the hammer glows blue as you jump up in air
• Covers hammer in blue aura and slams ground, pushing back Rytlock (maybe a concecration?)
• Puts up a barrier that stops Rytlock from running at him, but Rytlock can attack through the barrier (Sanctuary)
• Can heal others (generic Guardian description, maybe Healing Breeze, or any other heal other ability.)
• Swaps to a sword from time to time when dueling with his brother or when he uses his brothers sword later
• Covers Zoja and Snaff in a blue shield while they channel a spell and Logan fights undead (Consecrated Ground)
• Throws hammer to knock down an ogre (possible Hammer of Wisdom/command)

Additionally in the game I noticed Logan’s special abilities are:

• Divine Radiance (ae regeneration and blind)
• Divine Shield (channels a block and then unidentified boon lasts for a split second)
• Uses Sword/Shield

So it looks like Logan likes consecration builds and he utilizes wards and aegis. What builds can you make that mimic Logan Thackeray?

The logan build:
Skill bar:
Retreat! Retreat! Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!

Rytlock is right.

I think he drops the hammer for a sword or mace / shield when he joins the seraph…

But all in all..
Worse book of the series…

CMF.5461:

Just for fun I went through the book Edge of Destiny and picked out all the moves that Logan Thackeray did in combat.

• Dodges…a lot
• Covers hammer in blue aura and slams ground, pushing back Rytlock (maybe a concecration?)
• Off hands a sword from time to time when dueling with his brother or when he uses his brothers sword later

1. That is hilarious!
2. Would be pretty cool to be able to put any weapon in a flamey blue aura before striking, maybe a skill or something.
3. Oh that would be great if a guardian can do that!

Oh, my mistake. I didn’t mean “offhand” I mean swaps to sword. I see how that is misleading.

I’ll bite

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAS8elUgiC3FSPEg4ES2DRakWQ7DAEODCkjA;T0AgzCtUbp0iKHTOics54yRmzaihI7PA

Uses a “War Hammer”
Taken
Does a lot of overhead Slams to take out enemies (Mighty Blow)
Possibly 3rd Hammer chain, or Mighty blow
Dodges…a lot
Accounted for
Waves hand in air and creates a “blue curved wall” that stops projectiles (Wall of Reflection)
Noted
Paints blue auras in air and blocks attacks, Rytlock says he is good at “Retreating” (Retreat!)
Done
Paints thin blue line on ground and trips following enemies (Line of Warding or Circle of Warding)
I figure Ring of Warding from Hammer, for simplicity
Covers hammer in blue aura before a big attack (Not sure on this one, either Virtue of Justice, or some other “power up” like attack)
Same boat as overhead smashings
Covers hammer in blue aura and slams ground, pushing back Rytlock (maybe a concecration?)
A narrative splicing of Banish and Zealot’s Embrace (possibly an actual attack at story conception)
Puts up a barrier that stops Rytlock from running at him, but Rytlock can attack through the barrier (Sanctuary)
I actually take this one as the current Shield of Absorption
Can heal others (generic Guardian description)
Applied
Swaps to a sword from time to time when dueling with his brother or when he uses his brothers sword later
Accounted for
Covers Zoja and Snaff in a blue shield while they channel a spell and Logan fights undead (Consecrated Ground)
I feel more sanctuary here actually (with ground targeting)

Past that, and attempting to make a fairly usable build as things stand currently… (kitten his special abilities)

Shelter, because that’s just my feeling
Tome of Wrath because… I’unno
15 in Radiance, because who doesn’t like VoJ spam?
25 in Honor for dodging traits, Aegis synergy and another SoA
30 in Virtues for Consecrations and stuff
Clerics mainly because it seems to fit (as he’s defensive oriented), and helps with those heals.

All in all, its not the worst you could ever make, and I’d be interested in seeing how it would play in game. 3k attack and ~3k armor. 1k healing and 15.5k health

Very nice. Yeah when I did a few logan builds I kept going heavy in virtues because of those consecrations. Also went down Honor because of the dodge rolls. But that ends up being a healaway build for the most part so kept scrapping it. I like how you changed it up a bit.

But obviously he is a Honor/Virtues prime guardian.

Again I like the build and good interpretation!

Went through book again and Logan throws his hammer to knock down an ogre at one point. Will add up top.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJASWlUgCBHFSPEfIFRWhRWVYfYKw4Hve4QKyQA;ToAA1CqoSykkIJbSukkJt+Y8B

or tinyurl if you don’t want to copy and paste

http://tinyurl.com/cvpkth9

Not really a huge fan of the synergy of staff and hammer as well as the spirit hammer. Also I like Ghotistyx build a fair bit more than this one, but wanted to give a different spin on it than he did so “tried” to be different.

If anything this Thackeray build is very area control oriented.