Guild Wars 2

http://youtu.be/eheyozP7tfE

Disclaimer: THIS IS AN ALL NEW VIDEO. THEREFORE THE COMMENTS BELOW ARE IRRELEVANT. BE PREPARED TO EXPERIENCE GUARDIAN AS NEVER BEFORE. PEOPLE MAY BE OFFENDED BY THE WAY I FIGHT, BUT ITS BECAUSE ITS NOT THE META AND I DO NOT TRY TO BE. IT IS BEYOND THE META.

You probably know Texblue as one of the best guards in NA. You can watch our multiple duels in the video.

I’ve never lost a 1v1 with this build. You can try to figure out what it is, but don’t ask me directly because I don’t like copycats.

I can easily melt any class in 60 seconds or less. Even the most prepared don’t last.

^_^ Emily Rajowski

You are playing against the enemies that are not even skilled or some of them doesnt even wana fight. This build wont work against skilled player tbh

Good job man. Killing upscaleds and zerglings that don’t even fight back. T1 quality roaming right here. Also, I do not know why you /laugh after certain fights, but you might want to leave that out in the next video.

>wants to encourage build diversity
>won’t tell you what the build is so you can try it

Ok.

Also, I don’t think Purging Flame counts as a “70k damage in a single attack.” It’s 70k damage alright, but distributed across a dozen or more characters, and they all healed it back.

Well, I’m 99% certain the build is a 6/4/0/0/4 build because of the enhanced burning numbers, virtue cooldown timers, and the burning on spirit weapons OR when he chooses shorter torch burning durations. Also positive he specs into zeal because of symbol on low health.

Consecrations are at normal duration and cooldown, spirit weapons have extended timers and short cooldowns, blinds cause vulnerability, and virtue of resolve cleanses conditions.

The alternate traits are:

• torch cooldown/burning duration or spirit weapon burning
• fiery wrath for maybe enhanced scepter damage. he never took vulnerability on immobilize as you watch only 3 stacks of vul on immob instead of 8 with the trait

Beyond that he heals for 112 per sec with virtue of resolve and has approximately 18,639 hp. This number will fluctuate depending on wvw buffs and world bonuses from it.

That said he is probably running something close to this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQRAsd7flsApIoVBxZI8DNR8Ql5d8iW+BvQ1VQA8oA-TRSHABCqijsKxcT/AjqHEwTA4OlgAcSAOS5RI7PQKA2kGB-e

Gear is iffy since I don’t know if he is using ascended or not and what the wvw bonuses/food are that he is benefiting from, but it is a close match to what is being observed in the videos.

His precision seems low and hp high thus the speculation of either dire or carrion with a mix of shaman gear for the healing numbers while maintaining condition damage.

Everyone knows how much damage spirit weapons do when people eat every hit and burn proc…they’re not very popular because they die all too easily in groups.
Ridiculously easy.

Any condi class can rekt shop if people don’t cleanse…. not a single person in that video (only watched half) did a single cleanse. The one that did was an Engi and it was a 2v1/3v1 fight against him.

I’m glad you’re having fun with the build and all but it’s far from revolutionary
/endcritic
Nice spirit build regardless. It’s better than most in wvw.

That video doesn’t demonstrate the build well. Killing uplevels and players that don’t fight back isn’t something to brag about. You even had a 2v1 clip in there, which doesn’t show anything. Against any competent player this build doesn’t work well.

I just stuffed every single kill I had in 2 hours of roaming in the video. If there’s uplevels or 2v1’s, I show them too. All I know is that there was no one who could stand against me in the whole 2 hours of roaming.

The problem for me isn’t the uplevels as much as it is the people who were clearly making their way to a zerg or something and just didn’t care about your desire to fight (the guys who sat still for you to kill them). Just not worth putting in the vid IMO.

Nothing against your skill or anything, I can’t judge that (in great part because this video just didn’t show me much about your proficiency with this build). Try to look for better footage, draw from a week’s play as opposed to a day, etc.

Let’s see, managed 3 mins so far.

1. Purging Flames deals AoE burning, thanks for showing us that.
2. Kill a bad Condi Mesmer by spamming all your skills and then having nothing for the Engi that comes after and clearly killed you, great…
3. Killing an up-level Ele with a Necro to help you, spectacular!
4. Guardians can kill Necros that just run away then stand still and AFK, wow!
5. Killing a bad Longbow Ranger, then /laughing, wow such class…
6. Killing an Engineer while a Power Mesmer helps…
7. Tunnel vision the Engi and get utterly destroyed by a Thief, the other guy carried you completely. Oh and then popping Shield of Wrath against the Thief to… secure… the stomp…? Against which Thief CC abilities when downed?

Updated the video with a new one better representing my skills.

http://youtu.be/eheyozP7tfE

Awesome vid! Do you use a similiar build in tpvp/spvp?Would love to duel you sometime whether that be in wvw or tpvp!

Edit
You should make a new thread and probably delete this one. Being this is a completely new video and build, people will be confused with the threads comments :p

“Undefeated” my kitten . This kind of pretentious behavior is what angers me about people who claim to be the best duelers. There is no “best dueling” class. Each class has a variety of different builds, meaning there’s potential to counter any one build by adjusting your own. For example, you’d lose easily to any of the following:

1. Shoutbow warrior with decent shout management and targets spirits first
2. Any condi class that can not only lay down more than your virtue/consecration can cure, but can also transfer your own condis back onto you
3. Ranger that uses entangle and renders your spirits completely useless
4. Engineer that kites and nades your spirits and then attacks you
5. Thief with proper stealth management, awareness of spirit bursts
6. Any class that can outlast the duration of your spirit weapons and then burst you down

Build diversity is encouraged, yes, but this build lacks sustain provided by medis, lacks mobility, and relies on 1v1 encounters/insufficient aoe potential—all of which renders it useless in practically all of WvW and PvP encounters. Fun for making a highlight video, not so great for actual use.

-Raze Guard

Just a thought here -

If you’re “the best solo guard”, you should have no problems backing it up with video’s of you doing 1v3’s.

Just saying… and waiting…

meh, kids having fun. let him have it i say

I enjoyed watching a bit of the video thanks.

In the rematch you really started playing better in the 2nd half of the match and learned from your mistakes. This is what its all about.

I think all in all you could use your immobolize better, your ranged block attack, and work on swap’ing crit combos but I certainly saw some other stuff that I thought were good plays and ideas.

If you think your the best at something your implying there is nothing to learn. Dodging an engies1st grenades should be something you look for and learn and work on the timing when you lack cleanses.

Amins.3710:

Just a thought here -

If you’re “the best solo guard”, you should have no problems backing it up with video’s of you doing 1v3’s.

Just saying… and waiting…

As per your request. Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/zRrnxMsSUMU

Well I will say it looks like a fun SW build, though as far as your copycat comment goes, it really isn’t hard to dissect what it is. 6/4/0/0/4. Weapons have geomancy and doom on them, along with runes being Krait. Probably full carrion based on the Health Pool or at least some pieces Dire.

The focal points of the build come from the Spirit Weapons themselves and the burning. They hurt since every hit is at least pass 1k damage with burning. Popping VoJ also beefs up the burning something fierce since they go on Spirit Weapons as well on top of “Fire Inside”. Overall interesting fights, some of them.

All I am going to say is you lost all credibility when you said Texblue is one of the best guardians NA. I dueled him a couple fight nights ago- actually, in fact, he bowed and jumped me before I bowed back. He lost 100-0.

In addition, even if he didn’t pop shelter at full health and his burst wasn’t the most predictable thing I’ve ever seen, he doesn’t even run GS to cleave your mindless AI, and second of all, this is condi vs. power so why should you be surprised? Not to mention he almost downed you and your AI and broken krait rune burst saved your kitten .

If you want to duel a good guard in T1, the problem is most of them are on your server. Redgen (previous poster), Glacies Aurora and I Like Big Boons from FLOT, and Got Boons from Blackgate would all hand your lunch to you.

Edit: Watched the full thing. Calling any of these people “top players” is laughable. That thief who almost downed you? I 100-0’d him in a single burst, and I do not claim to be anywhere near a top player. If Texblue ran Greatsword you’d be dead in the water. Sorry.

Until you duel and beat Glacies Aurora, I Like Big Boons, Redgen, Got Boons, and Meridia Stormgarde you don’t get to claim to be the best guardian NA.

Sadly as stated by Meridia 3 of the 5 are on your server.

and lol Texblue is not known as one of the best guardians NA I mean he’s not bad…and that’s not Gladomer.

Honestly I can’t tell if you’re joking or not at this point.

So hang on wat makes comments to a new video irreverent?

Is it really that age of the video or just that the people in the comments rekt you…

It isn’t the gameplay in your video that is as absolutely disgusting as your attitude. Claiming to be the best guard NA when you play condi- yes, I have killed you in even numbered fights- and making false claims about everything is just plain despicable.

I’ve played guardian for 5.5k hours, and even I can be wildly inconsistent- on most nights when I’m playing my normal build, I’m “on” and kill almost everything, but on some nights, like yesterday night, I try out a new build, or my reflexes aren’t there, or I am just plain bad and I lose fights that I think I shouldn’t.

I can’t claim to be the best guard in WvW even if when my ceiling is so high I still lose sometimes. In fact, Redgen taught me how to manage my elite better in a couple of the fights he beat me in (we ended up even) and I came out of it a more experienced player and better off in the long run. I’ve dueled all the guards that Ent mentioned and they have more than proven that they are just as competent as I am.

Dueling, ESPECIALLY guard vs guard, shouldn’t be for kitten status. Even if I beat a guard who was using an inferior build and he landed his GS5 on me and I didn’t land it on him, I played badly and was carried by my build. Duels should be for improvement of personal and group play through more experience, and not waving around some BS title like “Guys, I’m the best guard NA.”

Edit: Kitten status= electronic bragging rights status. Dang filters.

do you have dodge bound?

Yeah, cant say I am really that impressed. And the attitude just makes it that much worse. “I am beyond the meta” You mean your playing a condi build that people have been messing around with for months now? Your using AI in a 1v1 and acting like a god? yeah…

Looks like keyboard turning, some really terrible character control in general, often facing the wrong direction and slow to turn and face enemies. Poor auto-attacking with direction facing, you would lack a lot of sustained damage if you were Power based and without AI.

Dodging pointless attacks, failing to dodge key attacks. Not lining up burst well with immobilise, poor Smite placement, poor use of the Torch not even maximising burning uptime.

In general you’re being completely carried by conditions and AI application of burning.

An average player in 1v1 scenarios against other average players representing the other professions.

And a disgusting attitude to top it all off, your attitude is unbecoming of your ability.

I say let the man enjoy himself. Who gives a kitten as long as he enjoys the game.

I doubt he/she seriously meant he/she was the best guardian NA anyway. Just people with fragile egos overreacting as usual.

Alright I consider this debate over. On a night with new keybinds and taking me 5 seconds to find the button for Shelter…
http://imgur.com/K5Lkp4P
http://imgur.com/sKP07U2

Lol “undefeated 1v1”
and as for fragile egos lol if you’re going to talk like you’re the best you’re going to have to prove it – it’s the internet

ventusthunder.5067:

Alright I consider this debate over. On a night with new keybinds and taking me 5 seconds to find the button for Shelter…
http://imgur.com/K5Lkp4P
http://imgur.com/sKP07U2

golf clap

I appreciate all the attention this is getting. 2nd most viewed thread on the front page. Thank you for the support and stay classy!

Two things: trolling or a dillusional person.

This video showed nothing that would indicate nothing other than sub par play against players who know less about playing this game than the OP.

I laughed when it said “Mesmers can’t touch me”… He then proceeds to cheeseball the duel by hiding behind pillars since AI pathing is kitten in this game.. Using tactics like that is great in a real fight… But dueling, what a scrubadub.

Mail me ingame if any of you would like to test your skills against mine.

Off-topic: surpassed 3k thread views

Going to add you in game. I’ll duel you in PvP and WvW if possible.

What happens when they focus your spirit weapons? Me thinks you’d be screwed

Honestly, the spirit weapons are minimal in the build, its the burn damage that is the passive killer.

Majority of the spirit weapon skills can be dodged/kited and for the most part he was not activating the “burst” abilities on them in his videos but letting them passively auto attack (no damage).

What he did do good was utilizing gap closer to weapon swaps to apply conditions. To win vs him you simply have to burst harder than his conditions can tick and/or forever kite him.

Majority of his burn damage was from close range torch ticks and purging flames. Two fairly easy things to avoid/cleanse.

CMF.5461:

Honestly, the spirit weapons are minimal in the build, its the burn damage that is the passive killer.

Majority of his burn damage was from close range torch ticks and purging flames. Two fairly easy things to avoid/cleanse.

Spirit weapons apply burns. That’s why he’s using them. Take away his spirit weapons and most of his burn goes away too

watch the video, he “sometimes” puts burn on spirit weapons, sometimes he does not and picked torch cooldown reduction instead.