Guild Wars 2

So when I first was invited to play GW2 with my friends I decided that I would play a Guardian. I didn’t know the whole “no trinity” aspect of the game, so I decided I would go the role of “Heal” Guardian. While I was leveling I was disappointed to find out there was no heal or tank role so I thought I would be playing a useless role.

Then I hit 80. I stacked +healing, +toughness, +power, and +vitality. Yet, strangely the WvW guild I joined MADE it a requirement that all Guardians had to be support. We were just THAT good. Somehow it just worked in PvE as well.

So now you hear the same load of crap.

“You can’t be a healer.”
“You’re bad if you stack +healing.”
“+healing doesn’t scale!”
“You’re bad if you’re not DPS spec.”
“The staff is useless.”

Now I’m going to lay out the fact.

“You are not a REAL healer. You are a DPS, TANK, and HEALER. If you play support Guardian you must USE your brain. Use your whole tool package.”
“+healing scales VERY WELL with the MACE and STAFF.”
“If you think bags and killing blows is how you win PvP than you are narrow minded. Support Guardians can turn the tide of battles just as much as a well placed portal.”
“The Staff is a great weapon for Support Guardians.”

Now, you can watch the video. I made some stupid mistakes from over estimating, but culling is to blame for some of it. Also, if you can spot the (perfectly balanced) 10k Kill Shot on my 3300 armor you get a cookie.

1/8/12 – camping the bridge to enemy spawn. Woo.

Dat build: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcc9ombNC0mbNC9cxxaVmqckbc

I think if you made a video showing how the full support guardian could turn yhe tide of battle against sn enemy zerg would have been bettet.

It seemed the enemy zerg were very timid and chose to bottleneck tjemselves on the bridge.

Granted you were doing some nice healing and ressing but overall your team didn’t do too well.

Most of the skills used doesnt require the huge sacrifice into healing (wof, empower, line of warding etc)

Personally i dont think this video was the best example of a support guardian.

KensaiZen.3740:

Personally i dont think this video was the best example of a support guardian.

I don’t think so either, but then again the only time I’ve ever seen MAX use out of this build is when you have multiple ones coordinating. Coordinated wall of linings, sanctuaries, reflects, AOE stability, etc etc.

The reason they were timid is because we were trebbing their inner keep wall. Basically it was just sit on the bridge and prevent them from pushing across to destroy our trebs until their wall was down. Eventually it turned into a seesaw and I logged off.

I’ll get better footage if the map is actually interesting this week.

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Also, Empower is my biggest heal. It heals 5 people up to 3,000 ! My second biggest heal is dodge roll. It heals for 1,500. The rest is from mace (writ, regen) and Battle Presence.