Guild Wars 2

With buffs to virtues and DH I was wondering if people were trying out new things in this regards that would provide something different than AH frontline base guardian.

The main thing I see is the traited shield of course. Stab starts at the start of cast now whereas before it was a questionable stun break and if Bulwark is taken, the shield lasts for an awfuly long time.

I was also wondering if Glacial Heart could be a thing since Resolve removes condis by default. But it’s only on yourself. I’m skeptical on Virtuous Solace since it drops a light field.

Of course, the main problems still apply. By taking DH, you lose AH/Strength in Numbers, Protective Reviver/Pure of Voice, or double stab/condi clear/consecration cooldown. Those are all sort of big so I was wondering how people that take DH work around that.

Yep trying new stuff. Since sword is awesome now it works very well for condi builds. The symbol gets cast instantly with the teleport and the final hit in the chain hits 3 times. With this you can do many hits very quickly and enjoy having an offhand shield.

The great thing about guardian condi is that you don’t need crit or any other stat besides condi. This opens up the luxury of investing into healing power which circumvents not having AH while also helping your team.

With supreme justice getting rolled into permeating wrath and the two condi cleanses baseline you now also cleanse 5 condis on your f2 which were previously 0 for condi builds.

Dragonhunter gives you impoved f2 and f3 with also giving you cripple and vulnerability of every f1 proc. And you will proc those alot. The great thing is that these get applied in an aoe as well if you have permeating wrath. Like this you can cripple whole zergs permanently even if they have lots of cleanse.

With the sword symbol and the healing power that this build has got, i think writ of persistence is a good choice since you get more hits thus more burns out of your smybols while also getting some small consistent heals.
Since siege can also be condied now you can swap in a scpeter to kill some cannons and pepper some walls. With writ of persistence you also get suprisingly good area coverage out of your scepter 2.

You could probably swap out procession of blades for wall of reflection.

Currently running this in exotics, but this is what it will look like when i upgrade to asc.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVQQNAseWnsABdditCBODB8DhlKiCbACgJIbDOv1Tu3r9fH-ThiAQBA4JAkhTAwIVmISlWBSfQnUJAG7PkgDBAnU35lKBJFwnrBA-e

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Yep trying new stuff. Since sword is awesome now it works very well for condi builds. The symbol gets cast instantly with the teleport and the final hit in the chain hits 3 times. With this you can do many hits very quickly and enjoy having an offhand shield.

The great thing about guardian condi is that you don’t need crit or any other stat besides condi. This opens up the luxury of investing into healing power which circumvents not having AH while also helping your team.

With supreme justice getting rolled into permeating wrath and the two condi cleanses baseline you now also cleanse 5 condis on your f2 which were previously 0 for condi builds.

Dragonhunter gives you impoved f2 and f3 with also giving you cripple and vulnerability of every f1 proc. And you will proc those alot. The great thing is that these get applied in an aoe as well if you have permeating wrath. Like this you can cripple whole zergs permanently even if they have lots of cleanse.

With the sword symbol and the healing power that this build has got, i think writ of persistence is a good choice since you get more hits thus more burns out of your smybols while also getting some small consistent heals.
Since siege can also be condied now you can swap in a scpeter to kill some cannons and pepper some walls. With writ of persistence you also get suprisingly good area coverage out of your scepter 2.

You could probably swap out procession of blades for wall of reflection.

Currently running this in exotics, but this is what it will look like when i upgrade to asc.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVQQNAseWnsABdditCBODB8DhlKiCbACgJIbDOv1Tu3r9fH-ThiAQBA4JAkhTAwIVmISlWBSfQnUJAG7PkgDBAnU35lKBJFwnrBA-e

I might give this a try if I can afford the gear. I really want to use the sword now and just running the same old berserker stats on everything is getting old for me. This seems like it might be fun.

What’s nice is that Shaman and Settlers are both extremely cheap. Obviously don’t bother with ascended, but it offers a lot of nifty things between the condition damage, vitality, toughness, and healing power.

There are also some other options for condi and hybrid builds. Dire Permeation takes advantage of a lot of free crit chance in radiance and gets 100% burn duration. Scepter Hybrid lets you stack quite a bit of personal Might and keeps that 100% burn duration, along with helping out your cover conditions.

Not everyone might like the idea of conditions in wvw, but eventually you should be able to overwhelm condition clears when you’re as efficient in application as you are. I’m sure there are plenty of Power options out there too, and I’ll be taking some time to think about those also.