guardian sw champ build
I’m going to link you the build I started out with for open world / WvW content. It’s important to note that this isn’t a perfect or optimized build, and you really shouldn’t be running dungeons with it unless you’re playing with people who you know won’t care. This is far below what your top potential DPS can be as a Guardian.
That said, you’ll probably never die using this.
The cornerstone of this build is Altruistic Healing, a wildly misnomered trait that heals you whenever you apply a Boon to allies. The build focuses on shouts, and you also pick up a trait that makes your virtues apply boons. Your symbols will also heal you, as they apply boons to allies – and your staff Empower is basically a full heal button when standing in the middle of a zerg.
There are a few other sources of healing as well. You’ll heal on the end of your dodge roll, and your weapons are double slotted with Sigils that heal on crit (thus the choice of Knight’s gear for Precision and Toughness – which also contributes to Precision via a trait). Neither of these are huge heals, but they all add up to a lot of sustain. If you wanted to get really over the top, you could switch Two Handed Mastery to enable symbols to heal, but I think this is probably a bit over the top.
On top of this, you’ll basically never have a condition. Your signet heal (which you’ll rarely have to activate) will passively remove a condition every ten seconds, all of your shouts will remove conditions for you and your allies via the Rune of the Trooper (you can also adjust traits to achieve this effect via traits, to replace the runes or double up on the effect).
Now you’ll eventually probably want to start moving towards a more DPS enabled build as you gain more experience, but as a new player starting out, this a solid place to start out without being dead all the time. My main concern is that the sheer amount of damage you can sustain may teach you some bad habits, so be conscious of the fact that you should be avoiding damage, rather than face tanking it, to grow better at the game.
Hope this helps.