Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,
this is my first guardian build (so please be patient with me, i’m here to learn), i never played this profession and i’ll use it just for spvp for now.
i looked for a very fast setup able to put a lot of pressure on the opponet (especially on the squishy-jumping-ones) while keeping good sustain in both healing and condition cleanses.
the goal of this build is not to shut down the opponent quickly but instead being sufficiently hard to kill while kittening to death the opponent with tricks and both conditions and raw power.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAsdWlsApcodDxfH8DNBARYdRwDWrXHOuB-TpxHAB1eIAM4EAoy+Di9AAA4IAUUZAA

What do you think of this?
Any (motivated please) advice on how this build should work and can be imrpoved?

thank you in advance

First of all just a friendly reminder: pvp isn’t about 1v1.
That said, You’re going 6 points into radiance without RHS. That’s the only reason ( along with precision boost) to go that far into the traitline. You can either swap to gs/sw/f and trait for a classic meditation build, or go on with traiting for sword damage and swap a trait for RHS. Staff is a bad weapon for 1v1. Arguably, staff is a bad weapon period, if you don’t have AH.

You kind of have the right idea, but it’s unoptimized. First of all no staff, staff isn’t really a weapon, let alone a dueling weapon. It’s more of a support tool. If you want to run a build like this I’d recommend more on the lines of 2/6/6/0/0/ or 0/6/6/1/1. Also Save Yourselves isn’t that great in pvp due to the boon duration nerf it has there.

Something more on the lines of this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQRAsd7flsApcodDxaI8DRh/Qkj1FTB4cd55HA-TJhFwAAeCAULDMb/hEnEAA

oxtred.7658:

First of all just a friendly reminder: pvp isn’t about 1v1.
That said, You’re going 6 points into radiance without RHS. That’s the only reason ( along with precision boost) to go that far into the traitline. You can either swap to gs/sw/f and trait for a classic meditation build, or go on with traiting for sword damage and swap a trait for RHS. Staff is a bad weapon for 1v1. Arguably, staff is a bad weapon period, if you don’t have AH.

i perfectly know that spvp is not just 1vs1 :P i’m a “championX” with other 4 professions..just wanted to make a build for 1vs1 duel only rooms.
anyway: RHS is really that good compared to Searing flames? i mean, in the build i made i have a solid 45% base of crit chance which goes to 65% due to fury pretty easily, so isn’t it redundant? Ok, Searing Flames has a 10s cooldown but i can use it many times in a duel with both VoJ and Judge’s Intervention.

Harbinger.8637:

You kind of have the right idea, but it’s unoptimized. First of all no staff, staff isn’t really a weapon, let alone a dueling weapon. It’s more of a support tool. If you want to run a build like this I’d recommend more on the lines of 2/6/6/0/0/ or 0/6/6/1/1. Also Save Yourselves isn’t that great in pvp due to the boon duration nerf it has there.

Something more on the lines of this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQRAsd7flsApcodDxaI8DRh/Qkj1FTB4cd55HA-TJhFwAAeCAULDMb/hEnEAA

this build is pretty close to mine and i really like it! do you think Soldier Amulet is better than Celestial? i chose Celestial to have a little more Condi and healing power but i’m open to changes if they are worth

thank you both

Riccardo.7254:

oxtred.7658:

First of all just a friendly reminder: pvp isn’t about 1v1.
That said, You’re going 6 points into radiance without RHS. That’s the only reason ( along with precision boost) to go that far into the traitline. You can either swap to gs/sw/f and trait for a classic meditation build, or go on with traiting for sword damage and swap a trait for RHS. Staff is a bad weapon for 1v1. Arguably, staff is a bad weapon period, if you don’t have AH.

i perfectly know that spvp is not just 1vs1 :P i’m a “championX” with other 4 professions..just wanted to make a build for 1vs1 duel only rooms.
anyway: RHS is really that good compared to Searing flames? i mean, in the build i made i have a solid 45% base of crit chance which goes to 65% due to fury pretty easily, so isn’t it redundant? Ok, Searing Flames has a 10s cooldown but i can use it many times in a duel with both VoJ and Judge’s Intervention.

Harbinger.8637:

You kind of have the right idea, but it’s unoptimized. First of all no staff, staff isn’t really a weapon, let alone a dueling weapon. It’s more of a support tool. If you want to run a build like this I’d recommend more on the lines of 2/6/6/0/0/ or 0/6/6/1/1. Also Save Yourselves isn’t that great in pvp due to the boon duration nerf it has there.

Something more on the lines of this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQRAsd7flsApcodDxaI8DRh/Qkj1FTB4cd55HA-TJhFwAAeCAULDMb/hEnEAA

this build is pretty close to mine and i really like it! do you think Soldier Amulet is better than Celestial? i chose Celestial to have a little more Condi and healing power but i’m open to changes if they are worth

thank you both

That amount of condition damage is small. Your looking at about an extra 108 damage of burning (if I did my math right), which is fairly small. Healing power is good, but that build doesn’t really utilize it (no selfless daring and other healing traits). So you’re better of going solider for the power, toughness, and vit. Or you could go full zerker for more damage. Also crit chance isn’t really a concern. Base 24% plus with fury from meds, puts you at 44%, and lastly you have RHS which will put you at 59% CC.

Boon strip is always good, but one boon every 10 seconds isn’t reliable enough, especially when you have little control on its activation. If you feel like staying with it, dropping the vuln on blind is an about 6% less burst damage ( You usually start the fight with 1 blind from your weapons and VoJ) and roughly 5% less dps in an average fight ( assuming you don’t spam blinds off cooldown and people dodge gs3/ focus 4).
Meditations are usually agressive and makes good use of berserker, but with all that critchance from traits, you could try soldier. I don’t think it’s better IMO, but since I never tried it, I’d advice to try it out.