Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve only recently gotten back to GW2 and have been mainly playing sPvP as its addicting as hell. Been running a zeal symbolic build (credit to Saiyan) and landed in Gold 2, worked my way up to Gold 3 and a couple wins out of Plat, and have lost something like 75% of my matches since, falling down to G1 and nearly S3.

Pretty sure its because I am bad. And in light of that I have been looking to see about improving my play. Mostly I am sure it is a L2P issue, but I am also questioning builds. After much perusing I’ve kind of fallen on the following three that seem popular and effective.

Burn Guard – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQRAse7fnkICVDhlDBeDB8DhlGiKb+uv9Tu5L+n/aYXgAA-TZhAQBwY/hxUGwjHEAA8EA24JAAA

Meditrapper – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAseTn8cCVDhVdCedC8DhlGiSe4T+o/aYXgAIL+uv8D-TpR6gAz7P0UGY/IAQ/AAAOBA6HCAA

Zeal Symbolic – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQRAse7dn8cCVDhVdCeDB8Dhl5BT++1/GgVNgFQA46e9DqBA-TZR6gANlBAODAVPAg59HyPIAAA

For my own performance, I typically top at least damage and one or two other stats.
That made me think I was playing well. But my concern with the zeal symbolic build is that while I may be outputting a lot of damage overall, its mostly slow and lacking in burst so players are healing through it.

Was wondering if anyone can give specific advice on which of these three you’d prefer and why. If you know of gameplay videos or gameplay tips that would be a huge help as well. Trying to get better but all the videos I find tend to be pretty old. And a lot of times they don’t even appear to be doing anything more impressive than what I do.

Burn guard lures people in a false sense of usefulness because it absolutely stomps people in lower tiers, and that symbolic build is just mediocre overall. Once you reach plat Meditrapper is the best due to burst/cc/1v1 ability, even if you don’t ‘feel’ useful with it at first.