Guild Wars 2

I just cant figure it out. They make shields faster than I can take them down. Even if they attack my clones for 5 minutes I can’t get through the shields. I’m using metabattles shatter roaming build.

depends of there build.. thers 2.. the immortal super tanky where thers no way to bring him down unless your 3 on him. but if your alone.. dont bother. & theres the others where you got to keep the pressure on him & kite till he dies.

Yeah, what type of guardian?

If it’s the “unbreakable mountain” bunkers, then yeah – it’s not fast. Make sure to use boonstrip at the right moments, keep the pressure up on them between bursts (ranged pew pew with the GS) and judge the opportune moments to nuke away their health. The good thing with these guardians is that they can’t do much to you – the only problems are in conquest because of the points – but then just rotate and cap another point (-1 the other team and win the other two points), or coordinate with a teammate to spike them down (maybe a thief).

If it’s the zerker guardians then apart from boons/defensive skills their HP is made of glass and can easily be decimated if you time your burst right (but equally they can destroy you if you aren’t very careful).

I find medi guard to be such a pain when using speed or traveler runes... It’s like I’d get them so low after a really good set up only for them to heal up and be out of ammo (and I mean it’s not like they have to set up to burst lol..)

So I switched back to a dps rune set (take your pick of pack, ranger, eagle, ect.) found It does just enough to put them in their graves... And the neutral pokes and jousts leading up to the spikes and burst I find applies a much more meaty preassure.

As for burn block guards you really just need to play around their blocks.

Anything super tanky takes a while to die and will keep a point contested but will die unless you play really poorly.

Bu in wvw long fights like that out in the fields are so fun *__*

In my experience, a good timed MtD shatter can melt any Guardian.

Most guard I strip boon then burst.
Super tank guards I fight them for a bit just to bait out his boons then moa .
A really good tanky guard just walk away.

Phantrupt works for me. The worst part is wasting MoD’s on their blocky moments, but otherwise it’s only a matter of time for them.

If shatter isn’t working for you in any given situation, it’s O.K. to consider Mesmer having other possibilities in terms of builds.

..Crazy, I know O:

Depends on the build the guard runs.

Medi Guard: Just kite him to death. There is no need for Moa. Just kite them until he used his blockheal, and his focus. After that, you can melt them in a short time down.

Tank Guard: If it’s in tpvp, well, use Moa or it takes too much time to get him down, if he knows what he does.

Against all other builds you should kite him and don’t waste your burst when he is full with boons.

If the gaurd is using a greatsword + scepter / X . Having wardens feedback literally makes them kill themselves. A perfectly placed iwarden and wall reflects pretty much all the blades back onto themselves + retaliation hitting them a ton.

This is from what i seen when using it.

I don’t normally struggle much with guardians and can take down even bunker ones.
DPS guardian I like to put my staff clones up and they will melt him quite a bit then I just go for a burst at a good time. Make sure you prepare a dodge when they pop their focus shield. They will wait out until its almost out of duration then port to you to burst you, thats where their main burst comes from (focus 5 + hammer 2). Generally just kite them. With iElasticity fix that it works on clones DPS guards are very doable. With sword I still don’t have many issues since I don’t think I’m fighting good enough DPS guards. You can avoid a lot of their stuff since it’s pretty obvious what they will do and you can burst them. If they heal up to 100% they are most likely out of meditations meaning what you do to them for the next 10-15ish seconds they won’t be able to make up for and a mesmer is more than capable of putting out 15k damage out in that amount of time.

Bunker guards will go down too, it will be a longer fight but you can kill them for sure, just time your bursts well and autoattack a lot.