Guild Wars 2

I want to know what people think of Guardians focused on Condition Damage. At first I was playing a sword/shield Guardian, and it was somewhat fun. Then I went to PvP with a tanky build. I survived long but I did not do much damage. I then switched my shield to a torch in PvE because I was bored and I had a lot of fun with it. So I equipped the 2 burning slot skills and the condition damage signet and had even more fun.

I decided to check online before going to PvP to see how viable it was. Everyone kept saying that condition damage Guardian is terrible because they only use burning and can easily be cured. Those posts I found were either from beta or shortly after release. So I decided to go with it anyways. Much to my surprise, I was actually killing people while I never even got close to downing them with S/D. They might only have fire as the only condition damage, but they can spam it so the enemy will just get burned again after curing it. They got F1’s passive, F1’s active, Torch’s 4, Purging Flames, along with it’s ring of fire, and Judge’s Intervention.

I’ve been able to solo almost every class with condition damage. I was even surprised when I killed a thief who jumped me and took out a chunk of my health before I reacted. I even had people tell me they were glad I was on their team. What I mostly do is burn the guy and play defensively, even the burn is gone or cured, burn him again. I’m not sure if I’ve only fought terrible people or condition guardian is actually good, but I’m pretty sure someone who’s only played the game for a week would have a bit more difficulty playing in PvP.

I tried this last week when I got the game, I was only rabbit rank and between level 10-20. I haven’t tried it this week after the signet buff because I was busy doing PvE, but my guess is that it’s probably even stronger.