Hi everyone, I am actualy playing my guardian in a small group, arround 5 6 people in open WvW. This build is mainly based on fight engamement and controling the enemy team while your team should take care about them ( and you can hit them too !!)
Here is my Build :
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUMQJARSlUgiCHHSJEf4ERli4dPMFYUjXPoIEZIA;TgAqsMZJyymlLLZWLQGUA
Explanation :
Weapon : Hammer (hydromancer rune)/Greatsword (air rune)
Armor : Valkiry/Knight (soldier runes)
Skills :
Shelter —--for me the best healing skill of the guardian, 2s block are just pricless + the might boon which heals you.
Retreat —--Running speed and Aegis, I use to chase/back with my groupe.
Judge intervention —--Stun clean and 1200 instant teleport… must have for me if you want to reach melee
Signet of wrath/judgment —--changing according to the group display, the root at 1200 is a quite handy thing.
Tome of courage —--The only elite skill which is worth it in my opinion
Trait :
Zeal : 20 —Increasing damage, mainly with Gs, the 2 minor are a quite nice damage up…
Radiance : 0
Valor : 30 -- The best branch of guardian, thoughness and crit damage + 5% conversion in precision. Here I take the couldown on the teleport and the healing while buffing allies.
Honnor : 20 —The 2 minors are completing each others quite well and are quite usefull, as major I choose the shout coudown and symbole size, to use at maximum the damages/vulnerability on offense and buffing on allies to heal myself.
Virtue : 0
The main idea of this build is to engage the ennemy team with the 1200 range teleportation, and 1) Pack them with the Greatsword, 2) Frost them and keep them on you with the hammer. Then you can have a decent damage dealing, by the 2 of the Hammer, or rooting them with the chains you can use the Greatsword with retaliaton zone and wirl to still make some decent damages.
I tried to maximise what for me guardian lack the most, movement croud control. In my point of view, the main problem of the guardian is the fact that he has no option to keep somebody on melee with him. ( no cripple, some walls working 1/2 and can be break by stability…)
The good thing for me in that build is, you make the work for you team, I don’t usualy practis sPvP but on open map, it’s quite easy to pop in the of a groupe, pack them and just wait for you teamates, ingies or any other class to roll their face on their keyboard and just blindly focus the zone you create.
For the moment, it’s my common everyday build, but I can feel that it can be a lot better and so I am looking for something else, maybe less teamfriendly but more interesting on the side of dealing damage and taking… (the point is, unless you find some brainless guy, if you are a tank dealinkittenage no point to focus you…) in this purpose I start to read this post but didn’t find something really suiting to me, I proposed my build, hoping it will inspire some people to have the same gameplay and finding the drawbacks ^^