Guild Wars 2

hennrick.4623:

This build is for pve content, dungeons and probably fractals too since it is flexible enough. This build is centered around high dps weapon with a lot of support for other members of the party, but lacks a bit of personal defense.
I want to say first that i am at all a huge veteran player of guardian and i am not dictating a perfect build at all, instead if you were kind enough to point me where i fail badly you have my gratitude.

Since there are no templates/apps yet, i will have to improvise:

HONOR 2,3,1
Protective reviver ( shelter on rez + boons on compleated rez )
Empowering might ( aoe might on crit )
Pure of voice ( shouts convert condis )

VALOR 2 3 2
Smiter’ s boon ( smite condition on heal )
Communal defenses ( aoe aegis on block )
Monk focus ( meditation heal, grant fury and have reduced cd )

VIRTUES 1 2 2
Unscathed defender ( +20% damage with aegis on)
Absolute resolution/ Supreme justice ( more F1 burning/F2 cleanses )
Battle presence ( F2 passive to allies)

weapons are sword with focus and greatsword, skills are
HEALING: Lithany of wrath ( or Shelter, see below )
UTILITY 1: Retreat
UTILITY 2: Smite condition
UTILITY 3: Free ( can be Save yourselves or wall of reflection )
ELITE : Feel my wrath

Sigils are the classics Force/Fire/air or wathever you feel encessary for big damages, no prec sigils

Runes for armor are Rune of Rage, with +20% increased fury duration, 15s Fury if hit and +5% damage if under fury.
Consumables to your choice, preferable ferocity.

Just to be clear, zerker set.

With his build, using all skills in rotation allows a fury loop on the user without factoring other players, the rune proc or any kind of consumable. Obviously i do not suggest to spam the heal skill for fury, it’ s just demonstrative.

The build has a blast finisher for setting up fields, better than nothing at least, aegis from various sources included the shout, it grants a bit of might to allies and vigor to you, plus area endurance regeneration thanks to honor minor 3 and grandmaster of Virtues ( helpful since vigor effectiveness is cutted in half) , massive condi conversion and cleanse ( the latter more for a panic button), all the perks of the weapons and still has a slot free for flexibility.
I have left Shelter in parenthesis because for fractals someone might prefer the block time, but remember that the traited meditation heals almost the same without the secondary effect, has less cooldown and grants even more fury, also if you want to use shelter and still use the enhanced meditations you might prefer to pick another second one.
If you don’ t know what to pick for the slot, go save Yourselves for Pure of Voice + condi transfer combo.

There are some traits that can be swapped like
communal defenses <-> strenght in numbers
absolute resolution <-> supreme justice ,
battle presence-> Indomatable Courage,
and smiter’ s boon <-> focus mastery

i tried to be the most flexible possible, so if there is necessity of some kind of resistance or some kind of aggressiveness there is always room for that.

Any toughts?

Honor is bad, the only good thing there is Pure of Voice. You dont need to stack might in dungeons. That’s wars/eles job. Zeal is way better , like no doubt for dps. Also Rune of Rage is worthless too, you get fury with “Feel my Wrath” and other party members.. get Scholar or Flame Legion.

Get Radiance over valor as well. Radiant fire OP. You dont need condi clean from Valor, thats why you get consecrated ground and even the f2 trait from Virtues

I also have been testing mace and it’s overall better than sword. I heard torch is better than focus as well but i haven’t have the chance to test it yet.

Your build might be “ok” for open PvE but is nowhere close to be good/optimal for dungeons and fractals.

This : http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgIBrAJkBVg~ is the build im actually using. Get master of consecration / absolute resolution if needed. I think sometihng like this will be meta for guardians unless they nerf something. Also i go full berserker with GS / Mace+Focus (still testing torch)

frifox.5283:

Compounding Power modifier is calculated for every shattered illusion individually. First of 3 shattered will still have the CP multiplier off the other 2 that are still alive. However, that’s not the only purpose for using that trait. You use GS3 and MoP before/during shattering, so those burst skills still make use of the extra dmg modifier since your illusions are technically still alive.

I see ! so i should shatter the clones when i’m sure i can finish off the mob? Thanks !

@frifox.5283

Thanks ill try it out later but why would you spend 2 points on Illusions if you shatter your clones? Wouldnt it be better using Chaos – V ?

Claire Flames, idk why.. but i’ve used it since gw1

So the 6 points are for glamour CD / duration + focus reflection?

Hi everyone!

I recently bought The Anomaly and Kasmeer Staff (Yay spvp) and i fell in love with my mesmer once again. It’s been a long while since i dont play mesmer in open PvE what’s the best build for it right now? Traits/utilities/weapons?

I can get the bank slot by destroying the item i just dont want to ! 500 gems ouch

Hello everybody.

Recently i deleted my guardian but before i did it i put some transmuted armor from her (primeval) on the bank so i didnt lose the skin. Now since i didnt do the transmuting trick (transmuting into a white armor first) i cant take the primeval armor out of my bank… Any idea what can i do ?

Thanks in advance!

It’s happening to me aswell.. Once i select a character i get kicked out of the game =/