Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the videos! Always nice to see a guardian in pvp these days. Not much of us left it seems, post patch.

You make it look like a very viable profession in legendary. I like it.

Well, i know it might sound silly but what if you use this heal in a burning build in combination with runes of Balthazar (+15% burn duration and 3 sec burning on use of healingskill), it might just work. Getting alot of burning on a target so it more easily procs the secondary effect of the heal?

I know guardians aren’t the best in condidamage but a combination of this heal with a burning build/meditationbuild should be tested Take with it some burning on blocking and a focus with shield of wrath to get that heal off without interupt + extra burning.

I might test something like this tonight in sPvP

Anyone else got long loading screens when respawning?

Mine used to be like almost instant. Now i have a 10 seconds or more loading time. Wich is ofcourse in competitive spvp not good.

Thanks for your time and work you’ve put into GW2 and its community!
Really appreciated what you did for it. Great guides! I’ve shown many starting guardians the way to your guide-threats.

Good luck out there!

Gahn.8150:

It seems to me they fixed problems with staff swiftness stackability.

that would be awsome if they did that. Need to check or can anyone confirm this?

This is half a spirit build as you only use one spirit weapon. Thats what i find.

Most roaming classes are thiefs or rangers (but could be others too). So you want to be sure to build a bit for them. Thief has the stealth with the backstab for example. If you time it right you could use Renewed focus to negate the burst from thief. Another trick could be to use a focus instead of shield and pop skill 5 when the burst arrives. Just negate as much as possible. When out of negation: use retaliaton. When he is out of initiative: punish him!

Rangers. If you are dealing with ranged rangers the spirit shield could work very well. But you need to get close to them if you really want to hurt them. Find some kind of leap or heavy CC. Change your scepter for sword so you can jump on them with a blind. And the 3th skill will do damage and avert arrows. Watch out for there pets wich could have some CC on them. Use your SYG with care.

The sigil on your shield isen’t the best at this point if you aren’t getting many kills. Also as a bunker you don’t gonna be killing that much i think. So you’re better of with some lifestealing or something.

Then again, this is my opinion and any one else could tell you something different. If you can record your gamingsessions and take a look at why you died or what that other profession did to kill you, you can learn a lot!

edit: One extra note: you could invest in more thougness or power/precision or even vitality with your amulets/upgrades. Healing power isen’t the best scaling stat and you
will seldom outheal a profession that is trying to nuke you.

That depends on how you are doing. If you die too much you could up your vitality or thoughness. But if you feel you survive enough then you could go zerker for more damage.

Ask yourself or see for yourself how your build is performing. Are you playing WvW, PvE or sPvP?

WvW: small roaming groups/solo/zerging?
PvE: what content? (dungeons, world events, ….)?
sPvP: Tournaments (solo-queing or steady group)/hotjoin?

All these questions are in need of an answer so you can know what you want your build to perform like. But mostly: read the first 2 lines for easy start :p

There are 2 things happening:
1. You can pass through a symbol between the pulses. So you won’t get it.
2. When you already have swiftness that you have given yourself and you try to apply swiftness again (as in first shout “Retreat” and then put down symbol of swiftness), it will only add 1 second to the timer. You can’t apply swiftness 2 times yourself on yourself. If you have swiftness already from your own and someone else gives you swiftness it works. EXCEPT when it’s the same skill (symbol of swiftness yourself, symbol of swiftness from someone else.
The one second add and last EXCEPT i’ve only seen happening on the symbol of swiftness and also not always.
The one second adding is also documented on the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symbol_of_Swiftness

Hey! Nice vid!
Do you mind sharing your build?

Fear is a condition but is negated when stability is up:

“Cannot be knocked down, pushed back, launched, stunned, dazed, floated, sunk, or feared.”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stability

About the problem you get hit much when using the hammer because you find it slow:

the chain on your auto-attack has a “fast” first and second attack. The third attack takes some time. You can dodge between the the second and the third attack, wich on your build will heal you (and teammates if close) for a bit and you evade some attacks.

The third symbol is also “ranged”. If the targetted enemy is somewhat further away, the symbol will be put down in the direction of that enemy. The distance isen’t that great but it helps. So skill 1 chain 1, chain 2, dodge, chain 3, blast,

And what i mostly do during blast (during jump animation) is pressing f1 —> it’ll burn the enemies for a longer period and if you are in 0/0/30/30/10 it will also give you might.
(You could also go 0/5/30/30/5 wich will give you a blind on pressing f1 too)

The blasting combo will give you retaliation but when paired with “stand your ground” you can extend the retaliation and do damage to anyone who is damaging you.

The tip on traiting your symbols larger is really good. I’ve added the “all symbols heal” in my build.

Another good thing to do is to change target just before you’re going to make your second skill. You’ll jump away from one enemy, blastfinishing the symbol and damaging another mob. I like to dance around a bit in big blobs and like to thing that i “evade” some ranged and melee attacks with that dancing.

Well, if you look at the last page (keep clicking next or click here: https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/eu/pvp?page=40 —> its the europe link), it only shows the top 1000 players. So if you’re not with the best 1000 players of europe, you’re rank isen’t shown. Atleast that is what i think.

There are 2 things happening:

1. You can pass through a symbol between the pulses. So you won’t get it.
2. When you already have swiftness that you have given yourself and you try to apply swiftness again (as in first shout “Retreat” and then put down symbol of swiftness), it will only add 1 second to the timer. You can’t apply swiftness 2 times yourself on yourself. If you have swiftness already from your own and someone else gives you swiftness it works. EXCEPT when it’s the same skill (symbol of swiftness yourself, symbol of swiftness from someone else.

The one second add and last EXCEPT i’ve only seen happening on the symbol of swiftness and also not always.

The one second adding is also documented on the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symbol_of_Swiftness