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Skill Name- Pious Light
Utility Skill Type : Meditation

The guardian focuses his energy into a coalescing ball of blue light, throwing it at the target location, after a small build up, the light launches a few feet into the air, growing larger as it reaches its peak. Once it reaches its peak, the Pious Light will explode, showering the area with an area of affect mist that grants Healing to allies (max 25) caught in the area. The pious light can be detonated early for a decrease in healing, but grants regeneration and protection to allies remaining in the mist.

Upon Early Detonation : 200 healing + (.250 * Healing power), 3 seconds of protection, 3 seconds of regeneration per second, for 10 seconds leaves a combo field : Light

Upon Detonation : 3500 Healing + (.450* Healing Power)

Recharge : 90 seconds

Skill Name – Watchful Gaze
Heal Skill
Cast Time :1 1/2 Seconds
Active : Heals the target area (up to 5 allies) for 500 health +(.450* Healing Power) each second for 10 seconds, granting regeneration for 1 second while in the area each pulse.
Visual Effect : The guardian waves his hand in the air in a blessing, the air around the target area shimmers with a light blue mist on the ground and pulses which each second the guardians eyes glow blue for a second or two while channeling the spell.
Recharge: 75 seconds

Oops, your right. For #1. for # 1 it should be the new trait that gives +250 healing power while using a mace

for number 2: I prefer the Shaman set because I will be attacking and i would do more damage with the burning than I could with physical damage.

The shaman set also gives vitality, which is a good factor for this build combined with the inherent toughness from 30 valor

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Elite Skill

Avatar of Melandru

Q: Why use Avatar of Melandru vs Renewed Focus or Tome Of Courage?

Avatar of Melandru. This was a tough choice between renewed focus, or tome of courage. I chose avatar of melandru because the only utility skills that remove conditions are Purging Flames and Save Yourself both of which have a long cooldown which do not provide much benefit for the party.

The combo field fire would be nice with the hammer for the guardian, but it is not worth the cooldowns. and best to have either someone else lay down the combo fields.

Avatar Of Melandru grants the following

• Condition Removal
• Protection
• Healing + Combo Field : Water

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How to effectively increase your boon durations without spending many points in virtues.

Runes

• Superior Rune of Water 2 of 6
• Superior Rune of Dwayna 2 of 6
• Superior Rune of The Monk 2 of 6

This rune set up will grand you a 30% boon duration increase for all other boons, as well as a 50% duration for regeneration. Which is a huge bonus, making your protection, might, regeneration, and retaliation buffs last longer.

Top that off with 10 points in virtues and you have a total of 40% boon duration, as well as a 60% increase in duration for regeneration. This enables you to keep constant regeneration up on allies, from using your symbol with mace, as well as “Defend Yourself” shout.

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[Sources]

Regeneration Sources

• Activating Hold The Line
• Activating Symbol of Faith
• Activating Virtue of Resolve

[Moderate amounts of retaliation]

• Activating Stand You Ground
• Activating Mighty Blow In Combo Field Light

[Massive amounts of Protection]

• Activating Hold The Line
• Activating the Virtue of Courage
• Activating Shield of Judgement

[Grants Aegis]

• Activating the Virtue of Courage

[Grants Burning/Might]

• Activating Virtue of Justice

[Grants small amount of might]

• Activating Virtue of Justice
• Activating Mighty Blow in combo field fire

[Massive Amounts of Healing]

• Dodge Rolling
• Symbols
• Shouts
• Mighty Blow + Water Field from Healing spring from Avatar of Melandru
• Faithful Strike
• Sequence

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Utility skills I Use

Signet of Resolve

• This is not only a major heal, but a major condition removal on yourself as well, save this for when it is absolutely necessary to use it. Just because you are at 3k HP does not mean you are going to die. Check the area around you, survey the landscape, if there are no mobs, and you are in no immediate danger, throw down a symbol and regenerate your hit points, pick out a staff and heal/Deal Damage at a range with Orb of Light, and your shouts.

Hold The Line

• Hold the line is a great ability, not only does it provide protection ,but it provides the regeneration buff as well, it is often best to use this in conjunction with Stand your Ground at the beginning of the fight, not only to provide protection/regeneration, but to provide your team with survivability

Stand Your Ground

• Stand your ground Stand your ground is another great ability, not only does it provide stability, but it provides the buff Retaliation as well, granting a 7 second damage return capability, when used in conjunction with Hold the Line, it provides the team with major survivability.

Merciful Intevention This SKILL Is Currently WORTHLESS

• lots of people do not like merciful intervention. I personally do. It provides a 5-6k Heal on allies, sometimes it works as it should, and sometimes it doesn’t. Right now, it targets the ally closest to you, So I just manage to watch and survey the area around me, and if a teammate is in major trouble, I will just stand by him and cast this, healing him for a lot of hit points, generally enough to last the fight.

Sactuary

• Despite its long cooldown, sanctuary is extremely useful. I personally use it as a way to absorb projectiles for the team, as well as a method of resurrecting a fallen teammate without taking much damage due to the “healing” it provides, as well as the ability to absorb projectiles, and with the correct traits, consecrations can be ground targeted. So not only is it a method of protection, it can also be used to keep enemies from getting close to your group, like in Sorrows Embrace path 2.
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Trait Bonuses

Bonuses for Symbols

• Writ of the Merciful – at 1551 Healing Power, Heals 283 Per Tick for Each Symbol, Meaning for a 7 Second Symbol (Because of Writ of Persistence), it heals for 1281 Healing over the duration for a single symbol. This will not only contribute to damage, but help the survivability of your team with proper placement.
• Writ of Persistence- Adds a supposed 50% duration on symbols

Attribute Bonuses

• 300 Toughness
• 300 Healing power
• 300 Vitality

% Duration Increase/CDR/% DMG Increase

• 10% boon Duration
• 10% Virture Recharge Rate
• 30% Critical Damage

Automatic Bonuses/Abilities at % HP
50% HP*- Gain Aegis

[Trait Breakdown]

Valor

• Mace of Justice 5% damage increase and +250 Healing Power
• Retributive Armor – 5% Toughness is added to precision
• Altruistic Healing Grants +83 hit points per boon applied to nearby allies. Including yourself.

Honor
Superior Aria

• – Shouts recharge 20% faster

Writ of Persistence

• - 50% increase in symbol duration

Writ of the merciful

• - Allies healed by symbols (283 per tick)

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Mace/Focus Vs. Mace/Shield

Q: Why do you use Mace/Shield Vs. Mace/Focus?.

Benefits to Mace/Focus
A 45 Second CD for Shield of Wrath

• This grants you 3 Blocks
• A Blast Finisher (Which activates upon Activation of Shield of Wrath)
• And a Blind attack That can either jump from foes to allies and grant allies regeneration

These all seem like great benefits for using a Focus versus a Shield. So now lets talk about the cons

The Cons of using A Focus

• 45 Second cooldown on the 3x Block ability Shield of Wrath
• Less Armor
• The Regeneration Buff/Blindness Debuff is too random to be of any real use

Lets talk about the shield.

Benefits of using a shield
Slighty More Defensive Options

• An AoE Protection Buff/ Damage Spell
• An AoE Knockback + AoE Heal
• More Armor

Cons of using a shield

• Long cooldowns on abilities
• Knockback can sometimes hurt the team instead of help.

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Regeneration Formula

130 + (0.125 * Healing Power) per second

• Ex: 1500 Healing Power = 317.5 HPS

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Gear Set Up

Weapons/Stats Used
Runes and Armor Sets

Draconic Cleric Gear 6/6
Toughness/Power/Healing Power
Rune of the Water 6/6

Shaman Gear 6/6
Vitality/Condition Damage/Healing Power

• Rune of the monk 2/6
• Rune of the water 2/6
• Rune of Dwayna 2/6

Weapon Sets/ Sigils

• Staff (Of Superior Energy)
• Mace(Of Superior Energy)
• Shield(Of Superior Life)

Exotic Shaman Mace

• Healing Power
• Vitality
• Condition Damage

Exotic Shaman Shield

• Healing Power
• Vitality
• Condition Damage

Exotic Shaman Hammer

• Healing Power
• Condition Damage
• Vitality

JEWLERY

Exotic Oricalchum Sapphire Ring of The shaman

• Toughness
• Power
• Healing Power
  Secondary Stats
• Vitality
• Healing Power
• Condition Damage

Ancient Karka Shell

• +25 Power
• +25 Precision
• +25 Toughness
• +25 Vitality
• +3% Critical Damage
• +25 Healing Power
• +25 Condition Damage
• +3% Magic Find

Oricalchum Sapphire Earrings of The Shaman

• Toughness
• Power
• Healing Power
  Secondary Stats
• Vitality
• Healing Power
• Condition Damage

[Back Piece]
Back Peice of the Magi w/ Crest of the Shaman

• Healing Power
• Precision
• Vitality
  Secondary Stats
• Vitality
• Condition Damage
• Healing Power

For my weapon sets, I use runes of superior energy on both sets of weapons because that is an additional heal every weapon swap. Every dodge roll is healing being done.

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UPDATED : 7-16-2013
The Legendary Defender
Traits 0/0/30/30/10
Race : Human

The Legendary Defender is just that. A legendary defender, If you are a DPS fanatic, this build is not for you. Neither is it useless, nor is it boring. It’s a very active member of the group. Contributing to DPS / Survivability via Buffs, and Keeping everyone up and alive without much effort on their part.

My Gear Set-Up
Regeneration Formula This gives you the ratio for healing power to regeneration
Mace/Focus Vs. Mace/shield
Trait Bonuses/Breakdown
Utility Skills
Sources of Damage/Heals/Mitigation
Boon Durations, How to effecively Increase W/o Spending 10+ Points in Virtues
Avatar of Melandru

THE REASON:
The reason i like this build is because it grants massive amounts of buffs, while at the same time providing an adequate damage source, by granting you and your team stacks of might. Through the use of virtues and weapon skills, you provide your team with the capabilities of a pure support, while at the same time providing an adequate damage source by being a beacon of power. The switch between focus and hammer enables you to take advantage of combo fields, especially those of water/fire origins.

The larger symbols are for allies that lack communication and need a larger area of effect to stand in. I like the longer duration because it is more useful than a larger area.

You can check out my build thats found on my signature. Its a pure support guardian.

Gives you the breakdown of pretty much everything. WHat choices i made, why i made them. all that jazz.

Why a staff?

A Staff Provides Many Utility Skills That Benefit the Party
Skills

• Orb Of Light/ Detonation
  -This ability is a quick 1.4k heal with my current gear. It provides a quick burst of healing as well as damage to any enemies in the area. The 10 second cooldown is nice, because it can be used again on the next weapon swap.

• Empower
  -This ability grants 12 Stacks of Might, as well as a nice 3.45k heal at the end of the channel. The short cooldown is nice, because it can be used again on the next weapon slot.

• Symbol of Swiftness
  -I personally use this ability not for a speed increase, but for a damage increase as well as another boon that can be placed on allies, and a symbol that will heal allies when they stand in it.

• Line of Warding
  – An awesome defensive ability. When used, this keeps enemy mobs from reaching the party, which when combined with some utility skills, you can keep enemies away from allies for 10+ seconds, allowing them to heal and regenerate thier wounds from your buffs.

Elite Skills I Use

Any Race-

• Renewed Focus
  -This ability is one of the best guardian elites. It provides a 3 second invulnerability while simultaneously recharging your virtues after its completion. This is the primary elite skill I use. I primarily use this one in Dungeons.

• Tome of Courage
  – This ability is also a really good guardian ability. Providing massive healing to allies, as well as protection and regeneration in a large area of affect. I primarily use this one in world vs world.

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How to effectively increase your boon durations without spending many points in virtues.

Runes

• Superior Rune of Water 2 of 6
• Superior Rune of Dwayna 2 of 6
• Superior Rune of The Monk 2 of 6

This rune set up will grand you a 30% boon duration increase for all other boons, as well as a 50% duration for regeneration. Which is a huge bonus, making your protection, might, regeneration, and retaliation buffs last longer.

Top that off with 10 points in virtues and you have a total of 40% boon duration, as well as a 60% duration for regeneration.

Character is being re-made after taking several month break from gaming to finish up school.

Character is Re-Made as a Human Guardian. I’ll be reposting pretty much everything.

Character has been deleted and remade into an engineer. After numerous hours of number crunching. Engineers provide much better utility and support and better suit my playstyle. Please close this forum. Thanks.

You have much better abilities at your desposal that can help your team.

I completely agree with what you said about wanting things to work, but why would you want such a skill anyway? Its a 4 minute cooldown ability. Even with a 20% reduction, it is still too long of a cooldown for only a 90+ increase in healing power at lv 90.

Dungeons for the most part. Grab yourself a couple of lv 80 yellows, and then use the tokens you get to get exotic gear which you can then salvage.

Thats what I do. 3 Ac runs a day pretty much, yields about 2gold doing dungeon, and about 1 gold selling the blues and greens, and then salvaging the yellows gives me ectos, as well as turning in the tokens, 207 potential tokensX 7- 1400 Tokens a week. meaning 10+ exotic armor peices to salvage.

The link has changed again. WTF is going on.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Build-Legendary-Defender-Charr-Guardian/page/1#content

exionn.8152

i’m not comparing guardians to warriors, i’m just comparing their ranged limitations and how a warrior would do twice as much as damage in the same situation. that comparison would have worked with any other class actually, because range for guardians is just that bad.

As they should. Gaurdians are not, and should not be ranged combatants. All of our abilities, all of our specs, focus on close to mid ranged protection/buffs. We have very few offensive 1200 range abilities.

To add more, to make us more “versatile” ranged combatant will destory the very foundation of being a guardian. We can protect our allies from ranged attacks, can we not? Then that is all that matters. Retribution from a range is not our fortè. Getting up close and personal, that, is what we do. We protect and shield our allies, we are not long range combatants. Nor should we be.

And yes, you can make scepter builds, but the only reason i would ever use a scepter ( and i never do, or have), is to chase enemies down. Because it has an immobilization ability on it.

The staff #2 ability has had its velocity increased, making it a more viable ranged attack. even with my build, I am seeing 2.5k+ crits with it. which may not seem much, but it can be used every 2 seconds as long as you havent detonated it for healing.

Also, if you log off your forum account, and view the post then, you can see everything. But you cannot see it while logged in.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Build-Legendary-Defender-Charr-Guardian/first#post825297

Also takes you to the first page, but there is nothing i can do to save the hyperlinks from the last 3 comments, that i’m trying to add to the top for easier access/navigation.

30 Valor Vs. 30 Virtue Altruistic Healing Vs. Absolute Resolution

I’m also going to address the 30 Valor vs 30 Virtue. Since I’ve been asked many times as to why I do not use 30 virtues.

Q: Why do you use 30 valor over 30 virtue, would it not be better to use 30 virtue for increased boon duration and virtue recharge rate? As well as doubling the healing from Virtue of resolves passive?

30 Valor grants Altruistic Healing, as well as a 250 healing bonus while using a mace, as well as an increase in armor and defensive utilities.

30 Virtues would grant a significant increase to boon duration, and would also allow your virtue of resolve to heal for almost twice as much, the only problem with using 30 virtues is that it gives really no benefit to the party. Where valor can give toughness to allies just by being near you, virtues can give no such buff.

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Concecrations VS Shouts for Support/Midline Guardians

I’m going to adress another question I’ve been asked constantly in the PM’s.

Q: What is the Viability of using Hold your Ground/ Stand Your Ground Vs. Consecrations for support?

Hold The Line

• Hold the line is a great ability, not only does it provide protection ,but it provides the regeneration buff as well, it is often best to use this in conjunction with Stand your Ground at the beginning of the fight, not only to provide protection/regeneration, but to provide your team with survivability
  
  Stand Your Ground
• Stand your ground Stand your ground is another great ability, not only does it provide stability, but it provides the buff Retaliation as well, granting a 7 second damage return capability, when used in conjunction with Hold the Line, it provides the team with major survivability.
  
  Pros’ Of Shouts
• Short Cooldowns
• Can Affect Whole Party (and then some)
• Affected by Boon Duration
• Significantly larger range than concecrations
• Can Be used while /Stunned/Held/Immobilized/Dazed
  
  Cons of shouts
• If cast out of range, the shout is rendered useless on various party members not in range
• Grants many boons that can be stripped by various enemies, rendering them useless, or worse, end up on the enemy themselves.
  
  Now, Those are the reasons i use Shouts, lets move onto concecrations.
  
  Concecrations
• Consecrations are a type of utility skill exclusive to guardians, involving the placement of helpful effects on the ground.
  
  Pros’ of Concecrations
• Extremely Powerfull/ Long buffs that last on the ground, providing a multitude of benefits. From stability to condition removal, to invulnerability(somewhat) to reflecting projectiles
• Creates Various Combo Fields, which, if used properly, can turn the tide of a battle.
• If specced properly, concecrations become ground targeted.
  
  Cons Of Consecrations
• Extremely long cooldowns, even when specced into the 20% reduced cooldown, the shortest cooldown is 32 seconds on wall of reflection. Hallowed ground is 64 seconds. And Purging Flames is 48 seconds.
• Stationary buffs, requiring you to stay in a given area. If a boss throws a serious AoE down in that area, that concecration is now rendered useless because you cant stand there, and the AoE probably lasts longer than the duration of the concecration.
  
  That is just my take on concecration vs shouts.

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https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Build-Legendary-Defender-Charr-Guardian/page/1#post813896

With this one, with a “1” instead of a 2, it shows the first page, but you cant save any of the hyperlinks to store for easier access.

any idea on why this is happening?

I found if you put a 1 instead of a 2. it works., but i cant save any hyperlinks to any of the posts.

I have a forum post in the guardian forums that displays my build, I have made several updates to it and have tried to apply them

But this is all i see when i click on the forum link. Is there anyway to fix this?

All it asks me to is to reply, i can see nothing previous, or nothing prior. There is nothing there.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Build-Legendary-Defender-Charr-Guardian/page/2#post813896

I didnt say you NEED to have one, I just said that its NICE to have one.

My Guardian keeps 2 sets of armor, a toughness/power/healing power
and a precision/vitality/healing power.

I enjoy the latter set far more.

This should definitely go in the PVP page, and Be a sticky. Not ragging on you or anything, I just think this should definitely be made into a sticky in the PVP forums for guardians. Extremely good guide and very well planned/thought out. +1

Exionn, comparing a guardian to warrior is like comparing apples to oranges. Warriors are a different breed of fighters than we are. Its only natural that they hit harder than we do. To expect us, to be the same as a warrior, is like expecting a freshman to play as good as a senior. Every know and again you’ll run into that amazing person thats the exception. But 1 person does not make this game, and should not make the game change in order to fit the whims of such said person.

My build is also a great way to keep the party alive. You dont exactly have to follow the race as i did (charr), but the main attribute points are still there.

For those of you that say healing power is a worthless stat, and not worth investing into. Unless you like your party to go down alot, its nice to have a “dedicated support” in the party, and there is no denying this fact. A guardian is the perfect dedicated support, we can offer you stacks upon stacks of might, massive amounts of protection/regeneration, and alot of healing as well via healing breeze(if you can aim it right) and virtue of resolve, Staff#4, Mace #2, and the third chain on mace #1.

Check it out, its in my sig.

Xynn.2748:

this is such a good thread. Thanks so much for keeping it updated with your thoughts.

No problem, Again, this just shows how I play the game, there’s no “BEST or OPTIMAL” build, because everyone has thier different playstyle. Mine just happens to be more of a mid-line support.

Eveningstar.6940:

This is an interesting take on Altruistic Healing, in which you aren’t focusing on Crits to get you a steady stream of healing, but just having a lot of boons and healing available to you via Mace and Staff.

Yep. I love Altruistic Healing. It doesnt just help increase the parties survivability, but it also helps with my tanking ability as well, since it heals 1-2k a pulse..

Eveningstar.6940:

I like the concept a lot, and I think you strike a pretty solid balance between aggressive melee and boon support. You’re obviously not built for damage, but with enough Power and Precision, it looks like you’re set.

Thats correct, with enough power and precision, the 30 points into valor allow me a 30% increased crit damage. Like i said, this build is not for DPS fanatics, but its not useless in that department either.

Eveningstar.6940:

I feel like Mace doesn’t get nearly enough credit. It actually does hit pretty hard, and it provides some very solid utilities.

I Agree, i see very few guardians wielding maces. When people see me wielding a mace, they think, “OMG, why isnt he using a greatsword or hammer”. The truth is, symbol of faith is a major healing ability. Not only granting regeneration, but granting an additional 370/odd healing just by standing INSIDE the circle. Which is great on Tank/spank bosses.

Eveningstar.6940:

Anyway, good stuff. I like the build. Looks pretty effective. I might do something similar in the future, since I’m looking for a good way to mix aggressive melee with strong boon support.

Thanks, I’ve put alot of thought and effort into the build, and have even taken your suggestion and moved 5 points from zeal into virtues, and got the 25% retaliation increase duration.

DoTA/2, LoL, and HoN all have the single worst communities every created. Mobas are the epitome of cesspool players.

Little bit of a clipping issue with the aegis, but this is my charr guardian.

maulkior.

Heres my regular shield, dont think you can see it well, but there are clipping issues with that as well.

It just looks bad…. Look how bad the clipping is.

But CAN you please fix this?

My aegis clips THROUGH my arm, same thing for my SHIELD.

Its very annoying.

Yeah, The build is insane, If you like the AH/Empower,
you should check out my Legendary Defender

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