Guild Wars 2

Pandem.7283:

The one linked from the client (http://account.guildwars2.com/reset-password) has been disabled since September. It’s surprising that they still haven’t changed it or fixed it yet. The correct and working link for password resets is actually: http://account.guildwars2.com/recovery

That’s pretty ridiculous. That’s cool, they even want a god kitten serial code before I can request a password reset. Why is this company so complicated?

I bought my game digitally, I don’t even have that email anymore -_-

So… ugh? It’s been 11 days since a CM has posted any chance we can get an update / fix?

Gaile Gray.6028:

Hi. Can you tell us a bit more? For instance, how exactly is the forgot password feature not working? What was your experience? Did you get an error code or error message? If so, what did it say? Did the link not work? Did it simply not successfully reset the password after it appeared it had been done?

If you can walk us through this situation, we’ll try to duplicate it in-house and make whatever improvements we can to help players.

Thank you.

ZeTuna.8074:

Clicking on “Forgot your password?” link on the Gw2.exe launcher will send you to the disabled page where it says: “Not Available This feature is currently unavailable.”

https://account.guildwars2.com/disabled

I think that’s what he is having issues with.

This is the issue I’m having.

Anyone? Hi? Bump!

Why can’t I change my password via the launchers “Forgot password” link, etc?

bump for more views on my new guide!

My old guide is also posted in the Guardian section. Just trying to get views where I can. =)

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10a1o4/new_and_improved_guardian_guide_for_greatsword/

Take a look. Hopefully you find some useful information and something worth using. I’ve set it up on Google Docs so there is a table of contents. Browse a little.

Sorry if the formatting is bad in some places. Its still a work in progress.

Thanks!

New guide up.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10a1o4/new_and_improved_guardian_guide_for_greatsword/

Feel free to check it out. Thanks again for all the comments and replies I’ve gotten here and on other sites.

hellokittyonline.7532:

i don’t get it either.

But it feels like diablo 3 all over again.

People do it too much, NERF til no one does it.

Anet = WIN! = WE ALL QUIT like dialo 3 lol

Anet is the new Jay Wilson

IIntrude.8903:

Just ran CM Story for the 1st time today. I got a whopping 1.5k XP for it. Why bother running it at all I now wonder.

Seems legit.

It’s already hard enough to get anyone to run story mode once to unlock exp. Now it’s going to be even harder for new players and fresh 80s.

GG Anet. Stupidest move since release.

@Andronis

I honestly feel the same way. GW2 is the new D3.

They’re (Anet) are now telling us what is and isn’t fun. ie. acceptable by their standards.

I just feel like Anet is so gun-ho on putting all their efforts into making sure no one
has an advantage over anyone in any form. Be it gold, gear, etc.

Fact is this is still an MMO. The guy playing 12 hours a day should have an advantage over someone in at least some areas of the game.

I loved the kitten out of this game leveling up. I’ve got like 180 hours played and only hit 80 a few days ago. I didn’t even care. This was the first time I’ve wanted to level a character since BC or when TERA first came out. Now? I don’t even know if I care.

I was excited to work towards my legendary sword because its one of the few items in the game that is better than what some random Joe can buy off the AH the moment they hit 80.

Now they’re nerfing the risk / reward factor of EXP dungeons further hammering in the fact that there really is nothing to do in this game at end-game.

I can totally understand having the first tier of gear in the game all being the same. It gets everyone on an even playing field relatively quick but for the love of Pete, their first major content patch needs to implement some gear with a more varied stat system (not saying add new stats, the current ones are fine) but gear from source A should be better than source B if source A is harder than source B.

I believe it takes 15 – 20 runs per item @ 390 tokens per.

but yes i agree.

Fox.1054:

If I were you I wouldn’t worry about those 500 tokens you need for your legendary. Hope you realize it costs pretty close to 2 million karma and about 500 gold aswell. Hehe.

It costs 132 gold if you don’t buy anything but the required materials and it costs 525,000 karma.

Please do some research before speaking -_-

That makes sense. =)

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darkehawke.1269:

RainbowVomit.2509:

darkehawke.1269:

RainbowVomit.2509:

Really? There is already nothing to work towards in this game because ALL OF THE GEAR IS THE SAME. Now they’re preventing us from making it worth while to farm the EXP dungeons that we already need to farm if we want to even pretend to be working towards character improvements via cosmetic items which already take like 20 runs to obtain per item.

Not to mention the 500 tokens I need from AC for my legendary. Now I get to be excited that after a few runs I’ll be making next to zero money and getting no loot?

Sounds like a blast!

Why is Anet so hung up on making sure that NO ONE can obtain ANY advantage over another player?

If I or anyone wants to farm a single dungeon for 6 hours a day for what ever reason, let them. Their reward for doing so is potentially having lots of gold.

Again does it really matter when you can get the best gear in the game off the trading post for 15 – 20g?

I’ve already had friends quit because there is no reason to play this game once you’re 80. All the gear is the same, no pvp rewards to work towards, etc.

I’m honestly really upset over the change.

except they’ve given the advantage to every player who got their gear before this change.
They dont have to put up with the new BS

What? Not sure if you read what I wrote up or not. Thanks for the bump though.

i did.
and i was agreeing with you :P

If you were I apologize, didn’t really look like you were.

darkehawke.1269:

RainbowVomit.2509:

Really? There is already nothing to work towards in this game because ALL OF THE GEAR IS THE SAME. Now they’re preventing us from making it worth while to farm the EXP dungeons that we already need to farm if we want to even pretend to be working towards character improvements via cosmetic items which already take like 20 runs to obtain per item.

Not to mention the 500 tokens I need from AC for my legendary. Now I get to be excited that after a few runs I’ll be making next to zero money and getting no loot?

Sounds like a blast!

Why is Anet so hung up on making sure that NO ONE can obtain ANY advantage over another player?

If I or anyone wants to farm a single dungeon for 6 hours a day for what ever reason, let them. Their reward for doing so is potentially having lots of gold.

Again does it really matter when you can get the best gear in the game off the trading post for 15 – 20g?

I’ve already had friends quit because there is no reason to play this game once you’re 80. All the gear is the same, no pvp rewards to work towards, etc.

I’m honestly really upset over the change.

except they’ve given the advantage to every player who got their gear before this change.
They dont have to put up with the new BS

What? Not sure if you read what I wrote up or not. Thanks for the bump though.

Really? There is already nothing to work towards in this game because ALL OF THE GEAR IS THE SAME. Now they’re preventing us from making it worth while to farm the EXP dungeons that we already need to farm if we want to even pretend to be working towards character improvements via cosmetic items which already take like 20 runs to obtain per item.

Not to mention the 500 tokens I need from AC for my legendary. Now I get to be excited that after a few runs I’ll be making next to zero money and getting no loot?

Sounds like a blast!

Why is Anet so hung up on making sure that NO ONE can obtain ANY advantage over another player?

If I or anyone wants to farm a single dungeon for 6 hours a day for what ever reason, let them. Their reward for doing so is potentially having lots of gold.

Again does it really matter when you can get the best gear in the game off the trading post for 15 – 20g?

I’ve already had friends quit because there is no reason to play this game once you’re 80. All the gear is the same, no pvp rewards to work towards, etc.

I’m honestly really upset over the change.

Where is the fixed camera/fov slider/increased zoom distance?

This x like a kitten billion

• New Feature: Inspecting

• Players may now inspect each other’s achievements, equipment, rank and traits in the Heart of the Mists. Inspecting equipment in PvE remains disabled.

What would be the purpose behind not allowing inspection out side of the mists. rofl????

Glad to be of help. Going to be updating it again soon. =)

Ha ha, I would love a fix for this ability

Thank you for the replies guys. I appreciate it a lot.

I feel like this guide was a little rushed so I’m going to re-type it tomorrow and do up a google docs version for easier reading and navigation.

In the mean time I highly suggest trying out Valkyrie gear with Berserker accessories (rings, earrings,) As for runes I recommend Flame Legion, Warrior, or Divinity.

After some more discussion with people I’m agreed this guide. While extremely informative is a little messy and could be much, much better. I’m going to leave this up but re-wire the whole thing making it a little more organized.

As well as going into more detail the types of gear and runes worth using.

Stay tuned if you’re interested in running GS on your Guardian.

Totally forgot to include info about gear / rune choices. Going to add that in a few minutes as well.

Thanks for the views and replies so far.

Trungalung.7850:

Symbol of Wrath doesn’t cause burning. It’s either a bug or a typo.

Oh, that is a typo. I’ll edit it out in a few minutes. Thanks.

Eveningstar.6940:

This is an excellent guide. Well-written, informative and well-organized.

I’ve been running a one-hander build using Right-Hand Strength and Empowering Might, but your guide has me seriously considering a Greatsword.

Thanks!

That’s my goal. Hope you take some good info away from this. =)

Opening up on a target

I’ll list my opening skill set and then detail why I do.

• Activate Virtue of Justice
• Leap of Faith
• Symbol of Wrath
• If > 2 targets Binding Blades other wise Whirling Wrath

From there if its a Veteran mob or champion, etc

• Swap to sword / shield
• Flashing Blade
• Zealot’s Defense
• Shield of Judgement (Try to hit multiple people if you’re in group play)

What does this rotation do and why is it effective?

• Virtue of Justice gets burning on our target which instantly grants us a bonus 20% damage through Fiery Wrath and Radiant Power.
• Leap of Faith applies a blind, which in turn applies a stack of vulnerability via the Blind Exposure trait.
• Symbol of Wrath applies a 2nd stack of vulnerability via the Symbolic Exposure trait.
• Whirling Wrath is then used which is by far our hardest hitting ability. By the time you use this your target will have 2 – 3 stacks of Vulnerability and be burning increasing the damage substantially.
• Flashing Blade applies a 3rd stack of Vulnerability as well as a Blind.
• Zealot’s Defense is our 2nd hardest hitting ability with this build. You will have most likely killed any normal mob by now, if not…
• Shield of Judgement is a nice hitter and also applies protection which reduces damage taken by 33% for 5 seconds.

When it comes down to nearly all events AoE damage is king, try not to blow all 4 of our AoE abilities on the first wave. You want to be tagging as much as possible for a chance at loot.

Also! Don’t forget to weapon swap, GW2 rewards you for being active, and this build rewards you for doing just that by allowing you to apply blind, vulnerability, protection, and burning freely to multiple targets.

I will continue to update this with more information as I track it down, and as it becomes available. I strongly believe that the Guardian can be played as a strong DPS class, you need to realize though that you have a myriad of defensive group buffs. Sure the passive Might is nice from Virtue of Justice for example but allowing your group to apply a huge stack of burning is also awesome for your build. Keep that Aegis up, but try not to overlap an existing Aegis. It can take some time to pay attention to not only your target, your cool downs and your group buffs but once you do you will easily understand why so many people want Guardians for groups.

Abilities I use and why:

Signet of Resolve - Strong self heal on a shorter cool down thanks to Signet Mastery.

Retreat! - Guardians inherently have no passive move speed bonuses and this goes a long way into helping. Although it does have a long cool down at 60 seconds, the Swiftness boon lasts 20 seconds, effectively making it a 40 second cool down. This ability can also be used to give you a Aegis in a pinch for both your self or allies around you.

What is Aegis and what does it do?

• Aegis is a boon which blocks the next attack. A block in Guild Wars 2 works far differently that it does in most games. Usually a block simply reduces the amount of damage you would take from physical attacks. However, in GW2 it is a technique used to parry incoming attacks. A blocked attack deals no damage, and other effects on the target are also ignored.

As you can see Aegis is very strong, and it is one of the boons that a Guardian can reliably apply, and can be applied on demand. Aegis fits very well into this style of Guardian because of our ability to apply blind, retaliation, and protection. This can be very frustrating in PvP but is extremely helpful in PvE, especially explorable mode dungeons where mobs can hit rather hard.

As can example. Your group engages the boss. First hit is blocked by Aegis(Via Virtue of Courage’s passive). You apply a blind, 2nd attack misses. You apply your 2nd blind, 3rd attack misses. You use Retreat! to apply Aegis a 2nd time, 4th attack is blocked. By this time Virtue of Courage’s passive is back up so a 5th attack has now been blocked. You can then activate Virtue of Courage granting Aegis, 6th attack has now been blocked.

During this time you can easily re-apply your blinds via Virtue of Justice, Leap of Faith, and Flashing Blade. All this has gone towards increasing your effective health for not only you but your entire group! Not only that but when the boss finally lands a blow on you it will either be returned via retaliation or mitigated via Protection.

Judge’s Intervention - I like this ability while soloing and for group events, it gives the spec even more AoE damage potential, single target burst and a stun break which works even while knocked down and is a great help since quite a few mobs in Cursed Shore in particular have knock downs. It also gives the build even more mobility. You can use this in conjunction with Flashing Blade and Retreat! to get around the world faster blinking onto mobs and critters.

Purging Flames - This ability doesn’t do a whole lot of front end damage, but it has a large AoE which again… is king in events it also keeps burning up on our targets to take advantage of the bonus 20% damage from passive traits.

Renewed Focus - Our Elite skill choices aren’t very spectacular for solo. While I would prefer to use Become the Raven, Raven form is insanely buggy right now and you almost have to mash your keys repeatedly for the abilities to go off. Furthermore, Become the Raven isn’t an option for all Guardians.

That said for solo play Renewed Focus is prettykittenpowerful as it instantly resets the cool downs on our Virtues. Nough’ said.

For dungeons I would highly recommend either Tome of Wrath or Tome of Courage as they offer great group buffs and pretty solid damage.

You can also use a 1 handed mace for dungeons and explorable modes as that will give you access to an AoE heal through Symbol of Faith and a 2nd AoE protection buff via Protectors Strike.

Major Trait

Signet Mastery 10 point passive in the Radiance tree – Signets recharge 20% faster

Originally I had wanted to use the passive Inner Fire because you can set your self on fire with the Torch Skill Zealot’s Flame which would allow you to buff your self with Fury every 15 seconds. However this doesn’t work. I’m not sure if it’s a bug or simply not intended. The next best option is Signet Mastery.

Signet of Resolve 40 seconds -> 32 seconds
Bane Signet 45 seconds -> 36 seconds
Signet of Wrath 30 seconds -> 24 seconds
Signet of Judgement 20 seconds -> 16 seconds
Signet of Mercy 240 seconds -> 192 seconds

All of these signets are pretty viable options with the exception of Signet of Mercy which is a pile of crap right now.

Signet of Resolve - Very strong self heal

Bane Signet - Passive 90 power as well as a minor nuke that hits for 470 – 700 damage on average. I think it’s a viable option for world dragons but there are better options for dungeons and pvp.

Signet of Wrath - long range immobilize that lasts for 3 3/4 seconds. on a rather long cool down. Also increases your condition damage. Debatable if its worth using.
100% not worth using on world bosses with the current cap on conditions per target.

Signet of Judgement - Very solid Signet grants a passive 10% damage reduction while not on cool down. While this will reduce the amount of damage Retaliation returns, it’s a nice bonus. It’s active is decently strong in both PvP and PvE causing -50% Endurance regeneration and inflicts 50% Fumble.
What is Fumble? - condition that causes attacks to result in a glancing blow (about 50-75% reduced hit) Basically this causes your attacker to hit you for less damage then he normally would.

Signet of Judgement works well with the Guardian since we can easily apply Blind which causes the target to miss on their next attack as well as keeping Aegis on our self. It’s pretty easy to apply blind -> weakness -> aegis effectively preventing our target from doing any physical damage to us for 3 attacks. That is a huge amount of effective HP.

Signet of Mercy – This Signet is 100% trash, do not use it. ever. It’s passive grants an additional 90 Healing Power. For a comparison I have 200 base healing this causes Signet of Resolve to heal me for 8,736 on average. With Signet of Mercy the bonus 90 healing causes Signet of Resolve to heal for 8,854 on average. Watch out!

Furthermore, the active on Signet of Mercy is pathetically bad as it cant work on downed players, only 100% dead players. Don’t use this Signet, ever.

Major Trait

Writ of Exaltation – 10 point passive in the Honor tree – Symbols are larger.

Pretty awesome passive. Increase the radius of Symbols by about 15 – 20% While this might not seem like an awesome passive lets break down what exactly it does.

Symbol of Wrath deals damage and grants Retaliation. With a larger radius you’re not doing more damage to more enemies at once, and as we all know by now AoE damage is king for events. At the same time you’re also applying Retaliation to more people effectively increasing group damage for anyone being hit. Which again the Cursed Shore and any of the Orr zones with mass zergs of Risen this adds up to quite a lot of damage for your party.

Major Trait

Two-Handed Mastery – Two-handed weapon skills recharge 20% faster.

I feel this is pretty much one of our best passives with this build.

Symbol of Wrath 10 seconds -> 8 seconds
Whirling Wrath 10 seconds -> 8 seconds
Leap of Faith 20 seconds -> 16 seconds
Binding Blades 30 seconds -> 24 seconds

This reduction goes a long way into increasing your DPS and raw damage output. All of our abilities have a slight delay before they inure their actual cool down. Rough testing has yielded the following…

Symbol of Wrath – 2.50 second delay
Whirling Wrath – 3.34 second delay
Leap of Faith – 1.95 second delay
Binding Blades – 2.50 second delay

From what I’ve been able to gather this passive translate into roughly a 20% damage increase for Symbol of Wrath, Whirling Wrath, and Binding Blades. This should also hold true for Leap of Faith. (I’ll be updating this thread as I find out more information about how coefficients work in Guild Wars 2. There is very little information available and the lack of information given via the Character Sheet in game is next to zero).

List of Conditions:

• Bleeding*
• Blind*
• Burning*
• Chilled
• Confusion
• Crippled*
• Fear*
• Immobilized*
• Poison
• Vulnerability*
• Weakness*
  *Denotes Conditions Guardians can apply. Some are Norn only via elite racial skills.
  List of Conditions and how to apply them

Bleeding

• Rending Slash & Swipe – Become the Wolf (Norn only Elite skill)

• Rending Talons – Become the Raven (Norn only Elite skill)

Blind

• Leap of Faith – greatsword (weapon skill)

• Flashing Blade – 1 handed sword (weapon skill)

• Justice is Blind – via activating Virtue of Justice (trait passive)

Weakness

• Signet of Judgment – Utility Skill

• Affliction – Tome of Wrath (Elite skill)

• Command – Shield of the Avenger (Spirit Weapon)

• Growl – Become the Snow Leopard (Norn only)

Burning

• Symbol of Wrath – greatsword (weapons kill) & Zealot’s Speed (trait passive)

• Wrathful Grasp – Spear (underwater)

• Judge’s Intervention – Utility Skill

• Purging Flames – Utility Skill

• Conflagrate – Tome of Wrath (Elite Skill)

Crippled

• Affliction – Tome of Wrath (Elite Skill)

• Shackle (While drowned in the downed state)

• Crippling Swipe – Become the raven (Norn only Elite skill)

• Pounce – become the snow leopard (Norn only Elite skill)

Fear

• Snarl – become the wolf (Norn only Elite skill)

Immobilized

• Zealot’s Embrace – Hammer (Weapon skill)

• Signet of Wrath – Utility skill

• Chains of Light – Scepter (weapon skill)

Vulnerability

• Chains of light – scepter (weapon skill)

• Spear of Light – Spear (underwater weapon skill)

Weakness

• Signet of Judgment – Utility skill

• Affliction – Tome of wrath (Elite skill)

• Command – Shield of the Avenger Utility skill

• Growl – Become the Snow Leopard (Norn only Elite skill)

According to the information I’ve been able to find this passive causes you to deal 10% more damage. (I’m going to retrain my traits and try to test this for my self will update soon).

Minor Trait

Vigorous Precision 5 point passive in the Honor tree – Grants 1 second of Vigor when you land a critical hit.

What is Vigor?

• Vigor is a boon that increases endurance regeneration by 100%. Endurance is used for active dodging.

Personally I feel this is a rather lack luster trait as with this spec and play style you really aren’t going to be stacking Precision. I have 1,404 Precision in my current gear which yields a 27% crit chance. So while you will see it happening about once every 4 attacks it doesn’t offer much to the build. Guardians naturally do not value crit or crit-damage highly.

Minor Trait

Selfless Daring 15 point passive in the Honor tree – The end of your dodge roll heals nearby allies.

• Heals for 342 with base 200 Healing Power.

While this passive does share synergy Vigorous Precision the healing is nearly insignificant and certainly does not make Precision more valuable than Power or even Condition Damage.

Major Trait

Fiery Wrath 10 point passive in the Zeal tree – Increases damage by 10% against burning foes.

This single passive makes keeping high burn up time an absolute must in any situation and shares invaluable synergy with Radiant Power increasing the total bonus damage to 20% from two of our passives alone.

Major Trait

Greatsword Power 20 point passive in the Zeal tree – Greatsword damage is increased by 5%.

Simple passive, increases our main damage dealing weapon’s damage by 5%.

Major Trait

Blind Exposure 20 point passive in the Radiance tree – Applying blind also applies vulnerability.

This again is a rather strong passive as it works in conjunction with two of our weapon skills Leap of Faith and Flashing Blade. It also shares synergy with our passive Justice is Blind which applies Blind when activating Virtue of Justice.

This is primarily going to be a break down of the Guardian class in a PvE setting. While I have done some WvW I have yet to do any sPvP. (I’ve been spending a lot of my time working on gathering for my legendary, Sunrise)

I’m going to go over each ability and how they work and work with each other.

For reference I have 177 hours played on my Guardian. While I’ve been leveling slowly enjoying the game and really experimenting with a lot of things. I’ve primarily used Greatsword and 1h sword + shield or 1h mace + shield where I’ve needed more survivability or in dungeons.

All numbers and information were gathered at level 80 in Cursed Shore

Traits:

Zeal – 25

Radiance – 25

Valor – 0

Honor – 20

Virtues – 0

Minor Trait

Zealot’s Speed 5 point passive in the Zeal tree -

• Create a Symbol of Wrath when your heath drops below 25% (30 second cooldown)
• Symbol of Wrath grants retaliation for 5 seconds

What is Retaliation and how much damage does Symbol of Wrath do?

• Retaliation is a boon which reflects some incoming damage back to its source. Damage returned is fixed per level and scales with power, increasing damage by 1 for every 13.4 power. At level 80, base damage is 267.

The Guardian class is amazing at reliably granting and maintaining high retaliation and burning up times if you manage your abilities and cool downs well. We have multiple abilities that grant it to our selves and also allies.

• Retaliation returns more damage if you stack Vitality opposed to Toughness

• Burning is a condition that deals damage over time and stacks in duration. The damage dealt by burning is determined by the following formula:
  4.1 * Level + 0.25 * Condition Damage per second

Minor Trait

Symbolic Exposure 15 point passive in the Zeal tree -

• Symbols apply vulnerability to foes

What is Vulnerability?

• Vulnerability is a condition which increases damage the target takes by 1%, and stacks up to 25 times.

While Guardians can not stack Vulnerability to a high amount the extra damage does stack with our other passives. I’ll go into more detail on good opening combos for maximum damage later.

Minor Trait

Justice is Blind 5 point passive in the Radiance tree – When Activating Virtue of Justice, nearby foes are blinded.

Pretty self explanatory and in conjunction with Blind Exposure this allows you to stack another Blind as well as a stack of Vulnerability.

Minor Trait

Radiant Power 25 point passive in the Radiance tree – Deal more damage to foes inflicted with conditions.

What is a Condition?

A condition is a negative effect that can be inflicted against enemies through the use of skills and affecting traits. Conditions are characterized by their effect and duration. When a condition is reapplied (to a foe who already has it), some conditions will stack increasing in effect, some conditions will increase in duration, and a couple will have no change. When a condition is removed using a skill, the entire stack of that condition is removed. Condition duration is accurately added and will not be rounded.

I want to make Sunrise, and while finding information on how to craft the legendary items has been insanely easy. Trying to find out where or how to go about getting Dawn has been incredibly difficult.

I’ve read that you can get it via the Mystic Forge by combining 4x Rare or Exotic Great Swords (Confirm / Deny?)

I’ve also read that people were lucky enough to get them from WvW (killing Veteran mobs)

I’ve also read that you can get them from dynamic chests (IE. Dragons, etc)

Would love to get some clear answers on this.

Thank you.

Alright. Sounds like I’ll just have to start throwing exotic greatswords into the forge or hope I get a lucky drop.

Thanks for the info.

Well, going to bed. Will check back later!!!

Title.

The Wiki doesn’t offer anything worth while. I’d like to craft Sunrise, obviously I need Dawn of Rage.

Would someone far more intelligent then I tell me the materials I need.

Thank you.