Guild Wars 2

courageuos return doesnt reset virtue of courage when rezzing an ally..

anet fix plz:D

Im sorry but you got that wrong. the new version of this trait will be really good. why?

You rezz an ally: you get your VOC reset. what does this mean? you get :
1 free aegis
stability protection retal aegis stunbreak on command for 5 ppl around you

with the low(30 sec) cooldown of this trait this means you will get the VOC reset quite often, since it will reset when you get rezzed or rezz an ally. and VOC is one of the most usefull utilities we have.

if you will run 0-0-6-6-6 after the patch, you can get aegis heal. this means you heal 2x 750-1000 extra just by rezzing somebody or getting rezzed.

the only thing that bothers me is when you run the new shield of absorbtion( aegis regen protection when you rezz an ally) you will get an aegis from this trait, aswell as an aegis from the VOC reset. i wish it would stack up to 2 aegis maximum to get most benefit from this.

Imagine an ally is downed: you activate VOC for stability and protection>knockback + heal from the new honor trait> you rezzed the ally> you get 3 boons which heal you and protect you even more> you get another VOC to stunbreak or stability and you and your mates are save from any CC during or after the Rezz.

now show me a screenshot how you hit 5 binding blades on a target other then the grouped npcs:D

its not posible to hit 5 on 1 target. try the dummies, i got max 3 ever

So right now if you use binding blade on a target, you can hit 1 target with multiple binding blades. Lets say you hit a target with 2 binding blades. You do 2x the damage.
Which makes sence. Except for the passive damage(the 200-300 ish per tick for 10 seconds when you dont pull the target). It still remains to 1 binding blade tick.

Shouldnt it be also 2 ticks per second since you hit the target with 2 blades?

wow so much text, to much to read :X like you will constantly bursting. not healing, not using elite, no dodge, you will keep on bursting like a mad man. any ranged weapon will kite you to death with those weapons. if you really think you are that perfect go and enter spvp with ur build. lets see how you kill other gaurds that easy.

it takes 1xf1 to block ur mighty blow. 1 ray of judgement. 1 aegis. 1 dodge. you can count howmany times i can avoid ur mighty blow.

if you still manage to dps me, i have my elite. a new aegis, new f1 blind, new f3 aegis.

i have fought enough guards to know how to kite them. and not the wvw bots. as i said. im not hating on you or your video. i said i liked ur video. the only thing that botheres me is the way you act. like a god which will kill everything in its path.

anyway, wasted to much time here already. gl with ur wvw stuff, im out

Ragnarox.9601:

Wow so many critics but they dont realize that this build (or mine modification) beats every meditation gs s/f in 30 sec or less. They waste all their cd’s in 4 sec but they dont realize true burst potential of this build…l

eap->ww-quickness (6k) = 1 dodge and none of them hits.

-> they use shelter= no because he didnt hit anything yet.

->game over -> MB 5k + 4k 2x autoattack = this is where you kite with scepter and blind block his attacks.

-> leap +ww and they are gone. = this is when you shelter. you will be ~70% hp

while he used all is burst. now you can faceroll him since he has no shelter to block the burst.

this is how i would fight ANY gs/hammer gaurd..

sorry to say but i fight npc’s in spvp that are harder to kill then these bots :X

there is no way you will beat a good shout warrior with ur hybrid build. and with good i mean a warrior which knows how to fear a guards shelter.

and you also cant compare a condi engi to a condi guard. the engi heal + shields make engi already stronger then any gaurd build.

im not saying the build is bad. im just saying you cant say the gaurd build whitout any sustain is as good as any of the other hybrid builds. A good engi will run offpoint, stall for 10 sec and come back full hp where you as a gaurd cant do kitten. as in: you cant keep up with him, you cant outheal him, whitout cooldowns you cant reset the fight and will end up losing. same goes with shout warriors which can escape fights very easy and have a kittenton of cleanses.

Saiyan.1704:

Keksmuffin.1450:

Saiyan.1704:

I think these type builds should be in the same league as condi engi, ranger, and other similar builds. Unless those specs got a 3 score too… which I doubt. Even though the spec itself isn’t my play style, the build itself is on par with zerk meds in terms of consistency.

I’ll get on the site and vote, for the simple fact that condi excels against other builds that Zerk Meds have trouble with. That in itself is worth a higher grade.

EDITED
Oh and try playing with geomancy + torment sigs. It does more damage in groups as apposed to a single condi condition; doom or Earth.

Condi thief freekills condi engis while zerker thief is pretty much countered by them. Does that mean condi thief is viable now?

Are you saying condi Engi’s are viable? Curious because you used it as an example. If they are then so are condi guards (62600 sw/t sc/f) since there both technically play the same roles in conquest.

You’re right about torment I miss read the toolbar >.<
My mistake!

condi engi’s have been meta since, ever?
just because of this comment i assume you play hotjoin or maby unranked. playing a build that does well in hotjoin doesnt make it meta, or even close to meta. and yes. i have played this build the day after april 2014, after the 33% burn buff. i have played and tested every single possible hybrid build(bullet can approve this, he hates my whispers:D). none of the hybrid builds work as solid as zerg with 4 in virtues.
even if my favorite build is 2/6/6 full zerg dps which i love to 1 shot ppl with, you cant a good sustain build.
so i think it would be nice if ppl would say at which level they play their builds, so it will prevent these useless discussions about proving whos right or wrong.

the anvil you mean:D best thing in the whole game. i dont remember tho if i made a +9:P i spent a kittenload of hours on that thing.

ItIsFinished.9462:

SilkySmooth.1574:

ItIsFinished.9462:

If any of you are familiar with Knight Online, they had two areas outside of town that were kind of like a coliseum style area/arena. It had an invisible line that when a player crossed it, it would put them in combat mode. And anyone could attack anyone. It essentially became a King of the Hill style area, people would sit right outside the line and watch people duel. Someone would lose, they would leave another would enter.

wow. i found a fellow ex knight online player in gw2!:D the best (unknown) mmo game ever made:P

To this day, I still think KO had the best PvP out of all the mmo’s I’ve played by far. What server did you play on?

ares and later europe. you?

ItIsFinished.9462:

If any of you are familiar with Knight Online, they had two areas outside of town that were kind of like a coliseum style area/arena. It had an invisible line that when a player crossed it, it would put them in combat mode. And anyone could attack anyone. It essentially became a King of the Hill style area, people would sit right outside the line and watch people duel. Someone would lose, they would leave another would enter.

wow. i found a fellow ex knight online player in gw2!:D the best (unknown) mmo game ever made:P

here are 2 useless tricks i discovered (which bullet loves to hear from me :X)

rune of the grove + zeal I gives you an instant 25 vulnerability + immob for like 10-15 sec

rune of the resistance gives aegis on signet use. if you stow the signet on 70-80% animation time you still get the aegis(does have 30 sec cooldown tho)

i will post more useless tricks when i can remember some more:D

something maby less useless (but i quess most ppl already know this):

if ur 3rd auto attack chain skill doesnt hit anything, the chain doesnt reset for a short period. this means: you can get 2 symbols with hammer auto attack if the first symbol didnt hit anything, with sword you can spam the auto attack 3rd hit 3 times before it resets, etc.

thats the thing. this will never happen in higher tier ranked matches..

it wont dont worry, its not half as good as a zerk medi build in high end pvp:P

Saiyan.1704:

Keksmuffin.1450:

I still think it’s not good for anything but dueling since most of the damage is just too slow and too passive while you’re not really gaining a lot of defense over the usual zerker meditation build.

The only big difference, defense wise, between the zerk meditation build and the first build I posted is Absolute Resolution. Which may or may not get utilized fully.

In terms of damage, you’re looking at a sustaining 800 per second, not including 300 from bleeds and 170 from poison and about 300 from your other misc skills. Rune of krait does about 4k damage, mainly used as a finisher/burst move.

Zerks autos can have a spike damage of 2-3k every 1.5-2 seconds. A full hit from whirl is about 5k damage. Smite Condition can hit for an additional 2-3k. Not counting your occasional 300 burn ticks.

Assuming I’m not getting cleansed and you’re not getting kited/cc’d/blocked/protection, I’ll do about 6k dmg per 5 seconds in conditions alone (with out krait) while meta will do 8k in 2 second with whirl and smite and sigil procs. Then continue to auto for about 4.5k in 5 seconds

Defenses such as focus, shelter and elite are the same except it’s more rewarding for me in zerg scenerios, causing perma burn from shelter and additional damage from elite.
If I got zerks damage wrong please let me know, it’s been awhile since I used a zerk build.

dont forget that while playing zerg, you already burn for 300-400. in my full zerg build my burn ticks for 403 whitout any might.

So this happened today:

it is/does heal you:D look better:P

oh wait you cant because it counts as a regulair server. with the same hotjoin rules. so stop crying and rank like you should.

its a bunker guard with the wrong sigils, rune, weapons and traits ._. this wont do ANY dmg at all. if you want to play dps on cleric( and i dont know why:D), try something like: 2165 or something with intel sigil on hammer and staff(staff 2 crits allot). + rune of pack for some crit chance(or strength to get the mightstack going). and swap burn on block for glacial heart.

i believe that if you put in game messages towards EVERYBODY in every chat/location/server, you will have maby thousands of more viewers. biggest population of the game is outside the spvp so this might be interesting to get them in contact with spvp.

sorrychief.2563:

x/focus hammer with JI 10/25/x/x/10 in pvp. . . blow people up not paying attention.

funniest thing ever was a 5k shield of wrath and 4k mighty blow on some thief.

you know by putting 0 points in valor you lose 30% crit dmg(= 30% extra dps when critting) right?

the traits arent THAT bad. the problem is that signets are completely useless. all they add is extra base stats. 180 power/180 condi dmg? thats like 3-4 mightstacks to get the equal amount. if we had usefull signets like a warrior(or thief) has, the traits wouldnt be that useless.

the active skills are even worse then the passive. the knockdown lands only like 1/3 times and the immobe isnt needed either. maby if we had a trait which makes them instant, it would be usefull to combine it with a burst.

good, more buffs in the future maby
i see at least 1 other guardian in my soloQ’s everyday tho. this is top 10-100 EU.

release ur right mouse button and you can stomp

well i like all the cool skins they bring on the gemstore.. its nice to be able to buy some^^

So today i have learned from my pve guild that laurels are worth a ton of money:D. (you get 1 laurel a day when you finish ur daily and i think like 10 for a monthly).

If you go to the laurel vendor in lions arch, you can buy heavy crafting bags. its the last crafting bag in the list on the vendor. (make sure you buy the heavy bags to get tier 6 crafting material.)

Today i have transfered 330 laurels into 420 gold!!. So if you didnt know this and you stacked up your laurels just like i did, go make some free cash:P

problaby the first person it hits. just like how greatsword 2 will proc any sigil on the first hit.

the only way it could be usefull in my opinion, is porting when ur using ur elite renewed focus. when ur in the elite you have 2 sec time to exactly place the port on the ally. the elite is 72 cooldown, MI has 40 sec cooldown so i quess that could work. other then that, no i wont use it:D

Fashion Mage.3712:

SilkySmooth.1574:

Ghotistyx.6942:

(did you know, SW count as allies?)

no it does not.

Yes they do. AH can even be triggered off of them.

yes AH works but that was not the question. you cant port to them with MI as being an ally.

you can take a ele down pretty quickly if you run the highest zerk build, 2/6/6 with sword and scepter. this isnt the most populair build becuase of the lower sustain. however i do love running this build atm.:D

how awsome would it be if the bow command would be a waterfield and we could use the hammer to blast it for some extra heals:D

the main problem is that zeal after 2 points is useless based on dps. it is a power traitline which doesnt give more power then 5 honor or 5 radiance(10% dps =~200 power). thats problaby why the 4 builds you listed are the best builds available.

IF you want something for a change, you have to change the amulet ìnto something like a celestial and go for condi/dps. 602600 and heal with aegis/dodge. (this could be fun with the new spirit shield giving you aegis every 12 sec when activated)

Ghotistyx.6942:

(did you know, SW count as allies?)

no it does not.

searing flames wiki: This trait prioritizes removing Might over other boons.

Drennon.7190:

SilkySmooth.1574:

no kitten when you trait like a bunker:D

at least take the II in zeal> +15% dps.

You misread my post. The previous poster asked which ele spec I have trouble with. I run 2-1-6-1-4. I was stating that ele 0-0-2-6-6 is hard countering me.

Edit for spelling:

oh my bad:D

if you really want to change ur build to kill an ele, keep poisining him i quess. im running 2/6/6 full zerk atm for fun and i can beat them pretty quickly. but when im running my usual build i have trouble with them aswell. its just a stupidly strong build when they have the ability to stack 20+ might.

no kitten when you trait like a bunker:D

at least take the II in zeal> +15% dps.

+1. stop talking crap before checking the facts. this trait is broken and should also aply aegis to urself. why? so we can make use of the aegis traits we have. if this trait would apply aegis to myself i could have more builds posible based on aegis healing and dodge healing instead of monks focus. this trait in combination with the aegis from the spirit shield (1 aegis every 12 sec when activated) makes it quity nice.

so.. merficul intervention is useless now. 120 radius is small as … to land in an emergency situation on moving allys

how bout a gain xx seconds swiftness when you activate a virtue trait

150mb upload 150mb download it doesnt really matter i still have lag spikes somethimes

206.127.159.235:0 is lagging like crazy atm

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAS7dlsApcoVDxZI8DNR8QZVHUdAkAP61zwTmDA-TZBHwAW2fAwDAo8BBIwVAAZZAA

this is what i have been playing since the april patch. (not playing it anymore because i got bored and went leroy zerg)

its very tanky and does a constant 700-800 burn dmg. the combo of hammer + intell will get you 3-6k crits. i had loads of fun with this build, problaby the strongest 1v1 build for a guardian.

me too dont like to play the usual medi zerk build, hipster builds ftw;D

then you obviously dont play top tier spvp:)

i dont like carrion, no crits and low toughness. imo celestial is perfect for this build.

yo jebro, gemcaster here:)

you problaby know i run a similar build:P i think you have a good start but you miss the key dps output in ur build: burn. the power of celestial + 33% burn dmg from the zeal trait amplified wrath will make you burn for like 700 whitout any might. (so 62600)

so now we have a very high burn damage. if you rewatch ur gameplay video, you can see you only burn every now and then which is not enough to count it as a good dps output.
my suggestion: burn on block. drop the fury on meditation and use burn on block. doing a 700-800 dmg each block.

as for rune, i like to use balthazar. it gives me extra burn duration + condi dmg + 5 sec burn aoe when i heal. also the quickness is usefull sometimes.

because my burn does high dmg, i swapped out contemplation for purging flames. yes its not instant and doesnt heal, but once you know how to use it well its awsome. 8.5 sec burn each time they pass the ring, 3 condi removed (AOE!) fire field(!) and reduce condi’s by 33%.

i like to run with hammer becuase of the combo with sigil of intel, i still burst for 6-8k with only 1650 attack. if you run greatsword keep in mind that binding blades does 300 dmg for 10 sec long which cant be cleansed

dont bother bullet, useless to discuss with hotjoin hero/pve-ers:D everything you say( even with 3000+ pvp games) will be wrong in here:)

Bash.7291:

SilkySmooth.1574:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAS7dlsApcoVDxZI8DNR8QZVHUdAkAP61zwPkDA-TpgMgAA7PIXGAA

drop the carrion, its not good for a guard.

celestial is the key for any hybrid build. i burn for 670, much lower yes. but my crit dmg is 200% and 30% crit chance. also my armor is 2.8k so im super tanky.
you really dont need any more burn uptime then this. let me list ur burns:

burn every 5th hit (virtue of justice)
virtue of justice active 2x
burn on block( 5x aegis, focus 5, shelter)
judge’s intervention
purging flames
shimmering defense

if you didnt kill ur enemy by now, its a bunker:D

i have 3200 tourneys on my guard and 80% of it is dps. most of the builds listed up here arent viable for tournaments, maby just for fun in hotjoins. sustain is key in winning with a (semi) burn build

/sigh… No GS, shimmering defense, low power, low condition damage… yeah…. gonna pass on that.

my build is based on high end solo/teamQ matches, not random hotjoin. its not all stats which matter.

no gs? personal choise. hammer is for me the best weapon in any ranked match.

shimmering defense, whats the problem with that? free 12 sec burn

low power, i bet i hit much more then all of ur carrion builds, you got no crits at all and if you crit, its low. my sigil of intell will make me always land my spike with hammer.

low condi dmg.. ur (only) condi is burn. 835 with 1200 condi dmg, 672 with 700 condi dmg. This might seem like a big difference? 1 tick 160, 10 ticks 1600, 20 ticks 3200. my crits will do much more dmg then the 160 extra per tick. amplified wrath is the main reason why we guards dont need a high condi dmg at all.

i have played every (yes every) posible dps build for guardians, in both soloQ and teamQ. the main thing you need to be viable is sustain. `
carrion amulet is made for necro’s which got like tripple our HP. or warriors with all their stances.

Lucentfir.7430:

If you’re going to make a burn power condi spec, you’re better off with Carrion than celestial. The vitality from Carrion will fill the void of not putting any points in honor, and by going 6 in valor you get sustain and toughness. Carrion based builds I can do about 800 ticks on burn while having over 2k power(I run Flame legion Runes). Not to mention my damage ramps up for every block with might of the defender, and stack burns easy with Defender’s flame. Very low crit but respectable damage amps from burning foes=17%(22% if you decide to take Zealous blade).

GS because GS 5 scales off Condi damage, and Symbol of Wrath has retal(scales on power). Celestial isn’t really good on guard tbh unless you have selfless daring, more conditions other than burning. Other professions like Ele, Engi, and Warrior can makes the best use of of it because there are some builds that use every stat effectively.

Bunkers die when you put doom sigil and geomancy(my preference) to work in tandem with your burning.

with celestial i also dont need honor nor vitality.
ur 2000 power is useless whitout crits. a crit does 200% more dmg, ur raw dps isnt even close to double the celestial dps.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAS7dlsApcoVDxZI8DNR8QZVHUdAkAP61zwPkDA-TpgMgAA7PIXGAA

drop the carrion, its not good for a guard.

celestial is the key for any hybrid build. i burn for 670, much lower yes. but my crit dmg is 200% and 30% crit chance. also my armor is 2.8k so im super tanky.
you really dont need any more burn uptime then this. let me list ur burns:

burn every 5th hit (virtue of justice)
virtue of justice active 2x
burn on block( 5x aegis, focus 5, shelter)
judge’s intervention
purging flames
shimmering defense

if you didnt kill ur enemy by now, its a bunker:D

i have 3200 tourneys on my guard and 80% of it is dps. most of the builds listed up here arent viable for tournaments, maby just for fun in hotjoins. sustain is key in winning with a (semi) burn build