Guild Wars 2

Pvp: Ive stubbornly been avoiding using DH instead have been trying core burn and support builds. Have silently cursed trappers many times. Almost made it into gold but couldn’t quite do it.
Drifted to the dark side last night and made a variant of symbolic (dh,honor,zeal)… wow. Good mix of damage, team healing, and survivability that I haven’t been able to create using core only. Probably true of all expansion elite specs being superior… I would probably have more wins under my belt if I hadn’t been so kitten stubborn about staying with a core spec.

Thank you for the tips and for educating me about the pet taunt.

Core burn guard here.
Due to having MoC to improve Purging Flames, it seemed like virtuous solace would have good synergy and would be a literal life saver.
But after using it for a few nights, I can’t say that it seems very useful at all in pvp… maybe I move too much to use it properly. Do any of you use it in pvp and find it to be worthwhile?
Otherwise, Absolute Resolution is probably s better choice to help cleanse sullied teamates.

Thanks.

When 1vs1 fighting druids, it seems embarrasingly common that my target switches to the druids pet. Whether my key binds are screwy, whether I am key fumbling in the midst of battle, or whether I am not using a specific setting… not sure. But I need to fix this issue.
Looking for tips on settings/keybinds/… so when 1vs1 druid, I can stay locked on the druid.

I was expecting the active heal to increase.
That makes sense if it was the passive healing that was increased. Thanks.

Healing contribution is increased from 0.75 to 1.4.
I was using an amulet with heal but the tool tip didnt seem to show the increase. Maybe it’s just a tool tip issue.. tonight I will jump off a cliff and see

Regarding Virtue of Resolve:
Notes indicated a PVP 87% increase to healing and reduced recharge time. In game tooltip shows the reduced recharge but I don’t see an increase in healing. Am I just blind, or is it working but not shown in the tooltip?

Thanks

So permeating wrath for core guardian has been fixed to include the longer passive burn time? I’m a core guardian and last night permeating wrath only had the original 2s burn duration tested on dummies. Without permeating wrath selected the 4s burn occured though.

I enjoy bother the shield 4 and 5 abilities and the traited 250 toughness plus 61 armor of the shield are nice imo.

There are a few very skilled players you encounter in pvp where it really doesn’t matter what class they are on… you are going to die miserably. Excluding those, warriors and a pairs of necros are what I struggle with. DH guardians defending objective points can be tough too. My scrapper struggled against elementalists but I’m doing fine against them with the guardian (though I believe they were nerfed)

Played a guardian as my main mostly focuses on WvW. Burned out on the game and took a 2 year break. When I came back.. guardian just didn’t seem the same and I didn’t want to level up DH so I used the level up for a Scrapper for PvPing for the last few months.

But after this last patch, I am playing a vanilla guardian in pvp (sword/scepter/shield) exclusively and am really enjoying it. Decent damage, decent survivability, buffing and rezzing teamates during the chaos of battle, and the heavy armor looks kick kitten … this type of play is why I chose Guardian in the first place; Thanks for the changes Anet and I hope you other guardians are happy with the changes also!

(BTW: I am not saying I am a great PvPer on this character or any character…)

Thanks for the tips!
So Moa would be quite powerful against them. Is Moa useful against others such as mesmers; will their clones dissappear if the mesmers is morphed?

Recent lvl 80 boost. Played eng Juggernaut for a week but recently switched to the scrapper. Previously played guardian and druid but took a few year break.

In unranked spvp I am doing ok (improving as I become more familiar with this class). It feels like I am holding my own against most classes but am having difficulty with one in particuliar… necros that have many pets. I can get the necro into his second health bar and possibly take out a few pets in the process, but by this point I am hurting with most skills already used and can’t seem to finish them before croaking. Is there a good strategy to use against them? Or is a necro army simply hard to deal with as an eng?

Thanks

I do have a Guardian that used to be my main WvW character when I played ~ 2 years ago.
Druid, or work on guardians DH spec, or choose something new like Ele or Rev.
Thanks for the suggestions; Gives me things to ponder.

I recently returned to GW2 and bought HoT.
Currently working on a druid and have had fairly good results with her in PvP, but need to flesh out her druid spec line and update pets before WvW.

Longer term I would like to focus on WvW and PvP and am wondering if there are better options. I’d like reasonable ranged damage, reasonable survivability, and do like to provide buffs and/or healing to others during battle. I don’t need a flavor of the month class that will roll over armies… but something solid to use in WvW and PvP.

Should I continue with the druid or do you happen to know of a better fit?

Thanks