Guild Wars 2

No doubt they can survive, they can run like crazy. I guess they must be good killing other classes but guardians.

I run a meditation build and 99% of the time in w3, and I see a lot of people now playing D/D ele because they say is the bomb right now, but every time I found myself fighting against one is like “what’s the deal of this??” they dont do anything. They always predictible, they run on lighting and knock you down, then I say “what the kitten?” I must have lost half of my HP, but I look at is like a hit for 200-300 that dont even moved my health bar, then they run back avoiding counter attack. I dont see a point in play a D/D ele, just to knock down ppl. I got hit a lot more by staff ele.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

You say dungeons so I assume this is a PvE build.

I should note that you pretty much always want 30 in Valor for guardians. AH is a massive spike in survivability and you also get the +30% crit damage, which is a massive boost in damage overall.

As for hammer, the only trait you actually need to make it useful is Writ of Persistence. The rest don’t really matter. You don’t need to improve the cooldown since hammer is just auto-attacking anyway (contrary to what people will tell you, Mighty Blow doesn’t actually hit any harder than just auto-attacking). This puts you at 30 in Valor, 20 in Honor, so you have 20 points to spend. If you want to use spirit weapons (although I don’t recommend it) you can put 20 in Zeal to get Spirit Weapon Mastery and Eternal Spirit. You don’t need Wrathful Spirits since spirit weapons don’t really do any damage anyway.

I should note, however, that if you want to be DPS, you shouldn’t be using a hammer at all. Based on the revised math I’ve done (which is admittedly incomplete at the moment) the hammer is actually the weakest weapon the guardian has DPS-wise. It’s only good for the area protection and snares, if you ever actually need them for some reason. If you’re already running 20/0/30/20/0 you are pretty flexible about which weapons you can take, so you might as well take a greatsword or scepter.

I don’t agree. MB on hammer is a hard hit. I run 20/0/30/20/0 build GS/Hammer, and I always hit with hammer MB 4k+ minimum, my hardest hit so far with MB was 6.8k, I never did that damage with GS. I use Hammer CC AoE and GS/hammer for single target fights. It’s always awesome when they get scare with a MB hit…

Doesn’t matter what race you pick, the best elite skill is Renewed Focus anyway…LOL, pick the race you like it best for looks.

I guess I will try charr, I just think Charrs are too bulk and big for a sniper hide out build, they can be spotted from far away..LOL

Hello, just thinking of start a new toon, and I though about a rifle build warrior, but still not sure what race is a best fit, as far racial skills…any suggestions?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Please-fix-this-sooner-rather-than-later-Vid-attached/first

I’m glad they are fixing culling next patch. This will help a lot with thieves insane stealth. So far I having a lot o fun on this W3. Yak’s number are a lot more than FA but the fights are challenging. See you all tonight.

I dont see W3 at all like you described. I love to play Guardian but I dont stay on walls, I go to the front lines and pow pow. Guardian will never be a range damage profession, so If you looking for this mind as well play with your Necro. Guardians are melee and buff/support. I always find ground fights in W3 and Tome of Wrath is very good AoE if you really need it.

My build is pretty close, besides the gear, but I like a little more damage and crit so I run 0/25/25/20/0 and to compensate for 0 zeal I use bane signet (gives 90 power passive and active can knockdown runners on chase) instead of CP. I found out that this build is excellent for damage and survivability and as you since I changed I never lost a 1v1. I play 99% of the time on WvWvW so this build fits perfect. One thing I might change is the 5 points in Virtues, I really love those addins.

Thorwyn.8469:

@Drgori-5724
retaliation with the hammer symbol?
It gives u protection. U only get ae retaliation if u use #2 as blast finisher on the symbol.

@topic
U cant compare those weapons. GS is more dmg and hammer cc.
Both r nice and depending on the situation, one is better than the other.

Exactly, you have to use the combo…please, it’s a no brainer…

dont get me wrong, I still like GS, I use sometimes as my second weapon. Is it great and for sure has more damage if you spec your traits in the right way. but when using the hammer and re-spec the traits you get more for the buck. You still do a good damage but you get a lot more survivability, so overall I prefer Hammer as main weapon now, second weapon is between GS and staff depending on the situation.

I used to love GS, especially because I do 90% of the time WvWvW. It has a good damage, great speed and the AOE eh awesome. But since I got my Hammer I felt in love it. #1 do lots of damage and retaliation on 3th hit. #2 is the best AoE damage of the weapons and the CD is really short so you can do twice more AoE than with GS. #3 skill is awesome to immobilize runners and freak them out. #4 is the funniest thing and make them s**it their pants (extra funny on edge of cliffs). #5 is an awesome for combination to either keep enemies in or out, is great when you see a friend that is about to be finished you do the combo #4+JI > #5 > rez. Since I changed to Hammer I havent yet lose any 1v1 and on a gank is pretty harder to take me down. One of the factors for that is that with GS you have to invest a lot in Zeal trait and Hammer you invest in Valor giving you much more toughness. I used to not like hammer because like many other people find it too slow, but believe me is not that bad and is reaaaaaally worth it.
Hammer hands down…

this is crazy, the only skill that give us a major boom to DPS and get nerfed by no reason…. WOW i guess i won’t be running a virtue based Guardian anymore, maybe even trade professions for Thief or Mesmer that never get nerfs…

cool I show up on your video I’m the golden guardian around 5:43 min. LOL

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There are no most powerful, every class can counter others classes attacks some how and have a good chance to win if you know how to play your class. What we have now is some issues with Thief’s rendering making them stealth forever and some broken Mesmer skills with portals cheating on W3

Guardian is more fun, you can play attack, defense, healer/buffer/support. Warrior basically you just going to play attack.

cooking is nice for the buffs….

wow, if you die a lot in WvW as guardian, then you might rethink the way you playing….

You cant compare the damage output of a thief with any other class, nobody will never do thief’s damage, so this argument is kind of invalid. I play damage/support with GS/Staff on a virtue/crit build. It’s pretty hard to kill me even when ganked, 1v1 they are pretty much dead, I can survive a thief’s stealth attack and make they run in stealth again before the die, lol is fun to watch…cowards….lol

I never had problems to kill mesmers with GS, just annoying to finish them…

On WvWvW you have to be a glass cannon guardian because you dont get any compensation on being a support, you have to deal damage and kill people if you want rewards. I play GS/Staff – GS for close encounters/high damage, staff for buff/range/running. Scepter is good for lock opponents but thats it, damage is not that good, the orbs are really slow, Staff cone range is way better on a big crowd and if you need more aoe dmg just use Tome of Wrath which is awesome on WvWvW.

it all depends how you do your build. I used to be a HP based Guardian, and I could get up to 25k on WvWvW with Orb buff, and I’m sure I could get even more than that if I want it. but then I switch to more damage/vitue and I have about 16k-17k/19k-20k with Orb buffs. I found out that you dont need that much HP as guardian, you do have a lot of defense, retaliation, renegeration and powerful heals. You are pretty hard to kill with that, I can jump in the middle of the enemies do lots of damage and still get off alive.

I play GS/Staff build since the beggining and at that time I rarely saw any guardian using staff, but now I see a lot more using. I love staff, I play WvWvW 95% of the time and staff is great for that, the cone damage on a big group, the orb (yeah the speed sucks) can damage and heal at the same time, the simbols that I use for running and also to do damage on rangers on top of the walls, the might/heal buff is awesome to support your group and the barrier is pretty cool to stop some enemies, but I dont use it more often since they can pass it just with a dodge…
Staff is my main weapon on big groups (group damage/heal/support/chasing enemy) and GS is my “jump in the middle of a crowd and spin doing lots of damage” weapon.

I didnt like the changes too, but if retaliation was the main reason for that, I would prefer they just take it of from the skill and replace it with something else, I would love to have a 3 sec immobilization which would work great on a spinning zerg….