Guild Wars 2

“Empowering Wrath” Guardian Build
by: Stella Alamarr

Traits – 2/0/6/6/0

Zeal –
(Fiery Wrath) – Increases damage against burning foes. (10%)
- Simply put, Burning is much used condition in fights. Whther the source is you or your allies this is a much appreciated 10% increase in damage.

Mior traits -

(Zealot’s Speed) – Create a Symbol of Wrath when you are struck while below the health threshold. (50%)
-This trait is quite useful, not only does it do considerable damage but you do not have to activate yourself. It will cast all on it’s own.

Valor-

(Meditation Mastery) – Reduces recharge on meditations. (20%)

(Focused Mind) – Meditations grant fury. (4 secs)
- Used to give you extra Critical Chance to make stacking might that much easier. Keeping your damage at it’s maximum.

(Monk’s Focus) – Using a meditation skill heals you.
- Pretty straight forward, this is your second source of healing.

Minor Traits -

(Valorous Defense) – Gain aegis when you are struck while below the health threshold. (50%, Aegis: 3s)

(Courageous Return) – Virtue of Courage is recharged when you rally.

(Might of the Protector) – Gain might when you block attacks. (1 Stack 15s) 19.5s with our might duration.
- One of the backbones of the build. Guardians have an amazing amount of blocks available to them. Each block will inherently give you more might, thus making you hit even harder.

Honor -

(Writ of Exaltation) – Symbols are larger. (Radius increase: 60)

(Writ of Persistence) – Symbols last longer. (Duration increase: 2 s)
- Symbols are a major source of your damage. They can tick for 2-3k with 25 stacks of might. Which will melt any class that fails to notice them. Writ of Persistence can be switched out for Two-Handed Mastery for more utility from GreatSword. However, it would also nerf your DPS compared to having longer symbols.
(Empowering Might) – You and nearby allies gain might when you land a critical hit. (Might: 5s 6.5s with might duration, Number of Targets: 5, Radius: 240, 1s recharge)
- One of the backbones of the build. With the attack speed of the GreatSword and the large amounts of Symbol ticks, it is quite easy to get to maximum stacks AND maintain maximum stacks with Critical hits alone. The more you stay on the offensive the more damage you do. The pressure continues to build the more aggressive you are.

Minor Traits -

(Vigorous Precision) – Gain vigor when you deliver a critical hit. (Vigor: 5s)

(Selfless Daring) – The end of your dodge roll heals nearby allies. (Healing: 129 (1.0), Number of Targets: 5, Radius: 240)

(Elusive Power) – Deal more damage when your endurance is not full. (10% increase)
-More dodgeing means more damage, but try not to waste them.

Here’s another video. Just uploaded a few minutes ago.

Guess I don’t need fire fields anymore :V

Lord Pain.3480:

U.. R.. Awesome.

Thank You.

ASCENDED VERSION RELEASED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHy8RjNX8sQ

This is a new build I came up with after xferring to a new server. I couldn’t WvW for a while so I decided to go sPvP and this was the result.

The guide is a few posts below

This build utilizes the boon “might” to the extreme. With a combination of might from crits, blocks, weapon swaps you can easily maintain 20+ stacks of might. Some people might say why not just run a “staff”? The thing about staff is that it wastes an entire weapon set for basically the number 4 skill. Getting lower stacks of might and for a much lesser duration coupled with a predictable attack pattern and no defensive skills. However with this build there is no such sacrifice. Not only do you have the DPS to kill any class with any build you have the blocks, invulnerability and the sheer pressure to keep you alive in engagements.

Videos:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzVyBvIqCxc – s/tPvP

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC4nGz9Patg – s/tPvP, Roaming WvW

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPlaw-bxoxU&feature=youtu.be – WvW

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayuQYcU7ZIU – Solo Roaming FT. TapDatMouse(Nhymx)

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfKGbRpFu0Q – sPvP GS/H M/F

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_qfmDNPhDw&feature=youtu.be – Roaming WvW

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nYEggPkI_g&feature=youtu.be – sPvP 1 random match

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B9IWEieLMQ&feature=youtu.be – sPvP

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1gGlESuQU – WvW Roaming/Havok

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHy8RjNX8sQ&feature=youtu.be
(ASCENDED VERSION VIDEO GUIDE)

11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKTulPvMlc&list=UUQp9h6mRgHc1mOk_BhqgV_w – Solo Queue

12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmY09B3wETI – Duels vs condi builds, 1v1s and solo roamng

Despite being a DPS Meditation Berserker build you do not lose in attrition. Being pressured and blocking attacks will yield more might, thus higher DPS. Attacking more and getting crits also yields more might, once again higher DPS. Whether you are on the defensive with Mace/Focus or on the attack with Greatsword you are constantly doing deadly DPS that will kill any build that takes you lightly.

Build links:

WvW:

celestial – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR5dlsApaodDxcI8DNR8AVVAweKb5/X/jgkDA-TVTDABM8EAeT9ieUmxy+DwoCShKBfRFhKuIAnp0AENDwpDAAzMkZagUAjqMC-w

non-celestial- http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR5dlsApaodDxcI8DNR8AVVAweKb5/X/jgkDA-TVTDwAMeCA9UmNT9AW7PATFkXqYU5iAcWpBINDw1BAwMjClgkNNRKgRVGB-w

sPvP:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR5dlsApaodDxcI8DNR8AVVAweKb5/X/jgkDA-TJRGwAAeCAJuIAg2fAaZAA

I like the ideas guys. Sounds cool. Keep em coming.

Was looking at a post in Profession Balance that was about prioritizing your own combo fields over allies’ fields. One of the main issues I saw was that Guardians’ auto attack on hammer creates a light field. compared to a fire field; which would you rather blast?

Then i thought what if Greatsword, hammer and mace, etc. created fire fields instead of light fields? O,O We have several traits that focus on burning so wouldn’t it make sense if we had better access to this condition? With the amount of finishers we have and light fields to convert to fire fields I could seriously see Pyro builds becoming a popular thing amongst the Guardian player base and condition builds would seriously become more than just “viable”. Of course retal would be seriously nerfed but… Wouldn’t you rather have that might for damage that you directly control?

Just think of how many fire fields and finishers you would have to go with all our fire based traits. Amazing isn’kitten

Perhaps this has already been discussed or thought of but I thought that maybe other Guardians would enjoy this idea.

If anyone is entertained by the idea perhaps you can share what you think of it? Do you foresee any pros or con’s to a change such as this? If so, what are they?

I hate thieves more than any other class in the game. It kittenes me off to see someone hit me for 7k+ twice or more in a row then stealth and repeat over and over again until I’m dead or run away and heartseeker across the map until out of combat never to be seen again the moment I get decent damage on them. I hate thieves with a passion that burns 10000 times hotter than the sun(no offense Ozii. I’m Sheva Alamarr BTW), HOWEVER I do not go and create threads that blatantly suggest to Nerf or take away something from another class. That’s such a kitten move. If someone said take away thieves’ ability to stealth you had best prepare yourself for a crap storm of negative comments coming your way. You know what I did? I switched to DPS meditation build and wrecked thieves who thought it was a brilliant idea to stab me in the back while having a 1v1 or sometimes 1v2 and beat them in their own game.

Perhaps if you spent more time theory crafting and improving yourself as a player than you do creating threads to Nerf another class maybe you wouldn’t feel this way.

Maybe if it gave ADDITIONAL retal damage based on condi dam plus the scaling from power; rather than rescaling from condi alone.

It’s in the middle of your screen because you are zoomed in as close as possible.
How can you command effectively with your screen like that. You should be zoomed out far enough to see an entire battlefield.

Yea, I run rune of speed in WvW on my guard now. Works well if you ask me.

redslion.9675:

mPascoal.4258:

I prefer 0/30/30/5/5, it was a build like this that I used when I started in sPvP. It’s really fun but as I enjoy tournements more than Hot join i found that bunker as a much higher rate of win as a team than Damage Guardian. If you ever do tournements and have a bunker already this is a strong build for altenative (Guardians actally make quite good roamers if played well)

This holds true for every bunker and every roamer. Having one or no bunkers makes the difference between winning and losing.

However, what about using Binding Blade and Judge intervention mid-cast to get elusive enemies? It results in a nigh unavoidable pull, which then can be chained into Symbol of wrath and Whirlwing Wrath for some BRÜTAL damage.XD

(I’m starting to think I go better with med guard than with warrior, don’t know why)

Try it out, it was much more fun than I thought it’d be.

mPascoal.4258:

I prefer 0/30/30/5/5, it was a build like this that I used when I started in sPvP. It’s really fun but as I enjoy tournements more than Hot join i found that bunker as a much higher rate of win as a team than Damage Guardian. If you ever do tournements and have a bunker already this is a strong build for altenative (Guardians actally make quite good roamers if played well)

yea I know what you mean, my other video in another post a few down from this one is actually of my guild and I in tPvP. This one was from the next morning.

Figured I’d just put the link of the other one here. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJVbrTFc7KA&list=UUQp9h6mRgHc1mOk_BhqgV_w&feature=c4-overview

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMiGdM5u-hI&feature=youtu.be

Build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8dlUgSDHESOEf4Eh1DAeQ/VVIeXPgIFbIA-TsAg0CnIYSxkjJDTSmsMN+YVw+DA

Thought I’d try out Meditation Guardian for a change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJVbrTFc7KA&feature=youtu.be

Build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8dlUgSDHESOEf4Eh1DAeQ/VVIeXPgIFbIA-TsAg0CnIYSxkjJDTSmsMN8YVw+DA

Asko.4120:

I’m happy that celestial crit.dmg might be getting nerfed. It makes no sense whatsoever that an ascended celestial GS gives 11% crit dmg. and ascended zerker gs that I got many copies of only gives 10% crit dmg lol

it does make sense, celestial has less power and precision so it gets an extra 1% crit damage >,>

Thank You for taking the time to watch the video and leave comments. As you can see I like tanking people more than anything. lol
Next time I’ll make sure to add some dps into my next build.

My particular gear setup that I posted was focused on tanking and survival but if you wanted damage you can just change the gear and still run these trait lines.

hmmm doesn’t have to be this gear setup but maybe something like this?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhEmgbsxywjEIkCww4RIsBdooAGUUsDzAA-jkCB4hAUDApqCRJPasF4DRrMKsqZCR6kYKXp2euIa1SBwkwI-w

Hello, I’m Sheva Alamarr

This is a new support/tank staff Elementalist build I came up with called “Diamond Resistance”. This build utilizes Diamond Skin AND -70% condi reduction and -103% cripple, immobilize and chill making it anti-condition and immune to crowd control. The high armor and healing power makes it effective even against physical attacks, making staying at full health quite easy.

This is a VERY “open” build, meaning you can run nearly any gear or trait setup as long as you have Diamond Skin, Geomancer’s Embrace and the Resistance/Melandru Runes with Bowl of Lemongrass Poultry Soup(or whatever it’s called). The only mandatory traits is the 30 in Earth and the above mentioned traits. 20 in arcana in water is not written in stone and can be tweaked to your style of play. You don’t even have to run staff. Run whatever weapon setup you won’t and your good to go.

Also, if I’ve learned anything from running this build it’s that the majority of players are running some sort of condition reliant build. Even the smallest things like immobilizing a target, setting them on fire, chills from Hydromancy etc. Either you are not effected by these perks or they don’t last long enough for them to be utilized.

The ability to run around and be immune to Immobilize, chill and cripple(sometimes it glitches and you might get one of these for a split second but it rarely happens) is not to be taken for granted. You can do things that others cannot without the use of stables. So be daring.
Video(will post more later):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pem4LdmFykE

Food:
Bowl of LemonGrass Poultry Soup: -40% condition Duration

Runes:
4 Sup. Runes of Resistance: -20% condition duration
2 Sup. Runes of Melandru: -10% condition duration
Geomancer’s Freedom: -33% Chill, Cripple and Immobilize duration

Armor:
Full Cleric’s Armor or Apothecary(if you want to try a condi build with D/D or S/D)
OR
Head, Gloves, Boots: Cleric’s
Shoulders, Chest, Legs: Settler’s

Weapons: Clerics, Settler’s or Apothecary

Trinkets:
Full Sapphire Orichalcum Trinkets with Magi back piece.

Sigils:
Stacking sigil: Life(Healing Power) or Momentum(Toughness) – depends on if you go for more toughness or if you like healing power.

Roaming sigil Hydromancy, Leeching, Energy or Renewal

Build Link:

Healing Power Build- http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQFAWhEmgbuxywjDIEFwgJMeECbQHWUsDzAA-jECBoNAUDAZRFRjtAfIalRhV1ATpiIq2loIa1SBwkyI-w

Toughness Build- http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQFAWhEmebuxywjDIEFwgJMeECbQHWUsDzAA-jUCBodA03A5dKiZRCrF4DRrMKsKGYKVER1uEFRrWKAmUGB-w

Healing/Toughness Hybrid- just use toughness build with “Sigil of Life” for stacking.

If I made any mistakes between the build in the editor and here on the forum let me know and I’ll fix it. If you like the build make a video and post it here.

Tweak your build to do a little physical damage. You only have to do 2k damage or less on average and problem solved. This is why you don’t do “pure” builds… it gets countered.

Not my best gameplay but I been wanting to make a video for a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xFaSlzfiX0

Build in this video: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8dlUgqC33RLEf4ESmiVCBxegRZUHdpwhoIA-jkyAYfAsVkpIA0HYqAUCENLSENWZLiGrqBTpSEVLFwoCjA-w
*The empty trinket slots are platinum doubloons(4% boon duration)

If you want a more damage/tanky oriented build of this lliterally SWITCH your TRINKETS and any WEAPONS you want to change and your good to go. No need to re-trait. I use the same trait setup whether it’s havok, solo-roaming, tagless with my guild or blobbing.

Title says it all. >,>

CMstorm.8679:

this music is OP

lol here’s the link

in-game name: Sheva Alamarr

Hope You enjoy! ^^

The original trailer i made before I finished the full video.

Also Bloodlust was already implemented in some of the clips if not all so that can give varying stats as well.

-I don’t remember exactly but I believe this is what they were.
-The empty trinket slots are platinum doubloons.

GS + H Build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJARSlUgqC33RLEf4ERVh4h9AjZsjXPUoDZIA-jEDBocQoNAEEQ0HAZRFRjtMMsVXRr8KIKdCyqGYKVJ1jTQWKATUGB-w

GS + Sword/Focus Build
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8dlUgqC33RLEf4ES2jVCBVwqCxD2DMKj6IA-jUCBoNCyEEQ0HBOLqIaslhht6KalXBR1ATpiIqWKgIWGB-w

I’ll post all the builds i used in the video soon. Was leaving for work when I posted so I was in a rush. lol

and Thanks for watching.

Finally managed to find time to finish it up.
I hope you enjoy it.

This is just a quick sneak peek of my next video I’m working on. It’s taking me a bit longer to finish the full video than I thought it would so I figured I’d make a little trailer.
I normally don’t post my videos on the official forums but I figured… why not?

I hope you enjoy the video.

Orion.1678:

Just a quick note: you may want to change some things around as boon duration is capped at 100%. Your hero tab will show over 100% but when you activate a shout you’ll notice you’re only getting 100% more. For the hell of it I ran a little over 120% boon duration and activated Save Yourselves and was only getting 20 seconds, even though the tool tip said I should be getting over 22 seconds.

Hmm, thank you for the feedback. If that’s the case 2 of the Platinum Doubloons on the trinkets can be switched out for actual jewels. Build will still work just as well and even better with the extra stats.

You also have:

“Selfless Daring”
The end of your dodge roll heals nearby allies(and yourself)

“Vigourous Precision”
Gain 5 seconds of “VIGOR” when you deliver a critical hit. This effect can only trigger once every 5 seconds.
-If you decide to go for more precision than I do, this means more endurance. More endurance means more dodging and ultimately more HEALS! Maybe Sharpening Stones will be of use here.

Virtues – 20

Four the Virtue tree I decided on:

“Vengeful”
-Retaliation last 25% longer

NOTES from GW2 wiki:
Does apply to Retaliation given to allies.(more heals)

“Absolute Resolution”
-Activating Virtue of Resolve removes three conditions. Virtue of Resolve’s passive effect is stronger.
That’s 3 condition removals whenever you want it and 2 passive condition removals from “Signet or Resolve and Purity”. Add in those cleansing combos too. Topping it off you get a stronger passive regeneration from “Virtue of Resolve”

NOTES from GW2 wiki:
Increases passive regeneration effect by 25%.
The active effect removes three conditions from you and allies in the area.(nice support there)

Then you have

“Inspired Virtue”
-Virtues now also apply the following boons:
Justice: might
Resolve: regeneration
Courage: protection

NOTES from GW2 wiki:
The boons are applied only when the virtues are activated.
The boons last for 5 seconds.(10s now)
Allies who are affected by the virtue’s activation also gain the corresponding boon.(more heals)
Activating Justice applies 3 stacks of Might. (AH heals for EACH stack from might)

“Virtue of Retribution”
-Gain retaliation when you activate a virtue

NOTES from GW2 wiki:
Grants retaliation for 3 seconds.(6s now)

With that said I believe that is everything.
If you have questions my in-game names are

“Sheva Alamarr” – Elementalist
“Stella Alamarr” – Guardian

I hope you enjoyed the video and will have great experiences trying out the build.

Zeal – 0
Radiance – 0

Valor – 30

For my Valor Tree I choose
“Purity” the V adept trait,
-Lose a condition every 10 seconds. (we want to tank we need condi removal)

“Mace of Justice” the VII Master trait
-Wielding a mace grants 5% additional damage and up to 250 healing power (based on level).
(more heals anyone?)

and “Altruistic Healing”(AH) the XI Grand Master trait.
-Applying a boon to allies heals you.(Someone said HEALS?!)

Notes from the GW2 Wiki on AH:
-Triggers healing for every boon applied. Applying area-of-effect boons will trigger healing for each ally affected (including yourself) and skills that apply boons repeatedly over time, such as symbols, will trigger healing with each pulse.
-Skills that apply multiple stacks of might will trigger healing for each stack.
-Synergizes well with traits and skills that rapidly reapply boons, such as symbols, Empowering Might, and Empower.

First off is “Valorous Defense” which grants aegis when health reaches 50%. Aegis is a boon which blocks a single next incoming attack of any kind whether it’s a physical or condition type attack. Which ties perfectly with “Might of the Protector” which grants the “Might” boon every time you block an attack. because we have 109% boon duraton we automatically gain 20+ secs of might for being attacked.(90s cooldown)

This also works for our
“Virtue of Courage”
-Grants aegis every forty seconds.
Activate: Grant aegis to yourself and nearby allies.

Mace’s #2 skill which can work a few different ways. If when you activate this skill and you are attacked you BLOCK that next incoming attack and gain 20s of might AND you immediately hit the enemy with an attack that looks similar to a shield bash. If you are not struck u grant protection to yourself AND your allies which means more HEALS.

SIDE NOTE: GS’s auto attack grants might on the third strike. This originally gives 5secs so now you will get another 10+secs of might due to 109% BDuration. Because you can go through the full auto attack cycle faster then the might goes away you can stack more might and therefore gain more healing from AH.
Mace auto attack heals yourself AND allies on the third strike.

and last but not least “Courageous Return” which Recharges “Virtue of Courage” when you rally.

Honor – 20

For our Honor tree I went with

“Superior Aria”
-Shouts recharge 20% faster
More shouting = more boons = more heals = survivability.
or
Writ of Exaltation
-Symbols are larger (50% larger)
Less shouting HOWEVER a larger field for allies to walk through and give you MORE HEALS.

and

“Two Handed Mastery”
-Two handed weapons’ skills recharge 20% faster.
More attacking = more damge
More symbols = more heals and retaliation

You can combine GS’s #2, and #5 which are Whirl finishers with your light fields for “Cleansing Bolts” which cures a condition from any ally the bolts hit.

or you can combine GS’s #3 which is a leap finisher with your light fields for an additional 10s of retaliation.

That’s only from the combos that you are able to create yourself. Think about the amount of boons that would go up in a larger fight with your allies blasting and leaping away.

For my Weapons:

To Be quite honest I did not choose these stat choices for this particular build, it is just what I have at the moment, so feel free to change these into whatever you prefer.

Greatsword – Sentinel’s with Superior rune of Hydromancy
Freezes nearby foes for 3 seconds when you swap to this weapon while in combat.
(Cooldown: 9 seconds)

+128Power
+128Toughness
+179Vitality

Mace – Celestial(Shiverstone) with Superior sigil of Life
Gain +10 Healing Power each time you kill a foe. (Max 25 stacks; ends on down.)

OR

Renewal.
Heal Nearby Allies on Weapon Swap
(AoE Range: 300)

You could even go for Bloodlust
Gain +10 Power each time you kill a foe. (Max 25 stacks; ends on down.)
for a bit more damage. It’s all about preference. There is no single “correct” way to gear.

+40 Power
+40 Precision
+40 toughness
+40 vitality
+5% crit damage
+40 healing power
+40 condition damage

Shield – Knight’s with a Superior sigil of Energy.
Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9 seconds)

-This is the only sigil that I would recommend. Other than the fact you have more dodges which means taking less damage I will explain the other reasons later.

+64 Power
+64 Precision
+90 Toughness

For my trinkets:

Sapphire with Platinum Doubloons(+ 4 boon duration)
+Power
+Toughness
+Healing Power
with 1 Magi piece with platinum doubloon
+Precision
+Vitality
+Healing Power

Amulet- Sapphire with Platinum Doubloon in the upgrade slot
Ring- Sapphire with Platinum Doubloon in the upgrade slot
Ring- Sapphire with Platinum Doubloon in the upgrade slot
Earring- Sapphire with Platinum Doubloon in the upgrade slot
Earring- Sapphire with Platinum Doubloon in the upgrade slot

Backpiece- Magi with Platinum Doubloon in the upgrade slot

This gives us an extra 24% boon duration bringing us to a total of 69% boon duration.

I also run Chocolate Omnomberry Creams.
Nourishment (30m):
+40% magic find while under the effect of a boon
+20% boon duration
+10 Experience from kills

Whether you use Maintenance Oil or Sharpening Stones is up to you.

so now we have a total of 89% boon duration.

My trait lines are:

0/0/30/20/20

NOTE: Because we have 20 into Virtues we gain another 20% boon duration.

-That brings us to a grand total of 109% Boon Duration
What this also means is that our #7, 8, and 9 skills’ effects last over twice as long.
This makes it possible to have permanent swiftness by popping “Save Yourselves!” and “Retreat!”
and permanent Retaliation from “Stand Your Ground” and “Save Yourselves” along with combos from your light fields with Mace #2, and Shield off-hand #5 in addition to GS #4.

Why is Permanent swiftness important?

When roaming you need to have the ability to get out of a fight just as fast as you jumped in.
Out running a zerg is difficult because they can run permanent swiftness EASILY while you, a single person normally cannot. It’s now possible to outrun people with your guardian without the need of a staff.

Why is permanent Retaliation important?

I don’t know why this needs an explanation. EVERY SINGLE PERSON you fight is penalized for laying a finger on you. If a guardian comes up to you and uses GS #2; he has done over 1k NEARLY 2k damage to himself just for attacking you. Now lets add in your own attacks to that. Even the Ranger attacking you from afar is not safe.

EVERY SINGLE BOON APPLIED TO YOU LASTS TWICE AS LONG AS IT NORMALLY WOULD***

Just think about that for a bit…

Hello everyone!

I have a build I wanted to share with you guys. This is my first time ever posting a build guide like this for ANY class or ANY game for that matter and given that I’m still wet behind the ears when it comes to Guardian please let me know if anything stated in this guide to my build is wrong please feel free to correct me. If you think there is something important that I missed let me know and I’ll gladly add it to the post.

First off here’s the build in action.
(I will edit this post and add in a video focused on 1v1s and 1v2-3s. I know people might be more interested in those sort of odds in testing the build. It is more than capable of those odds it is just difficult to find those kind of fights the past few days)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zUxr58krwaA

Also, if you like this build or guide and wish to see more from me please let me know!

I main D/D elementalist, but recently(1 1/2 – 2 months) I started playing and leveling my guardian and eventually got it fully geared. Since I got it to 80 I had been looking for a build that would fit my play style. Something similar to a D/D Ele. I love healing power, condi removals and being able to gain ridiculous heals from other sources other than my #6 skill. I’ve tried awesome builds from well known Guardians that aren’t bad but just didn’t really fit the way I wanted to play the game. So I started doing a little of my own theory crafting and testing different aspects of the Guardian.

First off, my build focuses on “Boon Duration”. Why boon duration? Well Guardian has access to more boons than any other class in the game if you ask me so that’s what I decided to focus my attention.

The skills I chose are:

6. – “Signet of Resolve”
Passive-Cures a condition every 10 seconds
Active-Heals yourself

7. – “Stand Your Ground”
Grant “Stability” to yourself and allies.
Stability: 5s
Retaliation: 5s
Breaks stun
Range: 600

8. – “Retreat”
Grant aegis and swiftness to up to five nearby allies.
Aegis: 20 s
Swiftness: 20 s
Range: 600

Elite Skill – “Renewed Focus”
Focus, making yourself invulnerable and recharging your virtues.
Duration: 3 s

For my gear I decided to go with full clerics because like I said before, I love healing power. However I will write out and clarify so there is no confusion.
Also there is no Ascended Items in this build so it is easily accessible to everyone. It is full level 80 Exotics.

Full Clerics
+Power
+Toughness
+Healing Power

Helm – Cleric’s with a Superior Rune of Monk
Shoulder – Cleric’s with superior Rune of Monk
(1) + 25 Healing
(2) + 15% Boon Duration

Chest – Cleric’s with superior Rune of Water
Gauntlets – Cleric’s with superior Rune of Water
(1) + 25 Healing
(2) + 15% Boon Duration

Leggings – Cleric’s with superior Rune of Traveler
Boots – Cleric’s with superior Rune of Traveler
(1) +10 to all stats; +2% Critical Damage
(2) + 15% Boon Duration

…so from gear alone your are getting 45% boon duration. Which is what we are focusing on for this build.

DevonCarver.5370:

No. That is not a possibility at this time. The point of the buff is to affect the WvW game mode as a whole disabling it on your character would lessen the value of the buff to a server and completely invalidate the whole point.

Well we obviously don’t want your orbs.

Eviator.9746:

/salute to the tanky D/D ele from VeT commander on FA BL. You had 10 of my server-mates following you (I knew better) and you never dropped below 30% health. But you kept them busy. I don’t understand how ANet can allow a profession that can last indefinitely against 10 people, but I’m not a game designer so what do I know.

thk u, it was a rlly fun fight
i have a video of it in the elementalist section of the forums if u ever feel like watching it from my perspective lol actually why don’t i just give u the link :V

it’s video “v6”.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Sheva-Alamarr-D-D-Ele-VeT-FA-VIDEOS/first#post2366447

Aether McLoud.1975:

Oh how I loathe videos that don’t give build links…

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhEmibyx5wjDAkHnYCLiCPUeMDN2A-jgyAoNhQqBA9JhZxioxW3Cb1Nal3goawUqER1uEio6gA+G-e

Other builds i use:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhEmibyx5wjDAkHnYCLiCPUeMTO2A-jgyAYMhQCCA9JhJwioxW3Cb1Nal3goWwUnER1+Dio6gAGF-e

or

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQJAoYhImibyR4QlDIEFngJIe8AQAHWUMD5AA-jQCBYLCh0HJkIAI5pIasljasVNCRqFYqSER1eDFRrOIgRB-e

Tyreal.5230:

Hi Everyone! ^^ I’ve been making a few GW2 videos here and there but have never thought about posting them on the forums till someone in-game asked me why i did not. I have a few solo roaming videos, I’m not as good as your more well known players but I guess I do alright. However I do like to think I’m getting better with time so hopefully my videos will improve. For the sake of ease of access and simplicity I’ll try to remember to post any new videos on this same thread. Also if you would like to see some other kind of videos made(PvE, Dungs, Fracts, etc.) let me know

v5(newest/post April 30th nerf) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVWUuJNhveU

v4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7MCC3fLcc

v3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaDjHP55b0k

v2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3CYEEUaJ3U

v1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVjQRvYCJsk

Enjoy! ^^

A new video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BKA_mqwWYcI

reason why eles and warriors can run thru portal in down state is actually quite simple.
we don’t TELEPORT ourselves to another location like a thief. we assume a WALKING form/state that gives us the same abilities as its counterpart(warrior can run around and fight as he normally would. ele can run in mist form state for 3 sec jus like the cantrip). its completely and utterly fair. each class was given something that they are familiar with in their downed state. necros get fear, leeching and poisons; mesmers get clones confusion and spikes; guardians get their warding type skills; warrior does what he does best, fights till the end throwing hammers and rocks. :V engineer gets their CCs and bombs; ranger has his pets to revive them. thief uses smoke bombs and stealth like he always does and ele gets mist form.

so as you can see it’s completely reasonable. so why front you go enjoy the game instead of complaining and please don’t tell me you can’t because eles use mist form to walk thru a gate. If that’s the case perhaps your not mature enough to be playing this game.

People trying to get ele nerfed because of their own incompetence again?

Some things never change do they?

oZii.2864:

Sheva how you been still have you on my contact list. Your on FA now? I have a ele now enjoy it alot. Gonna sub and watch.

Sin? :O it’s been a while, actually i think we might’ve fought last night. so maybe it hasnt been long (i saw a thief with Incenerator and GH tag). How’s Ehmry Bay and GH holdin up? If u see a D/D ele commander with a flower and VeT tag it’s me. ^^
And thk u so much for the sub.

Haematic.4913:

I’m not sure who’s better than you man. Keep up the awesome videos.

thx for the love Lisa

Hi Everyone! ^^ I’ve been making a few GW2 videos here and there but have never thought about posting them on the forums till someone in-game asked me why i did not. I have a few solo roaming videos, I’m not as good as your more well known players but I guess I do alright. However I do like to think I’m getting better with time so hopefully my videos will improve. For the sake of ease of access and simplicity I’ll try to remember to post any new videos on this same thread. Also if you would like to see some other kind of videos made(PvE, Dungs, Fracts, etc.) let me know
v6 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKA_mqwWYcI

v5 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVWUuJNhveU

v4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7MCC3fLcc

v3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaDjHP55b0k

v2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3CYEEUaJ3U

v1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVjQRvYCJsk

Enjoy! ^^

Builds I currently use:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhEmibyx5wjDAkHnYCLiCPUeMDN2A-jgyAoNhQqBA9JhZxioxW3Cb1Nal3goawUqER1uEio6gA+G-e

Other builds i use:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhEmibyx5wjDAkHnYCLiCPUeMTO2A-jgyAYMhQCCA9JhJwioxW3Cb1Nal3goWwUnER1+Dio6gAGF-e

or

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEEQJAoYhImibyR4QlDIEFngJIe8AQAHWUMD5AA-jQCBYLCh0HJkIAI5pIasljasVNCRqFYqSER1eDFRrOIgRB-e