Guild Wars 2

It’s possible!
Some feedback for this ?

75 free energy every 10 seconds when in ventari (on heal rune + Enduring Recovery), undispellable damage reduction, weakness application, free heal on hit and little stability from Retribution, boon stealing via staff/interrupt-torment

It lack blocks but you’ll have enough endurance and healing to sustain fights

RedCobra.7693:

let me summarise:

“Help im a sub-par player having trouble with a non viable cheesy build that has no place in competitive pvp”

Snakes are truly toxic

huluobo.7036:

Guardian really can not kill, too difficult

-“Nothing Can Save You!”

Damage foes around you, converting their boons into vulnerability. Your attacks become unblockable for a short time. The duration increases based on the number of foes struck.

Convert up to 2 boons to 5 vuln stack each and make your attack unblockable for minumum 4 seconds

-Renewed Focus

Focus, making yourself invulnerable and recharging your virtues.

RF isn’t a block, don’t use your shout on it.

-Shield of Absorption

Create a dome around you that pushes foes back and absorbs projectiles.

knock down and absorbs projectiles.
You shouldn’t try kill guardians with Staff AA.

-Shield of Wrath

Create a shield to block the next three attacks. If the shield is not destroyed, it explodes and damages nearby foes.

Can block 3 hit in 4 seconds time, mostly used to prevent Reaper’s Executioner’s Scythe and then dodge the following burst.
Use your “Nothing Can Save You!” before entering Reaper’s Shroud to take advantage of your CC or to force Renewed Focus while the Dragohunter use Shield’s of Courage.

Sun Lian.4075:

Cool, a thread made for me.

Well as you can see, other people also say that in 1v1, necro gets kitten on by warrior, so I’m not wrong.

And it’s not just 1v1, its basically when they target you, it’s too easy for warriors to kitten on people (not just necro) especially when someone doesn’t have stability.

It’s like simple math, I don’t get what’s so hard about it to see it’s too much.

Endless stab beats little stab.
Endless boons make boon removal / corruption useless.
Resistance beats all condi builds, and another skill that makes them immune to dmg (not a boon so can’t be removed woohoo)
And on top of that, one of the biggest dmg bursts atm.

Cool, any other class that can do that? No.
Even guardian that’s supposed to be the tank class dies faster than the average warrior, something’s wrong with that.

Can you post the build you are running?
We can give you better duel/survival tips if you show us what you’re running.

To me: if you use food and nourishment condition deals more damage, can help better your team weakening mobs, blinding them more often and destroy projectiles without lose too much dps (power builds usually don’t bring condi transfer)

ArthurDent.9538:

It would be nice if the build was more an alternative to ele support rather than an extremely annoying decapper build.

Ther’s a way ..

Ventari boonstealer bunker..

Ajax of Telamona.6974:

With my build is easier to stay alive (at least for me) and on the 95% of the games i am top Healer-Point Holder . And 50% offensive and top reviver .

Ajax of Telamona.6974:

What make’s it easier doesn’t mean is the right thing.

So you want a bunker build, not a support build.
If you have found the build that suit you the most then there’s nothing to say..
It’s only that your build don’t offer many way to fight.

Scepter/Torch + Greatsword Guardian

from http://qtfy.eu/build/guardian with love

Ele isn’t so immortal as you think..
If you don’t want to return can I have your gold?

Ajax of Telamona.6974:

Why u insisist use lame DH skills? Why?

Cause are powerful, expecially if you duo with a necromancer.

I have tryed a build some time ago focused on healing and cc:

Warding Warden from this thread

Search and Rescue + Celestial Shadow best ressing combo

messiah.1908:

go with this 2 versions

lots of block, heal, and condi cleanse.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAW5el8Ah+dYrQwWIQQELNEF2EEBhg8wn8P/1wuABAA-TZRWAB4WG45jAAkXAgSfIAAs/AA

the heal skill can be trap (the best self heal) or the shout for more support.
when using healing shout try to swap weapon to get quickness or use stability

this version less healing more stability and condi cleanse burst
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAW5el8Ah+dYrQwWIQQELVEF2AEARQ24depn8sn7/OA-TZRXABMeBAAY/BaLDs8RAI0HCAA

for the first build:
Isn’t valor inferior to Virtues when not running mediations?

Guardian’s burn can reach 420 damage/second per stack with no vulnerability stack.
If you stack enough burning you can do some high damaging tick, conditions are very dangerous if you don’t know how to manage it..

Martym.6971:

What do you think would be the optimal choices for weapon order for ascended weapons for the Thief for PvE? I’ve mostly been grinding HoT but want to prepare for raids. I want a flexible selection of weaponry for basically any scenario.

I find myself leaning toward 2x Pistol, then Staff, and Shortbow last. Is this a good order to make them?

If you want start raiding craft viper Daggers and berserker Staff

GW2’s story and Hollts videos are what makes me download the game and buy HoT

Actually I’ve played 7 match 5win-2loses cause I don’t have enough time these days, but I think I’ll play more next month.

We are growing sensei!

I don’t have logged yet but with double class daily you could earn one more potion to speed up the process of skins gain by finishing rewards track.
But if this can help to mitigate the class stacking I’ll be glad to don’t get the extra potion.

Suggestion to the ones who don’t know how to handle warriors:

Debuff the warrior once it goes Berserk, fear it while at 50% hp to waste their 2 sec damage immunity with fear (if they stunbreak they gain stability wich can be turned into fear via corrupt just entering shroud), keep it cced with Executioner’s Scythe and then Whirl into his face.

Just don’t eat 100 blades, cast the low CD Mark of Blood to bait dodges/evades (ex. not directly on the warrior but in front of him while it’s closing the distance), Wail of Doom to interrupt blocks and shroud’s leap and terrian to kite Berserker Stance’s resistance.
If the necro it’s condi the fight are even easier: poison field from Chillblains, Reaper’s Mark fear and go whirl your way to the victory. Death’s Charge at ease to make their burst miss.

YuiRS.8129:

What builds would you make to work with the changed skills and is it even worth playing support?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Trying-to-improve-my-support-guard/first#post6624782

Guardians don’t maintain viability because of support, contrary to the OP’s claim.

The OP have only ctrl+C ctrl+V the guardians changes , don’t have claimed nothing.

Khailyn.6248:

Vitali.5039:

Yay, looking at the update seems that someone want this builds work.

still a bit of a shame these changes where pvp only when pve could benefit from them as well. but oh well.. maybe next ‘balance’ patch.

They fear the mighty lootstick in WvW

nicknamenick.2437:

choovanski.5462:

but that aimed shot buff tho

hype my dudes!

/s

48% dmg buff btw, not 68% like they mentioned in the patch notes.. still good change for PVE players.. doesnt do any good for PVP

Rofl, rifle don’t have place in pve..

Ty Mr, and the trait has just been buffed to garant better support!

Yay, looking at the update seems that someone want this builds work.

Warrior it’s balanced.. while in stance :p

Ziggityzog.7389:

Heh I never will understand how not many necros use blood trait. It’s by far the most under used trait. I have my power based blood build that melts all classes.

Can you share it?

This is the build i run, Sigil of Absorbition really help with debuffing and self sustain, “Nothing Can Save You!” paired with “Chilled to the Bone!” it’s your trick to destroy Mesmers and Guardians, nice sustain and good condition clear with shouts and Plague Signet.

To me the only reason why a blood magic power build could bench more than soul reaping it’s for the damage from the more frequent leeching whirl finisher, but at 90% those whirl will be into a fire field while doing true pve

Good build, but condi work better and have more survivability

Wintermute.5408:

Sublimatio.6981:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wApCHAdWrNc

Farbstoff likes to minmax, grind and theorycraft the necro rotations, this channel is the go-to for all top dps rotas as of today

Sooooo. Power reaper with wells but no blood magic? And with axe, but no axe trait? Pardon me if I doubt this “benchmark”. Maybe I don’t know something, but build looks like garbage.

Soul Reaping > Blood Magic

Wells are the go to utility for power reaper, the blood line increase wells damage by 20% + leech damage, plus a ridiculous party leeching buff, while Soul Reaping increase all the damage by 5% (over 50% life force), reduce shroud’s cooldown and skills plus give to AA burning.

The damage from Chill of death isn’t so great, it’s picked only for Deathly Chill?

Ps. I have heard that the character pannel don’t show 1% of crit chance, it’s true?
I think that shroud’s ferocity can be useful in a power build, we are using Souls Spiral on CD after all, and the AA to fill the weapon swap recharge time.
It’s a good option or.. it’s a trap?
I’m runnig full berserker, but I think that a better option it’s possible.

Seems a solid minion master build trait wise, but if you run viper gear you have HoT so.. why not using Reaper?

-Condition duration cap at 100%, you should try to not exceed that limit.
You only need 1 sigil of corruption for each terrian (one for ground and one for water)
-With your current equip I suggest you to try this , swapping your dagger warhorn for greatsword, dropping blood magic for reaper and running “Rise!” instead of Summon Shadow Fiend.
-Malice + Geomancy are the best sigils for the pve meta build (on both weapon sets) while Berserker rune are the most damaging, but i suggest you to run hydromancy sigil and keep Krait runes if you can’t get an ascended gear, only for budget.

Erzian.5218:

Ramoth.9064:

BUT. If you had to make a +1 roaming build if your life depended on it, how would you do it?

F12, delete necromancer, create new character, select thief.

Why not buy a new character slot?

Lahmia.2193:

If you are referring to the time when Chilling Darkness had no internal cooldown, in the current meta, it would be a bit overpowered. A spite/curses/reaper build would mean that every blind you apply would also grant Chilled, 3 vuln and 3 bleeds (in non pvp mode).

And every time a fury will be corrupted into blind.. rofl

The last Chilling Darkness change was a buff.

What are this screens, memes?

I think that this can offer good +1 while not being useless in team fights.

Sarrs.4831:

Vitali.5039:

If the plague will follow the necro it’ll be meta for sure in pvp.
Best condibomb: Plague, wait, cast flesh wurm on point and teleport, gg.

No what you do is you slot Spectral Walk, activate Spec Walk from a superior position, close and plant the Plague, then Spec Walk out.

It’s killer for WvW siege. I don’t know how it’d work in sPvP beyond just making you even better at cleaving corpses.

Good thing that players in pvp tends to stay out of plague.
I clearly was answering this Sublimatio’s post.

I don’t want it changed, except maybe make it a channeled cast time – 1 tap i would spawn it in place, holding for a sec would cast it mobile, following my position

The only scenario where i’ll go 1vs1 thief is if my team have to decap more points to don’t lose the match and only I can reach safely the point.

If you see the shadowstep place your 2 and 3 mark where they were and then fill it with condition to make it use shadow return to cleanse and heal.. only to get poisoned again.

Stow your CTTB ‘til they have wasted enough dodge and try to stun if you see it don’t try to dodge anymore.

If you are power try to land your axe 2 after the shroud’s fear, you’ll have 3 stability to save you from interrupts and if it teleport too close you can still hit it.

Keep your warhorn daze for block, the heal or to heal you safely.

I think they nerfed warriors sustain cause someone was soloing fractals with auto regen build.

A pve nerf that affect pvp, like happened to ghost thief.
Not that both shouldn’t have been nerfed.

If the plague will follow the necro it’ll be meta for sure in pvp.
Best condibomb: Plague, wait, cast flesh wurm on point and teleport, gg.

Run rune of mercy and claim to be the commander’s bodyguard!

Thief changes:
-Shadowstep and Shadow Return no longer removes conditions, instead the thief gain 5 second of superspeed on each usage.
-Fist Flurry now interrupt on each strike, changed Palm Strike to apply 1 stack of Pulmonary Impact for each connected Fist Flurry’kitten.
Now the thief can yell Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru while casting Fist Flurry.
-Escapist’s Ablosultion merged with Pulmonary impact to cleanse 1 condition on every interrupt. The new trait it’s now called Like a Shadow.
-New Daredevil’s trait “Like a Shadow”: Cleanse 3 condition and gain 1 second of blur every time you use a teleport skill.

Mesmer’s Change:
-Portal Entre casting time setted to 1,5 seconds.
To balance the new casting time the mesmer now can select where to place it by pinging on the minimap while casting it.
-Increased Blurred frenzy cooldown by 5 seconds
-Continuum Split no longer reset elite skills
-Mimic can now affect profession’s mechanic

Aeolus.3615:

Vitali.5039:

Aeolus.3615:

Huskyboy.1053

1)FMW is pve skill

2)Get the only elite skill we have, to refresh your DH virtues, so u can block and heal more.

3) The healing signet is useless as well, rather have there a condi clense meditation or shout.

Feel my Wrath’s quickness can turn the tides of a match (and can convert 1 condition+1 cleanse with the right setup)

Renewed focus without CD reduction it’s a pain and isn’t really needed if you don’t play aggressive marauder but a support build.

But without many on demand stability option the long casting sigils aren’t very helpful..

Sadly betting in meditations reaches a higher performance :\ , smitter boon + monk focus.
More heal, and more condi cleanses, well the support i tended to use in pvp was “melt targerts before it lays eggs” its all that needs to play pvp in this game.. :\ then i would add a few things for support when was needed.

Mediations don’t support party members as well as the other skills.. and support it’s important: don’t make your ally die easily and don’t let your foes rally with kills.

Poison field toxicity confirmed! When i accidentally sent back the poison I’ve noticed a top percentage of QQ and madness!

You were the mvp in todays match, pally

Hyper Cutter.9376:

You could do something crazy like “not standing in the poison field”.

They really have to change the Chocking Gas tips:

Fire an arrow that fills the target area with a poisonous cloud. Foes at or above the poison threshold are dazed.
(The same foe cannot be dazed more than once per interval.
Be careful, the poison field it’s highly toxic and can cause inflammation of the lacrimal glands)

While you was answering to this troll post Sind have full capped far twice.

Also, i don’t know why peoples have to run what metabattle says if they known that a build don’t have enough way to fight.. I mean, if you don’t have supporter why not drop Chilling Nova for Augury of Death (power version) and run a shout build or drop Dhuumfire for Foot in the Grave (condi)?

Aeolus.3615:

Huskyboy.1053

1)FMW is pve skill

2)Get the only elite skill we have, to refresh your DH virtues, so u can block and heal more.

3) The healing signet is useless as well, rather have there a condi clense meditation or shout.

Feel my Wrath’s quickness can turn the tides of a match (and can convert 1 condition+1 cleanse with the right setup)

Renewed focus without CD reduction it’s a pain and isn’t really needed if you don’t play aggressive marauder but a support build.

But without many on demand stability option the long casting sigils aren’t very helpful..

Try this and let me know how it works for you.
You can also drop Dragon’s Maw for “Feel My Wrath!” for powerheal with quickness and help with condition management, more team oriented.

Warding Warden