Guardian - Merciful Frontline
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Overview
The EU meta build for a sustained 'ball' style frontline designed to be a powerful healer and resurrect bot. Has extremely high personal and group sustain at a slight cost to damage and boon up-time. Used by many EU guilds including [Ash], [vE], and [vR].
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
Staff
- Staff can be used instead of hammer or Mace/Shield to provide a very powerful healing burst and additional might through empowers, on top of its general usefulness through symbols and CC.
Skill Variants
Utility
- ⇒ When running with larger numbers and unable to get use out of teleporting to downs (e.g. they are dying too fast off tag to solo res)
- ⇒ When running in a very tight group with many guardians to assist in the healing and resurrecting.
- ⇒ When
Stability is limited.
- ⇒ If projectile defense is needed.
Specializations
Variants
- Only one Guardian per party needs to take since its effect does not stack, and Communal Defenses gives excellent passive healing.
Variants
- For staff builds.
- Reduces healing output but brings more boon uptime and condition clear. Should be taken with .
Equipment
Variants
Stats
- Swap Celestial for Crusader's for an easier to obtain stat.
- Add Commander's or Marauder's for extra damage.
- Add Wanderer's, Minstrel's or Soldier's for extra defense.
- Add more Cleric's or Minstrel's for additional healing focus at the cost of damage. Particularly for GvGs, more bunker focused gear aims for around 1k healing power.
Infusions
- 18x for bunker builds.
Sigils
Stability uptime.
Consumables
Food
- Defensive option.
- Offensive option.
- Alternate defensive option vs condi pressure.
Utility
- Offensive option.
- Support option.
Usage
Hammer
- Rotation: Engage with , and immediately after use . Catch enemies with . Continue autoattacking until is ready or until you regroup, in which case save to blast Water Fields.
- is a blast finisher - use it on combo fields like fire, water, and chill.
Mace/Shield
- Use Mace/Shield to support your group and create heavy burst CC and healing. The autoattack provides very strong AoE healing.
- Rotation: Autoattack continuously throughout the fight. When bombing the enemy in Mace, use your to give an extremely high healing Regeneration plus AoE pressure. Then activate on your shield for a burst heal to allies and protection, followed by for a high damage skill and a small damage mitigation. Either when you see a downed enemy or ally, use to push back a res/stomp attempt, either double tapping for a large burst AoE heal or channeling for projectile defense.
Staff
- Use to disrupt enemies and split players away from the main group whilst also stripping some stability.
- Double tapping Can't find such skill "Orb of Light"! Please refer to our skill index. will immediately activate its chain skill , a good group AoE heal if you are under heavy pressure. With this build this is an even more powerful heal than usual and should be used to try save low allies.
- Stack might for your team with . It will also heal you for a huge amount because of , plus a huge AoE healing thanks to and Sigil of Transference.
- When running to/from objectives, speed up your zerg with .
- Stack might for your team with .
Resurrecting
- Resurrecting plays a huge part in this build. Your paired with makes your revive speed extremely quick, but also gives allies huge amounts of health when they are revived, along with protection and a burst heal from the Aegis they are granted. Focus on saving your allies above all else, as long as it will not cost you your own life.
General
- Healing your allies is another huge focus of this build. Be mindful of their HP at all times and use to burst cleanse heavy condition pressure and provide a very large on demand heal.
- Use to escape damage. will also refresh your virtues, meaning it is best used when all virtues are on cooldown. You can use virtues whilst channeling this skill to get the most effectiveness out of its cooldown resetting.
- Use when you are being overwhelmed with conditions. Try to use it during fights and not on regroups, where you may block allies from blasting water fields.
- - gives area Stability to help secure stomps/resurrection or mitigate the effectiveness of an enemy CC (try to use SYG proactively, before a bomb). It is only a stun break for yourself, not your party.
- is your -and your party's- panic stability and area break stun. Use it only after is on cooldown and stability it urgently needed.
- Applying boons to party members and yourself will heal you via
Gameplay Videos
- YouTube: [vR]Hybrid
- YouTube: [bM] Falx
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