Guardian - Champion's Wrath

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Focused on: Direct damage, Support.

Designed for:

Stronghold

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Overview

Heavily offensive Meditation Guardian build, designed for the Stronghold game mode. Works especially good on the Battle of the Champion's Dusk map, where tight paths and small rooms force players to stay near each other. Have strong synergy with the Mist Champion - Turai Ossa. Staying near this champion provides constant Aegis and further benefits, explained in Usage and general advices section. This build can be also used in Conquest

Skill Bar

Sword/TorchHealingUtilityElite

Staff

Slot changes

• Purging Flames

  ¾

  35

  Purging Flames

  Consecration. Create a ring of fire that burns foes and cures conditions on allies.

  ₃Burning (5s): 1,965 Damage

  Purging Flames: Condition duration is reduced by 33%

  Conditions Removed: 3

  Number of Targets: 5

  Duration: 5 seconds

  Radius: 240

  Combo Field: Fire
  over
  Smite Condition

  20

  Smite Condition

  Meditation. Cure a condition and damage nearby foes. More damage if a condition is cured.

  Damage with No Conditions: 207

  Damage with Conditions: 463

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 360
• scepter/focus over the staff - better for initiating fights at the cost of lower mobility

Weapons

First Weapon Set Main Hand Sword Superior Sigil of Accuracy Superior Sigil of Accuracy +7% Critical Chance Off Hand Torch Superior Sigil of Smoldering Superior Sigil of Smoldering Increase Inflicted Burning Duration: 20%	Second Weapon Set Main Hand Staff Superior Sigil of Intelligence 9 Superior Sigil of Intelligence Your next three attacks after swapping to this weapon while in combat has a 100% critical chance. (Cooldown: 9s) Superior Sigil of Fire 5 Superior Sigil of Fire 50% Chance on Critical: Trigger a Flame Blast for area of effect damage (240 radius). (Cooldown: 5s)

Equipment

Rune:

Superior Rune of the Guardian

Superior Rune of the Guardian

(1): +25 Toughness (2): +35 Healing Power (3): +50 Toughness (4): +65 Healing Power (5): +100 Toughness (6): When you block a foe's attack, burn that foe for 1 second.

Amulet:

Carrion Amulet

Carrion Amulet

+900 Power +900 Vitality +1200 Condition Damage

Usage and general advices

Single Combat

• During the 1v1 fight relay mostly on the sword/torch weapon set. Cooldown of their skills is shorter than the time needed to swap your weapons again to the sword/torch set.
• Stack Swiftness and Might before the fight if there is time for this.
• Zealot's Defense

  ½

  15

  Zealot's Defense

  Destroy ranged attacks while casting magical projectiles.

  ₈Damage: 640

  Block Duration: 3 seconds

  Range: 600
  is a great offensive ability, but it can be used to destroy incoming projectiles. It is especially useful, while protecting NPCs from a rampaging groups of Tengu Archers on the paths of Champion's Dusk.
• Always try to initiate the combat with
  Flashing Blade

  10

  Flashing Blade

  Teleport to your target, striking them and blinding nearby foes.

  Damage: 49

  Blindness (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

  Number of Targets: 3

  Range: 600
  . This skill's low cooldown helps with closing the gap between enemies in move. It also applies blind and protects you from a possible knockbacks or opening strikes.
• Stay close to your enemy and keep autoattacking to apply Burn. Abandon this strategy while confronting classes with low HP pool and the ability to deal powerful critical strikes like Mesmer or Thief. Try to weaken them as much as possible with
  Zealot's Fire

  ¾

  Zealot's Fire

  Throw you Zealot's Flame at the targeted foe, damaging them but increasing the skill's recharge time by 50%.

  Damage: 720

  ₃Burning (3s): 1,179 Damage

  Range: 1,200
  ,
  Cleansing Flame

  4¼

  15

  Cleansing Flame

  Breathe magical flames that damage foes and cure conditions on allies.

  ₁₀Damage: 800

  Number of Targets: 3

  Pulses: 9

  Range: 400
  and
  Wave of Wrath

  ½

  Wave of Wrath

  Send out a powerful shockwave, hitting up to five foes.

  Damage: 146

  Number of Targets: 5

  Range: 600
  before you jump into melee combat.
  Cleansing Flame

  4¼

  15

  Cleansing Flame

  Breathe magical flames that damage foes and cure conditions on allies.

  ₁₀Damage: 800

  Number of Targets: 3

  Pulses: 9

  Range: 400
  can also find its use in destroying illusions and weakening Mesmer's ability to shatter. Any other summoned creatures can be easily countered by this skill. Although skill on its own does not apply any Burn the effect of multiple burns is provided by
  Virtue of Justice

  25

  Virtue of Justice

  Virtue: Burn foes every few attack.
  Activate: You and your allies inflict burning on the next attack.

  Burning (passive effect) (2s): 264 Damage

  Burning (active effect) (4s): 524 Damage

  Number of Targets: 5

  Number of Attacks to Trigger: 5

  Radius: 600
  and
  Permeating Wrath

  Permeating Wrath

  Virtue Justice's passive effect no longer burns your target, but instead burns the area around you each time it activates.

  Burning (1s): 328 Damage

  Number of Targets: 5

  Radius: 240
  .
• After swapping your weapon to staff, your next 3 attacks will have 100% chance to critically hit and to trigger the effect of
  Superior Sigil of Fire

  5

  Superior Sigil of Fire

  50% Chance on Critical: Trigger a Flame Blast for area of effect damage (240 radius). (Cooldown: 5s)
  . Take this opportunity and critically strike the enemy with
  Orb of Light

  ½

  3

  Orb of Light

  Fire a moving orb of light that heal allies on contact; can be detonated to heal allies.

  Damage: 292

  Healing: 271

  Number of Targets: 5

  Range: 1,200
  , which has much higher base damage than
  Wave of Wrath

  ½

  Wave of Wrath

  Send out a powerful shockwave, hitting up to five foes.

  Damage: 146

  Number of Targets: 5

  Range: 600
  . Be careful though. It is easy to waste
  Superior Sigil of Intelligence

  9

  Superior Sigil of Intelligence

  Your next three attacks after swapping to this weapon while in combat has a 100% critical chance. (Cooldown: 9s)
  by attacking the enemy, who is invulnerable, blocking or when the 9 second cooldown on sigil passes.
• You can use
  Shelter

  1¼

  30

  Shelter

  Block attacks while healing.

  Healing: 4,555

  Block Duration: 2 seconds
  to block incomming burst damage. Apply burning to enemies with
  Amplified Wrath

  Amplified Wrath

  Burning damage is increased.

  Damage Increase: 33%
  ,
  Superior Rune of the Guardian

  Superior Rune of the Guardian

  (1): +25 Toughness (2): +35 Healing Power (3): +50 Toughness (4): +65 Healing Power (5): +100 Toughness (6): When you block a foe's attack, burn that foe for 1 second.
  and grant to yourself 2 stacks of Might for each successfully blocked attack with
  Might of the Protector

  Might of the Protector

  Gain might when you block attacks.

  Might (15s): 30 Power, 30 Condition Damage
  . When channeling ends you also damage nearby foes, gain 4 seconds of Fury and smite one of your conditions. Take the advantage by returning to fight stronger than ever before.

Supporting the NPCs

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Counters

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