Guardian - Shattered Aegis

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Focused on: Direct damage, Support, Utility.

Designed for:

World vs World

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Overview

High DPS Open Field Guardian build. Trades the sustain of Valor for the damage of Zeal. Works best in a party with another Guardian to maintain stability for everyone in your group.

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Mace/Shield

Weapon Variants

Hammer

Hammer

Healing

Utility

Elite

½

Hammer Swing

Strike your foe.

Damage: 296

Number of Targets: 3

Range: 130

¾

5

Mighty Blow

Damage nearby foes with a mighty ground slam.

Damage: 647

Number of Targets: 5

Combo Finisher: Blast

Radius: 180

Range: 300

1

15

Zealot's Embrace

Send a wave toward your foe that immobilizes foes in a line.

Damage: 296

Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 1,200

1

18

Banish

Launch your foe with a powerful smash.

Damage: 370

Launch: 750

Range: 130

¾

40

Ring of Warding

Ward. Create a ring around you that foes cannot cross. Trapped enemies cannot exit the ring while it is active.

Duration: 5 seconds

Combo Field: Light

Radius: 180

• Use Hammer instead of Staff for more damage at the cost of sustain.

Skill Variants

Heal

• ⇒ for more personal survivability.

Utility

• ⇒ Personal defensive cooldown - strong counter to condition pressure.
• ⇒ if projectile hate is needed.

Specializations

Variants

• trading the secondary stability and stunbreak against increased aoe damage.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Durability

18x

Mighty WvW Infusion

Variants

Stats

• Boon duration gear such as Commander's or Wanderer's to increase Stability uptime is also a strong option.
• Swap Celestial for Crusader for an easier to obtain stat.
• Add Commander's or Marauder for extra damage.
• Add Wanderer's, Minstrel's or Soldier for extra defense.

Sigils

• higher Stability uptime.

Runes

• - Alternative defensive, group support focused option

Food

• Offensive option.
• Higher healing potential from and .
• Alternate offensive option.
• Alternate damage option.
• Alternate defensive option vs condi pressure.

Utility

• Support option.

Usage

General

• Stagger your skills that give Aegis, is a major part of your damage which will be wasted if aegis is overlapped.
• Use (and ) to escape damage. also refreshes your virtues, so activate them whilst it channels (which does not cancel your channel) in order to get maximum effectiveness from the skill.
  • Try to be conservative with RF, your defensive cooldowns are very limited.
• Use when you are being overwhelmed with conditions.
• - 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 is urgently needed.

Mace/Shield

• Use Mace/Shield to support your group and create heavy burst CC and healing. The autoattack provides very strong AoE healing.
• Use on downed players to push back a res/stomp attempt, either double tapping for an AoE heal or channeling for projectile defense.

Staff

• Staff is used before you engage the enemy zerg and when you regroup. Use it to heal and gain Might, as well as apply mild ranged pressure to enemies.
• 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.
• Stack might for your team with . Make sure to finish the channel for the heal at the end.
• When running to/from objectives, speed up your zerg with .

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 before switching to Staff to use .
• is a blast finisher - use it on combo fields like fire, water, and chill.

Gameplay Videos

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