Firebrand - Burn Firebrand
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Contents
Overview
A self-sufficient build bringing limited 
Stability as well as personal 
Might, 
Fury and very high AoE DPS.
Skillbar
Skill Variants
Heal
- better party support but lose a very strong block.
Utility
- generally useful group condition cleanse.
- further close range burning application.
Elite
- good group stunbreak.
Traits
Variants
- if Fury uptime isn't an issue
Equipment
6x
Superior Rune of Balthazar
18x
Malign WvW Infusion
Consumables
Variants
Stats
- Try to maintain 100%
Burning duration since your primary damage comes from the 2s base duration burn of with. - Viper's and Sinister can be used in place of Trailblazer's and Dire for more damage at the cost of survivability.
Sigils
- additional hits for activating.
- more damage than fire but much harder to land consistently.
- general defensive sigil.
- ortrash condis to cover Burning from cleanse.
Runes
- highest damage option if unconcerned about condition duration.
- alternative hybrid damage option when unconcerned about duration.
Food
- - Alternate offensive option but reliant on frequent kills.
- - Alternate Defensive option, also provides a slight boost in condition duration.
- - High bonus of burning duration but requires adaptation of the equipment accordingly.
- - Defensive option.
Usage
- is your main source of damage. Placeandcarefully to proc it as much as possible.
- Use Chapter 1: Searing Spell as your primary attack.
- Activate Epilogue: Ashes of the Just as often as possible while allies are in range.
- When it can be placed safely Chapter 4: Scorched Aftermath is your highest damage ability.
- Rotate between your weapon sets while is on cooldown, use your symbols off cooldown and fill time withand.
- is a powerful AoE bomb, it can be used when a commander calls for wells or other ground damage spikes.
- should be thought of as a dps ability, the reflected projectiles will proc/.
The foundations of this build are still great, being able to cause enormous pressure in groups of enemies. However, the machinery only starts to run properly at a range of 900, and is favoring a range of 600 or even less - this is a problem with rangepressure that outranges most of this guards skills as well as hesitation of commanders to engage. In the time this guards can't do much else than occasionally placing staff 3 other variants would support the team, heal against range pressure and so on, stuff that just doesn't work very well with a burning guard.