Guardian - Basic Guardian

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The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great.

Focused on: Direct damage, Area damage, Melee damage, Ranged damage, Dps, Survival, Roaming.

Designed for:

Open World

 

Open World Roaming

 

Open World Zergs

 

Open World Core

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Overview

This is a very basic guardian build which is F2P/Core accessible and can handle most open world content. This build is ideal for roaming and performs rather poorly in zergs.

Playstyle

• The playstyle for this build involves jumping into the middle of large groups of mobs and using your to Blind them while using Greatsword's very high burst damage to burst them down as fast as possible. On a kill, your virtue's cooldown resets, allowing you to spam blinds and benefit heavily from . Against mobs that don't die quite so fast, you can switch to your off-hand set and wait out your Greatsword cooldowns. The build is very rhythmic.
• With Scepter/Focus, you can also effectively kite powerful mobs, allowing you to abuse guardian's many defensive abilities to complete difficult content.

Skill Bar

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Sword/Focus

Weapon Variants

• Sword ⇒ Scepter for a decent ranged option.
• Sword/Focus ⇒ Staff for a long-ranged option with area damage and group support.
• Sword ⇒ Mace for a significant boost to sustain.

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

• - defensive option. You can cancel the animation but keep the block by stowing your weapon during the cast. However, you won't receive any healing if you do this.

Utility Skills

• - grants more retaliation for boss fights where you can't proc much.
• - more crowd control.
• - if you need condition cleanse.
• - if you need to reflect projectiles.
• - alternative projectile defense option.
• - long-lasting swiftness while running.

Elite Skills

• - more damage.

Specializations

Build Code

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Equipment

Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Standard Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Pack

• You can use some Marauder or Knight's gear to add defense.
• , - good dps rune alternatives
• , , , - defensive options

Consumables

Farming

This food is used to maximize profit when farming events.

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions.
• - Use for general farming.
• - Use for when you need to max out magic find.
• - more sustain (requires crit chance)
• Anything - Any food is better than none, but you should prioritize the food above before using any other food.

Utility

• , , - general farming
• - good damage option with +karma

Solo

This food assists with more difficult content, such as bosses or bounties.

Food

• , - Defense/Damage
• , - Damage

Utility

• - Damage

Usage

Damage

• Thanks to the Virtues traitline, you should be spamming as often as possible. Since it resets on kill, you can use it often for a significant damage boost.
• Your main damage skills are , , , , , and . Swap between your weapons using these skills whenever possible, and fill with autoattacks.
  • Never interrupt your autoattack chain as all the damage is loaded in the last hit.
• Retaliation is a massive damage boost so you should try to have it up as much as possible. Your main retaliation sources are , , , and
  • resets off every kill thanks to .
  • In long fights where you can't reset you can consider bringing and traiting .
• If you want more stacks of might; Consider using instead of . Choosing Either of them will not cost you any loss of damage.
• Try to fight enemies in your symbols to get the stacking damage buff from .
• If using , try not to get hit (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง

Defense

• is a powerful defensive skill.
• , , and blind enemies.
• , and can be used against projectiles.
• Activating gives aegis, protection, retaliation, stability, and a stun break.
• You can run for more active defense.
• is a 3-second invulnerability skill that also refreshes and .
• Remember to always dodge and sidestep attacks if possible. Don't get hit by anything you can move out of.

Sustain

• This build doesn't have much sustained healing unless you have , so avoiding damage is extremely important in long fights.
• Use to heal yourself for each enemy you hit.
• When at extremely low health, activate , then use for an immense amount of self-healing.
• You can activate for an emergency heal and condition cleanse.
• For a big condition cleanse, use while in a light field.

Crowd Control

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  Binding Blade

  Throw blades at your foes, causing damage over time. Bound foes can be pulled to you. The effect ends when a foe moves out of range.

  Damage: 369

  Number of Targets: 5

  Maximum Blade Duration: 10 seconds

  Maximum Leash Range: 600

  Combo Finisher: Whirl
    
  

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  Pull

  Pull your foes to you.

  Leash Range: 600

  Range: 600
• (as a last resort)