Guardian - Core Condition
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Contents
Overview
- A basic and accessible core guardian build that possesses high DPS and excellent survivability. The
Dire variant of this build is easily accessible to all core players and costs very little gold to gear.
- Pros
- Great DPS
- Focus on Burns makes it a viable condition build for Core players
- Can build tanky and lose very little damage
- Can easily change build for more versatility
- Cons
- Focus exclusively on burning can be annoying against Destroyers or Embers
- Squishy with glass-cannon gear
- Hard to change traits out without losing a lot of DPS.
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
The weapon options change significantly depending on the gear chosen. You should adjust your gear based on preference and situation.
Standard Variant
- Greatsword - The highest burst option.
- Sword - Strongest mainhand option due to rapidly proc'ing
- Staff - The strongest ranged option for running in a group.
- Scepter - The strongest ranged option against single targets; procs very fast.
- Focus - Provides a considerable boost to defense at the cost of damage
- Shield - Decent defensive option.
- Shield - Offers some group healing
- Mace - Avoid
Dire Variant
- Scepter - The highest DPS weapon for this variant due to the high frequency of hits.
- Torch - Pair with Scepter for the primary weapon set of this build.
- Focus - Pair with Scepter for a very strong defensive option
- Shield - Decent defensive option.
- Greatsword - A bursty option that procs quickly thanks to
- Sword - Subpar compared to Scepter, but not awful.
- Staff - Decent option for mass zerging.
- Mace - Avoid
Skill Variants
- Healing Skills
- - provides a block and is a useful heal when you have trouble sustaining with Litany.
- Utility Skills
- - good CC thanks to the changes
- - projectile hate
- - swiftness and aegis
- - retaliation and stability, along with a stunbreak
- - teleport and damage
- - condition cleanse and very high burning damage
- - long-duration stability
- - high CC against champions and projectile hate
- - can be run for healing when running the
Celestial variant
- Elite Skills
- - strong defensive tool
Specializations
Build Code
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- - Leans the build towards hybrid damage with the Celestial or
Sinister's setup, but requires to work. - - use if more
Fury is needed.
Equipment
- Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
Standard Equipment
This version provides the most offense, but very little defense.
6x
Superior Rune of Balthazar
- This variant hits EXACTLY 100% burning duration. It is advised to stick to it.
Dire Equipment
This variant provides significant defense while sacrificing burst damage and some DPS
6x
Superior Rune of Balthazar
- This variant hits 100% burning duration. It is advised to stick to it.
- If F2P, you can forego the Trailblazer's pieces.
Celestial Equipment
This variant provides a moderate balance of the two above.
6x
Superior Rune of Balthazar
- This variant should be run with if using
Variant Equipment
Gear
Grieving - More power-focused gear; should only replace Sinister's .- Dire - defensive alternative
- Viper's / Trailblazer's - Use for fine-tuning burn duration
Runes
- - Defensive option
- - Hybrid DPS option
Sigils
Never replace .
- , , - useful to lean the Sinister's variant more towards strike damage. Use Grieving with it to create a strong hybrid build.
- - Annoying replacement for
- - Helps cap might; useful for hybrid variants
- - Great defensive option
Consumables
Solo Play
- Food
- - allstats food for the Celestial variant
- - DPS/vit
- - Higher DPS when used with gear that has high crit chance
- , - Dodges + Might
- Utility
- - +Dmg, +Karma
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
Usage
Damage
Scepter Priority:
- (or other spirit weapon)
Greatsword Priority:
- Fill with auto-attacks
Sword Priority:
Your passive will also make up a significant amount of your damage through 
Burning. Use off cooldown for Fury and Quickness uptime.
If you are about to kill a mob, activate for a large DPS increase, so long as you have Radiance traited.
Defense
- is a massive heal.
- / provide an on-demand block
- (focus) is a series of blocks
- is an area blind but will reduce your DPS drastically if you don't quickly reset it.
- removes conditions and provides a small amount of healing.
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