Guardian - Meditation Celestial

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Focused on: Direct damage, Support.

Designed for:

Roaming

Overview

WvW Roaming guardian build with extremely high sustain and strong mixed damage, meant for any small and medium-scale WvW fighting.

Skill Bar

Sword/TorchHealingUtilityElite

Greatsword

Variants

Greatsword ⇒ Scepter/Focus

Scepter/Focus

Healing

Utility

Elite

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Orb of Wrath

Fire a slow-moving orb at your foe.

Damage: 224

Range: 900

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6

Symbol of Punishment

Symbol. Strike foes in the target area repeatedly.

Damage: 121

Symbol Damage: 395

Might (5s): +30 Power, +30 Condition Damage

Number of Impacts: 8

Number of Targets: 5

Symbol Duration: 4 seconds

Symbol Radius: 180

Range: 900

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20

Chains of Light

Immobilize and make your foe vulnerable with ethereal chains.

Damage: 84

Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

₃Vulnerability (6s): 3% Incoming Damage, 3% Incoming Condition Damage

Range: 900

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20

Ray of Judgment

Pass a ray over foes and allies. Foes are damaged and blinded. Allies gain regeneration and cure one condition.

Damage: 151

Blind (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Regeneration (3s): 390 Heal

Number of Bounces: 4

Range: 1,200

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Shield of Wrath

Create a shield to block the next three attacks. If the shield is not destroyed, it explodes and damages nearby foes.

Damage: 756

₃Shield of Wrath (4s): Block attacks. Explodes when it ends.

Number of Targets: 5

Combo Finisher: Blast

Radius: 240

Slot Changes

• over
  .

Weapon

• Use Greatsword's
  in
• The torch's
  can be reactivated, even when used through traits.

Specializations

Trait Variants

• If using scepter/focus:
  over
  , the protection will do more than the healing does in damage negation and cooldown reduction
• If using scepter/focus:
  over
  since both weapon sets will benefit from the extra crit chance and the cooldown reduction

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Traveler

8x

Malign WvW Infusion

6x

Resilient WvW Infusion

Equipment Variants

• Sacrifices speed for more damage
• More stats but loss of speed and boon/condition duration buffs.

Food & Consumables

Foods

• is the defensive food, with plenty of condition removal CC us your next biggest enemy.
• Another good option for offensive food, the 90% total burn duration greatly increases Damage.(do not eat if using
  )

Potions

• For more Power Based Damage.
• For more Condition Based Damage.

Usage

• Applying burns to enemies will grant you nearly permanent fury using
• Burning Foes are also crit 10% more often for an overall 30% extra critical hit chance.
• Use
  near enemies to trigger
  and get extra healing from the
  Litany of Wrath

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  Litany of Wrath

  Meditation. Heal yourself. For a brief time, heal yourself based on a percentage of damage dealt to enemies.

  Healing: 1,640

  Litany of Wrath (6s): 25% of damage dealt is returned to you as healing.
  buff.
• Use
  on enemies when you are being overwhelmed with conditions. The condition clearing will happen regardless of whether or not you stand in it.
• allows for a free
  but only while wielding a torch
• Can't find such trait "Supreme Justice"! Please refer to our trait index In combination with
  make it so that
  Passive effect is stronger than it's active, However it's active can still be used to secure stomps thanks to
  and