Guardian - Radiant Greatsword

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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

GreatswordHealingUtilityElite

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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Variants

- if running or .

Roaming Variant: Honor

For extremely difficult content, it maybe worth taking Honor instead of Zeal. This is a significant damage loss but allows you to dodge more often. It is advised that you run Scepter and Focus with this variant.

Equipment

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

Standard Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Strength

18x

Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Variants

Gear: Berserker's gear can be used in place of Marauder for higher damage, at a significant loss of defense.
Runes: ,
Sigils: can pair with a MACE for a massive boost to sustain. It is recommended to keep a Mace with this sigil in your inventory for extremely difficult fights.
- If running this variant use

Consumables

Combat Food

For difficult encounters, consider food which increases your damage, such as

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or food which grants you extra defense, such as

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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)