The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage and Mobility
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on March 29, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
A survivable PvP Dragonhunter build made to deal high AoE burst damage to win teamfights and +1 your duelists while getting value from blocking and . This build is very versatile and can sidenode 1vX quite well, but it really shines in teamfights where it can hit multiple enemies at once and share with allies.
守护者 (Guardian)
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Variants
暴怒聚集 can be better when dueling or against ranged enemies.Variants
猎手决心 can be taken if replacing with .Heal
庇护治疗 - Works better as a panic heal due to the instant cast and does proc some of your block rewards, but overall provides less value unless you time it just before some massive burst.Utility
信仰试炼 - can be used for damage combos with push/pull or to get cheap burst on careless foes. Must either cut your source of move speed (
"前进！") or your best stunbreak (信仰碎片), both of which can also grant 
圣盾 to allies. Consider taking 猎手决心 to give yourself an out from CC+burst combos.Weapons
Offhand Shield - more defensive team support and an additional 圣盾 proc.
Offhand Sword - higher damage and mobility, less survivability and ally support.
General
To succeed with this build, play very aggressively and always be thinking of where you want your next mobility skill to put you - most of the time, that should be right on top of your enemy or away from danger. Kite in and out as you would with a Willbender or similar builds, unless you know your auto attacks will be more valuable than whatever your enemy can do to you.
This build makes excellent use of the boon, which blocks the next incoming enemy attack. Try to grant it to as many allies as possible for value in teamfights. Your sources of are:
Your non- blocks are:
Additionally, you have a source of invulnerability:
When you block an attack (including from ), the following are triggered:
Sigils
They have 2 stun breaks with long cooldowns: and . The latter grants only when triggered. Try to bait the stunbreaks and avoid triggering the trap or just wait out the before CC chaining.
They cannot cleanse very many conditions at once, so overwhelming them with conditions can be very effective.
24px is very effective, as much of their sustain comes from self-healing.
, and quick CC are quite effective, as many of their skills have long cast times and cooldowns already.
Despite them having some gap closers, they are fully melee and can still be kited.
Unblockable effects excel against them, as much of their defense comes from passive blocks.
Additionally, when blocks an attack it also triggers the following:
Your job is to roam the map and pressure vulnerable enemies as hard as possible, sticking to them for high burst and kiting away from counterpressure. Use your pulls to keep them from fleeing or to bring them into your symbols for extra damage. Your mobility is not as high as roamers like Daredevil, so decapping is not your role unless necessary. You can hold node 1v1 or 1v2 if needed so full capping is acceptable to give your team an advantage, however you are at your best helping your team win fights and pick off out of position enemies while they rotate. Unlike other similar Dragonhunter and Willbender builds you are very survivable and can kite under pressure for quite a while.
Damage
Fight in melee range as often as possible to maximize the damage from .
Your symbols are a lot of your damage so try to place them on stationary targets like downed enemies (especially if being resurrected) or objectives like the bell on Capricorn. If enemies stay in them too long, they will take heavy damage while your allies will gain or .
Crowd Control
Unlike some Guardian builds, you do have some CC. Try to save them for when you can follow up with big burst or need to prevent an escape:
Additionally, you will inflict on nearby foes when you weapon swap or on foes you hit with Justice and . You deal more damage to crippled enemies thanks to .
Mobility and Survival
Greatsword
This is the more aggressive/high burst set of the build, but it still has some nice defensive utility.
is one of the most notoriously high burst-damage skills in the game and can be used while moving. Try to set this skill up by executing one of your pulls or closing the gap on a slow/stationary target first. It is also a Whirl finisher - use it inside your symbols for extra cleanse.
is both a high burst damage skill and a great mobility tool. You can cross gaps or skip obstacles with it if you know how. Sometimes it is worthwhile to weapon swap just before the end of the leap to gain some extra distance. It inflicts and heals you while dealing great damage, but it can be unreliable to land (such as on uneven terrain).
Sword/x
This is the more defensive set of the build, but still has some hard hitting skills.
The main source of burst damage here comes from . Note that the projectiles can be very unreliable in anything but melee range.
has many uses: vertical mobility via teleportation, symbol for cleaving, or a combo field which can be used for AoE cleansing by executing a blast finisher in it.
