The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Difficulty: Easy
Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.
This build was last updated on June 05, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A core PvP greatsword Guardian build which takes advantage of the crit chance buffs of the Radiance specialization in order to deliver massive bursts. Also available for F2P players seeking to try out GW2's PvP.
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Variants
正义惩戒 increases your burst damage, but you'll have to give up 
正义之怒, a trait that makes it easier to land your burst.
Specialization Variants
Zeal can be replaced by Virtues. This lowers your damage and mobility a bit, but adds extra survivability. Take either 
寻路者古物 or replace 
症状惩戒 with 
"前进！":
Variants
- Take
纯粹决心 if you need more condi cleansing.
Equipment
Equipment Variants
Amulets
女武神项链 - makes the build a bit more forgiving to play by giving you more HP. Take 
游侠符文. Your overall damage will be slightly lower due to not hitting the crit cap anymore, but you still get plenty of crit chance from traits and boons to compensate.
Relics
争斗者古物 - better burst damage. Meditations and Virtues can both proc this, both of which are easy to work into burst rotations.
Usage
General
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光耀力量 adds 10% crit chance against burning foes, 
激怒 adds the usual 20% and 
决心 will further increase it by 40% thanks to 
正义本能. Always try to maintain Resolution, but don't spam all the sources at once otherwise boon removal can be too punishing. -
Try to aid allies with
勇气美德 as traited with 
不屈勇气 it can break stun and apply stability among other things. -
正义美德 is refreshed after each kill so make sure you always have it on cooldown right before a kill. Using it also applies AoE 
目盲 which can be useful for stomping or making high priority skills miss. -
Try to burn through all of your virtues before resorting to
专注复苏. RF is a great skill to use if you're being focues by the enemy team and you don't have any CDs left. Just keep in mind that this skill makes you lose capture point contribution for its duration.- Your virtues that aren't on CD can be (and should be) activated while channeling this elite.
- Don't blow
决心美德 until the last moment of the channel. Let it heal you as much as possible.
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Every utility skill is a meditation, therefore can be used both defensively and offensively thanks to the
激怒 and healing from 
僧侣专注. -
Use
症状惩戒 and 决心美德 to manage your condition levels. Only resort to 
纯净沉思 and 专注复苏 if these no longer suffice. -
When playing with
正义之怒, your first strike after activating 正义美德 applies Immobilize Immobilize. The Immob has a rather short duration, but it's just enough to root enemies into 
愤怒回旋 which is the primary target to combo with.
Mobility
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激怒 carries your mobility via
暴怒聚集. In combat you should be able to passively obtain a permanent uptime on this boon without much effort, but it's harder to do when roaming between capture points. -
Consider using
利刃符印 and other Fury sources like meditation skills with low CDs to obtain some mobility even while out of combat. -
信仰之跃 can add a bit of mobility too.- This skill brings you to a halt as it delivers its final strike. If you want speed and not damage, make sure to cancel the very end of the leap with a weapon swap.
Sword/Focus
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This is the defensive set of the build, but still has some hard hitting skills.
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The main source of burst damage here comes from
狂徒防御. Note that the projectiles can be very unreliable in anything but melee range. -
利刃符印 has many uses: vertical mobility via teleportation, symbol for cleaving, 目盲 to make an important skill miss, or a combo field which can be used for AoE cleansing by executing a blast finisher in it.
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裁决光束 is a ranged skill with great damage over time. -
愤怒护盾 is both an excellent defensive and offensive skill (more about that below). As far as defense goes, this can be used to block important attacks even while stunned. Always try to use it in a symbol (a Light field) for AoE condition cleansing.
Greatsword
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愤怒回旋 is the main burst skill in the build, make sure it lands - do an unexpected ranged burst with
裁决干涉, or use it after pulling targets in with 
束缚之刃. -
When in combat, always try to combo
信仰之跃 in a Light field such as 
决心符印 for 
光明光环. Few things to note when using this for mobility:- If you're OOC (out of combat), swap weapons just before the leap finishes in order to cancel the final part of the skill which would otherwise bring you to a halt.
- In combat this can be used for jumping away from the fight to avoid damage. To do that simply just detarget (click anywhere on your screen that's not an enemy player) before using the skill, and make sure that auto-targetting is disabled.
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束缚之刃 is useful even when the target has
稳固 and thus cannot be pulled. The damage over time part of this skill is decent, and you could time it in a way that the target's stability runs out before binding blade does, allowing you to pull them in later. Note: the skill itself can be dodged, but once the blades are attached, you can pull targets out of any kind of evade frame! Last but not least, the blades seek out enemies even if they are 
潜行ed.
Main burst combo (preferably executed from a safe distance):
- Virtues-variant: If possible, have an active
圣盾 to gain the damage bonus from
无伤斗魂. - 愤怒护盾 should be activated before the combo. Try not to get hit because you'll need it to explode for damage. Wait until only ~1 second remains of its duration then quickly proceed with the rest of the combo.
- Weapon Swap (in combat this also triggers your sigils).
- 愤怒回旋 - start casting it from range.
- 裁决干涉 (JI) to teleport to the target right before WW starts doing damage.
- 正义美德 the moment you get into melee range in order to proc Immobilize Immobilize when playing with 正义之怒). It's important that you cast this after JI, not before, because you want to drop the symbol from the 暴怒聚集 proc right on top of your immobilized target.
- Optional: 症状惩戒 to get rid of conditions like Weakness or just to squeeze in a tiny bit of extra damage.
- Steps 5-7 should happen before the first strike from 愤怒回旋 connects to the target
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