The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Difficulty: Easy
Beginner friendly This build is beginner friendly.
This build was last updated on September 26, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A core Power Guardian build for WvW roaming, also usable by F2P players (although they might need some external help with the gear). Radiant Greatsword is all about pulling off massive bursts and downing enemies before your defensive cooldowns run out.
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Variants
潜在决心 can be considered if you're having trouble utilizing 
无伤斗魂 and want to squeeze out a bit more sustain or 
决心 from the build.
Equipment
Runes
Rune of Surging isn't available for F2P players, in that case something else will have to suffice:
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超级旅者符文 - retains the passive mobility boost from Surging but the stats are worse. -
超级争斗者符文 - tanky option that still retains quite a lot of Power but the lack of movement speed boost makes the build sluggish.
Relics
俊杰古物 - excellent defensive option that adds a very high amount of 
保护 uptime to the build, but requires the Janthir Wilds expansion.
Consumables
Food
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黑胡椒粉真空烹调肉排 - strong mix of sustain and damage. -
煎扇贝三明治 - cheaper defensive option. -
碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - active damage mitigation via more access to dodging.
碗装鲜肉冬菜煲 is a cheaper version of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew and sufficient enough in most cases.
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碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤 - non-ascended offensive option.
Utility
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 25% thanks to 
正义本能. Always try to maintain 决心, but don't spam all the sources at once otherwise boon removal can be too punishing. -
When roaming with a group, 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.
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. -
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. -
If you're swapping to GS in melee range of your opponent,
超级水能法印 makes it harder for them to build distance while 
超级狂怒法印 makes it easier to land your burst. Hydromancy also does great damage on its own. -
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):
- 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 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 gain Resolution from
决心美德. - Optional:
症状惩戒 to get rid of conditions like Weakness or just to squeeze in a tiny bit of extra damage.
Related Builds
- Radiant GS (sPvP) - Conquest PvP version of the build.