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.
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.
守护者 (Guardian)
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Variants
Runes
Rune of Surging isn't available for F2P players, in that case something else will have to suffice:
- retains the passive mobility boost from Surging but the stats are worse.
- tanky option that still retains quite a lot of Power but the lack of movement speed boost makes the build sluggish.
Relics
Food
- strong mix of sustain and damage.
- cheaper defensive option.
- active damage mitigation via more access to dodging.
- non-ascended offensive option.
Utility
General
adds 10% crit chance against burning foes, adds the usual 20% and will further increase it by 25% thanks to . Always try to maintain , 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 as traited with it can break stun and apply stability among other things.
is refreshed after each kill so make sure you always have it on cooldown right before a kill. Using it also applies AoE which can be useful for stomping or making high priority skills miss.
Try to burn through all of your virtues before resorting to . 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.
Every utility skill is a meditation, therefore can be used both defensively and offensively thanks to the and healing from .
Sword/Focus
This is the 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, to make an important skill miss, or a combo field which can be used for AoE cleansing by executing a blast finisher in it.
is a ranged skill with great damage over time.
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
is the main burst skill in the build, make sure it lands - do an unexpected ranged burst with , or use it after pulling targets in with .
If you're swapping to GS in melee range of your opponent, makes it harder for them to build distance while makes it easier to land your burst. Hydromancy also does great damage on its own.
When in combat, always try to combo in a Light field such as for . Few things to note when using this for mobility:
is useful even when the target has 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 ed.
Main burst combo (preferably executed from a safe distance):
