Support Guardian

October 2024

Build offers good sustain for allies and self with lots of application and good revive capabilities, while having decent mobility.

Build fundamentals

Your main role as a support is to heal, sustain and revive your allies, either in team fights or when a sidenoder is under pressure. During fights, avoid standing in the center of the fight or on the node, as you are rather squishy. Try to stand at ~600 range and heal from a safe distance.

Healing

Both your weapon sets offer a good amount of healing, and in staff, and > on the shield can be used to heal, but all of those can have more situational uses ( is blast finisher, can be used to stack while helping maintain pressure, and finally can push the enemy off the node or off the kiting spot and absorb projectiles.

Additionally and offer strong healing while also cleansing.

You should also be aware of the “passive” healing your build offers, and use it more actively. heals around you after a Dodge, and  makes every you apply heal after it blocks. and are your best ways to apply .

On top of the healing you provide to others, you will also heal yourself with while providing boons, and boon application on this build is very good.

Condition cleansing

You can cleanse directly with , or utilize your traits and combo fields.

The combination of and makes all your shouts cleanse 2 conditions on any allies affected and blast  on top of a symbol, usually , will AoE cleanse.

Note: while is a shout, it should be used to stunbreak or apply rather than condition cleanse.

Gameplay tips

Your main panic button is , make sure to not waste it early in the fight. You can first try to use and the from or to escape. can help yourself or an ally kite away but you can also use it to interrupt skills.

While reviving or using , use or to make sure you’re not interrupted. If possible, try to revive manually before using to make use of .

Aside from boons, use when allies are around you to grant them extra damage.

If you find yourself not using shield much, you can switch your for as it is also a good trait.

Matchups

Despite having a lot of sources of condition cleanse, this build actually struggles against condition builds.

Alternatives

• is a viable option.
• is good self-sustain if there’s very little condition pressure from the enemy team.