Holy Gunslinger WILLBENDER | Easy Build for Guild Wars 2 PvE

[@Jackie-m8i]

for the open world during meta events or if you just have friends around I'd recommend taking Battle Pressence in Virtues since it will give your friends alacrity which will contribute more to group dps them permeating wrath will

[@avenganinjax]

Babe wake up, new Evan video just dropped

[@Anawsomeplauge]

Guardian getting mh pistol before warrior still seems crazy to me.

[@cmdAHYT]

been thinking this over, and yeah, its madness that the class based on outcompeting magic through martial prowess cannot pull out an Anti-Magic Glock and honor the Founding Fathers.

[@BunnYRabbiT260]

how do you unlock pistol on guardian??

[@Anawsomeplauge]

@BunnYRabbiT260 Need Secrets of the obscure. You unlock it in the story

[@brenopedro3518]

I started maining guardian because of you. Thank you!

[@danlischak8529]

Great video, pistol willbender is my favorite build!

[@Saint_Cuthbert]

Great intro to cWB. I love this spec and main it for raids and group content. Really solid and easy to pump condi dps!

[@deltabravo7740]

Great introduction, love your content.

[@JustinFike]

I'm curious if you think a version of this build could work for PvP? Looks really fun!

[@hilanddoug]

This looks fun- gotta give it a try!

[@ggpt9641]

As an OW-obsessed player when on WB, I'll try some Willbender Conceited Curate. I do use Ritualist Armor instead, as I also have a Firebrand the set was originally built for, but also have an... obsession with "all boons" WB (swapping to Battle Presence and Feel my Wrath for random group OW events to hand out boons while still being WB).

[@Evan4K]

playing willbender in open world definitely makes you feel a bit spoiled with the amount of boons you get. whenever I swap to a class without huge boon generation it all just feels so weird

[@ggpt9641]

@@Evan4K I want to reply and thank you again. Conceited Curate + Ritualist = face-tank Willbender. Can even give out boons through Phoenix Protocol + Battle Presence and limited Feel My Wrath while in random groups. No dying (30k hp + 2 sustain sources) damage is kept decent thanks to condi build.

[@ThePyramid21]

i run this build even at fractals as a adps and its great

[@didoma73]

How does Rune of Balthazar compare to Trapper on Willbender?

[@Evan4K]

personally I prefer trapper. balthazar runes on this build will end up getting you way over capped on burn duration you would have to swap around sigils and or stats to get a better stat spread without being over capped. also the general condi duration from trapper will also apply to the bleeding that the pistols are applying

[@josephprins1258]

Even with max jade bot my hp is 14,900, BUT other than that Willbender is so much fun. I'm having a blast.

[@Evan4K]

true, low hp can seem a bit scary. although with all the self healing sources you should be ok

[@Jackie-m8i]

something really fun I like to do in open world is take valor trait line specifically for the redemption trait which basically let's you have 2 litany of wrath (the omega life steal heal skill) which is pretty fun actually

[@KittyHasToGo]

What armor is that? 😮

[@cmdAHYT]

its an Outfit, dont remember its name, but i do remember that i love the stained glass vibe. dunno about the guns tho.

[@crazyflasher360]

Polychromatic armor set

[@didoma73]

Decade's end armor

[@KittyHasToGo]

@@didoma73 Thank you!

[@Evan4K]

armor on the thumbnail is the new polychromatic armor with the astral ward legs. but the character in the video is wearing a combination of decades armor, etherbound, houndskin shoulders

[@GigglingStoners]

This has nothing on my noob condi build that barely got any dmg increase over my celestial noob tank build XD

[@GrimmRanger-Thrall]

nice video bud, could you please post your build ?

[@Evan4K]

added build links to the video description

[@cmdAHYT]

literally been agonizing about making a Guardian, so i guess my gargoyle doctor OC is gonna be a Gods-graced cowboy. thx Evan, Nak'hittav bless you :3

[@pokeylope6108]

Guardian is faceroll overtuned. IMO losers play Guard in pvp at least.

[@MrQuay03]

Just play reaper, simpler and higher dps. You bring no utilities to the team with this build anyway

[@didoma73]

People can play whatever they want

[@Jackie-m8i]

I disagree, condi willbender is mostly just spam all your buttons off cool down following simple principles of use 4 3 times per weapon swap, and never dely f1 and purging flames, reaper's primary loop is use wells go in shroud off cool down which I would say that they're fairly similar in terms of complexity, but if your pushing benchmarks them reaper is defiantly harder since you have to consider some semi advanced after cast canceling on greatsword in addition to "just go faster" where as willbender is pretty much only "just go faster" after a bit of practice on both I bench around 32k on reaper but over to 37k on wilbender, if both are played to perfection willbender does benchmark higher dps

[@glittergoat91]

Great, easy-to-follow guide! Loving Guardian at the moment and debating DH and WB 🩵