

It transforms Virtues into their upgraded versions, including Spear of Justice and Wings of Resolve. It allows Guardian to play as ranged DPS, but it also works well with greatswords. It can also provide some useful tools against disabled effects.ĭragonhunter – damage focused Elite Specialization that provides access to longbows and trap skills. The minor traits provide boons to you and your allies, as well as increase the damage you deal for each boon on you. It also empowers the AoE Consecration abilities that you can place on the ground.

Virtues – as the name suggests, this spec enhances Virtue skills. Almost all the major traits provide some forms of defensive boon, healing, or cleansing conditions. The minor traits focus on dodging, regenerating Endurance, and healing allies as you dodge roll. It empowers weapons like mace and staff while increasing the efficiency of shouts and symbols. Honor – another specialization that mostly focuses on supporting teammates and providing utility. Major traits like Communal Defenses and Altruistic Healing provide a ton of utility for the whole group. The minor traits generate Aegis and provide extra boons for blocking attacks. It focuses on blocking, damage mitigation through multiple defensive boons, and cleansing conditions. Valor – a defensive tree that enhances shields and meditation skills. This spec is great for builds that need utility, condition DPS or a mixture of both. Moreover, major traits like Retribution and Healer's Retribution empower your Retaliation – the ability to return some of the damage that you take. The minor traits improve your Virtue of Justice and provide extra critical chance against burning foes. Furthermore, it buffs torches, swords, and Signet skills. Radiance – another specialization that works well with burning and other conditions. All the minor traits in this tree empower Symbols, so you might want to incorporate as many of them as you can onto your skill bar, if you're going with this spec. It's used in many offensive builds, with major traits such as Fiery Wrath and Kindled Zeal working incredibly with condition DPS setups. It synergizes with greatswords and scepters as weapon choices. Zeal – a core specialization that empowers Spirit Weapon skills and Symbols.
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The full list of Guardian's specializations is Zeal, Radiance, Valor, Honor, Virtues, Dragonhunter and Firebrand (the last two are Elites). The point of a trait line often is to empower a specific weapon and/or skill type.

In this guide, we're going to look at all nine Guild Wars 2 classes and the specialization trees that they have at their disposal. On the other hand, if you're adventuring alone in the open world, you will need a little more survivability, since you won't have designated healers or tanks. For example, DPS players in raids will focus almost exclusively on reaching as high damage numbers as possible. You should have different builds prepared for different types of content. You can freely switch your Specialization setup when you're out of combat. It presents a lot of possibilities to the players in terms of optimizing their builds for specific goals (power damage, condition damage, healing, boons et cetera). A level 80 character can have three full specialization trees, but only one of them can be Elite. There's a possibility of third Elites if ArenaNet releases another DLC, but as far as we know, there are no such plans at the moment. Currently, the number has been increased to seven, with the addition of two elite specs available in the Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire expansions (you have to buy them to gain access to these specs though). On the Guild Wars 2 release, each profession had five core specializations to choose from. Moreover, players get to choose three out of nine major traits from each tree.Ĭrafting a Legendary gear in GW2 takes a lot of time and energy, but you can skip the process if you buy GW2 Gold. Every specialization has three minor traits that can't be changed. They consist of traits that can empower various aspects of your character and types of abilities. Specializations (also called trait lines) are one of the major means of creating a GW2 build.
