I really like firebrand, but I feel that it lacks the ranged options it needs to truly shine in open world play. Hopefully dual pistols coming next year change that.
scepter is a decent pick, but gets outshined by the new pistol. I would say to keep axe/torch in one set and either pistol/x or pistol/pistol in the second. Once Janthir Wilds is out, I plan on an update of all of my builds.
Still works rather fine, although you'll want to include a relic. For most Damage, something like Fractal will be the best option, but there's some utility relics that can come in handy too (Wayfinder for speed, Cerus if you want to have some fun with your Elite, etc.).
I don't know why but, and I feel sad about this, Guardian never clicked for me. I'm going to give another go for this builds though. Maybe 67864753th time's the charm.
If it's not your playstyle, you will feel like grinding teeth while playing it. I have the most fun with firebrand because it's my favorite style of play. 😂
@@DjNastetrue I use WB on my guard for open world. However, for a newer guardian FB open world is extremely tanky in celestial. I do WB celestial but with less boon and stability access it's not so easy to solo bosses
It'll work, and if you make sure to use GS 4 > 2 as a combo, you should still inflict quite a bit of bleeding. Alternatively, this is more of a PvP build (although I changed some utilities) that uses GS and Sw/Focus, that works in open world too: gw2skills.net/editor/?PWwAEx3lRweYXsJGJWuPqvcA-e As for gear, if you have some diviner's, you could potentially maintain perma quickness. Otherwise, any power stat will do. Same for the relic, it's basically whatever you fancy.
How do you get enough quickness on this build without Potence or any of the major quickness traits? Seems like FMW and Swift Scholar alone won't keep the axe AA pumping between CDs. Axe is so sluggish without it.
The easiest way would be to swap in Mantra of Potence for Mantra of Flame or Sword of Justice. In the second case, make sure you swap Eternal Armory for Symbolic Avenger. For prolonged farming sessions I've been using the Jade Protocols though, which alleviated the need for MoP and allowed me to stack a bit more offense.
Glad you liked it, hope you'll like FB as well! They recently made some changes to the class, and mantras now recharge in all PVE content automatically once more.
I haven't played my firebrand in ages but given that I need world complete for our wizards vault legendary I'm going to dust him off and give this a try. Cheers!
keep putting out these video's i love them great job. i have switch from another youtuber to you, i like how you explain everything from a perspective that new and returning players can understand.
Though only 49 points depending on gear choice etc. Zeal also gives vulnerability to your fields, so you may get more damage out of it. And you deal 5% more strike damage to vulnerable foes. And another 10% with grandmaster. I guess it depends on your choices and it is good to have choices. :)
@PetrSzturc Zeal just seems like the best option if your build is focused on power damage. The extra strike damage is nice, but it is so much less than triggering the justice passive AoE and more often. The strike damage really doesn't matter much for this build. I can see the benefits of a little extra vulnerability, but you can just swap to Balthazar runes to cap burning and replace sigil of smoldering with frailty to get essentially the same result (without the strike dmg boost of course). IDK, I enjoy Phandrel content, but there are a lot of holes in this build specifically.
@@DjNaste I like the extra power for some extra upfront damage, but I agree that this wouldn't be the selling point of zeal though. Kindled Zeal, on the other hand, converts 10% of your power to condition damage, which lets us (partly) double dip on the power/condition combo on our Celestial stats. I do see your point though.
Offensive Setup: gw2skills.net/editor/?PWwAc+tlVwQYQsOGJO+KZvSA-DyIY1oj/MSQF0hEQhHDAoC-e
Defensive Setup: gw2skills.net/editor/?PWwAc+tlVwQYQsOGJWySvvSA-DyIY1oj/MSQF0hEQhHDAoC-e
Passive Setup: gw2skills.net/editor/?PWwAc+tlJwmYVMK2JO8LZvWA-DyIY1oj/MSQF0hEQhvAAoC-e
I really like firebrand, but I feel that it lacks the ranged options it needs to truly shine in open world play. Hopefully dual pistols coming next year change that.
Hey Phandrel, is this build still relevant with the introduction of pistols? Should I swap my scepter for a pistol or is scepter still a decent pick?
scepter is a decent pick, but gets outshined by the new pistol. I would say to keep axe/torch in one set and either pistol/x or pistol/pistol in the second. Once Janthir Wilds is out, I plan on an update of all of my builds.
is this build still good right now? I wanted to main firebrand
Still works rather fine, although you'll want to include a relic. For most Damage, something like Fractal will be the best option, but there's some utility relics that can come in handy too (Wayfinder for speed, Cerus if you want to have some fun with your Elite, etc.).
I don't know why but, and I feel sad about this, Guardian never clicked for me. I'm going to give another go for this builds though. Maybe 67864753th time's the charm.
Willbender is 10x times more fun than Firebrand if you're just Open World roaming.
If it's not your playstyle, you will feel like grinding teeth while playing it. I have the most fun with firebrand because it's my favorite style of play. 😂
@@DjNastetrue I use WB on my guard for open world. However, for a newer guardian FB open world is extremely tanky in celestial. I do WB celestial but with less boon and stability access it's not so easy to solo bosses
Would it be fine to run this build with just greatsword I know it's not very condi focused but it feels really good on guardian
It'll work, and if you make sure to use GS 4 > 2 as a combo, you should still inflict quite a bit of bleeding. Alternatively, this is more of a PvP build (although I changed some utilities) that uses GS and Sw/Focus, that works in open world too: gw2skills.net/editor/?PWwAEx3lRweYXsJGJWuPqvcA-e
As for gear, if you have some diviner's, you could potentially maintain perma quickness. Otherwise, any power stat will do. Same for the relic, it's basically whatever you fancy.
@@phandrel I will give give both a go tyvm looking for a good guardian build atm I like guardian but it'd really squishy for me
How do you get enough quickness on this build without Potence or any of the major quickness traits? Seems like FMW and Swift Scholar alone won't keep the axe AA pumping between CDs. Axe is so sluggish without it.
The easiest way would be to swap in Mantra of Potence for Mantra of Flame or Sword of Justice.
In the second case, make sure you swap Eternal Armory for Symbolic Avenger.
For prolonged farming sessions I've been using the Jade Protocols though, which alleviated the need for MoP and allowed me to stack a bit more offense.
@@phandrel Ahh, thanks. I don't often use the jade protocols outside Cantha, so I haven't been thinking of them for bruildcraft.
Thank you, loving the detailed explanations and the range of options.
I loved this video! Very nice explanations, quick but very informative! It made me want to try out the Firebrand, thank you!
Glad you liked it, hope you'll like FB as well! They recently made some changes to the class, and mantras now recharge in all PVE content automatically once more.
I haven't played my firebrand in ages but given that I need world complete for our wizards vault legendary I'm going to dust him off and give this a try. Cheers!
By the way ritualist is also great gear if you also want to do instanced content as offensive support. Still gives you survibility and damage.
Very true! I
keep putting out these video's i love them great job. i have switch from another youtuber to you, i like how you explain everything from a perspective that new and returning players can understand.
I appreciate that!
Thank you very much!
Thank you, will be trying these out soon
There is a disturbing lack of Hammer in this video. Bonk is stronk.
I assume I have to buy SOTO to do sword and shield Firebrand?
Sword main hand and shield should work without SotO.
Sword off hand and longbow would require the expansion.
@@phandrel Oh right yeah, for some reason I always forget Guardians can use MH sword. TY
I would like to see even more renegade Builds, tbh. :D
I'll try and fix something for next week :)
Awesome as always ❤
Glad you like it, thanks!
I honestly don't get why we would be running with 'Zeal' instead of 'Virtues'.
I like Virtues overall, but I find Kindled Zeal really hard to pass up.
@phandrel Kindled Zeal gives less condition damage than Power of the Virtuos, though. It's a straight damage loss.
Though only 49 points depending on gear choice etc. Zeal also gives vulnerability to your fields, so you may get more damage out of it. And you deal 5% more strike damage to vulnerable foes. And another 10% with grandmaster. I guess it depends on your choices and it is good to have choices. :)
@PetrSzturc Zeal just seems like the best option if your build is focused on power damage. The extra strike damage is nice, but it is so much less than triggering the justice passive AoE and more often. The strike damage really doesn't matter much for this build. I can see the benefits of a little extra vulnerability, but you can just swap to Balthazar runes to cap burning and replace sigil of smoldering with frailty to get essentially the same result (without the strike dmg boost of course). IDK, I enjoy Phandrel content, but there are a lot of holes in this build specifically.
@@DjNaste I like the extra power for some extra upfront damage, but I agree that this wouldn't be the selling point of zeal though. Kindled Zeal, on the other hand, converts 10% of your power to condition damage, which lets us (partly) double dip on the power/condition combo on our Celestial stats.
I do see your point though.
What is a tree build?
where in the video did I mention this? Doesn't ring a bell off the top of my head.
I think you ment to say THREE....@@phandrel
@@toeflip that's a real possibility.