Guild Wars 2: End Of Dragons - Best Open-World Build For Willbender Guardians

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Interested to discover the best open-world build for your Willbender Guardian in Guild Wars 2? You've come to the right place, pull up a stool, and learn all about how to turn your Guardian into a tsunami of steel.

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The Guardian is a very capable class in the Guild Wars 2 Meta, as they can fulfill a variety of roles and also come out of the box with a ton of support and utility for their group. The Willbender however, is an excellent elite specialization to spec into for the open-world as it has very capable damage and sustain.

The Willbender is a very mobile and hard-hitting martial arts master. They take the support nature of the guardian and invert it to become a more self-focused damage dealer. We'll be covering a very good open-world build configuration for the Willbender, allowing you to go from one enemy to the other and dispatch them in quick succession.

The Willbender gives the Guardian the option to wield a sword in the offhand and alters the normal virtues that offer passive buffs and occasional stronger boons when activated. Your virtues become movement-based, activating them briefly enhances your attacks. For example, activating Rushing Justice (default keybinding is F1) will dart you forwards and give your consecutive attacks the ability to cause burning status effects.

There is an optimal DPS meta in most games and Guild Wars 2 is no exception. While you might have to shuffle things around in group content, in the open world you can use whatever weapons you like. Just keep in mind that weapons in GW2 usually support a specific play style, on a guardian torch and scepter support condition damage, whereas a greatsword does power damage.

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