Vale Guardian:
Required:
2 Condition damage dealers: For the red copy.
1 Boon removal: For the blue copy.
1 Tank (Highest Toughness Healer): To maintain boss control.
Optional (Helpful):
Barrier Support: To reduce the impact from green copy explosions.
Useful Links:
Vale Guardian Tanking Guide. (Internal)
Vale Guardian Boss Mechanics. (Internal)
Guild Wars 2 Wiki Rewards. (External)
Guild Wars 2 Wiki Encounter Stats. (External)
Phase 1 100% to 66% HP:
Instructions:
Start: Stack at the green arrow before the fight starts.
The tank will pull the boss to the green arrow.
Fight the boss here
End: When it reaches 66% HP, Triggering the split phase.
❗ Avoiding Wipes or Deaths:
Displacement: Learn to recognize unstable magic spikes and avoid them.
Phase 2 66% to 33% HP:
Instructions:
Start: After the split phase, return to the green arrow and continue fighting the boss.
When the energy field appears, jump with the tank to the next segment.
Once the energy field is gone, Return to the green arrow.
End: Repeat this till the boss reaches 33% HP, to begin next split phase.
❗ Avoiding Wipes or Deaths:
Displacement: Learn to recognize unstable magic spikes and avoid them.
Phase 3 33% to 0% HP:
Instructions:
Start: Stack at the arrow (New position shown in the image).
Energy will cover two tiles - Move clockwise to avoid them.
Follow this Rotation:
Move to the circle once energy dissipates.
Move to the heart once energy dissipates.
Move to the arrow once energy dissipates.
End: Repeat this pattern until the boss is dead.
❗ Avoiding Wipes or Deaths:
Displacement: Learn to recognize unstable magic spikes and avoid them.
Explosion: Learn about Distributed Magic and take if possible.
Spilt Phase (All Phases):
Instructions for condition damage dealers:
Start: Go to the red copy (marked by a Circle).
DPS the boss to 0% HP.
Break the break bar.
End: Wait for the rest of the squad to finish, then restack.
Instructions for power damage dealers and healers:
Start: Go to the blue copy (marked by a heart).
Use boon removal on the boss (Only one player needs to do this).
DPS the boss to 0% HP.
End: Wait for the rest of the squad to finish, Then restack.
❗ Avoiding Wipes or Deaths:
Explosion: Always Take Distributed Magic when it appears - If left, It will kill condition damage dealers.
Displacement: Avoid unstable magic spikes.
Notes:
Green Copy: This copy is usually pulled to the blue copy for power damage dealers to kill.