best weapon set up/battle stance for soloing guardian?

[sick720]

<p>like the title says, whats the best set up for a soloing guardian? (currently level 71, will have full set of mc stuff come level 72)</p><p>the choices as i see it are:</p><p>1 hander/shield - dps stance</p><p>1 hander/shield - defensive stance</p><p>dual wield - dps stance</p><p>dual wield - defensive stance</p><p>2 hander - dps stance</p><p>2 hander - defensive stance</p><p>the spec ill will be using with this is one i found suggested on here and is as follows:</p><p>INT 4/4/6/8/2STA 4/4/8/8STR 4/4/8</p><p>which is the best out of those? any info is greatly appreciated</p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p>ostance dw</p><p>Although if I'm soloing something hard like a blue heroic and die, sometimes I'll try it fully defensive and am able to kill it.</p>

[RafaelSmith]

<p>DW in O-stance is definately the way to go when soloing or when doing trivial heroic or raid content.</p>

[Greymatter101]

<p><cite>Gaylon@Mistmoore wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>DW in O-stance is definately the way to go when soloing or when doing trivial heroic or raid content.</p></blockquote><p>So... That is pretty much everything in the game. </p><p>I guess you are saying that DW O-Stance is the only stance?</p><p>I want to use my Guard to tank shard instances for a while to gear up for raid content later (if I can find a guild without any SKs).  Is S&B D-Stance ever a viable option?</p>

[RafaelSmith]

<p><cite>Greymatter101 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Gaylon@Mistmoore wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>DW in O-stance is definately the way to go when soloing or when doing trivial heroic or raid content.</p></blockquote><p>So... That is pretty much everything in the game. </p><p>I guess you are saying that DW O-Stance is the only stance?</p><p>I want to use my Guard to tank shard instances for a while to gear up for raid content later (if I can find a guild without any SKs).  Is S&B D-Stance ever a viable option?</p></blockquote><p>Depends on your gear.  But assuming decent healers yeah DW + O-stance is the way to go for most things if you want any hope of holding aggro.</p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p><cite>Greymatter101 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I want to use my Guard to tank shard instances for a while to gear up for raid content later (if I can find a guild without any SKs).  Is S&B D-Stance ever a viable option?</p></blockquote><p>Defensive setup will make it harder to hold aggro. You just need to group with people on the same gear level as you and hopefully, always have a dirge. If you had like a dirge, coercer, assassin, swash, without ubah gear, you could probably get away with dstance sword & board.</p>

[Yimway]

<p>dw + ostance</p><p>To prove a point I did 6 quests in lavastorm lastnight in this build and never did anything but toggle auto attack on.</p><p>No ca's, etc.  Just auto'd my way thru new content that someone was saying was setup too hard.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>DW + O-stance FTW. If you can get away with it; if your healers suck, put on a shield, but stay in O stance.</p>

[RafaelSmith]

<p><cite>Atan@Unrest wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>dw + ostance</p><p>To prove a point I did 6 quests in lavastorm lastnight in this build and never did anything but toggle auto attack on.</p><p>No ca's, etc. Just auto'd my way thru new content that someone was saying was setup too hard.</p></blockquote><p>Agreed.  That LS stuff is so much easier using DW + O-stance...even with my gear.</p><p>But it all boils down to what the gear you have will allow....for example...while I can blow thru the LS stuff and the MMOY dailey quest stuff in DW + O-stance.   When I drop down to kill Stomp along the way...I have to goto Sword/Shield and D-stance.</p><p>Oh and I am still forever searching for a decent 3sec offhander thats attainable for me....=P</p>