The Guardian
Characteristics
Race	Construct
Gender	Male
Size	Giant
Eyes	Blue Green (Corrupted)
Means of Travel	On Foot
Status
Affiliation	Makers Corruption
Armament
Main Weapon	Hammer Hand Cannon
Armor	Heavy
Type of Attack	Melee, Ranged
Relations
Enemies	Corruption
Allies	Death, Makers
Voice
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The Guardian is an ancient construct built by the Makers. The Guardian is also a boss that you will have to battle in the Forge Lands.

Darksiders IIEdit

It was built by the Makers when the corruption took over the Tree of Life, to clear out the forest around the tree. But, when the temple fell to the corruption, it remained unfinished. Death goes into the temple, and with the help of Karn, finishes The Guardian by collecting the Heart Stones needed to bring it to life.

But, when they insert the third heartstone, which has been corrupted, he is taken over by the corruption and destroys most of Tri-Stone. After Death dismantles it by destroying the three heart stones, Elder Eideard uses the last of his life force to bring it back, and destroy the corruption. After it destroys the corruption, it disappears, leaving only its hammer.

StrategyEdit

Phase 1Edit

Even though he is big, he is slow. Use Despair to ride out of his reach when slams his hammer to the ground. Once his arm has reached the ground, shoot on the bombs attached to his arm with Redemption and his arm will fall off for a short time. Ride back in range to damage the heart stone on his shoulder by using Death Grip to reach it, his arm will eventually fall off and you can damage the heart stone further, continue this until phase 2.

Phase 2Edit

When his arm falls off and he drops his hammer, phase 2 will begin. In this phase he will launch explosives spheres out of the cannon on his left arm. Use Despair to outride the spheres, using his stamina is recommended, as the spheres are fast. Shoot from Despair's back at the ball and it will begin to spin in mid-air.

When this occurs, run between The Guardians legs and the ball will go flying at you. If you execute this correctly the sphere will smash into The Guardian and topple him over and place his left arm on the ground. Run up his arm and use Death Grip to grab hold of the heart stone and damage it. Repeat this process until the left arm falls off.

Phase 3Edit

When his left arm is destroyed, a cutscene or quicktime will begin (depending on your difficulty setting), and you will destroy him.

Darksiders 2 - The Guardian(07:21)
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BugsEdit

• The Guardian Freezes - After defeating The Guardian you might occur a scenario in which the guardian will freeze. Instead of beating up the corruption to clear a path for you, he just does nothing.
  • To fix this, you will have to quit the game and start from your last save, which is most likely just before entering the fight. Then you should fast travel to a different location(except fast travel is unavailable during this entire section). After you've done that head back to the fight with the guardian, if all goes well you should see the game loading just before entering the fight (not saving, but loading). If you see this the glitch is likely to not occur again. If The Guardian still freezes, try this trick again. The key to this fix is that you have to let the game load the fight again, as the problem probably lies there.
• The Guardian Doesn't Fall - When shooting the bombs on the Guardian's right arm with Redemption, the bombs explode without bringing him to his knees. As it is necessary to bring the Guardian down to damage him, the fight can not continue if this glitch occurs.
  • Reloading the game from the auto-save before the fight usually solves this problem.