Guild Wars 2

I have just started getting seriously into raiding. Successfully cleared the first raid. I have mained elementalist up to this point, along with a few runs with guardian as tank against Vale guardian and Gorseval. Both I have killed as tank with guardian. I have full ascended armor on my elementalist, but as this is currently my only character with full ascended, I have to make a decision on which will be my 2nd character in raids. I want to have one to fill more than just role of a DPS ele. My 2 friends both cover the roles of a healer and tank, that is why I want to cover more dps roles.
That leads me to the decision: condition engineer or dps/support guardian as my 2nd profession? Why not both? Well, ascended armor is expensive and I only want to buy armor with magnetite shards. Thus going for only 1 of them is a better option. Probably shoul mention this, I want to choose the one which is most useful/demanded of the two.

if you have an ele and it’s strictly between those two, engineer

reikken.4961:

if you have an ele and it’s strictly between those two, engineer

Because ele and guardian cower it’s other role? That why?
Also, isn’t guardian more demanded in later wings than engineer?

Tomiyou.3790:

reikken.4961:

if you have an ele and it’s strictly between those two, engineer

Because ele and guardian cower it’s other role? That why?
Also, isn’t guardian more demanded in later wings than engineer?

In my opinion, you’re better off making an ascended set for heavy armors since right now outside of Druid, medium professions are in a bad state, Engineer simply get outclassed by Condi Reaper faceroll and Condi Druid because of the buff it provides to the group.

wait wait..condi reaper does more damage then engi? When did that happen? If so, happy day cause i’m on break but necro is my main and has some gear, while engi needs gear badly…

ZeftheWicked.3076:

wait wait..condi reaper does more damage then engi? When did that happen? If so, happy day cause i’m on break but necro is my main and has some gear, while engi needs gear badly…

As I understand it, in a clean environment with perfect conditions the engi will still prevail by a bit. However when you factor in Epidemic bouncing, and adds that spawn extra minions and accept the fact that any Engi rotation will drastically fall in effectiveness outside a spreadsheet or the test dummies, then yes necro will likely take the crown. And, it’s at a decent range without as much dependency on a boss staying in field damage.