Guild Wars 2

Hey, just curious as I need help deciding my class. I’ve read in some places that Guardian GS and bow were not viable in high end fractals or raids, but I’ve seen in other places saying they are as of a few months ago (buffs?). I’m really curious because my decision on playing Guardian or Warrior is really deependant on me being able to use either the GS or bow on guard. I dont like any of the other weapons on the guard really.

Sorry for creating one of these posts, but it was the best way I could see currently since I haven’t seen any made recently.

Thanks!

Longbow is more useful in a pvp scenario due to its strong cc abilities. Not to say it doesn’t work in organized pve, just that scepter/torch is a much better weapon due to having better over-all damage.

Longbow can be used for safety, but if you already know the fight inside and out, and can tell which attacks to dodge, it’s unnecessary. That is IF you meet those criteria. Longbow is a safe weapon to use and unless you are fighting a dps check of a boss, most people won’t care as much. Current weapon set for guardian that is most effective in pve in terms of dps is sceptre/torch+greatsword.

These things may change in a couple of weeks, due to the expansion and firebrand being able to stack, shall we say, higher than average amounts of burning. The expansion is expected to come Spet 22, not accounting for any possible delays.

As far as I know, GS is meta for DH’s when paired with the Scepter/torch… You sometimes see guards use the longbow though in fractals, and it’s whatever… It’s not entirely useless. Decent breakbar damage, can root a bunch of mobs for AoE, max range safety mode… I dunno, max deeps aren’t as important as being able to stay alive. People actually appreciate a DH using aegis skills and setting up projectile denial there rather than going hamm on the dps meters.

But, it’s sort of a moot point, in less than thirty days I’m pretty sure all Guards will just be using axes.

But if you’re choosing between Guard/War and your entire deciding factor is using a Greatsword, for whatever reason that might be (aesthetics I imagine?)… I’d go Guard.

Warriors never get to go GS in PvE these days (unless all they have is a power set, and the friends they play with don’t mind), but that will likely switch to daggers with Spellbreaker, since they provide might in their auto attack chain and will almost certainly do more dps.

Likely, Warriors will still use Greatsword in sPvP/WvW tho…

If you want a safety net, use scepter+x. It has orders of magnitude more damage in exchange for being just 900 max range, but that’s more than enough for any fractal boss. Longbow damage on a guard is just abysmal and its CC actually isn’t good – scepter+shield comfortably beats longbow CC. GS is fine, though.