Guild Wars 2

So I’m trying to decide on whether my main will be a Warrior or a Guardian.

I like the added buffs and support that you get with the Guardian. However, I fear that in PvP I will not be a factor DPS wise and that trying to kill someone will be like hitting them with a pillow.

Another fear is that if I spec PvP DPS I will lack the added buffs and support and the DPS that I do gain is not enough compared to if I would have just rolled a Warrior.

Input is greatly appreciated thank you

Well seeing as you never mentioned PvE I fail to see why it matters. In sPvP you can roll a new character every day and never have a disadvantage over someone playing the same class all the time. :}

I know warriors and guardians are both great support and damage, depending on how you spec. I haven’t gotten a warrior terribly high level but I honestly think if you want to play every phase of the game, spvp, wvw and pve with dungeons or without, you can’t do much better than guardian.

Guardian has pretty good damage, but the kicker in pvp, particularly wvw is that it has a ton of control and gap closers. If you spec for it, you can stun immobilize lock a lot of guys and kill them before they can fully control themselves without a stunbreak.

Guardian also has quite a bit of support built into many of its skills which will trigger regardless of your spec. For PVE, you’ve got a ton of blinds, which makes killing mobs easy. Against many bosses, even if you’re not specced for it, your wall will often be invaluable.

Ok, I’m leaning to Guardian its just that I’m afraid that I’ll have utility and survivability but not be able to kill anyone and win a fight due to lack of damage output.

From what I’ve read the Guardian has the lowest health pool in the game so if I try to spec and gear a bit more to PvP damage I don’t want to be in a position where I lose my survivability and my damage increase doesn’t balance out.

Elementalist and rogues have the lowest. Guardian is the next but that’s what make them so freaking annoying. Their heal fully heals them while they tank billions of hits because they have massive thoughness with their armor as well as the possibility to be extremely tanky with just a few traits.
I prefer warrior myself because you have way more choices of weapons and possibilities then a guardian does.
The best is simply to try both in sPvP as you ain’t loosing anything from doing so and you’ll eventually see which one you prefer.

bro kitten being the “DPS factor” build tanky warrior with shield and mace and it’ll take like 8 guys 20 seconds to kill you. In structured PvP i place top or top 3 out of both teams almost always. Also, you can keep someone disabled (kd’d stunned dazed) for like 5 or 6 seconds flat, if it’s a squishy, you’ll have them running while you keep kding and stunning them. Tanky’s are surprisingly easy to get kills with