Guild Wars 2

Long story short, I stopped playing GW2 around the time HoT pre-orders started but finally bought HoT this past sale. I really don’t have a lot of time to play games these days and I’m wondering if my time will be better spent on my Ranger or Guardian. Since dungeons are now dead, I will probably just do fractals and world meta events.

Ranger: has 100% map completion (100% druid spec); exotic berserker armor and ascended berserker trinkets. Will cost a lot of time/gold crafting ascended Viper gear.

Guardian: only 55% map completion (will take a lot of time collecting 155 more hero points). Has ascended berserker armor, trinkets, and weapons.

since you’re gonna do fracs either will do but easier to get AR on the guardian since it already has ascended armor and trinkets are ridiculously easy to get. The only bump there is that getting a spot in a party is so much easier on a druid than guard(alltho lackluster healing on a zerk druid makes is a bad choice with most pugs)

The missing hero points can be acquired relatively easily by joining a hero point tour, or doing them with a friend or something. To that point hit me up with a whisper if you’re on EU servers and we’ll get ’em for ya nice and easy

You can bring either into fractals. A healing druid is not needed until you get to T4, and even then, it’s debatable if one is necessary. A druid in a good group will make the encounter quicker and less stressful, but it doesn’t make or break the encounter. A bad group will struggle regardless of healing.

I personally recommend taking your guardian into fractals. Get into T4 fractals ASAP, then gear your druid up with the ascended boxes you get from fractals. Ascended armor is all very expensive (90+g per piece) so it is way cheaper to mystic forge the ones that drop from fractals.

And as Rayden says, getting elite specs is easier than it appears. Each hero challenge in HoT maps gives 10 points instead of just 1. It is harder in the beginning because you don’t have all your masteries and are not familiar with the maps, but if you’ve got a guide or are following a HP train, it becomes really quick. My 9th and final toon probably took 3-4 hours from 0 HP to full elite. The Dulfy guides are really helpful in this regard.