Guild Wars 2

Okay the game has been out for a while and I am still trying to decide on what profession to make my main and play the heck out of. I have narrowed down to the Warrior and the Guardian, the two, in my opinion, most powerful professions in the game at the moment. Can you please help me decide on which one to play and why exactly?

I’ve played both to the lower 40s, and warrior seems to be the more powerful of the two if that’s what you’re looking for. They have more health, the most weapon options including good ranged choices (unlike the guardian), and can function as a good support class when needed. The one thing the guardian does better is providing various boons to allies and having better overall support capabilities, imo.

I’m in the same spot as you. Have tried them all and after taking a month break from the game I can’t decide between the two…

Also to add. Warrior can dish out very high burst/spike dmg. Guardian is more steady damage as it provides boon support in more melee range.

If you like seeing big numbers, nice leeway for mistakes = War
If you like team support while still being in the midst of battle = Guard

Personally I enjoy both professions. I really enjoy melee combat and smashing things in the face both professions bring a nice but different spin on how I approach melee.

I have both at 80. What it boils down to is that the guardian has more options for builds that lend themselves to defense and support, while the warrior have more options for damage and mobility. Neither class has to suck at any of these things: warriors can support and and guardians can be mobile. They just have less options when it comes to how they go about it.

Personally, I prefer my guardian for PVE (because of the support and better sustained damage) and my warrior for WvW (because of better burst and better ranged weapons), but you’ll find plenty of people who have the opposite preference.

I love the heck out of my Guardian. Without going into too much detail, I can solo the vast majority of group events that don’t involve weird anti-solo mechanics (I’ve solo’d Lengedaries to as low as 70% before other players showed up). Or events that involve Eyes of Zhaitan…because wow, those hit hard.

As far as WvW goes, I regularly take on (and defeat) groups of 1-4 enemy players at a time, depending on their individual levels, gear, and skill. I can survive long enough against slightly larger groups for my zerg to get half-way across the map to save me. Just takes some practice.

I don’t know much about Warriors though, sorry.

Warriors and guardians have access to the same number of weapons:

Warrior:

• sword
• shield
• greatsword
• hammer
• axe
• mace
• rifle
• longbow
• warhorn

Guardian:

• sword
• shield
• hammer
• greatsword
• mace
• scepter
• focus
• torch
• staff

Warriors have a little more flexibility with combining weapons because they can dual-wield swords, maces (not that you’d want dual mace, lol) and axes, whereas guardians cannot dual-wield anything.

Warriors have better ranged damage in my opinion: rifle and longbow outshine staff and scepter any day.

Guardians, however, are unbelievably tough and utilitarian. Their condition/boon abilities are, in my opinion more flexible and powerful than a warrior’s. And condition/boon management is a very big deal in this game, especially at higher levels and in dungeons/pvp.

I couldn’t decide which light armor class I preferred so I’m leveling all three. I keep them in the same tier as I’m leveling. It saves me regretting which choice I made because they do play differently.

You could level both.