Guild Wars 2

anyone else having trouble 1v1 against mesmer as a guardian? can never seem to beat them 1v1. feels like their heal is on too short a cd or that it heals too much. at least in my case.

The only build that consistently beats any kiting, condition based profession for a guardian is a good spirit weapon build. Retaliation, despite all the complaining about it on the forums, really isn’t enough against a good player.

The hammer and sword tends to offset their clones just a bit and keep the real mesmer locked down just enough to get in there and do some damage.

But truthfully, it all depends on the mesmer spec… sort of how a few thieves builds will beat Guardians (non-heartseeker builds that incorporate lots of shortbow/pistolwhip/ambush trap/caltrops) but in general Guardians will always beat Thieves, in general Mesmers will always beat Guardians unless you are in that rare instance of specs countering, and you carry a fair bit of ranged with a scepter and spirit weapons.

This has been my experience thusfar. Bunkery builds vs. Mesmer tend to be battles of attrition. You might not go down, but neither is the Mesmer.

Mesmers are generally a nightmare for an offensive build guardian. I’m currently running a bunker meditation, retaliation build with a mace+shield/Hammer and the results have been just splendid.

I donno. Bunker Guardians are LONG fights for me unless I can get successful chain CC.

For the most part you have to understand that picking out and sticking to the actual Mesmer is a Guardian’s best hope.

The more you stick on a mesmer, knock him down the less he can pull out those phantasms, the less he can clone produce. In which case, it’s actually spirit hammer that will be your biggest boon in the fight as it forces the Mesmer to focus on something other than keeping pressure on you.

Pretty much the order of business from a Mesmer’s perspective is to wear you down and watch for openings. Regardless of the build, if you can manage to keep the pressure on the Mesmer, as opposed to the other way around, they’ll likely fall to you. However, this is just speculation from a Mesmer’s PoV. I’ve not yet created a Guardian to play against a Mesmer, Soldiers are the last class type I’m discovering.