Guild Wars 2

I am thinking of playing a more tanky based character in gw2. I am just wondering what is better a elementalist tank or mesmer tank. I like to be up in melee so how can u do that as ele?

Guardian tank is much better just a fyi. Even though mesmer tank is a little pointless simply because you can run full zerker and hide with in all of your clones. Ele tank isnt bad but with the new patch coming quickly it might be more vauble to wait until it come out so see which class to roll

Bunker Elementalst is very strong, as is Bunker Guardian, assuming we’re taking PvP formats.

Don’t bother playing ‘tanky’ in PvE, however. Better to spike things down in tons of damage than to try to build up passive defenses.

My guide in my sig talks about a Dagger Ele for PvE which is a melee sort of playstyle. It works out pretty well.

Mesmers shouldn’t be tanks. They’re much better off in highly offensive gear, since they have so many active in-built defenses that they don’t need to put on tank gear.

go with bunker necro…32k + health and the ability to heal 30k+ health every 25 seconds, and still throw down massive damage and regen with wells.
insanely overpowered build.