Guild Wars 2

So I’ve got 5 level 80’s but Guardian is one of those classes I could never stick with due to boredom. It just seemed too safe with not enough punch. I’ve heard that guardians can pump out decent damage, but it’s never felt very exciting playing one. Granted, that was some time ago, before I really understood this game as I do now.

So I come for advice: how do I resurrect my Guardian and make it exciting, dynamic, and fresh? What weapons or play styles are most fun (subjective, I know)? Is there a better race for racial elites or are the Guardian elites good?

I’ll be leveling with my friend so I’ll be spending most of my time in open world side-by-side with a necro.

Guardian is a little stale for me when I stick to simple weapon rotations as my sole source of damage. GS and Mace are the most interesting gameplay and when I combine them with burning and spirit weapons. These extra elements give alot of things going on to keep more interest and the flow moving. Killing trash leveling is more about stacking damage effects than optimizing DPS, so I’m not surprised people find leveling boring if they are listening to the minmaxers for build advice.

These don’t tend to be accepted builds for dungeons but it’s more interesting than timing weapon swaps between GS and sword to optimize DPS. Unless your leveling with dungeons, your choices only affect you.

Full cleric and autoattack with mace to level. Jk, boring as hell

Gameplay wise, I would say that managing blinds, blocks and evades to prevent as many hits as possible is the most interesting part.
Unfortunately, open world enemies are weak enough for several hits to be easily endured, and since some of these defensive moves will reduce your damage output, you’ll eventually find yourself rotating damage moves and using little defense besides the usual blind on VoJ activation.

I know open world isn’t the most challenging (or at all) but my buddy is new to GW2 and I want to guide him but not slip into a coma in the process. What I’m getting is that Guardian is simply not a very interesting profession unless you’re built for active defense?

i have to disagree to the fact guardian is boring
i have played thief which is a fast movement,reaction class
i have played mesmer which is deception class with clones
i have played necro which control the condition and control on one point dmg

guardian after the patch have the ability to play:
full support with shouts
full zerk meditation
full bunker
full condition dmg
hybrid dmg with direct and condition

you have the ability to stand in one points and kill your enemy while other class need stealth, blink, use DS, evade etc…
its test your skills and nerves to play guardian

as thief you can just SR or SS away
as warrior you use GS to run away
as mesmer you blink and stealth
as ele you use elite GS to run away
as engineer you use boots to run away
etc

as guardian you just cant. so you have to kill or be killed . if you get sleep or your enemy also sleeping or you gonna die
so try all the builds out there and make your own and have fun cause its really fun