Guild Wars 2

DPS scepter guard is probably the only guardian spec that is in the back, generally for reasons like being part of the green group in vale guardian.

Otherwise more preferred specs like a protection hammer guard has you up front in melee.

A “samurai” with two swords as the great protector. I’m not sure what you have smoked, but it must be strong stuff.

Heres’s a bow and some dps skills

Think your title is wrong, or you should specify wvw and even there you can go roaming damage spec, but in a zerg your most useful as more protection position. Because most other places Guards spec focus on damage with a few support skills, the question you wanted to ask was why does not guardian have a good ranged spec maybe?

Really? As far as i can see guardian is a dps class. Take qT’s builds for example in pve. Meditrapper in wvw & pvp. And with the upcomming pof spec: Firebrand, guardian will shine light on the condition type of playstyle too. To me the class is a damage dealing spec with support capabilities.

First, specify a game mode. Guard doesn’t play the same in all of then.

Second, the guardian class fantasy is designed around support. Since day of GW2, guards have been focused (often poorly) on sustained support.

However, guard does substantiaal dps on several weapons and builds anywhere out side of a top pve raid group. Run sword/ torch or scepter/ torch on radiance and zeal and then tell me you don’ have sustained damage with burn burst. Likewise, our last elite spec was almost pure dps. LB and traps have very poor or no support.

You can dps, you just cannot do it well on every weapon

Metavahn.7293:

Heres’s a bow and some dps skills

here’s DPS utilities and some bow… DH trapper main weapons are the traps (well only 2 traps do actually decent to lot of damage anyway…) :P not the bow, and felt clunky.

Traps were a awfull gimmick concept for damage output.