Guild Wars 2

Im thinking of making a guardian as a first character. I just want to make a tanky character that isnt a necro (had a lvl 39 necro a few weeks after release) and i am between a guardian and a warrior. advice?

i also like guides, so if theres an indepth guide for noobs that would be KITTENLY AMAZING

I have the two profession in lvl80 full equipped with many builds.

Warrior, far superior right now, more viable overall, more working builds available.

Guardian will have bad times after the bad upcoming patch. Incoming nerf to vigor and swifness with useless buff in dps and no softCC or condition options incoming.

Guardian have a LOT (more than 50%) of useless traits. And a LOT of useless utilities (spirit weapons in example), a lot of weakness (low health, no softCC, low mobility, no condition damage, crappy ranger options, etc, etc) and symbol useless mechanic for wvw. And this will not improve with upcoming changes because the devs dont care/understand the profession, and this is reflected in every comment, patch or video they made.

If you still love to play guardian anyways, and you only want to play frontline support tanky for wvw zerg or spvp bunker (even with nerf vigor incoming) roll a guardian. If not, roll a warrior.

uriel, no a vigor nerf will come

urieldhynne.2743:

I have the two profession in lvl80 full equipped with many builds.

Warrior, far superior right now, more viable overall, more working builds available.

Guardian will have bad times after the bad upcoming patch. Incoming nerf to vigor and swifness with useless buff in dps and no softCC or condition options incoming.

Guardian have a LOT (more than 50%) of useless traits. And a LOT of useless utilities (spirit weapons in example), a lot of weakness (low health, no softCC, low mobility, no condition damage, crappy ranger options, etc, etc) and symbol useless mechanic for wvw. And this will not improve with upcoming changes because the devs dont care/understand the profession, and this is reflected in every comment, patch or video they made.

If you still love to play guardian anyways, and you only want to play frontline support tanky for wvw zerg or spvp bunker (even with nerf vigor incoming) roll a guardian. If not, roll a warrior.

Thanks, i think ill just play a warrior until i know more about what i want from the game.

Shukay.3728:

uriel, no a vigor nerf will come

Yes, incoming nerf to vigorous precision.

Tyler Chapman.1832:

The Guardian and Mesmer vigor traits are something that were on the table and will be on the table for change in the future. We don’t like those traits being that easily accessible. While they haven’t yet been changed as long as our thoughts don’t change internally they are part of the vigor rework we want to do.

On the other hand the Guardian forum is full of useful beginner guides ( check the sticky threads ) and helpful people ;-)

This easy-to-read guide is a great starting place for new or returning players. Eventually you’ll want to come back to these forums to get more in depth advice though.

NuttyLord.6329:

Thanks, i think ill just play a warrior until I know more about what i want from the game.

I respect this. But don’t fall into the mentality of “I’ll play whatever class is OP, and switch back when they nerf that or buff my favorite class.” If you do that you will never learn to play any class well and you will never be a good player.

Guardians and Warriors are two of the best classes in PvE right now. Warriors because of they buff the entire party’s DPS. Guardians because they have the best support of all classes. Both can do high DPS.
I have no clue what is good in WvW, but Warriors are good in every game mode right now.

I used to main warrior, but at one point I remade a guardian that I had deleted a while back. After playing again, it’s just so much more fun than a warrior. I used a name-change scroll to grab my character’s name to re-roll a guardian again (this is after I hit level 62 on the previous one). That’s how much more fun a guardian is for me.

There are a lot of useful guides out there. I generally just Youtube something along the lines of “guardian pve build” to see a few videos of what good builds are, then I do my own thing if I think doing it another way might be more beneficial to my playstyle.

If you’re all about “what’s best,” then go for the warrior. They’re pretty much OP in every build, so you’ll have no problem rolling one. But if you want the fun factor (assuming you’re like me in that regard), I’d roll a guardian. That’s if you’re asking between these two classes specifically. Other classes I find just as fun, but I’m the soldier type, so I stick with the heavies mostly.