Guild Wars 2

Greetings!

I’ve primarily mained mesmer for quite some time. I also play all the caster classes fairly proficiently. But I’ve gotten to the point where I’d like to become proficient at a melee class. I have decided on Guardian as I like it’s supportive abilities while having decent DPS. I realize it may not be the “optimal” choice but it’s something I can live with.

I’m hoping some of you guardian mains can help me in regards to build & gearing. Let me say up front I’m used to range and also have a disability which causes some reduced motor skills. I’m not like crazy slow but I have to factor in that I’m going to take a hit or two. So the metabattle full zerk/assassin gearing method is out because I’ll do zero dps on the ground. I need advice for starter gear. Just not full on tank. I was thinking about maurauders but wasn’t sure how that might affect traits and such.

If one of you guardian mains could point me in the right direction, I’d greatly appreciate it.

It would be used for open world, dungeons & possibly fractals 1-50 max.

Thanks in advance for any guidance!!!

Guardian is perfectly fine in those areas.

I’d recommend Hammer for a lot of what you’d like to do. It offers good sustained damage and when combined with the Symbol traits, it offers constant protection plus some healing. Marauders is a good armor set. It’s pretty cheap and it gives you everything you’d need in PvE with a bit of defense. If you have HoT, then that would pair very nicely with what you’d be doing. Any combination of Hammer, Longbow, or Greatsword would give you the tools you’d need to do well and help your party.