Guild Wars 2

I haven’t played in a about 9 months and have a very good geared level 80 guardian, seeing a few “warrior beats guardian in groups” posts I am wondering is guardian still wanted in groups or do people prefer warriors. My guardian melee/support and I do love playing it seeing he was near unkillable in PvE and WvW when I was last playing. I’m wondering should I put him a side and play a warrior for now and work with it for group PvEing?

Play what you enjoy. There’s no need to think about which class is better than the other. After all, you’re here to have fun.

And well, yes. Guardian is still viable.

That’s good I do enjoy both Guardian and warrior, I was just hoping my guardian would still be wanted and welcome into groups

Guardian is definitely viable. It’s actually one of the more balanced classes in the game, with the least skill bugs. You can spec a Guardian into DPS or Support so you’re always welcome in dungeons and WvW.

That’s great to hear that a Guardian support can still get into groups

In high Fractals and other difficult PvE content at least 1 Guardian in a group is a must. So yeah, Guardian is still viable (and imo one of the best/most balanced professions).

We are certainly viable. While warriors have great dps in pve/dungeons, guardians have better support/control. PvP wise… warriors aren’t that great in melee, 100b is stationairy unfortunaly and because of this guardians have more mobile dps in melee. However, rifle warriors are very effective on range capabilities while guards are in a terrible state when it comes to ranged. Broken, actually. If you haven’t heard yet, scepter #1 is unable to hit moving target, and as you can imagine.. everyone doing pvp moves. So yea..

But you seem to have instances as top priority, i`d roll a guardian

People think guardians can’t DPS because no one actually runs a DPS guardian. Everyone just runs AH tank specs with defensive gear and tries to compare that to warrior glass cannon specs in zerker gear. Also, warriors get big numbers on HB, which always looks impressive, never mind the four-second channel.

Those of us who do run offensive guardian builds will tell you a properly built guardian can easily rival and sometimes even surpass warriors in damage output, and still be much tankier by default.

The only reason I can see anyone excluding guardians for dungeons is just those groups that want to optimize full DPS, which is typically done for the CoF p1 farm. Guardians bring a lot to the table for general groups.

Great info thanks, I was hoping my guardian was still useful. I didn’t mind about the damage too much, it was the massive survivability that the guardian had that I loved

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

People think guardians can’t DPS because no one actually runs a DPS guardian. Everyone just runs AH tank specs with defensive gear and tries to compare that to warrior glass cannon specs in zerker gear. Also, warriors get big numbers on HB, which always looks impressive, never mind the four-second channel.

Those of us who do run offensive guardian builds will tell you a properly built guardian can easily rival and sometimes even surpass warriors in damage output, and still be much tankier by default.

Nah, you cannot if the target is stationairy, which is nearly evening in pve. Trust me.. i run a full zerker war full exo. Nothing special. I deal 38k 100b’s nonstop. While i got a full exo zerker guardian with 5 zerker ascended pieces and i max WW 17k if the stars align. Channel cast of 100b and WW is about the same, so its still uncompareable.

That said, if the warrior simply has no opportunity to land his 100b (because he will be rooted in place), guardian will indeed outshine because of mobile dps. Which works better for pvp.

notwithstanding our lack of ranged, we are incredibly good for wvwvw.

We are durable and can perform well in smaller fights and roaming, and in larger groups we excel as a support. Abilities such as wall of reflection and similar just cannot be overestimated for their usefulness, plus if traited we can put of a reasonable amount of healing with symbols and such, for when your gorup needs to hunkerdown and turtle to survive an incomming zerg.