Guild Wars 2

Hi All!

New player to the game – I love the type of class that is close to a bard or Spellsword type.

Mixture between a Warrior and Mage somewhat…(Able to buff himself / herself to do more damage or bring utility to the team).

Guardian is more defensive I understand;
Warrior is more offensive;
Mesmer is more utility.

Is that correct?

What is the metagame like at 80 in BOTH pve and pvp?

I got Mesmer to 20 with GS and Sword / Sword and it felt…UP…(not sure endgame) its painful to level (and I get that the reward is greater at the end theory but I am scared of investing that much time only to find out I hate the class..)

Warrior was GOOD (only to level 15) and I felt it was good damage with Axe Axe…but I felt it was very straight forward really…just run in spam AA and 2,3 and maybe 5 if needed…

Guardian I JUST started…and its VERY different in a good way – it felt like a hybrid between Mesmer and Warrior (I heard about Spirit Weapons??)

What is Guardian about – was I wrong about the above understandings of the game?

If I am a guardian in Meta PVP/PVE – am I just supposed to tank or can I actually out DPS warriors and mesmers etc.?

I do like to hit hard…(Thief will be my main alt after guardian for PvP solo).

Thanks guys – please don’t flame me to hard – I am a 26 year old noob at this game and again – just returned.)

Love ya all!

PvE meta is dps for every class. That doesn’t mean that you’re not bringing utitlity and support stuff but the main focus is dps. Warrior usually uses GS + axe/mace, guardian usually uses GS + something/focus, mesmer uses sword/something. Mesmer and guardian utitlity in pve is mostly reflects and condi cleanse, warrior “support” is basicly just raising the damage of everybody arround them with banners, might and stuff.

In PvP warrior is usually more of a tank, being able to tank stuff and still kill stuff with cc. Apart from some obscure stuff like offhand axe or rifle pretty much everything + longbow is more or less viable. Guardian is usually either a dedicated suporter with staff + something or dps with GS + scepter/focus. The only really viable mesmer build is all out dps with GS + staff or GS + sword something. Guard utility is mostly heals and cleanses, warrior mostly cc, mesmer boon removal, mobility and portals.

Because I have nothing better to do I’m gonna link some typical builds here.

PvE meta: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR8dlsApXolCxZI8DNR8QlbKOG2+BtQlBQDA-ThRBABXt/o8DPdD5dRAA4JAQp6PmpEEA-e

PvP support meta: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAW5dlsApWo97wVI8DRBDRkjNYnFOedxRAA-TZBHAB4eQAWqMAAXAge2fYgnAAA

PvP dps meta: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAR7dlsApcoVDxbI8DVR8QlZK+i2UVAgz1/QQkDA-TZBFwACuAAEOIA12foaZAAPBAA

SteelGuard.9635:

Hi All!

New player to the game – I love the type of class that is close to a bard or Spellsword type.

Mixture between a Warrior and Mage somewhat…(Able to buff himself / herself to do more damage or bring utility to the team).

Guardian is more defensive I understand;
Warrior is more offensive;
Mesmer is more utility.

Is that correct?

What is the metagame like at 80 in BOTH pve and pvp?

I got Mesmer to 20 with GS and Sword / Sword and it felt…UP…(not sure endgame) its painful to level (and I get that the reward is greater at the end theory but I am scared of investing that much time only to find out I hate the class..)

Warrior was GOOD (only to level 15) and I felt it was good damage with Axe Axe…but I felt it was very straight forward really…just run in spam AA and 2,3 and maybe 5 if needed…

Guardian I JUST started…and its VERY different in a good way – it felt like a hybrid between Mesmer and Warrior (I heard about Spirit Weapons??)

What is Guardian about – was I wrong about the above understandings of the game?

If I am a guardian in Meta PVP/PVE – am I just supposed to tank or can I actually out DPS warriors and mesmers etc.?

I do like to hit hard…(Thief will be my main alt after guardian for PvP solo).

Thanks guys – please don’t flame me to hard – I am a 26 year old noob at this game and again – just returned.)

Love ya all!

By Bard what do you mean?

As someone who played EQ for far too long and played bard there, the closest thing to me at this point is Engi, you have that huge diversity of options with a very active gameplay.

That said I’ve always been the support type and my favorite professions having played them all quite a bit would be Guardian/mesmer/engi at this point, no real order I like different ones for different tasks.

Guardian can DPS, 46202 build for PVE is about the top DPS (top iwth unscathed, not quite top with master of consecrations but very often worth it). For PVP you can go Meditation build as well though which is very hard hitting but lacks the group support that a guard is primarily built around (still very good build and not trying to knock it in any way).

Personally I’m also not a fan of warrior because of the same reason you put it… too strait forward.

If you’re looking to play a “Spellsword” sort of character, the class set that you should be looking at is the Double Dagger Elementalist:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r8HWLoF_OmM

D/D Ele is your Battlemage/Spellsword. However Mesmer would fit better for Bard.

In general I see Mesmer more as a Mentalist/Trickster/Psionicist though than a Bard.