Guild Wars 2

Hi!

I’m fairly new to the game and had a question about Guardians. I mained a DK in WOW and Alted a Paladin, and Guardians seem similar to DKs and Paladins so I chose the Guardian profession to play.

My goal is to PvP and WvW, and get good at it. How are the Guardians compared to the other professions? How do they stack against other melee professions? Are there certain professions I should look out for?

Thanks for any tips and advice!

If you run a WvW spec in PvP, you won’t be able to kill anything and will thus die to zerk specced anything. I don’t know what the best spec for this is, but I hear good things about “Healway”.

In WvW if you run PvP spec you will die in blob vs blob. So you need an “Altruistic Healing” spec with full/near-full soldier’s gear.

I’m more of a WvW player myself and it’s a completely different world to PvP. Totally different skills, different playstyle – i.e. in PvP you need to be totally aggressive with blinks to get “into the face” of the enemies, whereas in WvW it’s all about buffing the team, taking conditions off them and putting out much smaller numbers across a larger number of enemies.

All this said, some people run small roaming groups using PvP specs in WvW. This means you will certainly die if you try anything alone. Lesson = don’t try anything alone in WvW spec.

WvW and PvP builds aren’t that different really. Meta guardian builds for both are support bunker x/x/30/30/10 or x/x/10/30/30 with some small variation between and in traits for flavor. Shouts and consecrations make up your skills and stay with a group to support and survive. Roaming meditation guards work similar in both forums as well, but offensive guards simply aren’t truely competitive in either. DPS guards are mostly for pve and dungeons, or in hot join for fun.

Mightymealworm.8409:

WvW and PvP builds aren’t that different really. Meta guardian builds for both are support bunker x/x/30/30/10 or x/x/10/30/30 with some small variation between and in traits for flavor. Shouts and consecrations make up your skills and stay with a group to support and survive. Roaming meditation guards work similar in both forums as well, but offensive guards simply aren’t truely competitive in either. DPS guards are mostly for pve and dungeons, or in hot join for fun.

What this says is correct

Wow, the specs and traits seem more complicated than in WoW.