Guild Wars 2

Hi,

So i used to main a mesmer, but now that they removed LoS and nerfed our beserker’s damage to oblivion…i was wondering where the Guardian sits in terms of: (Perhaps a subjective rank can be given compared to other classes)

1) PVE
2)sPvP
3)WvW

The class doesn’t have to be OP, but at least decent in PVP aspects of the game as that’s what i often find myself spending time on

Thanks!

I think we are pretty balanced. I think they are constantly working to bring some classes up to our level and the op classes down to us.

Guardian is in a pretty good spot. I don’t think we’re too powerful or not powerful enough.
Balance is certainly not the biggest issue the Guardian faces.

Let me put it like this: If you’re doing badly (in any aspect of the game), and you think it’s because you’re playing a Guardian, you are mistaken.

I should make a vid of myself when I drop into the mass.
You can do some really amazing stuff that no other class can, thanks to our high survivability, AoE’s and very decent immobilizing skills / utility.

Guardian is the average class now with the exceptions of a few global skills like wall of reflection that become game changers in zerg matches. It’s a good class to teach you the basic of damage avoidance and mitigation and weapon combos.

Thieves think Guardians are cake.

wolfie.7296:

Thieves think Guardians are cake.

And I think Thieves are easy. Who cares?

thieves think everyone is cake, till they stumble across experienced players who can whoop them with a ranger or a necro :P
Guardians are in a nice place now, kinda like warriors i think, which of these 2 are in a better place i dunno

1. Guardians, along with warriors, are considered the best classes by speed clearers.
2. Don’t know about sPvP, but Guardians still have a huge impact on the tPvP meta due to bunker builds. So yea, they are one of the top classes here too.
3. They don’t seem to have anything special going for them in WvW, aside from having no decent ranged option. Class balance isn’t really discussed much in WvW compared to PvE and PvP, but i’d say average or below average.

Comming from a Messmer, whose class is still OP, you will feel vastly underwhelmed.

I suggest you roll a thief….

Or a Ranger, they’re getting lots of love and will be OP soon so you can faceroll others w/o any skill.

I dont play spvp. So i only speak for WvW
Its a very mixed experience playing guardian in WvW

Sometimes you think your the most underpowered class because all you do is hit on the door in siege

At other times you charge into a group of 10 down 2, get back out alive and think your OP

Against a zerg u wonder why you dont have a range weapon and feel your useless

But sometimes you get lucky charging into a zerg of 20
with wall of reflection up of course, (no amount of toughness or vit is gonna let you survive 20 people)
kills someone, gets out alive

and thinks that there is some hope for us after all

oh and of course………

you get to be like the only person on the map who can actually solo a thief

lcc.9374:

oh and of course………

you get to be like the only person on the map who can actually solo a thief

My Mesmer kills thieves all day long solo, unless they are 100% geared and traited for BS. If they are they can usualy kill me before they render on my screen.
On my Necro they aren’t a problem at all tbh, especialy the 100% BS guys, they go down with 2 AoE’s.

Never tried them with a guardian, mine is only lvl22 so i cant coment

I used to main mesmer but can’t stand to play this class in PVE anymore due to pvp oriented nerfs killing our core gameplay and making us so unreliable in PVE.
I mostly do dungeons on my guardian and I love it. Tanky, decent damages, great support, nothing a mesmer can achieve in its state right now. You may miss the butterflies at first but you’ll get flashy blue lights instead.