Guild Wars 2

Stramatus.5219:

2 years…have hardly played anything else. Guardians are simply the best.

They’re not the best. They’re balanced. Right in the middle. Not the worst, not the best.

Zanshin.5379:

Stramatus.5219:

2 years…have hardly played anything else. Guardians are simply the best.

They’re not the best. They’re balanced. Right in the middle. Not the worst, not the best.

The best get nerfed, the worst get buffed, but the balanced, they’re always good.

I mean literally our only problem for the last 2 years has been that we can’t run any type of condi-build what-so-ever.

guardian.6489:

Zanshin.5379:

Stramatus.5219:

2 years…have hardly played anything else. Guardians are simply the best.

They’re not the best. They’re balanced. Right in the middle. Not the worst, not the best.

The best get nerfed, the worst get buffed, but the balanced, they’re always good.

I mean literally our only problem for the last 2 years has been that we can’t run any type of condi-build what-so-ever.

For WvW:

And that we can’t run an effective Zerker Build like every other class….

And that we’ve been stuck in an Honor/Valor meta since beta (w/ Virtues mixed in at times for fun roaming)…

And that we have no soft CC…

Yep, guardians are great. At the spec we have.

layzoe.6035:

Kicast.1459:

Before I was a mesmer.
Now with my guard, I do not feel Op and cheesy like braindead warriors but I feel I am usefull and strong. It is night and day with my old poor mesmer.
Still feel sad for mesmers. They are a dead class left alone for mass fights.

Then you obviously don’t know how to play a mesmer. A mesmer has more support utilities than a guard.. the time warp being quite sexy when dropped right (so I have been told). And with a phantasm build, can have pretty high damage to a single target. The Shatter build having rather insane damage. I do agree they don’t shine in trash or group fights but can’t have everything. Calling it a dead class.. lololol. And I main a guard.

So in the end you don’t knwo what is playing a mesmer in large scale fight.
Talking about phatasm mesmer is the sign that you and me are indeed not playing at the same level of number of player implied in the fight.
Sexy time warp and veil is not sufficient.

Amins.3710:

Yep, guardians are great. At the spec we have.

Which is what mesmer would like to be for more than one year.

Kicast.1459:

Amins.3710:

Yep, guardians are great. At the spec we have.

Which is what mesmer would like to be for more than one year.

You’re kidding right? You must be a bad Mesmer, as all the Mesmer’s I play w/ are always laughing in ts…. or complaining that they can’t 1v6.

Just saying…

Zanshin.5379:

Stramatus.5219:

2 years…have hardly played anything else. Guardians are simply the best.

They’re not the best. They’re balanced. Right in the middle. Not the worst, not the best.

Let me rephrase. Out of all the professions, I have had the most fun with the guardian so for me they are the best.

Apathy.6430:

It never ceased to be an appreciation thread. You just mentioned faults, I’ve yet to see any.

Best support, best damage, best survivability, giant hammers.

Guardians have sub-par damage unless heavily specced for it (a guard with a balanced build and full soldiers will do less damage than a war with full soldiers and a balanced build, even if guard will do more damage on pure dps than war). Add onto that, it’s common knowledge at this point that Guardian is not the top DPS class, someone did a run down of it and they came out at I think 4th (behind ele, thief, and mesmer IIRC), may be 3rd.

Guardians have best support in certain situations, and weak support in others (e.g. in PvE ele and mesmer can both out support guardian with conjures/time warp etc…). Guardian support tends to excel in pvp situations and is helpful but not necessary in a lot of pve situations (mesmers can reflect better than guards in most cases, have access to time warp etc…).

Also, this is 30/30/30/30/30 build territory stuff, you cannot be the best at ALL 3. You will, perhaps, be ONE OF the best at one, good in another, and bad in another (e.g. healway is one of the best bunkers, good suport, bad dps).