Level 80 guardian, school me yo
Don’t go exotic initially unless you know what you want. While it may save you money IF you know what you’re looking for, rares do the job quite nicely and allow you to seek your best option on a much smaller budget.
You don’t mention what content you’re after, if it’s PVE, zerker is the stat set to go for (power/precision/ferocity) if you want to optimize your efforts, though doing so has the price of being squishy and requiring a bit more effort to stay alive, but it’s very doable. So you’re on the right track there.
GW2 is about actively defending yourself. Support comes through the use of skills not through your gear, so you can gear offensively and use your skills wisely to still support your team. Guardian is the king of support. Learn the tricks of the trade and you’ll be fine. I’d add a little tip here, on projectile heavy encounters you can maintain a defense for quite some time by traiting Master of Consecrations and doing Wall of Reflection at 22/23 seconds on the recharge you pop your Shield of the Avenger, then when Wall o Reflection is off cooldown hit it, doing so you’ll have about 36 seconds of defense. Very nice rotation.
100% map completion is not necessary, but, it gives you the gift of exploration which is used in crafting legendaries as well as the bonus rewards for completing different maps. You can take it or leave it, depends on what your goals are. Nothing to stress about but if you find it fun, do it, if you want a legendary, you either do it, or save up money to just buy one. Though with Heart of Thorns, the new legendaries will not be purchasable so you will need to do your own exploration most likely.
Hope that helps. I highly suggest taking a look at Obal’s guides if you’re into PVE content. He is the Senpai when it comes to Guardians in PVE
Don’t go exotic initially unless you know what you want. While it may save you money IF you know what you’re looking for, rares do the job quite nicely and allow you to seek your best option on a much smaller budget.
You don’t mention what content you’re after, if it’s PVE, zerker is the stat set to go for (power/precision/ferocity) if you want to optimize your efforts, though doing so has the price of being squishy and requiring a bit more effort to stay alive, but it’s very doable. So you’re on the right track there.
GW2 is about actively defending yourself. Support comes through the use of skills not through your gear, so you can gear offensively and use your skills wisely to still support your team. Guardian is the king of support. Learn the tricks of the trade and you’ll be fine. I’d add a little tip here, on projectile heavy encounters you can maintain a defense for quite some time by traiting Master of Consecrations and doing Wall of Reflection at 22/23 seconds on the recharge you pop your Shield of the Avenger, then when Wall o Reflection is off cooldown hit it, doing so you’ll have about 36 seconds of defense. Very nice rotation.
100% map completion is not necessary, but, it gives you the gift of exploration which is used in crafting legendaries as well as the bonus rewards for completing different maps. You can take it or leave it, depends on what your goals are. Nothing to stress about but if you find it fun, do it, if you want a legendary, you either do it, or save up money to just buy one. Though with Heart of Thorns, the new legendaries will not be purchasable so you will need to do your own exploration most likely.
Hope that helps. I highly suggest taking a look at Obal’s guides if you’re into PVE content. He is the Senpai when it comes to Guardians in PVE
Thank you, I will take note of what you said.
Sounds like getting 2 or 3 sets of gear with rares is the way to go for now.
One more thing, I understand that upon 100% map completion one gets access to a weapon or something like that. I see people running around with these amazing weapons and when I ask most people just say, get 100% map completion.
Not sure how that works tbh.
Don’t go exotic initially unless you know what you want. While it may save you money IF you know what you’re looking for, rares do the job quite nicely and allow you to seek your best option on a much smaller budget.
You don’t mention what content you’re after, if it’s PVE, zerker is the stat set to go for (power/precision/ferocity) if you want to optimize your efforts, though doing so has the price of being squishy and requiring a bit more effort to stay alive, but it’s very doable. So you’re on the right track there.
GW2 is about actively defending yourself. Support comes through the use of skills not through your gear, so you can gear offensively and use your skills wisely to still support your team. Guardian is the king of support. Learn the tricks of the trade and you’ll be fine. I’d add a little tip here, on projectile heavy encounters you can maintain a defense for quite some time by traiting Master of Consecrations and doing Wall of Reflection at 22/23 seconds on the recharge you pop your Shield of the Avenger, then when Wall o Reflection is off cooldown hit it, doing so you’ll have about 36 seconds of defense. Very nice rotation.
100% map completion is not necessary, but, it gives you the gift of exploration which is used in crafting legendaries as well as the bonus rewards for completing different maps. You can take it or leave it, depends on what your goals are. Nothing to stress about but if you find it fun, do it, if you want a legendary, you either do it, or save up money to just buy one. Though with Heart of Thorns, the new legendaries will not be purchasable so you will need to do your own exploration most likely.
Hope that helps. I highly suggest taking a look at Obal’s guides if you’re into PVE content. He is the Senpai when it comes to Guardians in PVE
Thank you, I will take note of what you said.
Sounds like getting 2 or 3 sets of gear with rares is the way to go for now.One more thing, I understand that upon 100% map completion one gets access to a weapon or something like that. I see people running around with these amazing weapons and when I ask most people just say, get 100% map completion.
Not sure how that works tbh.
Finishing map completion rewards you with a Gift of Exploration which is required to craft a legendary weapon. Legendary weapon crafting is a lengthy and expensive process.
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