Guild Wars 2

I’ve leveled an elementalist, a warrior, a necro, and all of them seemed intuitive. The warrior especially seemed to get through all content fairly easy. But he almost seemed too simple. So, I worked on a guardian and even as I’ve reached level 80 how I’m meant to use a guardian eludes me.

All of my skills have extremely high cooldowns, and I tried a build called ‘The legendary guardian build 3.0’ from a youtuber named Tapdatmouse in wvw and I’d still get torn apart in pvps. It may be a L2p issue or perhaps the build just isn’t good enough.

In PVE I haven’t touched too much of because it is difficult to get around with low mobility. I don’t know, nothings really clicking. I guess I’m wondering if anyone has any experience to share, or any builds that seemed ‘right’ or perhaps guardian just isn’t for me.

Right now I use a greatsword and sword/focus. I’ve yet to get enough skillpoints to try out dragonhunter but I’m concerned if the core class isn’t working out for me that it may not be worth investing more time. So basically, I’m looking to all guardian experts to help convince me to keep the course.Thanks all.

Instead of using tapdatmouse’s legendary build which im pretty sure is outdated and a wvw build, look up the dh build that is on metabattles and try that…also you need to change it in your pvp build not in your hero panel

You dont need the hero points to use elite specs in pvp

In sPvP and for WvW (for the most part), you need the Dragon Hunter traitline. The only build that can get away from not using DH is a burn build, but even that will struggle. DH should form the core of your build. The bow will give you actual range pressure and not force you to always be in melee; all of your virtues get extreme buffs; you gain 2 essential traps: Purification and Test of Faith; and the traitline itself has some very helpful traits. Couple DH with Valor (Monk’s Focus) for high survival and utility.

For PVE you can use any build, but by using staff as an offhand you gain mobility, or better yet buy a Sigil of Speed, which can easily stack 2-3 minutes worth of swiftness as you kill things.