Guild Wars 2

I don’t know guild wars lore or anything of that nature, but I am a bit confused as to what this class is.

Why does a Plate wearing class use a staff, or a septer or any type of focus weapon for that matter? Do you not wear plate because your more of a hand to hand combat profesion? Such as a knight or Warrior. Not to say they don’t have those weapons, but the guardian doesn’t appear to be that good at it.

At least from a low lvl perspective, I don’t know how they play at higher lvls.

I mean there is no rule that says any profesion can’t wear whatever they want or weild whatever weapon they can pick up, but should it not fit? Theives don’t wear plate because its heavy bulky and not what you want to use to be stealthy, and sinse they are nimble and without much armor they are not going to be weilding a greatsword. So why would a fully armored plated up knight be sitting at a distance shooting orbs out of septers and or staffs?

Are you unfamiliar with RPG archetypes? The Guardian is the “Paladin” Archetype aka the traditional heavy-armor/magic-user hyrbid.

They differ from the Warrior in that they mainly fight to uphold truth and justic, whereas a Warrior could be a common mercenary. They also differ in that they fight using the “foefire” which is the magic used by the last king of Ascalon to turn his subjects into ghosts when they were defeated by the Charr.

Whereas the Warrior is something of a “Weapons specialist,” the Guardian is more like a “chivalrous Knight” riding around the country side inspiring others to do good.

Guardians get their magic from the Monk side of things. Monk, a GW1 profession, was recast as Guardian. Only instead of getting magic from deities, they get their magic from the same place as everyone else, the Bloodstones. Specifically the Preservation school.

Guardian magic is faith based, channeled through objects of power or inspiration, aka weapons like scepters, staves, and the focus. What they have faith in varies from person to person, but it’s definitely not directly given by any gods – they are all gone. Typically it’s faith in a cause, person, deity, or powerful object that is the actual inspiration. Guardian magic also seems to be spontaneous and not require specific learning, but that’s up for debate.

The other three magic schools are Denial (Mesmers, Thieves), Aggression (Necromancers), and Destruction (Elementalists).

On a less lore focused answer, the Guardian wears heavy armour and uses staffs etc. because the Guardian’s particular play style is usually to be in the heat of the battle providing boons and protection to his allies. That’s why they need heavy armour to take the blows and use weapons that traditionally have a support / magical focus. Yes there are DPS builds but realistically the Guardian excels at being a hit-taking support character.
The concept of the class was an amalgamation between the original GW Monk and Paragon (notably the defensive magic of the Monk class coupled with the shouts and boons of the Paragon)
I believe that lore-wise the Guardians are descendants from the original Paragons except they adapted and the source of their magic abilities was no longer from the Gods

To quote Macha from the book Sea of Sorrows: “It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training, wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha. A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me.’”

It’s a mix of Paragon and Monk from gw1 basically, look those up.