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Posted by: Nurfed.5346

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guys i am totaly new player just bought gw 2 any suggestions for 1st class between guardian and elementalist i am intrested evrey pvp and pve aspect what goes better for highend?

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Posted by: akaCryptic.2389

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Eles are pretty good in all aspects of the game. Guardian is also wanted everywhere but there is the fun factor in hand. Personally i find ele way more fun and guardian feels slow. Beware though ele has higher skill cap and is squishier than guardian in pve. Its difficult to get the hang of say dagger/dagger elementalist in pvp. You wont be able to kill people until you get your skill rotations right and land all your important skills correctly.

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Posted by: Ragnarox.9601

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Get thief, they are way OP in every part of the game especially PVP and wvw.

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Posted by: Ynna.8769

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They both have very different playstyles. I find that with Elementalists you have a much more pro-active playstyle with more moving parts. Guardians are more reactive and less tools at the same time. This provides different challenges: Guardians have to make due with the limited amount of tools they have, but they have a bit more passive survivability to make up for that. Elementalists have more and more diverse skills, but they need to work harder to survive with them.

What sort of playstyle do you prefer?

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Posted by: Nurfed.5346

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well i like wery good damage and higher skillcap is allways nice bcuz it gives more options.

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Posted by: Black Box.9312

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Honestly, as much as I love guardian, you’re going to get plenty more mileage out of an elementalist right now. Guardian is kind of weak right now, and I’m starting to have my doubts about that changing anytime soon.

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Posted by: voxrar.2859

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I recently had this little battle with myself over Guardian, Elementalist, and Engineer. I found that Guardian is very tanky and the dps isn’t that high. Leveling one is quite fast and easy due to this though.
Elementalist I didn’t get far into testing before I found the attunement mechanic to be quite chaotic and a hassle to juggle. Someone told me that it felt like you just spam everything, switch attonements, spam those abilities, rinse and repeat.
My say in this is for PvE cause I am not that competitive but if you want a tough offense and support character, Guardian is top notch.

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Posted by: ArchonWing.9480

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Ele is generally top notch in all aspects of the game, so that’d probably be more flexible. Guardian is the best in large scale wvw (and open world farming though). Either works in most contexts.

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Posted by: Aggrostemma.1703

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After swapping my main from ele to a guardian was like: WTF is this guar thingy? How the hell is this enjoyable…. Boring crap…

After a few weeks spend in the melee-range of some world boss and even more T1 hammertrain lads I suddenly started to respect the guardian’s playstyle.

As others mentioned playing elementalist is button-spaming and CD calculating. The guardian’s style is nowhere near that. But every button makes a difference. Even the autoattack can change the tide of the battle not to mention your group support utilities and skills.

Elementalist: “I’m an elementalist and I press every button to kill my enemy.”
Guardian: “I am a guardian and if I press any button my enemy dies.”

For example in wvw if you land ANY of your guardian’s weapon skill/utility on your foe s/he is likely in a big trouble. As an ele you have to land almost all of your skills to kill your foe.

My 2 coppers…

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Posted by: Hattoni.8597

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Guardian and ele both require different skill from player. Elementalist is about combo – you have to know rotations and you have to remember them.
Guardian – here you don’t have rotations (ok, there are rotations, but they are not as complex as ele’s). But there is thing called ‘timing’. You have to know and predict what will happen in next second or two. You have to learn bosses’ moves, you have to know other classes rotations to prevent getting knocked down for example.

It is not as easy as new players think.

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

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Elementalist are Guardian are different. I have technically played the ele long but I prefer the guardian, it is simply more interesting and here is why.

The guardian you are reacting and playing in real time. The elementalist anything other than staff amounts to you being a glorified bot, following patterns and rotations that were created by a guy years ago. You are not playing the class, are simply spamming skills as they leave CD. It doesn’t really require active participation.

The high skill level in ele is simply the player having to develop the muscle memory to do all those rotations thru memorization.

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Posted by: Black Box.9312

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Elementalist are Guardian are different. I have technically played the ele long but I prefer the guardian, it is simply more interesting and here is why.

The guardian you are reacting and playing in real time. The elementalist anything other than staff amounts to you being a glorified bot, following patterns and rotations that were created by a guy years ago. You are not playing the class, are simply spamming skills as they leave CD. It doesn’t really require active participation.

The high skill level in ele is simply the player having to develop the muscle memory to do all those rotations thru memorization.

Not really. Sure you have specific rotations, but there’s a good degree of skill involved in knowing what rotations work best in what situations. You can’t really just “lol churning earth” and expect to get 3 might stacks and a kill.

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Posted by: Saiyan.1704

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Elementalist I didn’t get far into testing before I found the attunement mechanic to be quite chaotic and a hassle to juggle. Someone told me that it felt like you just spam everything, switch attonements, spam those abilities, rinse and repeat.

That’s exactly what I felt after I made an Ele. The attunement and rotation spamming was a bit much for me. It does work when I took it into spvp ranked.. I had no idea what most of my skills did but just by following proper rotations I was already an average player :/

I made an Engi recently. Their rotation pace is quicker than a guardians, but slower than an Ele. I find engi’s a bit more fun than Eles but it all comes down to styles of play.
The Guardian is still my main class <3

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

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Elementalist are Guardian are different. I have technically played the ele long but I prefer the guardian, it is simply more interesting and here is why.

The guardian you are reacting and playing in real time. The elementalist anything other than staff amounts to you being a glorified bot, following patterns and rotations that were created by a guy years ago. You are not playing the class, are simply spamming skills as they leave CD. It doesn’t really require active participation.

The high skill level in ele is simply the player having to develop the muscle memory to do all those rotations thru memorization.

Not really. Sure you have specific rotations, but there’s a good degree of skill involved in knowing what rotations work best in what situations. You can’t really just “lol churning earth” and expect to get 3 might stacks and a kill.

they are specific rotations. OF course you can’t use churning earth randomly, but it doesn’t take any significant insight into knowing that skill with a long cast time is terrible to use in a rotation and leaves you vulnerable for an easily dodged skill.

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Posted by: voxrar.2859

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That’s exactly what I felt after I made an Ele. The attunement and rotation spamming was a bit much for me. It does work when I took it into spvp ranked.. I had no idea what most of my skills did but just by following proper rotations I was already an average player :/

I made an Engi recently. Their rotation pace is quicker than a guardians, but slower than an Ele. I find engi’s a bit more fun than Eles but it all comes down to styles of play.
The Guardian is still my main class <3

Wish I felt that way about Engineer. I keep feeling the mechanical nature is bland and its not gonna get better. Though my engi is 26 and they say it gets more fun later.