Guild Wars 2

hey, im starting a guardian and im not sure where to put my traits, which skills to use, or what weapon is best for pve leveling. can someone help me?

You can pretty much use Greatsword with Scepter/Focus for leveling, since Greatsword is pretty good in AoE damage and Scepter/Focus gives you the range you need with Scepter and the defense you may need with blinds and blocks with Focus.

I suggest using the equipment that favours Power/Precision/Ferocity(mighty/honed/strong/berserker..) so you can damage foes quickly to move on in content.

Your traits could follow the building of one of the Guardian dungeon meta builds:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Guardian_-_GS_Sword/Focus

Or the Lootstick one under General builds for farming (the staff’s auto-attack tags 5 mobs in events so you can get greater presence in events):
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Guardian_-_Staff_Farmer

Start the trait building from Zeal II (Fiery Wrath, every 10% bonus is great) or Virtues I (Unscathed Contender for 20% if you can keep up Aegis reasonably), then build up the staple 5 in Radiance with Blind Exposure, so you can get used to the Virtue of Justice spamming, since it is renewed every kill (with 3 in Radiance) and blinds enemies (1 in radiance) while giving might (with 1 in Virtues), so you can pretty much spam F1 every fight while using the blinds from Focus 4 or Greatsword 3 to blind enemies, while also making them vulnerable with the Blind Exposure trait (Radiance VI) giving them vulnerability, also upping your damage.

Good luck, and if you need a help with speed (since the Guardian is pretty slow), you can use the Staff 3 (Symbol of Swiftness) paired with Retreat! and/or Save Yourselves! for Swiftness.

Have a great time in Tyria!

Also, in levelling try use some sigils of bloodlust/ speed on your greatsword. Having 25 stacks of power (base damage increase) will see you destroying most mobs with ease as well as having some free movement speed buff for a long duration. It’ll help with moving around the map. This is better for the Greatsword+Sword focus set up.

Although people may usually say this, a torch is highly viable in PVE, especially with those power stacks. All the more faster mob clearing