Guild Wars 2

Sorry if there is already a thread for this, but just wanted to make a topic for general discussion for our class.

So what are your reasons for rolling a guard (especially those that main it such as myself)? Just wanted thoughts of what it is about the guardian that brought u into the class. What does the guardian do that sets it apart from the other classes in your opinion, and what is ur favorite play style e.g(bunker,cleric/medic,balanced/roamer,DPS,)

1. I decided to roll guardian cause i have always loved heavy armor medics characters(such as paladins/white knights) and also loved being that support character that ppl realize is essential to any situation. Also i was drawn into the other things such as weapon capabilties i <3 shields lol if i had my way we would be able to dual wield tower shields and also dual lances, and maces are one of my fav one handed weapon choices even above sword. I was also impressed with a-nets version of a “focus” and how it is wielded with the guardian. Another reason is i love melee characters that wield mana/magic, so when i found all of these points were rolled up into one character i was head over heels for this class ^^.

2. The Thing that i think makes guards set apart is the playstyle of the class i have never seen a class that having even only 1 guardian can change the tide of battle with there heals/cleanses/numerous buffs/blocks etc. Guardians are also as i see them in my personal view are the defenders of justice and as i play in D&D i always play a Lawful good character when possible. They just offer so much to there teammates thakittens easy to see you hard work come to fruition. To finish as u can guess i love playing a battle medic class as this game doesn’t have a dedicated cleric class this is as close as u can get lol, well that’s about all i can think of right now how to get some opinions from you guys.

Because I like my midget \o/

Kidding aside: the guardian embodies everything I look for in a character
- Heavy armor
- Melee (with big weapons)
- Magic (healing is magic, mmmmkay?)

It’s just missing the pets aspect I also normally look for (yeah yeah, summoned weaps, but they’re a bit lackluster).

So yeah, that’s why

P.S.: it will surprise no one that I played a death knight in WoW :P

For the Bubbles dude! Blue bubbles!

Because it was the easiest class to level as a newb.

Aeolus.3615:

For the Bubbles dude! Blue bubbles!

bubble… i dont know why guardian=bubble… everywhere xd

anyway i play guardian because i like to play FOR a party, give my support and damage, ofc, for JUSTICE and GLORY (ok this was a bit excessive XD)

Aeolus.3615:

For the Bubbles dude! Blue bubbles!

^ now it all suddenly makes sense :O!!

I mainly play WvW/Dungeons/Fractals and feel that I can really bring a difference to a group when I am running the Guardian. I don’t know how many times I prevented my Teammates to get stomped by Banishing the stomper away, or even down a cliff. Or running through an entire enemy Zerg without them getting me lower than 50% hp (this beeing a very big Zerg…) due to Block/Invuln/Blinds etc. I love beeing in a dungeon realizing my whole team got wiped and I still have 75% of my hp left and can kill those stupid Vine’s on my own due to perma protection + retal while using my awsome Hammer.
To summ it up; I can take quite a beating while dishing out some dmg myself and play a very important part in a team.

Legen….waitforit…..DARY!

Nime.2089:

I mainly play WvW/Dungeons/Fractals and feel that I can really bring a difference to a group when I am running the Guardian. I don’t know how many times I prevented my Teammates to get stomped by Banishing the stomper away, or even down a cliff. Or running through an entire enemy Zerg without them getting me lower than 50% hp (this beeing a very big Zerg…) due to Block/Invuln/Blinds etc. I love beeing in a dungeon realizing my whole team got wiped and I still have 75% of my hp left and can kill those stupid Vine’s on my own due to perma protection + retal while using my awsome Hammer.
To summ it up; I can take quite a beating while dishing out some dmg myself and play a very important part in a team.

Legen….waitforit…..DARY!

all i can say is “lol”

I used to be a monk, nuff said.

Seriously, I have no idea. Back during the beta weekend I tried a lot of the classes. Only class I didn’t try (and still don’t have) is warrior. Guardian was the last class tried and it just made me go “Yep, this is it. This is the class for me”, which is odd because generally I avoid melee like the plague! But there is something about running around with hammer and sending people flying while being all “here, have healz” that makes it all awesome!

Abraxius.6429:

all i can say is “lol”

Well I know it does not always exactly happen as described. But it can. And those are the moments one memorizes when thinking “why exactly am I doing this?”…

My first char. in GW2 was human engineer. But at level 27 I’ve realized that Norns are way cooler than Humans and the engineer itself wasnt what I wanted to play.

So I’ve relroled Norn then I found out that I never played paladin like (holy warrior) heavy armor class ever in my previous MMORPG’s so I have rolled guardian and I love it still at lvl 80 full exo, ascended gear

Because Anet does not give us meaningful nerfs, continue to slowly fix our bugs, and gives us nice little buffs here and there.

I’m not sure if that can be said for any of the other professions out there. GW2 life has been pretty dramatic for them.

I play a guardian because it’s the only character I can stay alive with LOL.

Tinni.4351:

I used to be a monk, nuff said.

But there is something about running around with hammer and sending people flying while being all “here, have healz” that makes it all awesome!

OK SAY THIS MADE ME ROFL LEGIT XD u sir have won the internet. take it take my +1 and go

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Only-a-Guardian/first#post1339056

These and a dozen other reasons.

I was never going to make a guardian. Then one day I was running around Fireheart Rise with my thief and teamed up with a level 80 guardian. Watched how he was using the class and was impressed at how sustainable he was. The next day I created my guard and never really looked back. Now I have 4 level 80’s but my guardian is always my go to. I have almost 1k hours playing him.

Because we can do anything and our skills look awesome.

Excursion.9752:

I was never going to make a guardian. Then one day I was running around Fireheart Rise with my thief and teamed up with a level 80 guardian. Watched how he was using the class and was impressed at how sustainable he was. The next day I created my guard and never really looked back. Now I have 4 level 80’s but my guardian is always my go to. I have almost 1k hours playing him.

I was also inspired by an awesome guardian in CM one night. Made my guardian and now barely touch the other characters.

Whirling wrath
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My first character was a Ranger and although I still like playing my ranger here and there I just don’t find it viable for my play style. I love the concept but had to move onto a thief, which is my first 80. I like playing him every now and then as a gunslinger but I felt he lacked what I was looking for, for group play.

Alas onto my now 50 guardian which I love. It has the whole package rolled into one. It is now my new main and I am not looking back.

well welcome to the guard community ^^ u are literally my twin i have 3 classes lol ranger/thief/ and my main guard all 80’s

I wasn’t able to get my ranger to 80 before I moved on. Only got up to 62 but after I get my guardian to 80 and I have some free te I will probably finish up those last 18 levels.

It was my first class because i assumed it could be played like paladins from WoW. Its my most favourite because of the hyge range of support it can offer while being tanky and pushing good dmg at the same time.

lol i still want to be able to wield lances in this game XD

Binding Blades + Ring of Warding…

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BANISH

Amins.3710:

Binding Blades + Ring of Warding…

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BANISH

any of the above, mixed in with Judge’s Intervention.

I remember first watching the guardian skill videos – having spirit weapons looked so cool (hoho)

Blue fire. And I played a Ret Pally in WoW.

Tarsius.3170:

I remember first watching the guardian skill videos – having spirit weapons looked so cool (hoho)

Yep, it looked good on a “paper”.

oh yea, spirit weapons! i remember looking up the professions specifics before release and was deciding between warrior and guardian. and then i saw spirit weapons. droooooool.

can’t believe i forgot about ’em. :///

I thought Zealot’s Defense and Shield of Absorption were the coolest skill videos.

Yeah I loved the look of ZD too.

… if you think scepter orbs are still slow, just look what they used to be like…
and a Flashing Blade that does damage.
and a cool skin for Spirit Hammer.

those were crazy slow. did they looked bigger as well? and OHKOs! XDDD
and no CD on ZD loll

oh mang.
i didn’t play during beta, so only headstart for me.. but wow, it’s almost gonna be a year!DD snap, thanks for the post, Tarsius, and the mentions, Chris. these bringing back memories lol

From the first day i started GW2 i knew i wanted to focus on WvW so i chose guardian.
Guardian makes for an awesome commander class. I stay alive really long, can absorb lots of damage and have acces to different cc and group buffs.
I tried playing alts in WvW or any other aspects of the game but i just cant lvl more than like lvl 10 and delete them to go play guard again.

Great survivability even with dps setups. I really like to just hit a dungeon and go toe to toe with targets and live. First 80 was a thief, second was a guard and the difference in ease of play was huge. Playing a Guard is like taking the scenic shortcut to dungeon tokens.

I always main mage/elementalist then paladin/monk. Since elementalist in GW2 is nothing compared to GW1 elementalist I mained guardian. I’m kinda sad that I can’t shine in all this micro-management but I find weapon choices for ele underwhelming/simply wrong. In WvW ur either ranged or melee, nothing in between. I can’t switch weapons during fight so I HAVE to be either d/d or staff and I like to have a choice. + in GW1 I could tank anything with ele, now I have to move, move, move. I like to move, but I also like to stand still for a while.

guardian is awesome tho ( only scepter seems… not so guardian-ish )

i like blue lights and crap … yup

Because mystic knights totally suited the Arthurian themes of the Sylvari, who were my favourite race at launch. It helps that they have turned out to be one of the most balanced and useful classes in the game as well.

Wanted to give my guild team some sustain in a fight.

Hmm some great reasons glad to see this community alive and well ^^ i go to some other class forums and they’re just dead lol

The same reason anybody would play Guard:
Chix dig Guards.

Binding Blade……….

Jax.5261:

The same reason anybody would play Guard:
Chix dig Guards.

^How could i have been so blind

wanted to look cool while using spirit weapons… now if that would be also useful in general..

my advise: don’t play guardian with current balance go for anything else until they make guardian op again.

Heavy armour but with a more unique play style and look than warrior.

I used to play as a battle mage in The Elder Scrolls games (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim)
and when Guardian was announced I knew that class is made for me.
Heavy armor and magic (both effensive and defensive) and all the thing

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Support bunker
(and lastly my friend who is playing as dps guadian is everytime repeating that I finnally found my way to play this game that suits me prefectly )

Figured as of getting my Thief and Engie to 80, I may as well make of the Master Class to use if things get serious.

Because i wanted to play front line that deals less damage than every other class in the game with tied lowest health pool with thief’s and elementalist.

And rely on my boons that get stolen or turned into condition.

Only so i can have traits to overwrite my friends 25 stacks of might or why not follow the guardian way and play defensive support with meditation that heals …. me, or giving boons heals, once again only me.

Oh well, atleast i got retaliation dealing 150 – 300 damage to enemies striking me for 6k damage. Oh wait, that is a boon. Nevermind.

Well atleast we still got wall of reflection to do something awesome with, guess they are going to give it some more love aswell soon.

Perikittenor.1892:

Because i wanted to play front line that deals less damage than every other class in the game with tied lowest health pool with thief’s and elementalist.

And rely on my boons that get stolen or turned into condition.

Only so i can have traits to overwrite my friends 25 stacks of might or why not follow the guardian way and play defensive support with meditation that heals …. me, or giving boons heals, once again only me.

Oh well, atleast i got retaliation dealing 150 – 300 damage to enemies striking me for 6k damage. Oh wait, that is a boon. Nevermind.

Well atleast we still got wall of reflection to do something awesome with, guess they are going to give it some more love aswell soon.

You can write a hate mail like this for EVERY class as well :P. Pro and Cons every class has em, pointing out things we already know wont make us like them any less, how bout mentioning things like a “dodge heal” and a “healing auto attack” with mace and GS if traited to go along with our passive regen virtue, not just heals how about the amount of blocks/blinds we have, I love watching a thief spam his heartseeker just to be absorbed by my focus shield+Aegis and watching him run out of initiative while u took 0 damage XD. Not to forget all of our available cleanses if made for it, also u gain life for every boon u give your allies around, wish we had access to decent amount of boons that would be amazing oh wait we called BUFF BOTS for a reason.

Abraxius, he might be a masochistic.

“I love being a guardian because I hate it and its painful to play. Give me more!”