Guild Wars 2

My buddy hasn’t played since November, and I haven’t played much since Christmas, though I dip in. I’ve kept up with the changes for the most part.

We both decided to start new Norns together, he went Warrior. I can’t decide what to roll between Guard or Ele. Most of my experience is with Ranger, Thief, and Mesmer.

Norn Cultural armor is a big draw, but as far as duoing in WvW and PvE, is there anything warriors might benefit from?

Protection and Aegis vs lots of Combo Fields is my main thought.

Depends on the weapon your buddy uses and If you plan on running a lot of dungeons. If you plan on dungeons, roll a guardian, and you’ll have people flock to you or let you in pug runs. You’d be a DPS and Tank combo that few deny. Also if he’s a GS Warrior, as it’s triggers are not really that impressive with ele fields. Note, though, that the fields of a Guardian are pretty nice too.

An ele + hammer warrior own with combo fields + blast finishers (hammer burst, stomp, flags, etc) = win. Added with your own blast finishers, and you both can be easily keeping yourselves healed and might stacked. I had fun playing as an ele with my friend playing as a warrior and another as an archer.

I actually love Elems in dungeons, but as most build for tanking and not DPS, and most people are too lazy for triggering combo fields, they’re not on the dungeon shortlist. Though if you have a guild or others to play with, screw all that and play what you find most fun.

Great input, thanks. I believe my friend has designs on GS for the most part, though he likes shield and sword.

I like learning the ins and outs of classes, so I’d love to try a DPS Elem, but yeah, my experience with my Thief has been most people don’t notice combo fields.

Thanks for the food for thought.

Yea Guardian for sure. Warriors to Guardians are Heavies to Medics. Though general PvE is so easy you won’t even feel needed, Warriors can just faceroll everything. But in dungeons Guardian is much more preferred as Elementalists have to sacrifice a lot of damage to survive on the front lines, or being a staff healer standing off in the distance.