Guild Wars 2

While all the free badges are taking up bank slots, there are more then just the gift you can buy with badges. There is a whole vendor that will sell exotics for a bit of cash and badges. If you go this route its almost 1k badges for just the armor not even talking about having multiple weapons sets.

While I love the new UI for achievement points it looks like you took out the number of points in a given category. It is nice to see a running tab of points in a given category. Now to make it easier I wouldn’t say you need to list points for general, but having points shown in slayer would be nice to see at a glance. Also if you do this suggestion why not put in possible points. For instance looked at the wiki and found out the bazaar of the four winds has a possible 250 achievement points. Why not add back in the banner something like 220/250. We would know how many we have and also how many possible. This becomes more important because now we get rewards for achievements.

I think Poker said quite right on most things.

The most important thing you need to find out is if you want to dps or tanky guardian. With Poker’s spec I am sure you can dps with the best of them and have nice heals with AH from valor. Where I differ is if you put 30 points into valor that gives you 1216 toughness. Having that much toughness should allow you to survive most fights fairly easy with good dodge and skill use. This is in reference to Poker’s suggestion on possible knight gear. You could put on berserker main pieces and weapons and then put on sapphire rings neck and earrings, that is knight gear for accessories if you think you need the extra toughness.

For my tanky guardain I run a 30/30/10 build Valor, Honor, and Virtues with Purity, Honorable Shield, and Altrustic Healing. Superior Aria, Writ of Exaltation and Pure of Voice. I do swap WoE for others like 2 handed cd reduction depends on the fight. In Virtues I take Vengeful.

My suggestion for gear is to find the major and minor stats you want from
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item_nomenclature
and along with Poker’s suggestion
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats#Dungeons
that will help you find where to find the stats. If the look you want doesn’t come in the stats you want then just use fine xmute stones to fix that.

To help you get started buy some rares in the stats you want, put in buy orders so you save a bit of cash. That will get you a good start for gear. Also look at doing some of the temple events if you want say soldier gear, you can buy all exotic neck, ears, rings, and back for some stat combo, but they cost 42k karma per item and you have to pick them up on that character or they bind on pickup.