Guild Wars 2

I have to say the changes were a …little underwhelming. Hoping for more of a rework with traits and themes such as spirit weapons. However I do enjoy seeing a small return and buff of a shield bearing Guardian.
Going to be interesting to see how other classes fair with the new changes.
Overall I have a funny feeling a lot of these changes won’t make a huge difference at all.

I was going to say that I hope they do more changes. Was gong to say “that is all?”

You forgot to mention “Protective Reviver” will help rez speed since they are taking away swiftness and slow.

Wow these are big changes! The whole meta is changing

mambastik.8735:

Out of all the builds, burn Guardian is always most fun. The strategy is to never stomp. Scepter#2 + Torch#5 on a downed with their fellow teammtes trying to revive, VoJ will just trigger like crazy.

I agree, a burn Guardian is super fun! There are other themes and builds that I really think Guardians should be all about: Burn Guardian, Spirit Weapon Guardian, and a sort of Bunker type Guardian all about the highest level of survivability mitigation and buffs.
However I don’t believe a lot of these builds are viable. Hope some of these builds can get their traits and weapons reworked. Otherwise super fun builds that I so far have enjoyed the most. Oh and I cannot forget to mention DragonHunter is a fun theme as well!

I played a bunker guard since launch of the game. Even remember when retaliation guard was a “thing,” and probably the most fun I had with a guard. Anyways besides the point, say a year ago, bunker guards were fun for me. I was holding points with 2-3 people on me. To me being a bunker guardian should be fun in ways where you can survive through anything, but have to focus on points and positioning. Till now, I have decided to drop being a bunker till there is a “build” that works. Rainbowsand said it perfectly, you eventually fall too quick, no matter what you do. I don’t feel like a bunker guardian, rather I feel like a target dummy with no good damage output and only there to soak whatever damage I can for say a couple seconds. The amount of literal one shot downs from other players is too many to say.
However there are times where I hold points with a couple people for extended periods. A DH bunker build on metabattle is the best you are probably going to get.