Guild Wars 2

Giving Guardians too much offense (like lots of cc conditions) or movement skills (like ground target JI) would make them play more like warriors or thieves.

Remember: Guardians are a defensive class that support their team by directing the flow of combat through the use of boons and hard cc (Lines/rings)
Examples See a power Necro coming in to do a life transfer? Counter it by giving your team protection or retaliation.
Thief focusing your buddy? Put a Ring of Warding down and trap him. Dead Thief.
Engi/Necro bombing your group? clear those condis with a purging flames !
Your Staff Ellie is about to eat an eviscerate? Pop Virtue of courage to block it for her.

From my experience Guardians are supposed to work as sort of a force multiplier, able to survive burst damage AND sustained damage in order to better support you team. Thats why I think guardians are in a good spot right now

Yeah consider switching to mouse for turning
Keyboard turning is just too imprecise, no matter what speed you set it to your enemies can just run circles around you. Even have time to /lol at your back…

Charr. Charr is the best race.

Ha! You just want to use the new katana greatsword skin!

I thought the video was pretty good don’t listen to those other ppl they are just salty cause they don’t know how to fight thieves

Lately I’ve been having a lot of trouble in 1v1’s against sword thieves. Mostly because of the constant dazes and boon stealing, it’s just difficult to do enough return damage to take them out. Any advice?

For #2 you can fix it if you put your weapon away

Yeah Megaservers pretty much ruined guild missions

Time to start grinding a warrior….

Thanks for the replies and advice. I think I have the general idea of how to play a good Guardian now.

I am fairly new to Guild Wars 2 and upon searching for a way to build my Guardian I have found that many suggest that the best way to build one for PvE is to maximize DPS (by way of Power, Crits, Might and Fury and so forth) and then make as many defensive compromises as you are comfortable with.

The idea being that if everybody does this you will kill enemies quickly and easily.

However I am wondering if the opposite would be better. That is to say build for as much healing and support as you can, namely Magi stats, (Healing pwr. Vitality Precision) defensive boons, support and healing skills. allowing other classes to focus on damage.

Like I said I am new to this game and would appreciate any advice and/or Corrections