Guild Wars 2

Bumping to the first page for some answers, perhaps? I’ve been having this issue for the past week- otherwise I’ve been playing for a good two months without issue.

Alright, that sounds good! Valor looks like a good line, and I’m sure the vulnerability from Blind Exposure will help. Thanks a lot!

So I just recently started playing Gw2, and I decided to scrap my 40 Warrior for a Guardian (not because I didn’t enjoy it, but because I wanted a Charr Warrior instead of a Human ). Now, as I’ve been leveling my guardian (19 atm), I’ve noticed a few things:

1) I feel a bit squishier. Could just be me, could be me needing to time dodges properly and better work with Aegis in lieu of the warrior’s GS#3

2) A lot more versatile, which is cool. I like having the option to apply boons via staff, and mace is a neat defensive weapon.

3) I don’t get hammer. I’ve heard/read it’s good, but is that roaming Tyria, or just in dungeons and etc? I really like the symbol at the end of the #1 chain; it helps to mitigate a bit of the squishiness, and MB blast finisher for Purging Flames is great, but for leveling, I just don’t see the use of it, except for maybe some vet control.

4) I feel…generally weaker? I felt like I was downing mobs a lot better as a warrior with GS/Rifle than as a Guard. I like Guard’s GS, but it’s weird not having the evade #3; while the blind on 3 is nice, I keep encountering kittening dredge. And the #2 just doesn’t feel like it compares to HB damage wise.

Now there are a few variable which I’ve been considering:

I was an armorsmith on my warrior, and I was constantly up to date with my armor. I decided to wait till about 50 or so on my guard to start crafting, so maybe this lack of armor is attributing to my weakness/frailty?

Also it could just be low level blues, where everything sucks at low levels with few trait points available, few armor options, etc.

My question is: how would you recommend leveling? As in, what weapon(s), and maybe an idea of how to build for leveling? (I’ve read a lot about builds on the forums, but those really apply to WvW, Fractals, etc; with warriors, it’s pretty standard, at least it seemed obvious enough to me, to go GS and signets while leveling.) I had begun to trait into Radiance, but reset and went into Valor to combat this squishiness that I was feeling. What did you do when you leveled?