Guild Wars 2

If that is your playstyle, sorry to say but what you actually want is warrior.

Playing a guardian, you HAVE TO worry about your health. Your health pool is that of a thief or an elementalist, the only difference is you have heavy armor so you have more leeway.
With that in mind you have to rely on using your damage mitigation skills at the correct timings because of their long cooldown, they arent things you can just keep up 100% of the time.

I find spirit weapons very good on all setting except WvW

Theyre extra damage on top of what you have on your own, not to mention the hammer even has good control.

The only reason theyre bad in WvW is cuz they always wander off to attack some random person, it would be better if theres a way to call them back like pets.

Apples and Oranges.
I prefer my GS over my SwordShield when there are mesmers.
Spin and take those clones out the field

You cant compare both when they do different things. Damage isnt the only factor for comparison

dodge roll heal is good if youre going to invest 30 in honor. Regardless go for the 15 zeal only if you have a reason to go past 10 in zeal, like going spirit weapons style.

if the person with higher condition damage gets the ticks, then i dont care if someone overwrites mine. Dont see a problem with it at all

i think every class should have an elite version of all their types of skills. With this, i agree that we should have an elite signet, elite shout, elite meditation and elite spirit weapon

What i dont agree with is making the spirit weapon not a weapon, like angels or whatnot. It has to be a weapon. Elementalists dont summon Fiery Great Grandmother, they summon Fiery Greatsword. Because its a weapon as like the other conjure weapons.

Summon Spirit Staff
Summon a ghostly staff that stays near your character like the bow and attacks with long range laser like mesmers do with greatswords.

Command will be an aoe heal with a buff, maybe might or protection i dont know

EDIT: or what the guy above me posted, that ones valid too. As long as its a WEAPON

I have no problems with damage with my guard.
but before I condemn the OP, Id like to see his build. Maybe the problem lies there.

Im pretty sure anyone who has at least 15 radiance will spam their VoJustice, I do especially since mine also blinds and vulns, so i can use it to make a slow winding power attack miss.

The same goes for courage, if i see a huge attack coming I pop it more for the on demand aegis. However this is only if my other options are exhausted.

Resolve isnt worth using, it heals for barely anything and it doesnt at all make up for its long cooldown. The only time its ever worth it is if you trait up for it and have it remove 3 conditions on pop.

yeah so technically it got buffed. Now you can have it AND have 20% cooldown on your shield skills in one trait

I gave up no support. My utility consists of shouts. Last time I checked they affect teammates, on a range that pretty much means youre buffing ALL of them most of the time.
And sorry if trying to live longer sounds so bad to you but the way I see it the longer I stay on the mobs face, the safer everyone else is and the more sustained damage I deal. Burst damage isnt be all end all.
If someone else on the party is gonna bring burning I dont care, burning for me is there to activate my Zeal Adept Trait to deal 10% more damage to burning targets. Radiance is there for easily available blind, increased criticals and increased damage on foes with condition.

Oh and I dont pull targets when i use GS #5. It deals damage per tick and id like to leave it as that. I only pull to try to interrupt something huge or to try to pull a mob away from my squishier teammates. People should learn to use their skills at the right time, all those long cooldowns should be screaming this to players already.

My trait lines allow for staff and hammer too. Especially hammer, Protection on #1, along with 3 control skills are just sweet

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I just don’t like how bad the #2 detonation is. Detonating abilities is fun, but there’s pretty much no reason to do it with the guardian staff.

pretty much this. Detonating even increases the cooldown of the skill, youd think this would mean it would make the skill stronger but nope

i have 20 points in honor and 10 in valor, just for 20% cooldown on greatswords and condition removal every 10 seconds

Honestly if you guys think that melee is useless in dungeons as a guardian, youre doing it wrong.

I wield Sword+Shield (not even sword focus which has more blocking and blind) and greatsword.
-Virtue of Justice activation Blinds (and vuln)
-Virtue of Courage gives aegis
-Sword #2 Blinds (and vuln)
-Sword #3 blocks ranged
-Shield #4 has protection
-Shield #5 has range block and push
-Greatsword #4 has blind (and vuln, and has 20% faster cooldown)
-I bring Hold the Line for protection and heal
-I bring Save yourself for protection and heal

By using the above at the right times, Im able to stay in melee battle for a good long while “tanking”. This without sacrificing too much on the offense ability, its not a mace; its a sword one of the most powerful single target weapons a guardian can have. Greatsword is THE most powerful aoe weapons a guardian has. And all this for 20 in honor and 10 in valor. The rest of my points are 30 Radiance and 10 Zeal

All is takes is knowing what to use on what. Keep protection up, Hit the blinds and aegis or even Shield #5 to interrupt when you see a huge attack coming.

Im glad guardian isnt just a straightforward tank-with-stats class.
Im glad you actually have to carefully manage protection abilities and hit them at the correct times to stay alive.

I hate it when people think “Warrior” Means up close and personal class.

Its obvious at this point that what anet meant with “Warrior” is someone who is TRAINED to be a man of war, trained to make effective use of weapons of war.

A warrior is going to be better at using a rifle when it comes to killing while an engineers ability to use rifle revolve around gagetry like net shots, wacky use of explosions to make a speedy hop, overload the barrel to make a shotgun spread, or use the explosiveness of shots to knock people back