Guild Wars 2

Do not judge a guardian on how high he can hit per hit. A gurdians true damage is combined damage.

Burn+Symbol+Melee hit. This total damage is what makes the guardian tick as 2 of these doesn’t even require you to try to kill but you kill while you survive.

currently my symbols deal around 380 dmg. Burning does 390 dmg, Melee hitting for 600 dmg (mace). Thats 1370 per tick. using skills will add even more damage. Retaliation adds to this as well.

All this whilst healing constantly from symbol, VoR and mace 3. I can tank a group of 10 mobs in cursed shore (lvl 80) and come out laughing.

This is the ultimate Dungeon and farming class IMO. The only times you die is when your not paying attention.

In WvW Guardians can take on 3v1 and still come out on top (they they don’t pick up downed people)

The longer the fight the weaker the other classes become. This is not the case with guardians.

errrr if your using skills from muscle memory. Just change your key bindings. It won’t make any differene then would it.

Warriors are damage dealers where as Guardians shut out damage.

Focus 5 = 3 blocks, Aegis = 1 block, activate VoJ = 1 blind (traited), Focus #4 = 1 blind, switch to mace and use mace #3 = 1 block counter, pop another virtue which gives prot and aegis = 1 block

That’s negating 8 attacks! and you haven’t even begun losing health!!!

Then pop Renewed focus = Invulnerable for 2 seconds which would negate another 2 attacks, then pop VoJ = 1 blind, pop the other Virtue for aegis = 1 block.

By this time your other cooldowns have either recharged or are very close to recharging. You can either evade 2 more attacks or you take some damage and heal your health whilst you wait for cooldowns to finish. (8k+ heal whats their to worry about?)

Whilst your negating just about everything the enemy is throwing at you, you are chipping away his health with burning and other in between attacks, not to mention if you use Phantom weapons to knock down or do extra damage on your enemy.

The Guardian is not built for DPS like a warrior. But a Guardian 1v1 will win against any class. All you have to do is reverse the mentality of kill kill kill. The winner is the one still standing at the end of the fight. This is what Guardians do.

I have a lvl 80 Guardian. tried rolling a warrior both can fight a mob 2-3 lvls higher without much problem. Warriors will kill faster and take less damage but a Guardian can take 2-3 of them and laugh in their faces where a warrior would be running for his life.

To put it in another perspective, a Warrior is a Berserker. He kills the enemy but cares little about protection and his own safety.

A Guardian is like a Paladin…. but one that will just not fking die

Honestly I liked the greatsword, but after switching to hammer it all seems like the greatsword was a toy. Hammers mechanics made me a better tank, better for crowed control, better at taking points and defending them in sPvP. Greatsword was all about DPS but the Guardians mechanics are much more than that.

I even rolled a warrior and tried using the Hammer and quite frankly, compared to Guardians Hammer, it sucks. then swap to mace/focus when I need to go on the defensive and wait weather out any storms of attacks (block, block, block, blind, counter) usually enough time for the healing skill to recharge (traited for signets to recharge faster and i use healing signet) then switch back to some crazy hammer time.

One thing I’ve been meaning to do is try the Hammer/GS combo. Hammer #5 then switch to GS for Whirling Wrath whilst enemy is trapped inside should do some insane damage as they have no where to run and most likely have knocked themselves over trying to run outside the barrier.

Even after the nerf the Guardian class still WTF destroys the other classes.

Most likely they wanted people to try and explore other options. Its not the end of the world.

Stand in front of the door and auto attack lol I hear it still hits the attackers from the inside