Guild Wars 2

[Extra Floof Taur]

This is embarrassing.

After such a long time, I thought my main class is Guardian, but for some reason I seriously struggle with the class now. I could not find any proper build to have good damage and also decent self-healing to keep myself alive. Warrior gains health from Soldier's Focus with burst, gaining Might, or landing critical hits (dual-wield) ; Necromancer can siphon health, easy enough ; recently I found the trait "Carnivore" that lets Ranger gain health from crowd-controlling the target, and Soulbeast (when merging with the pet) makes it even easier because I can actively choose the pet skills to crowd-control the enemy.

But, I seriously struggle with Guardian. I've tried Soldier, Berserker (not a good idea, very low health and defense), Carrion, Cleric, but none of them really works out like I want. I end up lacking a lot of damage output or a lot of self-support to keep myself alive for long.

I just now learned of the trait "Altruistic Healing", which makes me gain health whenever I apply boons to allies and/or myself, which I thought would be a game changer. However, the heal doesn't feel as good as I thought it'd be.

I also see people using spears for Guardian a lot, but I just can't get the hang of it. I'm already struggling with damage, I really can't think of how to do damage with a weapon that is meant for healing.

Update : I tried out Virtuoso spear (strike dmg) and axe/torch (cond dmg). Still not really good for surviving long fights like Warrior and Necromancer that I mentioned above, but I still managed to do fairly decent damage.

Meanwhile, I just cannot get anything to work with Guardian. My son gave me a cond dmg build that he can use consistently to solo champions in Janthir, and very detailed instructions on how to combo and rotate... but I failed flat at every single step.

I already blew up too much money on different equipment for my Guardian, but at this point the only build I am KIND OF decent with is cond dmg, with axe/torch and pistol/pistol. I guess strike damage is not for me with this class.

 

[Icepaw]

Yeah it's rather hard to figure out how to hurt foes with a healing oriented weapon, mesmers must be dreading the rifle outside of support roles for that very reason. I think the willbender has a trait that whenever you burn foes with your second virtue..the flaming line it heals you but I think there's a skill that refreshes the first one and causes that to heal you too. Been a bit but my guardian has no issue with dmg and self heal but I've kinda swapped to dual pistols for a while now. Been meaning to get back to my reaper as I need to finish learning that spec's powers so i can work on the one from EoD.

Oh and I swallowed my pride and dipped my toes into Maguuma again to complete some dragon stand events.... even with flying that zone is a nightmare and the mastery takes forever to build up as events and such give you barely any exp for it. I level path of fire to current masteries leagues faster than HoT masteries... which sucks as I've considered going back into that hellish forest to finish mastery of my glider so I don't got a stamina bar for it anymore. Dragon Stand events are painful though as there's one that forces you into a room full of lethal gas that I'm guessing means I need the immunity to poison mastery or whatever for.