[GW2] Guardian Sanctuary | KillTenRatsFollow

Finally, in a big GuildWars2Guru thread discussing the benefits of having a warrior or guardian in a “tank”-like role, community manager Martin Kerstein tried to keep fans’ frames of mind on to the unique Guild Wars 2 combat. Kerstein said that a player trying to play a guardian like a conventional tank will “eat dirt a lot.” The guardian simply cannot survive for long when it is standing there being pounded upon by mobs. Regarding a key difference between the guardian and warrior, Kerstein said that the warrior has significantly more hit points than a guardian, but the guardian has much faster health regeneration, especially with its Resolve virtue ability. A lot of people think that the guardian’s popularity will initially outclass a warriors, but I don’t agree. The warrior’s distilled purpose of being very aggressive and standing up to a lot of punishment is much easier to grasp than the complex guardian requiring significantly more battlefield awareness and risk/reward awareness of its core abilities.