What are you doing as a Guardian?

[Chutta]

<P><FONT color=#66ff00>I'm not all that uber either, nor do I consider myself a power player.  I do have a few adept III's, but those are just my taunts.  I have no fabled gear.  At 51 I am able to solo with great difficulty, orange con 57 mobs.  I did a few of the desert lunatics/prophets out in pillars of flame that were 1 and 2 down arrow.  Now the prophets would give me trouble and i'd have to run them off sometimes, but if I didn't get resisted enough, I could pull it off.   I use all group buffs that we have, iron conviction and fortified stance.  I try to space out using the abilities that interupt/knockdown/stun/stifle/whatever, so that they're not really able to do much.  What are you doing?  What are any of the guardians out there doing?  There's a lot of people complaining about how nerfed we are and how much all of this sucks and how we can't kill things like we used to and other classes can, but no one is talking about what we are actually doing.  I don't see much in the way of strategy, of how to play our class, about how to successfully take out a mob.  If we aren't talking about what we're actually doing, how can we know what's wrong?  When you say you can't kill a mob,  post what you did to try to kill it and what didn't work.  Let's start talking with each other about what is working and how we can be better guardians.  </FONT></P> <P> </P> <P><BR> </P>

[RafaelSmith]

<b>SOLO</b>: I really havent spent much time soloing since the revamp.  Think the highest thing ive successfully soloed was a 54 ^.     My gear is essentially Ebon left side and average stuff right side.   I have an Imbued Ebon Executioners Axe which is what I use when soloing.  Also when soloing im almost always in Offesive stance.  I like to start out with Retaliate mostly cause of the mini pacify/stun it has.  Space out the other abilites.  I first I would just spam anything that was up but ive found that timing is important.  I need to have a knockback or inturrupt available when I need it.   If the fight is hairy I swith to Defense stance.  Where I get into trouble soloing is when there are wandering adds. <b>GROUP</b>: Only grouped with my normal group which is consists of me, Fury, Defiler and Coercer.  Level 55^^^ named is highest thing(s) we have attempted.  Using Aegis of Alacrity and Bloodfire as those are the best 1h/shield combo I have.  If the mobs are yellow+ im in Defence Stance...Fortified Stance Adept3.  Typicall pull with an arrow, followed by Protect then engaging MD followed by the taunt attacks.  From that point ive rarely lost aggro.  At the start of big fights I sometimes use Anchor and/or Wall of Brawn + Commanding Presence to give the healers a little time to get in rythm.  Other than that its pretty much a matter of using DMG arts when possible and making sure i got enough to re-gain aggro if I have too.  If the mobs dps is shut down (via Coercer or just plain running out of power) then sometimes I swap back into Offense stance.  Usually keep the protection buffs on the Fury or the Coercer.   <b>DUO</b>:  Spent alot of time duoing with my girlfriends Fury.  Lots of interesting uses for her Porcupine + my defense stances.  The 1400+ mitigation boost from Porcupine is sweet =P Highest we have done as a duo is a level 53^^^. All in all I have yet to experience the "end of the world" scenerios many others on these forums have described.  Gonna take some time to figure new things out and what to use under different circumstances. <div></div>