Jdark@Everfrost wrote:
IMO.....the guardian is one of the most group dependent classes we don't have in combat heals we have low DPS really small power pools but our survivability is supposed to be the highest amongst all classes. I see soloing as a guardian a slow process but even with that when we do eventually kill the mob we walk away without a scratch and oop if ur spamming ca’s...So long as our survivability is good enough that we can out last the longer fights things are fine dps should be at the bottom of concerns for guardians, zerks on the other hand are meant to have a higher dps output....now if we can't solo one-two yellow con mob in JW something is wrong...on contrary to what others do I solo/group in def stance 95% of the time, I will switch to DW but I stay in def. With a good CA order, understanding of our debuffs, a good AA setup, even use the heroic ops (the one that fighters can do solo adds about 300 damage at the end not much but noticeable) and really just a good understanding of the class soloing is not hard, slower than most classes but not hard by any means.....I say all this from experience I leveled from 70-80 in RoK doing all that dam solo content never needed any kind of help sure others in my guild got a lvl ahead of me just cause they could kill the stuff faster. Same with tso finished all the solo content with no major issues. Only thing that really sucked while soloing in tso was trying to run from the dam spiders but I think that was the same for every class haha…
WHile I agree that Guards really are fine in terms of soloing....I disagree about having the highest surviveabilty...especially with regards to soloing. Short of using clicky items...we have no get out of jail ability.
Our "higher surviveability" really means its slightly easier for others to keep us alive...thats all. Without others our surviveability IMO is amongst the worst of the fighters.