Awakening or Succession for PvE Guardian?

[Dhansak]

I am nearing level 56 which I think is when you get to choose?

In any case, all the videos I have seen say use Awakening for PvE Guardian. However, many of the videos are quite old and the game seems to get a lot of updates so thought it wise to ask here for what the current thinking is.

Thanks!

[Moose]

try awakening first, its still really strong and is my preference

[Dhansak]

Thank you Tempora :) - wlll go that route!

[Karna5]

My main is an awakening guardian. I find the non-awakening moves to be much more complicated. I am of the belief that Succession Guardian is intended for PVP.

The awakening guardian, especially once you're a solid 61st level with lots of skill points to unlock all the main skills, has lots of durability and life leech capability. Also her moves are slow and lumbering and hard hitting which to me makes her more fun to play than other classes which are just super fast whirling clouds of smoke and lights with moves you can't really see.

I don't think the guardian is the best in PVM survivability because she is at heart a melee class, so very hard hitting monsters can be very difficult to fight. My awakened witch, for instance, can handle much stronger monsters than my guardian can because my witch almost never gets hit. But against monsters for which my guardian has sufficient DP, my awakened guardian is definitely my favorite.

[Karna5]

Post script: If you'd like an example of awakened guardian pvm, I made this no-soundtrack film not long ago:

https://youtu.be/RuveUimiJIk

[Dhansak]

Nice video Karna5 - thanks for that :)

Couldn't agree more about her attack animation speed - I really enjoy playing her because of that - it gives me real feedback to what I'm doing. Hope I can find another non-superfast animated attack type character in the future. Preferably a ranged one just for a change.

Meanwhile I suspect I will be playing just her for quite awhile!

Cheers :)

[dollars202]

Awakening guardian is good til you hit 301ap, then for the last few grind spots it's better to get your 2000 skill points and switch to succ for end game grind. At end game you won't be one shotting things so that why succ works better, they all mob on you as you smack them around.

[Dhansak]

Thanks dollars202 - that's interesting. Will be awhile before I have to contend with that challenge though - still at 211 AP and 1540 skill points lol.

Will bear it in mind when the time comes - cheers!

[Kelset]

I play both but I always kept awa main. They're both fun, but Awa guardian in PvE is basically immortal and does a good amount of damage in the same AP/DP rank of other classes.
You need to really understand her moves tho, there's some stuff that nobody does that are extremely useful (and no guide will help you because nobody uses them but I do). I'll leave you the pleasure to find your own movesets. It's a very nice character to play, probably the best one in terms of animation, clarity of gameplay, audio feedback and heaviness (and..well every guardian player knows what I'm taling about)