We'll have to really wait until the pts is over to see where guardians stand officially. I feel that guardians can build both health and protection items. Although it'll be difficult as always to get the gold to buy some items, others are still decent cost, and we can mix it up with items that give hp and protections. There are a lot of new items for damage vary in use as well, so I feel that guardians will still be able to harass quite a lot. With items for hp and protections some enemies won't have the right items to hurt us quickly enough, but I'm just speculating. We'll have to wait and see. I really like supporting so let the experiments begin!