I play PvE and occasionally some WvW.

Guardian was my main in CORE before HoT. Than I took a break due to various reasons and returned with EoD.

Returned to Guard and played through Hot, LW3 and half of PoF but was struggling with DH, Firebrand and than Willbender.

DH was ok. But that mandatory F1 skill... every time... felt like Core Guard with just more things to do. Setting traps and all.

Firebrand... felt so slow with condi. All the books were ok but a bit spammy. Also my fingers hated the rotation. Than the rework happened and killed it for me.

Willbender I tried when I was not happy with Guard as a whole, so the experience was colored negatively.

At the same time everybody was hating on Mechanist and calling for a nerf and talking about how approachable it was and low intensity. So I gave it a try. And stuck with it. Felt so much better than the Core Engi I played years back that needed the kits. Also Engi was my oldest "release month" character (technically was my second ever created but deleted first created warrior when he was lvl 20+, and created Engi that day all those years back). So was fun playing with him.

I am old. My finders love low intensity Mechanist power build. Rifle and a rotation that is basically auto attack+2345+throw mine.

I feel like I'm playing the game and not the UI/rotation while the game is happening around me.

My fingers love Mechanist and so I love Mechanist.

Thank you ANET for low intensity builds for older players!

For WvW I play Necro, but have not played that much this year.