Martial

Martial is the adjective describing those Guild Wars professions that primarily rely on attack skills and physical attacks; they also have enough armor to protect themselves in melee.

Martial details

 * Armor: the basic armor of all martials have 70 and 80 armor rating.
 * Weaponry: martial classes use axes, bows, daggers, hammers, scythes, spears, swords, shields, and pets.
 * Martial weapon damage scales with both level and attribute points spent into mastery of the specific weapon.
 * Professions:
 * Core: Warriors,  Rangers
 * Factions: Assassins
 * Nightfall: Dervishes,  Paragons

Pseudo-martial classes
Some of the caster classes can perform parallel functions as the martial classes by using specific builds:
 * Mesmers can use Illusionary Weaponry-based builds.
 * Ritualists can use Spirit's Strength-based builds.
 * Elementalists can tank by using armor-boosting Earth Magic skills.