Mana Syphon and MPK/MPA are pretty much the only way to gain mana back, besides using items like fish or comfreys. And yes, any kind of attack (melee or casting) works for MPA/LPA
I'd suggest checking out the character guides:
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=22760522&f=74Or, if you just want to skip to the guardian guide go here:
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=20473486&f=272And just to let you know, a guardian is most commonly played as a healer (personally I think that they're best as healers, but some people would probably argue that they are better hybrids. But that point is debatable just on the grounds that hybrids are more expensive than any others by nature so obviously they're going to be better... but I'm not going to get into that

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