Guild Wars 2

When you make changes like you recently did with Guardian it wouldn’t actually be bad if you gave some good news with the bad. You’ve tweaked GS and retaliation and the combined minor changes have decreased the effectiveness of a lot of builds. This will only generate negative feedback.

If on the other hand you made another weapon or build type more viable such as Scepter for example the feedback wouldn’t have been overly negative.

PvP – Guardian is constantly at a disadvantage at range by not having any decent ranged weapon options on top of having little in the way of snares and roots compared to others that actually have a better option of both and with a large number of condition builds out there Warrior actually has better defense due to a much larger health pool considering condition damage isn’t effected by toughness and regen isn’t doing much to keep us up there in survivability.

A change here would have gone a long ways to making the ret change and the longer CD’s on GS acceptable.

PvE – Again here in dungeons specifically, many relied on Symbols for survivability and damage. More specifically Symbol of Wrath. Not only was it a source of defense, but it was also a source of damage and condition removal. You’ve severely limited the effectiveness of multiple things here without giving any kind of alternative solution. Poison spam is awful in some dungeon paths and the limited health pool makes constant cleansing a must, but we have so few cleansing options that don’t hamper us severely in other ways. I was able to go with AoE regens and cleansing abilities because GS and symbol of wrath allowed me to still be effective while going a more support route.

Another option would have gone a good ways towards making the changes acceptable.

In the end I don’t mind changes as I can generally adapt. Unfortunately there aren’t a great many options with my Guardian. It really shouldn’t be overly hard to do a fairly balanced Guardian build but there are just so many ineffective or useless traits, skills,and weapons.

All I am asking is with so few options when you make changes like this please consider areas where a profession is weaker than it should be and look at buffing something there to counter balance things.

For now I will simply play my Warrior until I figure out a build that I like for my Guardian. I didn’t even worry about retaliation much, I didn’t trait for it but in the end these changes still effected me because I do use a GS and most of my build and strategy was based around Symbol of Wrath.