So the other day I had a memory lapse and decided I’d give WvW a try to do some exploring and map completion This lasted for about 5 minutes, there was a Gross imbalance in the number of Enemies (are we from different Time Zones? how is that possible) vs players on my team (We were outnumbered 8:2 or so). Also the server was populated heavily with the delightful theif Class, who run away in perma stealth the moment an attempt at engagement is made. I decided to ignore combat and farm some mobs in the hope of a little loot. While I was on half health i noticed I died suddenly. Upon looking around I noticed that a stealthed thief was running around. Part of the problem lies on my end, having the Audacity to want to play from Australia, so there is usually a 100-200ms Lag (making PvP) almost impossible. The other problem is this. How can a guardian, with over 3000 toughness and over 2000 armour, be taken down in 3-4 hits (fast enough that i died without seeing my opponent) from a kittening thief with a dagger.. What’s the point of toughness and heavy armour, if they don’t make me tough, and break like biscuits every time someone sneezes on them? Dungeons are just as bad with mobs doing 15k damage over 3 seconds in melee range (which thanks to Lag gives me 0.5-1 second to react before death).
I’m supposed to be a tank/support , as I see no other point of the guardian class. I can’t deal a lot of damage (RELATIVELY) but I should be able to take a lot
I feel like I’m rambling soo…..
TL;DR
-Ingame Burst PvE/ PvP.. Is too kittening high and fast to be able to mitigate / heal through
-Toughness / Armour Means kitten All
-Perma stealth thief is bullkitten
guardians have outstanding survivability if they utilize their traits and skills correctly, no class is meant to survive by standing and doing nothing, just absorbing damage. You were just caught off guard, that’s it. If you died from 3-4 hits, that thief would have died from 1 such hit. I have both, a thief and a warrior with tons of toughness coming from knight’s gear. There’s huge difference between damage i take on either character from the very same monsters.
I wish I had 100-200ms latency. 350-500ms is more like it. Try playing a thief with high latency, it’s amazing how quick you can die as a glass cannon when your steal is blocked by Aegis or cloak and dagger constantly misses.
The problem is you decided to farm PvE mobs in a hostile environment without paying attention to your surroundings. Maybe you were rusty, maybe you were tired but any class could have crept up on you and killed you at 50% health.
For the record, I live in Cairns (300-500ms) and play a Thief, Guardian and Ranger in WvW and the Guardian is by far the most powerful of the three, especially fighting thieves. My guardian has 1.2k healing, 2.6k toughness and 20k health, thieves can’t kill me. It sounds like you focused too much on toughness and not enough on vitality.
Eugh, you’re probably right. And I really am guessing about my latency, lately it has been 1-2 seconds. I’ll try going more vitality. Currently running knights (rare) with major dolyak and major warrior runes to get toughness amd vitality. With emerald / sapphire jewellery (exotic) .. I do know that with one attack the thief hit for 6800.
another good solution for you, my friend –
get exotics, lol
you’re asking no nerf or buff certain attributes in the game because you got killed while running wvw half naked. jeez
