Save Yourselves and Selfless Daring
Sometimes I wonder how many actually understand the difference between viable and optimal.
Normally i would agree, but in sPVP, if you are not running the meta, or the best build for your class, you are holding back your team.
And i wonder how many understand that rated sPVP is not your carebear friendly dungeon run where you have people running random builds in rares because they find exotics are expensive. You can’t carry those players in sPVP im afraid
its why you don’t see zerker 6/6/x/x eles or warriors in tourneys
In any case, these 2 skills need to be buffed.
(edited by Hunter.4783)
How can there be both viable and optimal in a competitive game? You either are the best class/build for a certain role or ridiculously close say 95%+ as effective or your garbage if you are serious about winning as far as I am concerned. There are people that will tell you longbow ranger is viable because they can pew pew people worse then them all day long. Too bad when they face someone there skill level or higher they get face planted all day long. If they are not going to nerf celestial ele and engineer yes Guardians could use some buffs in my opinion.
(edited by brannigan.9831)
Inb4 guardians tell you to l2p and OP META
How can there be both viable and optimal in a competitive game? You either are the best class/build for a certain role or ridiculously close say 95%+ as effective or your garbage if you are serious about winning as far as I am concerned. There are people that will tell you longbow ranger is viable because they can pew pew people worse then them all day long. Too bad when they face someone there skill level or higher they get face planted all day long. If they are not going to nerf celestial ele and engineer yes Guardians could use some buffs in my opinion.
That’s not how it works. For one thing, bunker guardian received no nerf, and celestial engineer received no buff which would justify their presence/absence in the current meta. It’s just the way we are playing the game that changed. People found out, after the warrior nerf, that the most effective tactic was now to have semi-bunkers rather than straight out bunkers, and to have dps builds with a good sustain (cele engineer, meditation guardian). The bunker strat is still viable however: just see how 55HP Monks performs well in EU tournaments, and that’s not because of one crazy good player making the best of an okay build (like Helseth or Eurantien), that’s just because it’s good. It requires a better coordination though (you don’t have to just even the fights), and seeing how NA can’t even find a good enough cele team to slightly worry the Abjured, I doubt it can see the emergence of a good bunker team anytime soon.
Selfless Daring should not be nerfed by 50%. It’s hampers the trait and the trait line. You could argue against moving it back to 100%, but it does need boosted from its current level.
“Save Yourselves!” isn’t all that bad at 50%. At 10 second duration, it was pretty cheesy when used for burst instead of the intended team support role.
And bunker guardian isn’t top tier mostly because of the amulet system. The build can’t increase its damage without being too weak in another aspect.
Kirrena Rosenkreutz
Inb4 guardians tell you to l2p and OP META
You missed “guardians are in a good place”.