Guild Wars 2

Arguably the worst skill set in the entire game remains unchanged yet even more buffs were handed out to warriors and eles (like always)

At the same time mesmer and necro received 4x the amount of changes, and probably dev time compared to guardian

Is this offhand ever going to see the light of day?

Anet, now is the time to make changes yet you leave the skill in most NEED of changes, to rot away

I agree!

Except bunker guardians might be returning with the now Valor and Honor traits. As well as Mace/Shield+Staff.

So… Yeah. Shield isn’t useless, the problem is anything but Medi-guard is useless for the next 7 days.

Remember, you can pick from 3 trait lines, getting a total of 3 grandmaster traits.

Honestly I feel like some of the devs were just working on different levels. The dev that worked on mes/necro seems like he really knows his stuff; put in some well thought out changes for the most part. The devs that did ele/warrior/engie were just like HAW LETS GET SOME POWER CREEP UP IN HERE, and everybody else obvi slackin

? Didn’t you guardian guys get massive decrease to cooldowns on those skills?

Shield has remained unchanged since the very start of beta. It has remained the most crap weapon in the entire game.

Even after the countless suggestion threads and even the devs agreeing to look at the shield, it was UNTOUCHED.

Yet there were 3 full word pages of changes for the mesmer and necro class whereas guards got boring number changes and little to no functionality diversity.

Does ANY of the devs play guardian? Have they played a guardian for more than 10 minutes? The last stream showed us mediocre play at best and this was supposed to be from their “best guardian player”

Why has the shield remained unchanged for over 2 years and NO EFFORT has ever been made to change things?

Please Anet, why is the shield in such a sad state? Do you even play to look at it?

They don’t know how to change it is the answer because they don’t even understand how their own class works in this meta and why it’s bad, nor do they listen to us when it comes to guard.

There is your answer.

Hunter.4783:

Shield has remained unchanged since the very start of beta. It has remained the most crap weapon in the entire game.

I got it..you never tried rifle on war.

Linnael.1069:

The dev that worked on mes/necro seems like he really knows his stuff; put in some well thought out changes for the most part.

Hunter.4783:

Yet there were 3 full word pages of changes for the mesmer and necro class whereas guards got boring number changes and little to no functionality diversity.

Hunter and Linnael, you guys are aware that necro got straight nerfed right? Don’t compare the necro changes to guardian changes unless thats what you want.

Also, please rework shield; reducing base cooldowns don’t make useless skills more appealing, it just means I can spam “useless” more often.

Edited to fix quotes

Salamander.2504:

Linnael.1069:

The dev that worked on mes/necro seems like he really knows his stuff; put in some well thought out changes for the most part.

Linnael.1069:

Yet there were 3 full word pages of changes for the mesmer and necro class whereas guards got boring number changes and little to no functionality diversity.

Hunter and Linnael, you guys are aware that necro got straight nerfed right? Don’t compare the necro changes to guardian changes unless thats what you want.

Also, please rework shield; reducing base cooldowns don’t make useless skills more appealing, it just means I can spam “useless” more often.

Did you just change the names inside the quotes? You might want to check whether those are actually my words before you pull kitten like that.

lots of good suggestions buried in the guard forums about how to fix shield. they come up and are re hashed from time to time ,but the end suggestions are usu the same

please delete both skills on guard shield and give us something that isn’t terrible!