Guild Wars 2

Wow. One page of fairly tame posts vs. 10+ pages of tears in the Ranger forums. I was hoping that was a common reaction to the patch in all the class forums but I guess not.

I think we got lucky this patch, and we can probably deal with the current bug set more than the other classes

I’m sorry, when did our section of the forum get turned into a Warrior Shout build & Seiging place for discussion?

It’s funny that Guardians are still tremendously OP in PvE while other classes are getting wrecked (Mesmer, Ranger). They seem to touch the heavies the least.

Xyvius.1679:

It’s funny that Guardians are still tremendously OP in PvE while other classes are getting wrecked (Mesmer, Ranger). They seem to touch the heavies the least.

They couldn’t really change much about the Guardian without wrecking it completely.

Ynna.8769:

Xyvius.1679:

It’s funny that Guardians are still tremendously OP in PvE while other classes are getting wrecked (Mesmer, Ranger). They seem to touch the heavies the least.

They couldn’t really change much about the Guardian without wrecking it completely.

I sort of agree with that. The mechanic of virtues and the way traits are setup for Guardian could make changing it pretty hard.

It’s still funny how overpowered we are compared to all other classes in PvE, though.

I think Anet is taking the position that guardian, warrior, mesmer (possibly thief) “feel good” where they are at, so they do not want to change them much.

Granted it makes 0 sense that, instead of buffing other classes to bring them up to the level of guard/mesmer, they are nerfing half their abilities (cya later ele).

So at least they didn’t destroy my secondary character (Elementalist being my primary)… unfortunately the Guardian is still boring to play…

Sandra Martino.3870:

The patch notes for necromancers are an insult to anyone playing one.

The notes for guardians makes me want to continue on my alt..

^ this. I was so hoping I could pick my Necro or Ranger up again. Sadly, I guess my Guard will replace my Ranger as my new main. Time to power level.

Chucks staff in the garbage Well, Thanks alot for killing the support on empower, its best skill…

looks at the improvement to the orb of light….. Mmmmmh takes it out of the garbage maybe it can still do stuff, I’ll give it another shot…. =/ if it still doesnt work out I guess i can repurpose it as a hat stand or something…..

I’m under the impression that while Wv3 is technically PvP it’s not actually considered to be “structured” PvP and therefore doesn’t cater to the same ruleset as the sPVP. I figure as long as the +healing gear still has the same effect outside of sPVP it’s still fine in my book, could be a little stronger, but it’s serviceable. If they had buffed up the speed on Orb of Wrath along with Orb of Light i’d probably use scepter more often than my staff… or use both… and then i’d ask them to make my Spirit weapons more permanent… and i’d want my spirit weapons to be able to rez me… and my orb of wrath should cause bleeding…

Staff Orb attack is pretty good offensively tbh now. Fits in nicely to 2-handed weapon swapping, which I tend to do going from Staff on defense/support to Greatsword offense.

Xyvius.1679:

Ynna.8769:

Xyvius.1679:

It’s funny that Guardians are still tremendously OP in PvE while other classes are getting wrecked (Mesmer, Ranger). They seem to touch the heavies the least.

They couldn’t really change much about the Guardian without wrecking it completely.

I sort of agree with that. The mechanic of virtues and the way traits are setup for Guardian could make changing it pretty hard.

It’s still funny how overpowered we are compared to all other classes in PvE, though.

I would agree with this as well.

It’s why I was so surprised when I heard Anet was going to restructure the way retaliation works. Since retaliation is more deeply engrained in Guardian than any other class and a good deal of our traits and skills involve it.

It will be interesting to see how the changes they make to it will affect the make-up of Guardians playstyle. It will either be a groundbreaking improvement that redefines the class (and possibly warrant further nerfs), or a earthshattering disaster that turns it from something with potential usability, to a completely asinine spectacle of patheticness (Looks at Merciful Intervention >.>)

That said, Guardian is the Favorite Class of one of the main developers… so I’m hopeful they wont be able to mess it up too badly.

Phew, good thing I didn’t get all cleric exotic gear for my guardian to WvW in or else everything would be obsolete now… oh wait

Dogo.4691:

Wow. One page of fairly tame posts vs. 10+ pages of tears in the Ranger forums. I was hoping that was a common reaction to the patch in all the class forums but I guess not.

I think its because we’re still so confused about the lack of stuff. Shield of Judgement was probably the last thing people were thinking of. I tend to forget it even exists.