Guild Wars 2

I am a little concerned about the changes to virtue of justice and virtue of resolution in PvE.

While I like the new effects on the skill I am worried that the delay that comes with the animations might be problematic :

-Virtue of justice is a source of blindness and delaying it will make this active defense less responsive.

-Virtue of resolution is a light heal and can be an anti condition, the delay is less of an issue but still annoying.

-In both cases the animations mean we are losing attack turns so it might also have a moderate impact on DPS.

Am I the only one seeing this as a problem and the changes as sidegrades rather than upgrades ? If so, please reassure me^^

Despite how you feel about the virtue changes these are undoubtedly all buffs.

F1 – Being a source of permaburn means we don’t have to always bring purging flames when running DPS. We can swap it out with that new trap that instantly applies 25% Vulnurability in PVE which will be amazing for DPS. Sure we lose the radial blind effect but if I remember correctly the blind range was only about 230, so basically within hugging range were targets blinded, I’m not sure if the Spear now blinds rather than the subpar radial blind.

F2 – I’m a little with you on this one, if they made it remove conditions and heal on jump for YOU and then ALLIES when you LAND. It’d so much better.

F3 – I’m going to be in full disagreement with you here. Guardians thematically have always been a shield, and yet we were the only class in the game without a channeled block. Now that we have it, I’m absolutely elated. Just like any other class that uses a channeled block. Of course you lose DPS but this is ultimately an up in defense time, and damage mitigation. The only thing I’m wondering is if I can turn while it’s up.

To be clear : I have absolutely no issue with virtue of courage (F3) ! This one is obviously super strong. You can’t be disagreeing since I didn’t express any opinion on this one.

About virtue of justice : the blind’s range is actually more than enough since PvE is mostly melee anyway : it is not subpar but ranges from okay to OP depending on the encounter. This blind is not lost but I am afraid it might be delayed which could be annoying.

I don’t get why purging flames would be replaced because of the burn : you take purging flames for condition removal and fire field, not for the burning <_<

Does anyone know if the new cast times will also apply to our existing non-DH virtues?

That would be extremely annoying if so

Tarsius.3170:

Does anyone know if the new cast times will also apply to our existing non-DH virtues?

That would be extremely annoying if so

No don’t worry about it, the virtues are only modified by the first minor trait in the Dragonhunter line so if you don’t trait DH you keep the old virtues.

What’s annoying is that you are forced to use them if you want to use anything else the DH is bringing.