Guild Wars 2

Lots of great stuff in the recent changes!

Longbows can now shoot behind you due to popular demand, thx for that

F1 to F3 now feel powerful and unique to the specialisation! gj on that

Many nice trait changes that now synergize well with the other guardian lines.

after no changes in the second BWE this has made me extremely happy and gives the guard a very nice new feel.

It might actually be abit too powerful with the LBow now, as i was doing 6 k crits on number 2 with a marauder amulet in PvP, that is a bit harsh for a 4s cd. However if u feel the need to nerf pls just tweak the damage numbers, as the traits feel really good now.

Although I am normally with all the flamers in the Forums let me say this:

Good Job and well done !!!

It’s nice to hear good things about the Dragonhunter, because I’m really looking forward to wielding a bow.
I’ve always wanted to transmog my backpiece for a quiver, but it was out of place for a guardian.

Dragonhunter just felt meh in pvp. Longbow feels clunky, JI nerf ruined hambow T.T and the virtues are just not worth giving up over the standard ones.

I just feel like dragonhunter will always just be a polished poop compared to the original guard , fluctuating between op and useless :/

All in all feels too gimmicky, synergy of the longbow compared to the other ranged options is still low. Scepter/Focus or Staff are just superior for PvP, PvE? Well I’d still go Scepter/Focus for blind/regen and blocks, I’ll keep staff also for on-demand might, swiftness and CC.

I still refuse to use traps as to me they are a failed concept in something like GW2 considering they are shruggable compared to other utilities like say any guard shout (even rangers/thieves don’t take em).

The traits still feel like they don’t do much. e.g. Monk’s Focus, Pure of Voice, Altruistic Healing, Shattered Aegis, Amplified Wrath…. those all feel like dynamic changers, Big Game Hunter? meh, Hunter’s Fortification? meh, Heavy Light? RNG knockback that will either be pointless or op depending on which patch.

All in all not that impressed at all.

Well, big dmg. I like it:) 14k is a lot

1. LB should hit hard like Warrior killshot because it roots you to place.

So far it feels good but:

Traps need lower cd’s.
Virtue of courage need to be on 50 sec CD.
LB 5# should be on 40 sec cd.

And thats it. I won’t touch traps, they are bad.

Bow stinks for svp wake up. You’ll rarely hit with bow2 so it doesnt matter if it hit for 10k. And no weapons skills with 50 second cooldowns like 5 please. What is the reason to play bow exactly. What does it accomplish it doesnt shine at anything it tries to be jack of all tradeish which is always poor. Rapid Fire and the stealth shot rangers get blow this out of the water. Seriously some lazy dev though it would be neat to make guardians into inferior trap rangers which is already a lacking spec in pvp lol. Seriously I rarely take part in betas and give feedback by I played a long session with this in spvp like 4 hours and while I dont claim to be one of the best I have more expereince in spvp then about 95% of the guardians that post here I have close to 10k spvp games under my belt. This needs a lot of work for spvp period. Dragon Hunter and longbow are one of the most lacking elites available for spvp.

brannigan.9831:

Bow stinks for svp wake up. You’ll rarely hit with bow2 so it doesnt matter if it hit for 10k. And no weapons skills with 50 second cooldowns like 5 please. What is the reason to play bow exactly. What does it accomplish it doesnt shine at anything it tries to be jack of all tradeish which is always poor. Rapid Fire and the stealth shot rangers get blow this out of the water. Seriously some lazy dev though it would be neat to make guardians into inferior trap rangers which is already a lacking spec in pvp lol. Seriously I rarely take part in betas and give feedback by I played a long session with this in spvp like 4 hours and while I dont claim to be one of the best I have more expereince in spvp then about 95% of the guardians that post here I have close to 10k spvp games under my belt. This needs a lot of work for spvp period. Dragon Hunter and longbow are one of the most lacking elites available for spvp.

Pretty much this.

people need to wake up. True shot can hit for 20k for all i care and will still stink in sPVP as NO ONE will let you get that off or simply dodge away. not to mention blinds blocks and all the heavy CC that all the classes are getting now

About the longbow:

I’d like the #2 not to root and #5 to have a shorter cast time/cooldown. If i wanna get extra greedy i’d like #4 to fly abit faster, mabye 20% or so