Guild Wars 2

Guardian weapons should be able to inflict these conditions. Especially guardian weapons that are very slow and have short range. For example let Shield of Judgment apply 1s or 2s of Daze to enemies. Another would be the Hammer. It’s really slow! I know Mighty Blow really hits hard but guardian can easily kited by all professions and blind spam by thieves. I think it should have more access to soft CC like weakness and chill to compensate for the weapon and profession’s lack of mobility. BTW Glacial Heart is useless!

Light Fields – Would it be nice if leap and blast finishers on light fields cure conditions instead of applying retaliation boon to allies? I think this would be helpful against the game’s current condition damage meta. Don’t get me wrong retaliation is a great boon, but it won’t help you from condition spammers. In addition, guardians already have so many ways to access retaliation.

One more thing: I think Staff should have a blast finisher! Orb of Light for example. Allow it to be a blast finisher on detonate!

While i would like it, i dont think they will give guardians chill (the hammer trait may be an exception) weakness or cripple… (like they will never give guardians and necros mobility)
Daze on the other hand maybe but that will not help you sticking to a target.
More immobilize is also possible (the best condition in my opinon).

But i will say this, soft cc like cripple or chill (the cd reduction is what makes chill really good) is not as strong as you think for sticking close to your enemy. I also play necro and even with cripple and chill i can rarely aa dagger opponents down, as slows are lacking in this game with really high mobility. But as a necro you have always ranged damage so its not that much of a problem.

Having a ranged weapon as secondary set is importent for all professions (exept Thiefs and warriors) if you dont have allies with you.

Mace and Hammer, second swing on #1 should both be CHILL.

Why they think otherwise is beyond me.

Melee class… w/o soft CC… asinine.

DeanL.1360:

Light Fields – Would it be nice if leap and blast finishers on light fields cure conditions instead of applying retaliation boon to allies? I think this would be helpful against the game’s current condition damage meta. Don’t get me wrong retaliation is a great boon, but it won’t help you from condition spammers. In addition, guardians already have so many ways to access retaliation.

It would definitely be nice, but maybe a bit too nice. Even though we cannot use the light fields to cleanse conditions ourselves, any other class with projectile finishers can do that for us. If you use a hammer and you’re in a party with a ranged class like a thief, mesmer or engi (using pistol off-hand), or an elementalist you’ll notice that projectile finishers will be flying around your head and no condition will survive for longer than a second. Besides that, we already have pretty good access to condition removal.

Having better access to CC would be more than welcome though. I noticed that our Tome of Wrath has a good CC skill but the duration on the Tome is very short and the cooldown very long which makes it too unreliable.