Guild Wars 2

The scepter’s auto attack orb is too slow, but there are a few things that could make using the scepter more fun:

1. Have an attack chain like in mace/sword/hammer/GS, that increases damage with each consecutive orb hit

2. Make smite a symbol, and make it hit mutliple targets instead of sharing the damage between the amount of people in the circle.

3. For chains of light, the skill is very useful, but the fact that it’s basically just an insta cast skill (or rather 1/4 cast speed) with little animation actually makes it a very boring skill. How about increasing the immobilize duration, but locking both players in place (so if you cast it, you are immobilized) with some beam animation. The scepter is quite boring to use when playing solo, so it’s mainly used in groups anyway, and this would make it a great group skill. And fun also.

This would make scepter a lot more fun without buffing the orb speed.

Alternatively, you could just buff the orb speed.

It seems the devs don’t really care or consider it a problem even after our countless pleas to make the scepter better and more interesting. They haven’t said anything back to us about it since the beginning.
If they don’t change it on the next balance patch, don’t ever expect it to change.
It’s sad that they are increasing ranger’s bow projectiles more,they already increased mesmer’s scepter’s projectiles and ignore guardians completely.

It seems that they don’t want guardians to have any range options,i don’t understand why.

The only problem I am having with scepter is the auto attack animation… It’s WAY TOO boring. We guardians swing and shoot out a ball which is slow and doesn’t even fly in a straight path. Looks like a 5 yrs old boy threw out a blue balloon and it’s not gonna hurt anybody. Why can’t we shoot out mythical blade or an axe?

It’s kinda weird looking since the Guardian’s hand/scepter in the swing animation moves faster than the orb…
It’s like throwing something through a wall of water.