Dear beloved Guardian, when I started playing Guild Wars 2 I immediately fell for the aura of a Guardian. The Armor, Style and role seemed to be a perfect match for me and I did had a lot of fun when I first leveled my Charakter up.
But like in every relationship after a short time I began to notice the issues Guardian had from my point of view. It was not the fact that at that point in the Game, Warriors where absurdly overpowered or anything like that.
It was simply the feeling that Guardians werent loved by their creators as much as I hoped for. Sure I do understand that a Players affection to their Charakter / Profession goes beyond any logic and results therefore in many QQ feelings and threads, but it could not be helped, that feeling didnt go away. I do love the Style, Armor, Role and Feeling the Guardian gives when I watch them Ingame or on Youtube up to today, but ar the same time I cannot fight against the feelings I have when Iam actually playing a Guardian. I dont want to go over detailed balance issues or whatsoever, since I dont feel like Iam suited to do that, but rather I want to explain what the issue I mentioned so often now is.
It is the actual fighting. Despite its look, a Guardian feels like a Tank on the Battlefield. Not relating to Power, but rather for how I feel like when Iam moving around the World. I dont feel like I could escape any edgy Situation at all or make some “suicide” moves when engaging a overwhelming force or whatsoever. In addition to that comes the fact, that a Gurdians attacks are terrible easy to read from my point of view, if it isnt a teleport. Everything just feels so slow and therefore a Guardian doenst hit like a truck, when I do compare a Dungeon solo run from a Warrior to a Guardian one, it shows this in a impressive way. I could do (almost?!) everything faster, more effective and more dynamic when Iam playing a different profession, like for example the mentioned Warrior. It feels very undynamic, stucked, yeah kinda numb.
My wish would really be, that I could also have the infamous 25% movement Speed, which every class will have with the expension from HoT. I would also really enjoy it, if I could use my Sword skill to teleport even without having a target. Those are my wishes and there isnt even a complain about some other obvious issues when it comes to other abilitys / traits in it, because what is really important for me, is the feeling I get when Iam playing my Class. That thing, Iam doing with passion and much, much time over and over again and it is that thing, from what I do think, it is the one and only Key to keep players, despite balance stuff. Everything comes down to the feeling you experiencing when playing a Game and as long as I feel underprivileged / unloved, Iam playing a different profession and will cheat to you my beloved one. Iam sorry.
(edited by Amaya.1483)