Guild Wars 2

So it seems Firebrand is indeed the quickness stacker that was leaked.

Peachy showed some of the traits: https://clips.twitch.tv/ImportantHonestJamAsianGlow

AoE quickness on using a heal skill, sharing stability or aegis also grants quickness. And there seems to be at least 1 tome skill that applies aoe quickness.

Only 2s on 12 sec cd? seems underwhelmed. Too bad she can’t record properly so we can’t see nothing else than her mouse randomly moving elsewhere except on skills and mantras. Her stream was pretty much disappointment.

But what I can tell that guardian will be going into celestial gear as a meta in wvw.

Still no passive movement.

I’m trying to understand this elite spec. Is it meant to be purely support? I want to play a profession that allows me to focus on dealing damage (in PvE and PvP)…

mrauls.6519:

I’m trying to understand this elite spec. Is it meant to be purely support? I want to play a profession that allows me to focus on dealing damage (in PvE and PvP)…

What I have seen it farts bleeding and burning but also farts quickness when you give alies aegis (it melts golems really fast tho).

Axe symbol is long casting and giving quickness too (I think)
Autoattack giving bleeds or burning.

Virtues are not bad (BUT I CANT SEE THEM CAUSE THAT STREAMER DIDNT RECORD ANYTHING VALUABLE !!!) but we get nothing on activation if you dont go into virtues tree(meh bad thing).

We are quickness farting bot now.

Mantras have 2 3/4 sec cast time 3 charges (40 sec cd??).
Elite mantra giving 1 stability and swiftness for 5 sec(5 sec….meh)
One mantra farts condies.
Heal mantra heals for 1400 or 2400 clears 2 condies ( I think)

Bad stream…..-hope elite spec is not that bad like this recorder stream.

Traits are something like-
1st row:
1 axe skills 20% reduced and 33% on attack giving bleed stack and daze on initial attack.
2 – healing gives quickness for 2 sec (meh trait)
3 – you get 3 more charges on tomes

2nd row-
1-mantras final attack(3rd attack) imobilizes foes (too bad many of the specs are immune to imob)
2- when you grant stability or aegis grant quickness for 2 sec (5sec cd)
3- tomes gives (burning, regen(6s) , aegis (5s))

3rd row
1-inflict slow (3s 1/2) on foes you disable or imobilize (5 sec cd) – meh …
2-didnt see cause stream is disappointment….
3- tome skills gain reduced recharge (33%), retain virtues passives while they are on cooldown

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Do you have the part where the streamer plays? If so, can you share the link?

Yes we know that it has quickness stacking. Thing is tho, chrono will probably just do it better and make us absolutely worthless.

Tome skills were good what ive seen, there is one big simbol farting ressistance, and some dome symbol and some heal symbol. But I cant see kitten from that streamer………god useless aurora.

You cant see nothing when she plays only attacks which you dont know what they do…pure disappointment. Hope elite spec were not that bad as it seems.

But yea we are quckness bots now.

mrauls.6519:

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Do you have the part where the streamer plays? If so, can you share the link?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/163634368

from 2h 55 min she start to show screen without skills.

Firebrand mantras seem to gain charges over time. There’s also a mechanic that the last charge has a more powerful effect.

The heal mantra is a self heal that grants AoE aegis. The charge recharge is 12 seconds, so it’s designed to combo with the 2 quickness traits (quickness on aegis and heal).

The axe has an auto chain, all attacks hit twice and infict bleed, bleed and burn in that order.

Axe #2 Symbol of Vengeance pulses bleeding instead of boons. (8 sec cd)

Axe #3 is a pull that burns. (12 sec cd)

Minor traits:
Equipping or dropping a tome grants 3 seconds of quickness (5 sec icd).

The bleeding seems to be out of place.

Hm as I was saying celestial would be a thing to go with firebrand. Axe shield and some other weapon . Too bad hammer and gs would be again bad thing with this elite spec and I own those legendaries. Plus no passive movement :/ They should give us at least farting swiftness instead like herald. Farting only quickess feels disappointing.

F2 has swiftness. And one of the mantras does too.

F3 #2 is an AoE taunt, #3 is basically mesmer’s Feedback, #4 is pulsing AoE resistance, #5 is protection, retal and +300 toughness. F3 does have a huge 90 sec cd, though.

This is the last grandmaster http://i.imgur.com/xaolmWU.png

If you have better luck reading it, let me know.

“Granting quickness to an ally also grants ???”
I see a burning icon, probably some offensive buff.

Edit: Clear picture from reddit https://puu.sh/wYZFK/589ae213f7.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/6qyzlc/firebrand_stuff/

RabbitUp.8294:

F2 has swiftness. And one of the mantras does too.

F3 #2 is an AoE taunt, #3 is basically mesmer’s Feedback, #4 is pulsing AoE resistance, #5 is protection, retal and +300 toughness. F3 does have a huge 90 sec cd, though.

So wait…wtf…F’s have a cd, and they call it kits…kids does not havr cd’s at all you can swap them anytime….god it gets worse every second. 90 sec cd…why dont they make them 180 sec cd. I am very disappointed right now.

Firebrand already looks like a 1000x better design than dragonhunter.

axe/torch is gonna be sick as kitten

Kuya.6495:

axe/torch is gonna be sick as kitten

If you can survive with all these long cast times in melee range <<

I was hyped for tomes as kits but now I see its plain simple shout build dropped into tomes on a 90 sec cd….what a lazy design. Giardian dev is plain garbage. Those of you hyped for raids are gonna get disappointed cause chrono can do buffs better anyways in raids, druid can heal better on 9 sec cd. Tomes are simply garbage as is. Other elites are way better and give something new. Srry but mantras does not give anything better than those skills we have on shorter cd.

So basically tomes got turned into a bunch of shouts, because the game obviously needed more 600 range point-blank support. I was hoping for real tomes (along with tomes actually coming out instead of the paper swirl or whatever), but once again I guess I was wrong to expect better from Anet, won’t make that mistake again.

i feel they killed the old core guardian mace/ shouts with the new gimmick specs… so they had to reinvent some new shout system with another name…..

more tons of graphical clutter….. INC lag and rubberbanding Zerg!!! while class looks easy to get overwhelmed by any other class…. even in support.

Aeolus.3615:

i feel they killed the old core guardian mace/ shouts with the new gimmick specs… so they had to reinvent some new shout system with another name…..

more tons of graphical clutter….. INC lag and rubberbanding Zerg!!! while class looks easy to get overwhelmed by any other class…. even in support.

Yea next xpac we will get pets so our spirit weapons can rest in peace. Instead of balancing and buffing some core stuff and condi stuff they are giving us shouts v2. And some ppl are fine with it. They were fine with pre hot DH when it was pure garbage untill buffed pre xpac. Saddly this is like pre DH too but way worse.