Firebrand suggestion/feedback

Firebrand suggestion/feedback

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Posted by: Avos.3297

Avos.3297

Firebrand is a very unreliable support class for both pve and pvp, when you blow all of your emergency buttons/tomes which are supposed to be the the literal, main source of this elite specs power, when they go on cd for 50-90 seconds and you cannot access them again, and Renewed focus doesn’t even reset the CD by the way, you are out of luck. so that being stated to being with, lets talk about the rest.
I love the theme of Firebrand, it is something that has so much potential to skyrocket guardian into a really good spot for team support through the whole game, and also has potential to have viable builds to be a tank or frontliner, kind of reminds me of paladins, or a mystic knight. I would suggest tossing the idea of a simple CD reduction buff out of the window, and introduce a system that’s already present in the game like rev’s energy mechanic or thieve’s initiative, and give the tomes a 5-10 second CD per swap. The pages will recharge passively over time, like energy or initiative or you can make it so the ONLY way you can recharge your pages are by meeting boon thresholds, like apply aegis X amount of times to rebuild pages in your tomes, or X amount of regen, etc. You could add boon thresholds for all boons, that way you have variety of how you can gain your pages back, like you need 5 stacks of might applied to get 1 page back or 2 procs of aegis for a page, or 3 stacks of regen for a page, those are just examples.
You could also mix and match that type of system with the right balancing, now of course if the tomes are more easily accessible then you will have to sacrifice the current insane damage the tome of justice does to a respectable amount, and reducing the healing very slightly in the tome of Resolve, Tome of courage I dont really see that needing any nerfing, it provides nothing that can heal or deal massive amounts of damage but has great support. I wouldn’t make tomes into kits though, that would just make it very awkward and more frustrating to make builds and fit in needed utility.
The axe weapon also needs to be worked on, nobody uses it, the other weapons offer more utility and functionality than the weapon meant to go with the class. Besides all of the negatives though, firebrand is okay at provding support/bunkering or doing dps, it does make a great tank though, which is why I am liking the Firebrand myself, I do hope some changes are made.