Guild Wars 2

Please, please, please, please, fix our class. Our weapons, our lack of conditions, or HP pool, our lack of DPS specs, incoherent trait lines, and severe lack of mobility. A roadmap would be even better, to let us know whats going on. If you’re feeling lazy theres some real good suggestions on these forums. Just throw us a bone please or a roadmap…or a big kitten…just something =/

I feel the one thing lacking for guardians is an optimal condition spec. Every set of armor with condition damage is usable by every other class, except guardians. While other bunkers can maintain sick damage with conditions while keeping high heal/armor with apothecary, a guardian bunker has to rely on power/crit/crit DMg, and the disparity is only goin to widen more as guardian speciality of condition removal no longer keeps pace.

Once people really start to replace guard bunkers in spvp for engi/necro/ranger bunkers that can put out far more pressure than guardians can (and add a stun/condi warrior), we may see some changes.

The way I see it our 2 main things we lack are condition damage builds, and mobility to an extent. What does the meta revolve around? Conditions and mobility. What do guardians have the least of? Keeping someone in range and condition damage. We have no cripple, and no passive speed bonus. We’re easily kited, and speccing for gap closers leaves us incredibly weak to conditions. We can’t have both.

Once players start to realize the meta has shifted, and more players come up with comps that don’t have guardians, we may finally be able to have this addressed.

I could give 4 kittens about spvp tbh. Thats what is keeping guards from getting the changes they need to everything I mentioned before. Ohh and pve where mobs don’t move, stand in our AOE and we get our “zomg op damage brah.”

Patience is a virtue. Well, not yet. It should be a 4th! It should apply cripple whenever a burn is applied.

Add torment on click, 3 sec duration, 15 sec cd. /runs and hides

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Three common DPS specs off the top of my head. What are we lacking, exactly?

I’m actually happy with guardians, even if we lack conditions. Of the available classes, we come closest to actually balanced.

Want to play a class that is actually in desperate need of fixes? Roll and ele or ranger. Then you’ll swap back to the guardian with a sigh of relief.

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Three common DPS specs off the top of my head. What are we lacking, exactly?

An actual condition bunker build. Or any build that actually uses condition gear… like every other class.

Its not one thing we are lacking. Its a combination of things that added together that screws us. Yes, we have damage. However if we take the damage we sacrifice toughness or condi removal. Yes we have tankiness, at the sacrifice of everything except moderate condi removal. And we have next to nothing in terms of condition damage. We have to take one thing and then scrounge around for the rest.

Its a swiss cheese situation. Where various lackluster things line up and gives us the Guard. Currently every class does what we can do better or on par; and those classes have something else they bring to the fight thats extremely beneficial. I could rattle off every wvw spec out there for the other classes but you should really see them in action. The only thing that we bring that others don’t is AOE stability and “Guardian Herd” (thats where a group of 3-7 Guards are in a 15-20 man group and just keep everyone with stability and pushes with lines of warding and tons of healing)

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foofad.5162:

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Three common DPS specs off the top of my head. What are we lacking, exactly?

An actual condition bunker build. Or any build that actually uses condition gear… like every other class.

I wasn’t directing that at you as much as the OP. But even then; Condition bunker isn’t DPS. It’s condition bunker.

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Not much room for survivability in open world pvp. Just saying has that is what I’m running today.

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foofad.5162:

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Three common DPS specs off the top of my head. What are we lacking, exactly?

An actual condition bunker build. Or any build that actually uses condition gear… like every other class.

I wasn’t directing that at you as much as the OP. But even then; Condition bunker isn’t DPS. It’s condition bunker.

My B, wasn’t tryin to sound hostile, hope it wasn’t taken that way.
My RL twin bro plays an engi bunker and let’s just he is immortal while able to do some serious dps. it makes me jelly