Guild Wars 2

Lack of mobility
No range

lacks of Fury buff, only one skill that give 10 sec and has 60 cd.
Range weapons are lack of offensive power.
A better elite, I kinda get bored by only using renewal focus.

Lack of diversity in our PvP builds. Lack of trait diversity and synergy.
Too much revolves around gaining Retaliation or applying steady melee damage. (With few ways to keep targets in melee range).

Teams just want you as a bunker Guardian, it’s the only role they want a Guardian to perform. They want you to just be able to take damage and stall / distract the team until they come in and kill everything.

It’s a very boring role to play.

By the nature of Guardian damage being mostly melee based in his attacks and our ranged weapons only operating effectively at <600 range we also have to stand in and be hit by all the horrific AoE damage being thrown around PvP by Necros, Mesmers, Rangers, Engineers, Elementalists and Thieves.

With all of that comes a horrific amount of conditions too.

Talking conditions, our access to them is poor, burning isn’t a viable condition build due to the lack of a stacking nature. Aiming for condition damage and 100% burn uptime sacrifices so much and doesn’t result in viable damage.

Bleeds being able to stack up to 25 make them so much more viable even before condition damage is added.

Guardian feels like a boring sack of bricks to play in PvP, every map you do the same thing, stand alone on point call for help, burn cooldowns to survive and wait for your team to come and kill everything.

1- The lack of scaling traits.
2- Some of the traits we can pick up are great at lower levels, but once you get to 80 they become trivial.
3-Obviously the solution would be to make them scale with level. Though the actual amounts are beyond me and would require someone versed in this sort of thing to determine what would be “fair”.

1- The Scepter
2- I am not a child playing with a can of “bubble solution” and a blower stick. Also, the AOE attack for it is unreliable. Not every “fist” hits, even if you’re standing still in the dead center of the attack.
3- A change to the animation would be nice. Something with fists from the aforementioned AOE attack. Perhaps even making it appear as though we are punching our foes at a range.

the #5 hammer ability is interrupted if you move…. it would be way more useful if i could cast it on the run… but overall i love guardians.

the thing that bugs me the most is how much we suck at ranged.

exionn.8152:

the thing that bugs me the most is how much we suck at ranged.

I second this!

1) Vitalilty. It isn’t counted equally with each class. My ranger has 1.1k and 18k HP, my guardian 1.1k 13k HP. Not fair.

2) Guardians sometimes feel like ‘paper’…meaning if I get in a bind against 3 or more foes my guard goes down faster than my ranger. My toughness is 1.7k and I still drop like a rock in some cases.

Those two are my only issues with the guardian class. I finally built mine to a point where I like to be, high crit chance with high crit dmg. That plus my chance of burning every few seconds adds a nice touch.

Torch skills/talents don’t make much sense. One of it’s two skills (or three, if you count Torch 4’s secondary mode) doesn’t cause burning, and the one where you set yourself on fire doesn’t proc the talent that READS “when you are set on fire”. I’d like to be able to keep my opponents alight for a reasonable amount of time with a torch, thank you. Oh, and radiant fire is just sad. Really, really sad.

moonstarmac.4603:

1) Vitalilty. It isn’t counted equally with each class. My ranger has 1.1k and 18k HP, my guardian 1.1k 13k HP. Not fair.

2) Guardians sometimes feel like ‘paper’…meaning if I get in a bind against 3 or more foes my guard goes down faster than my ranger. My toughness is 1.7k and I still drop like a rock in some cases.

Those two are my only issues with the guardian class. I finally built mine to a point where I like to be, high crit chance with high crit dmg. That plus my chance of burning every few seconds adds a nice touch.

I agree 100% with you. Alot of groups I run with I end up taking the majority of the damage and at 17-18k HP depending on weapon I can’t take much from a boss or mob for very long.

This biggest problem I have with the Guardian is Altruistic Healing. I’m not saying it need nerfed but rather everything else needs buffed. Look at the number of builds that use this as a focus point. It argueably makes the Guardian last far longer in combat than any other potential build. However, it only marginally makes the Guardian survive longer than any other class. Our massive HP nerf impacts this. It’s already been said that we have around 5-6k less health than any other class, and we can often feel it. In fact, the only other trees that are worthwhile as a full investment are Honor and Virtues. Guardians, contrary to their name, better traits to support other builds so that Altruistic Healing doesn’t feel like the only option. ArenaNet should sit down and think about what traits can be buffed, merged (like the 9/14/12 patch), and added (as replacement).

On a side note, do any other classes have less health than other classes?

Elem has the same hp as guardian. Go wiki about health pool, and you can see it is divided by 3 different types. Warrior and Necro have the most hp. Guardian, thief and elem has the least hp and everything else is in the middle. Those hp difference are intended to balance different classes

Signet of Mercy is the most worthless signet. The cooldown sucks compared to every other classes ranged rez ability(support utility) and it has almost a 4 second cast time. In other words it’s pretty useless. I would greatly appreciate a buff to it. Be it in cooldown, cast, or range i’ll take any of the three preferably 2/3.