Guardians and Blue Fire

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Posted by: CryingClouds.9738

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I pretty much only play guardian. I also play exclusively PvP (for the most part). I’m sapphire and I’ve been playing for around a month now. So this is just my perspective on everything.

There are a lot of things that I like about guardian but one thing that I really LOVE is the blue fire. I just feel like a firebending Azula kitten. It looks dam good. Like really freaking good. When you see blue fire, you know a guardian is around somewhere. SADLY, IT DOESN’T FUNCTION ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN NORMAL FIRE…Other classes, especially the meta ones, have so many different conditions (damage) in addition to burning. While guardians have fire, and arguably retaliation which I believe to be a thing of the past. (And chilling on hammer if you spec the trait…)

This is an aesthetic that ONLY guardians have access to. Instead of making this just some shallow recolor, I would LOVE to see some actual gameplay value when you see blue fire on the screen.

Ideas- (Just pointing out goals and a general direction) -

1) Make blue fire a separate condition from red fire. (You can still see both blue and red flames fairly easily, if you’ve ever played guardian) This gives guardians ‘another’ condition while still remaining within the theme.

2) Make blue fire have a different effect than red fire. This is another part of making blue fire distinct and different. So in terms of theme, torch 5 cleanses conditions off allies. How about making it ‘cleanse’ boons off enemies (over time), nearby allies lose conditions, but this fire deals less damage. Or something like that. I’m not the best at these ‘new’ idea things but it MUST function differently.

ANYWAY, I don’t usually like posting balance change stuff, but the guardian forum is dead, and I LOVE this profession kitten. I mean there are spirit weapons too, which I guess maybe turn into something like the engi kits? but one step at a time. Anyhow, this is something so core to the identity of the guardian that it makes no sense that it has zero difference in functionality. I just want a good balance patch man

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Posted by: merchantchuck.4875

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maybe blue fire can both burn and chill =0? haha I’d like that. Though I also like the idea of it cleansing condis and burning enemies.

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Posted by: Kamara.4187

Kamara.4187

maybe blue fire can both burn and chill =0? haha I’d like that. Though I also like the idea of it cleansing condis and burning enemies.

I like that! Freezer burn lol!

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Posted by: draxynnic.3719

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Holy damage, the predecessor to blue fire, did extra damage to undead. There’s no damage type tags in GW2 (apart from determining the death animations), but you could have a condition that is extra effective against summons (minions, phantasms, etc).

I don’t think it’s really necessary, though.

To those who think Scarlet hate means she’s succeeded as a villain:
People don’t hate Scarlet like Game of Thrones fans hate Joffrey.
They hate her the way Star Wars fans hate Jar Jar Binks.

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Posted by: Aeolus.3615

Aeolus.3615

1st April joke, when gw2 receives a “balance” update.

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Posted by: Chazcon.1867

Chazcon.1867

Guardians are Chandrian…

You say, “FOR THE VITAE!”
Ru says, “CHAZ!”
Simply Red tells you, “I am SO not recovering your body!”

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Posted by: Cecylio.1286

Cecylio.1286

If you enjoy blue fire… are you using greatsword as a weapon? Then I recommend you Cobalt, you’ll be amazed

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cobalt

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Posted by: Doon.2364

Doon.2364

You should call it Blue Flame like in Starcraft 2. Basically Blue Flame is stronger and kills faster than normal flame.

I think it would be cool if they let use choose the color of our flame. That would be a unique features of Guardians.

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Posted by: Akijo.7395

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If you enjoy blue fire… are you using greatsword as a weapon? Then I recommend you Cobalt, you’ll be amazed

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cobalt

Lots of Ascalonian Catacombs weapon have a blue flame around them during the night too I think. Or a blue aura of some sort.