Guild Wars 2

BURNING GUARDIAN

Guardian out of the meta? NO MORE SON!! After the 26th of January Guardian will be so meta, that you might not even need anything else!

We present you the Mercenary’s Amulet:

1050 Power
1050 Condition
560 Toughness
560 Vitality

Remember the Cancer Dire used to be in Roaming? Well kitten that kitten! It is useless now. Let give a more OP option for you to make you viable.
Thought Carrion was good enough? That trash? You are out of your mind!

Remove the dust of your Guardians FOR FREE!
Don’t forget! 26th of January

Let the noobs rage begin! We really don’t care anyway…

Guard is definitely one of the better condi classes in the game but, i’m curious exacly how much of a performamce boost the amulet gives over carrion.

If we see more marauder power builds, we may very well need the extra toughness to survive. Especially if thieves are getting buffed, im curious if we’re forced to use the amulet.

I still worry about the covering conditions since Guardians have access no such a thing by trait. (no the immob or the blind is not a covering condi). So we are still bound to poison-bleed sigils and we have absolutely NO scaling with them.

The condi guard is one of the best condi-burster in the game right now if the opponent does not use condi cleanse or transfer.

If they do… You are a mincemeat.

the new DS will still hard counter burn guards.

the top condi spec will still be viper revs, which can kitten out 10 stacks of torment and confusion just by looking at you while throwing stacks of chill, burn, poison, bleed, vul as cover condis.

Do you guiz think bunk guard will be back aswell?

Timston.1976:

Do you guiz think bunk guard will be back aswell?

Judging from the current PVP amulets being removed from the game they are going to slowly phase-out all bunker builds from sPVP.

Timston.1976:

Do you guiz think bunk guard will be back aswell?

It’s a possibility since the only somewhat bunker-ish amulet left is Cleric’s (which bunker guardians use). I kind of feel like druids would just be better in that regard though.

tear makes me sad. If I can’t bunk I don’t have fun with this game. I sincerely hope or I won’t be able to play again for 3 months

bunker guard can’t sustain itself against the elite specs of HoT.

2 banish enchantments, 1 axe/mace rotation followed by an unrelenting assault = bunker guard at 20% health, all CDs wasted and currently hobbling around with 10 stacks of torment, 8 stacks of confusion, 2 stacks of poison, 3 stacks of burn, 2 stacks of bleed and some duration of chill.

I don’t get it – balance around amulets/stats rather than actually looking at the class, traits, and go from there. Pointing at Revs as just one example of what is broke…

It could be possible, though rev and necro and maybe Mesmer will be trying to use this amulet to spread Cancer as well

Rev wont out perform their Viper amulet tbh. No clue where Necro’s will end up though.. with that scepter change they’re a wild card who could go either way.

Saiyan.1704:

Rev wont out perform their Viper amulet tbh. No clue where Necro’s will end up though.. with that scepter change they’re a wild card who could go either way.

The scepter change isn’t as big of a deal as everyone thinks. It will only really make them counter condi rev more easily. People don’t realize that when boons can be farted out every half second, removing just one at a time helps when focusing a target, but won’t make a huge impact in more even fights. Though I am glad that reaper will finally get viable tools besides signet spam to still have enough boon rip, and mercenaries amulet will basically be a mix of the old cele and carrion to them, which will be fairly strong.

Currently I am running Celestial on my Necro i was extremely happy with it now with Paladin it would go to another level 1050 power/condi plus perma 25 stacks of might, I will reck people.

Not to be a damper but Burn guard was never a thing, it was similar to the current Medi-trap DH that was gimmicky at first and then easily countered after people knew how to deal with it.

Arken.3725:

Not to be a damper but Burn guard was never a thing, it was similar to the current Medi-trap DH that was gimmicky at first and then easily countered after people knew how to deal with it.

It was a thing when Tage first brought it in the finals tourney. If only he equipped Supreme Justice and PW traits instead of that poor build and playstyle he brought to the game… he would have performed better. Thanks to his team making it to the finals, Metabattle coppied that poor build of his.

the full burst burn guard was literally the squishiest toon in the entire game, as soon as ANYONE made the guard a priority target, it would spend the entire match running from spawn to node.

Saiyan.1704:

Arken.3725:

Not to be a damper but Burn guard was never a thing, it was similar to the current Medi-trap DH that was gimmicky at first and then easily countered after people knew how to deal with it.

It was a thing when Tage first brought it in the finals tourney. If only he equipped Supreme Justice and PW traits instead of that poor build and playstyle he brought to the game… he would have performed better. Thanks to his team making it to the finals, Metabattle coppied that poor build of his.

I’m fairly certain he only used it once and that was it. Doesn’t make it viable. Just like how Medi-trapper was utilized once and never again.

And how he used Hammer in the first ESL… It was suddenly meta and I got some rude whispers from the opponents after that oRNG win (I’m a bandwagoner, a metabattle-hero, whatever…)… I did use hammer before Tage but nobody said a kitten word…

guardian hammer feels like an offhand compared to scrapper hammer :\

Darknicrofia.2604:

guardian hammer feels like an offhand compared to scrapper hammer :\

Next compare Spirit Weapons and Drones xD