Guild Wars 2

I worked my derrière off making my legenday Greatsowrd and legendary Sword. It was no small task, as most of you know it’s the ultimate crafting item and a test to your patience if you don’t want to invest real money in the process. I got one precursor from MF bought the other one.

I play the current Meta build for PvE that’s why I decided to craft those legendaries.

Now it seems that DPS guardian is forced to include symbols as part of his build and it seems to me that this new type of traitlines doesn’t add any diversity and makes it rather stiff with no variation when it comes to PvE. Right now, if we want optimal DPS, we can chose between the GS/SF build and the Hammer FotM build. Also, we can chose between sword and mace for 1h weapon as they have similar DPS in auto-attack.

Being forced to chose only 3 traitlines is restrictive and becomes even more restrictive when most of the traits that are DPS related are getting nerfed and, once more I say this, we are forced to play with symbols if we want optimal DPS. I want to play with my lengendary GS and legendary Sword, I worked hard for them.

I’ve never asked for anything on this forum (I think it’s useless to do it) but I really think that the game devs need to sit down and analyze what’s the direction where they’re heading the guardian. Between this and the Dragon Hunter I might start looking for a new game to play.

TL;DR: I don’t want to play with symbols because I have Twillight and Bolt. New Guardian build (optimal DPS for PvE) is restrictive and dreadful, DH also sucks for what we have seen. Guardian going all the way the downward spiral!

Pick mesmers they will be gods with gs sw

But I don’t like butterflies. Besides that Mesmer with a GS in PvE is a no no. Guardian is my main but have been playing Warrior a lot lately (might stay warrior now). It’s sad not only because my legendaries but because besides boosting othger classes they’re nerfing us hard and giving little/no choice.

Also crafted first Bolt, then Twilight. Made Moot not long ago, currently working on Jugger.

WTB epic focus skin. Need reason to craft FProf.

Outside of vanity why bother? It has been known for some time now that they are not great at skill / trait balance and we knew the exp was upon us.

Anyone crafting ascended gear this late in the game. I know you said legendary but it is almost in the same category outside shiny and sparkles…

I use swordxtorch/GS myself. Your not the only one getting the hilt with this upcoming patch.

I play Condi guardian right now which is quite strong. It’s getting huge buffs with the new traits. It uses GS and can use sword (although I prefer scepter) I’d try that.

Going to write a guide for it with the new specializations.

Silhouette.5631:

I use swordxtorch/GS myself. Your not the only one getting the hilt with this upcoming patch.

Glad to know I’m not the only one. Sad to see Sword is now useless and the effort of the one that made a Legendary or some other Swords that require a lot of effort (Infinite Light for example) is going down the drain.

Mallis.4295:

I play Condi guardian right now which is quite strong. It’s getting huge buffs with the new traits. It uses GS and can use sword (although I prefer scepter) I’d try that.

Going to write a guide for it with the new specializations.

I tried condi for some time in PvP, was not really my thing. Don’t know if the condi buff will be enough to make it viable in PvE, if so I will be happy to read your guide ^^ and contribute if I can.

I think in pvp is the GS the best option to fight with symbols.
It’s very important to use the symbols at the right time and with the Hammer u cant.

NumenorLord.6539:

I tried condi for some time in PvP, was not really my thing. Don’t know if the condi buff will be enough to make it viable in PvE, if so I will be happy to read your guide ^^ and contribute if I can.

It’ll definitely be viable in PvE now. The new damage output is much higher than before plus the condition cap is raised.

Imagine if you had crafted Juggernaut and Moot, and the skull updates changed from H+M/T to GS+S/F. It would be a great change because you’re benefiting from it. Opinions are relative.

Also, of you said you want to use the optimal builds, but technically optimal is singular. I don’t get why you’d complain about being so restricted when you’re looking for the top performer (GS+S/F isn’t the highest either. That distinction goes to Scepter and Torch). If you’re talking about viable builds (usable for the content) there’s plenty that will exist.

If you absolutely cannot stay guardian, Ranger GS+S/Wh will have very nice builds for pve and wvw.