Guild Wars 2

how in the nine hells are guardians balanced again ? almost every single guard that runs ranked is a trapper guard , they can block almost anything kill you with almost no actual skill while other classes have to dance around them. traps in general need a rework for pvp as do many other guard skills, maybe have them seperated for pvp and pve ?

Pro Tip l2p….
Sry but if u die to a trap guard u r the Problem and not the bad designed traps

On WvW they are easy to defeat, it works that way on pvp cause they are good at power creep burst situations wich pvp is all about, just when people mindlessy fall in their traps or get lured like a mob.

I love it. When the second ranked season was out people were constantly complaining about Guardian traps and then halfway through the season nobody complained about them anymore and you would barely see any guardians because people learned how to play around them.
Now in this season there are more guardians out and about than ever and people are back to whining about traps. History sure does like to repeat itself.

Legiion.7385:

Pro Tip l2p….
Sry but if u die to a trap guard u r the Problem and not the bad designed traps

Pro Tip get ready for deserved nerfs

MarkoNS.3261:

Legiion.7385:

Pro Tip l2p….
Sry but if u die to a trap guard u r the Problem and not the bad designed traps

Pro Tip get ready for deserved nerfs

Alot of players were used to play broken builds, since those stats got removed also hurted some classes that were ok with them.

THe issue is how Anet manages balance in terms of stats effectivness for classes, not traps, if a player gets lured to melee and trap range of a DH expect traps….

MarkoNS.3261:

Legiion.7385:

Pro Tip l2p….
Sry but if u die to a trap guard u r the Problem and not the bad designed traps

Pro Tip get ready for deserved nerfs

You sure seem salty. Git Gud lol

Guardians are the best class … it just needs bad players to make them that way.

MarkoNS.3261:

Legiion.7385:

Pro Tip l2p….
Sry but if u die to a trap guard u r the Problem and not the bad designed traps

Pro Tip get ready for deserved nerfs

Your prediction leaves me cold. Right now play close on lege and really rarely see guardian in team.

Guardian is really useless in hight lvl game when you dont play bunker

MarkoNS.3261:

Legiion.7385:

Pro Tip l2p….
Sry but if u die to a trap guard u r the Problem and not the bad designed traps

Pro Tip get ready for deserved nerfs

You do know traps have been out for close to a year now, right?There’s a gold mine of info and videos on how to counter and make Guards waste them. DH/Guard hasn’t changed all that much recently. They’ve always had blocks…Your Thread is titled “Let’s talk about Guards” but you really just complained. You should be asking for help on fighting the new builds that have popped up recently. Or how to fight them in general. These kinds of salty sounding threads don’t get you anywhere OP. Go read in all the Profession forums and see where threads like this one gets you. Spend you time learning and practicing instead of QQing. Please.

What is it with people coming here and trying to talk down to this community like it’s an intervention?

MarkoNS.3261:

how in the nine hells are guardians balanced again ? almost every single guard that runs ranked is a trapper guard , they can block almost anything kill you with almost no actual skill while other classes have to dance around them. traps in general need a rework for pvp as do many other guard skills, maybe have them seperated for pvp and pve ?

Ok, first off guards are entirely absent from high ranked SPvP, so if you’re seeing a bunch of them, we have a pretty good idea of what the game thinks your skill level is: Not high.

The majority of balancing focuses on skilled play because even the Devs themselves would tell you the first thing that needs to change about your experience is you need to get better at playing against them before they’re going to fret about nerfing them. Trap-heavy Guards are extraordinarily predicable and the counter-play against them is both well understood and available to EVERY profession.

Read over the last set of patch notes – Guards are getting buffed, not nerfed. That’s a giant billboard sign saying they’ve under performed for a while. Doubly so for the profession the Devs treat as the pivot point around which other classes rise and fall. “In a good place” has been the Guardian’s curse and glory for YEARS now. So instead of shrieking for nerfs that are unlikely to come for 6-9 months, maybe try asking “what am I doing wrong?” because the problem’s NOT the profession…