Longbow Symbol of Energy
I was kind of surprised to see they made Symbol of Energy a light field after all the complaining about light fields in the past. Although all the other symbols are light fields as well so it doesn’t really come as a surprise.
I know at one point the developers were reconsidering how combo fields work and I still hope they have plans to change it. Here is the link to it.
Would be nice, doubt it will happen though. As Noah said best we can hope for is them changing up a few things.
Also Giving vigor per pulse seems kinda off. I mean you have to stand still for 4 seconds to get something that helps you dodge more often.
Retaliation, swiftness, might or protection would make more sense.
You mean all those things that we can already do? Nah Vigor is great. It gives those zerkers more dodges so they can most and keep zerkin.
I think we are more successful to request a trait in a future elite that will change our light to something else. I doubt we would get fire even though thematically, we burn stuff.
You mean all those things that we can already do? Nah Vigor is great. It gives those zerkers more dodges so they can most and keep zerkin.
The thing is they have to stand still for 4 seconds to get the vigor.
That’s kind of counter productive when you want to dodge more often.
If your going to stand still its much better to be getting protection, retaliation or regeneration so at least the damage you take is inflicted back in kind or somewhat negated.
You mean all those things that we can already do? Nah Vigor is great. It gives those zerkers more dodges so they can most and keep zerkin.
The thing is they have to stand still for 4 seconds to get the vigor.
That’s kind of counter productive when you want to dodge more often.
If your going to stand still its much better to be getting protection, retaliation or regeneration so at least the damage you take is inflicted back in kind or somewhat negated.
New Writ of Persistence will extend it 2s and make the symbol larger (so people can dodge around in the symbol area or at least you can position it better) and it will give healing. If you want to Zeal trait it up, symbols will add vulnerability, burn, and you’ll do 20% more damage to target. Since the Symbol gives vigor, you’ll also gain the most from Selfless Daring.
What’ll be interesting to me is the relative position of the Dragonhunter. You’ll want to be within your larger symbol and your target within the symbol but far enough away of your target so that Shields of Courage (which extends 120-180 range forward from your position) so it can block for you and anyone behind you from ranged.
But If I bother to play Longbow, it’ll be a Zeal/Honor/Dragonhunter spec. But it’ll still be odd not playing Virtues for once so not sure until playing it. Zeal for Virtues may have to happen because, for some reason, the symbol traits are still spread far and wide across the entire class – unlike other classes with far more consolidated traits now. That is what is making my perception of the HoT Guardian weaker thus far.
ANet didn’t take the consolidated symbol traits far enough for Guardians (there should be one trait line with minor, major, grandmaster base symbol traits and all the other symbol abilities combined into one line).