Guild Wars 2

cause balance kappa

“Sir, guard is already useless in raids/pve, unless you are in a nap noob group.”

“That’s only the beginning, let’s make him useless in pvp aswell, unless you are trying to stomp noobs in amber 5.”

“Nice idea, noob content should be guardians niche. But weren’t guards already non-meta for competitive play?”

“Defining weakpoints and adding weakpoints, my young padawan.”

Necro did get nerfed. But Mesmer got buffed.. soooo.. yea

We are in a good spot hype train…..wreck

Kronicle.4652:

Necro did get nerfed. But Mesmer got buffed.. soooo.. yea

Yup Mesmer was already the best 1v1 duelist and now………..its even better! ROFL

Expect to see full mesmer teams in season 3

Spartacus.3192:

Kronicle.4652:

Necro did get nerfed. But Mesmer got buffed.. soooo.. yea

Yup Mesmer was already the best 1v1 duelist and now………..its even better! ROFL

Expect to see full mesmer teams in season 3

Except you won’t. Mesmer wells were buffed alongside Scepter that no one uses in pvp. Sword is still the better option and that was untouched (main hand).

The only thing of significance to Mesmer that was buffed was Flow of Time which granted .75 seconds of alacrity per illusion shattered to 1 second of alacrity per illusion shattered. Hardly a game breaking buff that will make people swarm to Mesmer.

phokus.8934:

Spartacus.3192:

Kronicle.4652:

Necro did get nerfed. But Mesmer got buffed.. soooo.. yea

Yup Mesmer was already the best 1v1 duelist and now………..its even better! ROFL

Expect to see full mesmer teams in season 3

Except you won’t. Mesmer wells were buffed alongside Scepter that no one uses in pvp. Sword is still the better option and that was untouched (main hand).

The only thing of significance to Mesmer that was buffed was Flow of Time which granted .75 seconds of alacrity per illusion shattered to 1 second of alacrity per illusion shattered. Hardly a game breaking buff that will make people swarm to Mesmer.

You’re forgetting all the FOTM rerollers that were facerolling on Necros and will now switch to mesmer since double MOA and Shatters are still easy way to kill 1v1. The rerollers will not stay on necro with that chill damage change. They sure as heck not coming to DH.

You know the spike damage reduction & control reduction would be fine if wards & traps had more utility (like pulsing boons to allies, clearing conditions etc…)

But they were already very very predictable and easy to counter, and they were all the guardian really had (even then they only worked vs ppl not paying attention or who didn’t know how to counter them)

Without giving them more utility the change is just another reason to roll something else. (scrapper, ele & rev still do guardians job much better then guardian does with greater flexibility.)

Condi Necro got gutted – what are you talking about

I don’t understand it.
Why Anet kicks Guardian so hard in the bottom?
Every other professions performs in every ground that Guardian could, but much better.
What Guard is good for, beside dropping some stabs?

My decision to retire Guardian and move to Mesmer is worth…

DarkForcE.9210:

My decision to retire Guardian and move to Mesmer is worth…

^ i highly recommend people move to mesmer or rev. I have rev experience (season 1 and 2) and will be ok with that but im going to test out mesmer as well for next season i just dont think it suits my playstyle.

Excluding CC skill caps, trueshot and test-of-faith were pretty much the only skills to be nerfed. Albeit by a large margin, but many skills received buffs as well.

Razor.9872:

Excluding CC skill caps, trueshot and test-of-faith were pretty much the only skills to be nerfed. Albeit by a large margin, but many skills received buffs as well.

Yep, they just nerfed the kitten out of the only viable spells and gave completely kittenty stuff a minor, useless improvement.

Razor.9872:

Excluding CC skill caps, trueshot and test-of-faith were pretty much the only skills to be nerfed. Albeit by a large margin, but many skills received buffs as well.

Actually they DESTROYED our effectiveness in 3v3 and up cuz hunters ward will NEVER EVER land on players without mental issues

Man all these posts make me not want to play my guard anymore, the bunker thing does not sound fun I like the mix of melee/magic of this class, possibly range/melee once I get the expansion.

Ryou.2398:

Man all these posts make me not want to play my guard anymore, the bunker thing does not sound fun I like the mix of melee/magic of this class, possibly range/melee once I get the expansion.

if you like a mix of melee and magic roll a ele or rev.

You will be able to do the same job better + provide more boon support and have more flexibility.

The same is true for engineer/scrapper they just don’t have the feel of “magic”

Ive tried ele and its really not, the conjuration weapons are fairly lackluster to much like what people claim the spirit weapons to be here.

Dont have the expansion yet and ive heard many claim that guardians are fine and read plenty of detailed info, I will probably continue to play mine.

Ryou.2398:

Ive tried ele and its really not, the conjuration weapons are fairly lackluster to much like what people claim the spirit weapons to be here.

Dont have the expansion yet and ive heard many claim that guardians are fine and read plenty of detailed info, I will probably continue to play mine.

Dont bother with ele conjur’s.

Run dagger dagger or dagger warhorn with http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYncMA9XiVYCOYCcYilGAToAEA+gE5gZwPw9yuZHtA

You will do more damage then a guardian, have more mobility, better condition cleanse & more healing as well (much more if you go with menders amulet)
The build can also be altered if you want to go full on tank to use earth instead of air.
Also the amount of reflects you can get with shouts, warhorn and the trait embued melodies is just insane and will shut down range builds.

Scrapper has a build with similar potential and while it recently lost some self healing it is still rather tanky and has more CC then guardian could ever hope for.