Guild Wars 2

There were some nice buffs but here’s a list of traits I still feel to be too weak or need to be adjusted from their proposed changes.

Zeal:

Zealots Speed is still the same and yet it provides no speed. Maybe an overhaul would work better.

Zealous scepter/Wrathful spirit: both still don’t seem strong enough to compete with Fiery Wrath. Put a 10% dmg increase and fix projectiles with scepter and maybe add something else aside from ret for Wrathful spirit.

Zealous Blade/Binding jeopardy: Like above, these don’t seem significant enough to compete with Kindled Zeal. The healing/dmg bonus from zealous blade is still a pittance.

Radiance:

Renewed Justice: I’d like to see another affect added onto this aside from reactivating upon a kill(especially as a master minor)

Healers Retribution: Duration seems very small for the long cd heals Guardians possess. This seems incredibly weak in comparison to both Right-handed strength and Inner Fire.

Radiant retaliation: The dmg from retal overall is incredibly small, even with a ton of power. I see this as another weak alternative to the other two.

Valor:

Valorous defense: Even with the ICD cut in half, the overall affect of this trait is largely unnoticed.

Courageous return: Just like Renewed Justice, I’d like to see another affect added onto this seeing as how useless these revive/kill on traits are during combat.

Retributive Armor: Seeing as how the Guardian must either have Monks Focus or Altruistic healing for survival, I don’t see this trait providing any sustain and thus is lacking.

Honor:

Symbol of Protection: Fall traits need to be either merged with other traits or have an added effect.

Empowering Might: Surprised to see this is still the same, I don’t think many took it since there was an ICD along with a very short duration attached. Maybe this needs to be overhauled.

Force of Will: Still a very unimaginative trait. This is competing against Pure of Voice which is one of the best traits(still) in the game and a very promising symbol trait.

Virtues:

Retaliatory Subconsciousness: ICD is way too long and duration is way too short.

Permeating Wrath/Battle Presence: Both are incredibly underwhelming when compared to Indomitable courage.

General

Until we know what skills have changed, we can still assume that scepter auto is widely unreliable. Also, I think a lot of us were hoping for a 25% movement trait seeing as how the Guardian lacks swiftness and soft CC.