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Patch for Spet 14th; Guardian changes
What about Bow of Truth?? You couldn’t summon it while moving before?
As for Defender’S Shield +Honorable Shield, pretty nice. But I don’t think I’m willing to give up my 3 blocks from focus for that yet, in pve that is.
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In pve and pvp, focus is far better still.
Also, 45 sec cd on on that chill from hammer?
Far too long.
Hammer is still too slow and its damage isnt considerably higher to surpress a gs.
I wonder if Glacial Heart will be on the Valor Trait line… Despite that long cool down, that sounds like something I should definitely snag as a Hammer user.
I think it’s a fair assumption that Glacial Heart will be a Valor Major trait, since one of the Valor Major traits will be missing after the merge.
Still have to agree that focus is much better than shield, which is disappointing.
I think it’s a fair assumption that Glacial Heart will be a Valor Major trait, since one of the Valor Major traits will be missing after the merge.
Still have to agree that focus is much better than shield, which is disappointing.
The shield does synergize well with scepter though. One of my favorite combinations is scepter/shield + sword/focus, it’s a great balance between offense and defense.
Playable Tengu please!
Sigh. No wind-up reduction on the third combo swing… was hoping I’d be pulling that hammer out of my bag tomorrow. That’s literally the ONLY problem I have with using Hammers for any length of time.
In pve and pvp, focus is far better still.
Also, 45 sec cd on on that chill from hammer?
Far too long.
Hammer is still too slow and its damage isnt considerably higher to surpress a gs.
This ^.
They should have made it apply a 5 second cripple on critical hit with a 10 second cool down.
Why wasn’t the leap distance on hammer made the same way as on the greatsword? To move to your targets location rather than going forward?
Interesting, didn’t even think we needed the shield buff but I’ll take it.
- New trait Glacial Heart: Critical hits with a hammer have a 50% chance to chill your target for 4 seconds. This effect can only occur once every 45 seconds.
45 seconds? Way too long of a cool-down to be a viable trait pick.
This ^.
They should have made it apply a 5 second cripple on critical hit with a 10 second cool down.
I agree sooo much, while I agree that chilled fits better in the guardian concept, 45 second is just TOO much!!
the problem is, that Anet is extremely unlikely to take back this trait. Of course they have their own way of determing the usefulness of a newly implemented trait. (No idea how this testing is be done) And something or someone, even if we are talking about 5 people (or less) here was of the opinion that this trait is super.
I am yet to see any official statement about the trait changes. In GW1 Anet always said something about why they changed a certain mechanic. They seem to busy.
Interesting, didn’t even think we needed the shield buff but I’ll take it.
Weapon traits that reduce cooldown and something else are being merged often, I’m pretty sure over time all of them will be.
Playable Tengu please!
They haven’t updated the tooltip for the combined traits, to someone only looking in game it just looks as though Defenders Shield has been removed and Glacial Heart added.
Weapon traits that reduce cooldown and something else are being merged often, I’m pretty sure over time all of them will be.
I think that’s probably fair, as there seems to be a lot of traits and having to decide on which, or take both, wasn’t a particularly fun choice to make. Personally, I always went with toughness.
Weapon traits that reduce cooldown and something else are being merged often, I’m pretty sure over time all of them will be.
I think that’s probably fair, as there seems to be a lot of traits and having to decide on which, or take both, wasn’t a particularly fun choice to make. Personally, I always went with toughness.
I always went with the cooldown since 90 toughness isn’t going to make as much of a difference to a regen/tough/vit guardian while a reduced cooldown to Shield of Judgement and Shield of Absorption gave more survivability. I still find it annoying that detonate doesn’t pop the bubble and stop the shielding animation yet however.
Playable Tengu please!
Hammer is still too slow and its damage isnt considerably higher to surpress a gs.
Working as intended. It’s the control weapon for guardians, not their high direct damage weapon. Take a look at every other class, except necros, and you’ll see that they have a range of weapons that suit differing styles of play. The way the game is designed is not for you pick your weapon and then decide what you’ll do with it, it’s you pick what you want to do and then pick your weapon, utilities, and traits.
In pve and pvp, focus is far better still.
Also, 45 sec cd on on that chill from hammer?
Far too long.
Hammer is still too slow and its damage isnt considerably higher to surpress a gs.
I think it’s too short actually because it has a chance to proc every hit, unless it’s on cd. Chill is pretty decent, slowing by 66% both move speed and cd recharges. 4 seconds is near 3 seconds additional cd for foes. Compare it to other major traits that have a cd, hammer’s trait is the best of them. AoE Burn when you reach 25% HP? 60 seconds CD! Creates a Symbol of Wrath when you reach 25% HP? 30 seconds CD!
I wish Glacial Heart would be for the weapons I use.
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Two things about the Guardian, post this patch:
- Writ of Persistance and Writ of Exultation feel like they should be combined. Would that be too strong as a Tier 1 Trait?
- Smite Condition really should be a Blast Combo Finisher.
Heroes of the Horn [HotH] – Yak’s Bend
Smite Condition is absolutely fine as is. Amazing skill.
Shield with scepter is amazing. I have managed to neutralize/cap a node just because I could push the enemy away with the shield and then immobilize with the scepter.
Hammer is still too slow and its damage isnt considerably higher to surpress a gs.
Working as intended. It’s the control weapon for guardians, not their high direct damage weapon. Take a look at every other class, except necros, and you’ll see that they have a range of weapons that suit differing styles of play. The way the game is designed is not for you pick your weapon and then decide what you’ll do with it, it’s you pick what you want to do and then pick your weapon, utilities, and traits.
Actually it isn’t working as intended. A red posted regarding the Hammer saying there are some quality of life changes coming to the hammer to make it more responsive and fluid to the player instead of being slow and clunky.
I think these are the changes that were referred to
Hammer is still not worth it imo. Only reason I see any real reason to use a hammer is for that chill since dps is lower than GS. Furthermore, it is too much to invest in the chill compared to other options. With a scepter/focus, I can immbolize the target for half the time and still be able to use the block on the focus. Not to mention I have to invest a ton of trait points to achieve this. Definitely not worth the investment.
Actually it isn’t working as intended. A red posted regarding the Hammer saying there are some quality of life changes coming to the hammer to make it more responsive and fluid to the player instead of being slow and clunky.
Your post was comparing hammer dps to greatsword, not fluidity. Don’t shift the goal posts. I have no expectations that the hammer will equal or rival the greatsword when it comes to damage given its superior control options.
Smite Condition is absolutely fine as is. Amazing skill.
Yeah, and? I’m not saying it’s a bad skill, I’m saying (especially after seeing Arcane Wave) that it should be a Blast Combo Finisher. It changes nothing about the skill, just adds to it.
Heroes of the Horn [HotH] – Yak’s Bend
Smite Condition is absolutely fine as is. Amazing skill.
Yeah, and? I’m not saying it’s a bad skill, I’m saying (especially after seeing Arcane Wave) that it should be a Blast Combo Finisher. It changes nothing about the skill, just adds to it.
And we don’t need buffs ‘just cause’. Pick something that actually needs work if you’re going to have them spend time on the class. They’re not just going to say ‘oh yea lets just make that a blast finisher for the hell of it’.
In fact, are ANY utility skills for us finishers? I know elementalists get some from arcane. Doesn’t seem like our thing.
So because we have none, means we shouldn’t get any? I mean we’ve got combo fields in our Utilities, but we shouldn’t have finishers? I mean Warriors get Banners, Eles get Arcane Wave, Necros get Putrid Explosion & Necrotic Transversal and those are just the Blast finshers. There are others for the other finishers.
Heroes of the Horn [HotH] – Yak’s Bend
eh it’s up to the devs, I just don’t see them making a change like that. It isn’t needed. If you want a blast finisher that’s what the hammer is for.
I think these are the changes that were referred to
Doubtful, since the thread was about the actual hammer abilities, and not traits. I think this was done as a stopgap, giving the shield a bit of a boost while giving hammer users a nice perk for now. It’s not like the 2nd tier of Valor is that good, anyway (imo).
I don’t think, given the criticism of the hammer in the guardian community, that Anet would have this fast of a turnaround on hammer and only give us this. It doesn’t address anything that holds the hammer back from being a go-to weapon for guardians. I think the timer needs to be lowered to ~30s, though…45 seems meaningless when you consider how easy it is to remove conditions at times. I’d rather have a hammer crit create a glacial field to combo through, and not simply add a freeze condition. Or, a new symbol that causes slow inside of it, mayhaps? =p