Guild Wars 2

It absolutely sucks. Its one of the few downed states that when I go down I know im dead. It has never, ever ever saved me once. Id rather just die an get it over with instead of waving my hand in the air delaying the inevitable for another 30 seconds.

Mainly due to the damage it does, its horrible.

If you can get an interrupt/push back and time the symbol and heal together, it provides a good burst of healing to get you back on your feet. In a thick fight the chances of that happening are pretty slim though.

At most the ae pushback stops a lot of potential stompers and buys your allies time to revive you.

Almost no reason to channel your attack besides having nothing else available, you might as well at that point.

I don’t think guardian downstate sucks, I just think it should be closer to what the base is for other downstates. It has basic damage, an AoE stop avoidance, an AoE symbol heal, and basic heal. Comparing downstates is tricky as there are certain mechanics for each one that have pros/cons, and also are better when fighting another downed person, or fighting someone who is up.

Vs other downed people, the only people that should ever be able to kill you in a downed fight are warriors because of vengeance. and rangers because of how broken their #3 heal is. other than that, our symbol gives us a huge advantage to getting back up compared to all the other classes when downed.

The only times that ele gets an advantage is when they can run into towers/fully behind zergs, Mesmers get an advantage in 1v1 if someone is stupid enough to spam abilities on them, and generally only if they are condition spec, Engineers have one of the worst overall. Thieves are Eh, depends on numbers near them, and if they can get the stealth off, but solo are very weak.

But we get a healing symbol and a knockback, which can help if we get around to it. Believe me, it’s much better than the engineer’s abilities, and the necromancer has less downed state HP than they are supposed to.

3rd skill allows guards to heal in downed even if 4th get interrupted.

Real crap, right….give guards the ultra OP engi downed state! or the nec downed hp.

/sarcasm

not to mention our #2 gives an insta-rally if you happen to go down next to a cliff;)

Voltric.6920:

not to mention our #2 gives an insta-rally if you happen to go down next to a cliff;)

So much fun doing that… then again, Banishing a downed thief off a cliff felt like more poetic justice than anything I have ever done lol.

i love downed #2 on a cliff!

and i share those sentiments, Bash. once i saw a group of 3, 4 DPS-ing a downed thief, i just ran up and punted them off. XDD

and on a few occasions, i’ve had someone downed right next to me and once your #3 is up, you more or less have it in the bag as long as they are still close to you.

Guardian downed state is pretty good. I could see a slight buff to #1 damage, but the rest of it works well and fits guardian.