I just uploaded my 3rd gameplay video. I hit Diamond division last Thursday, but since I was traveling from Friday – Sunday I didn’t have a chance to edit the clips I recorded. Since I started in Division 3 I started off fighting Season 2 legendary players.
In this video I focused on showing clips of fights I prolonged until help arrived, assisted teammates in team fights, and secured stomps for my team.
First video: The fight around 2 minutes against the scrapper and rev was a fantastic display of your skill and the potential that DH has! Also, you in general make excellent use of JI. I’m actually kind of inspired to pick it back up myself haha (CoP has spoiled me).
Couple of questions for you if you don’t mind answering:
1. Toget to diamond division, how often did you solo queue vs. duo queue vs. team queue?
2. What are your thoughts on DH’s capabilities in conquest vs. stronghold?
Tis a jolly display of abilities.
Don’t show off too much though or else we will get more nerfs Just kidding, it’s nice to see that some guardians are still doing their job well but let’s be honest here.
You had a good backup in your team that helped you out just right, also it seemed to me like enemies had a problem to focus you down.
In the end of the day, every rule has an exception. There is always someone who can make something work in a briliant way. Job well done mate…
…if only I had such smooth frame rate :F
Show some videos of when you faced people your skill level or even slightly higher. I would imagine it would go something like focus fired and dead as soon as you blew your defensive cooldowns in group fights and laughable 1v1 where you couldn’t take your opponent below 50% health and then died horribly once your defensive cooldowns were down. I wouldnt be so negative but stuff like this encourages people to play the most substandard spvp class currently, which is guardian, and that really shouldn’t be encouraged. Not a guardian hater either I mained mine for two and a half years. But you are hurting your team at even skill levels playing one it’s really a simple fact.
First video: The fight around 2 minutes against the scrapper and rev was a fantastic display of your skill and the potential that DH has! Also, you in general make excellent use of JI. I’m actually kind of inspired to pick it back up myself haha (CoP has spoiled me).
Couple of questions for you if you don’t mind answering:
1. Toget to diamond division, how often did you solo queue vs. duo queue vs. team queue?
2. What are your thoughts on DH’s capabilities in conquest vs. stronghold?
Hey man!
1. Out of those 34 matches, 1 was a duo queue and the other 33 were solo queues. The duo queue match was a complete flop. We lost 500-50 roughly. I wanted to give it a shot with a friend, but the thing is, when you duo queue you will surely get matched against another partial or full pre-made. Knowing that, if you do queue with other people you have to make sure both of you are ready to give 100%…
2. I don’t touch stronghold outside of hot join. The main factor in winning stronghold is knowing what exactly to do in that game mode. In conquest we are pretty valuable for our ability to burst enemies down on point and +1 from afar… I think we’re good in both, and our role is the same for both.
Show some videos of when you faced people your skill level or even slightly higher. I would imagine it would go something like focus fired and dead as soon as you blew your defensive cooldowns in group fights and laughable 1v1 where you couldn’t take your opponent below 50% health and then died horribly once your defensive cooldowns were down. I wouldnt be so negative but stuff like this encourages people to play the most substandard spvp class currently, which is guardian, and that really shouldn’t be encouraged. Not a guardian hater either I mained mine for two and a half years. But you are hurting your team at even skill levels playing one it’s really a simple fact.
The people I face should be at my skill level or better. I started in Division 3 this season with the rest of the legendary players. Do you think they got there by luck? Guardian can do a lot for a team if it’s played right. I’ve met a lot of people that dislike Guardian in its current state and hate when they get teamed up with one. I don’t feel like dead weight. Out of 34 games I lost 2. With as many people complaining about the division grind right now I think that speaks to my ability.
Thank you for your feedback, and I will work on improving my videos more and more.
1st video: you were almost all match with full hp, noone even focuses you, that scrapper in mid is tanking 2 ppl – tipical bad enemy team – that does not proove Guardian is viable.
didn’t even watched others cause of 1st video.
In my team first focus is DH always cause they are deadly if noone attacking them if we don’t have tempest.
As you said you lost to premades that know what to do, bragging about wins vs casuals is meh.
Hmm, I’m not bragging anywhere. All of my videos are posted with the intention of letting people see my Guardian gameplay and hopefully help shape the way they play for the better.
I didn’t say I lost to pre-mades bc they know what to do. I lost to a 4/5 pre-made when i duo queued with a friend. I’d rather solo queue and end up against other people solo queuing or hopefully at the most duo queuing. I encountered a lot of pre-mades in those 34 games…
There are lots of bad players solo queing, thats why in real competitive teams there are no DH cause everyone counters them easily. (if they have tempest and scrapper in their team you are mostly useless).
So, are you saying I’m bad or the people I played against are bad? I understand that only one competitive team so far has used DH. That was last season though. It would be nice to see more DH representation this season. I don’t think a lot of professions counter DH as much right now. Some counters do exist. If s/f ele was more viable we would be highly threatened by them though!
I just want to let everyone know I appreciate their feedback. I don’t expect everyone to find my videos great, but I hope that some people find that they help them improve. I also understand putting yourself out there opens you up to criticism. I’ve had a lot of criticism given to me in my life, and I will continue to get it until the day I die. Feel free to discuss how you feel and think about my content.
The problem is anet doesn’t know what to do with guardian. They said as much in on point. Having high spike means scrubs will die to it, so they can’t buff it. However they even acknowledged that it isn’t viable on high level play.
The problem is anet doesn’t know what to do with guardian. They said as much in on point. Having high spike means scrubs will die to it, so they can’t buff it. However they even acknowledged that it isn’t viable on high level play.
They don’t have to buff dragonhunter damage, they could buff our party support builds or make traits my synergistic. They just can’t be bothered.
The fact that he isn’t facing “good” players doesn’t detract from the fact that he’s playing DH to its near full potential. He’s got good rotations, decent reflexes and does a great job of managing distance between himself and the targets. Also he was indeed being focused plenty but the enemy team never did a great job of ccing first before the burst (rauls either avoided it or popped a stunbreak).
From my experience I’d agree though: a scrapper and/or tempest really throws a monkey wrench at DH’s viability.
Though it is nice to see that there are still guardians who struggle in pvp, I think we should sit down for a bit and wait.
Calling out for help and buffs for our class doesn’t seem to work as long as Devs don’t realise how much they have been harming this profession so far.
Maybe if our population falls down drastically, they might do something but somehow I honestly feel that if something like that happened, they could just be like “meh, almost nobody plays it, why bother?”
The fact that he isn’t facing “good” players doesn’t detract from the fact that he’s playing DH to its near full potential. He’s got good rotations, decent reflexes and does a great job of managing distance between himself and the targets. Also he was indeed being focused plenty but the enemy team never did a great job of ccing first before the burst (rauls either avoided it or popped a stunbreak).
From my experience I’d agree though: a scrapper and/or tempest really throws a monkey wrench at DH’s viability.
So, are you saying I’m bad or the people I played against are bad? I understand that only one competitive team so far has used DH. That was last season though. It would be nice to see more DH representation this season. I don’t think a lot of professions counter DH as much right now. Some counters do exist. If s/f ele was more viable we would be highly threatened by them though!
Nah, this happens with every video produced. Always gotta be someone nitpicking stuff from a 3rd person point of view and/or projecting their own insecurities onto you because dear lord, mistakes happened in a game! Essentially, when you post your own gameplay, there’s this assumption you are proud of it and bragging, although there is a distinction that people frequently miss. Basically, https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Packet_of_Salt
When sufficiently salty, the salter cannot do anything to improve their situation so the only thing they can do is to bring down others.
Anyhow, Thanks for producing stuff like this.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been and there you will long to return.
First of all hat off for you, (for achieving something that for our profession is near forbidden)
Second did you feel any feeling of powerless sometimes when you faced some of the current leading classes in pvp ? (that are wrecking our class brutally)
Happen so many times to me that it made me near giving up on the guardian/DH and take a faceroller
Thanks man. Oh yeah, I’ve gotten discouraged tons of times. Especially when I start to lose a lot more matches than I’m used to. When it happens I think about what I could do differently. A lot of Guardians “viability” depends on sigils and the rune you use. I eventually figure out a new way to play that helps my team out more, and gets me more wins. “Sustain” matches really annoy me, because it’s hard to sustain a Guardian through some of the meta stuff. I’ve thought about giving up too. Just gotta keep pushing
Good vids, solid mechanics and usage of teleports/LOS.
But i still don’t like GS over sword/focus, GS has more cc potential and aoe/cleave, but in many instances in your video, a sword swap with flashing blade/focus 5 would have secured a burst instead of dragging out the fight for 10-20 secs longer waiting for spear or JI recharge.
with sword, you can dip in and out of fights 3x as often with flashing blade to either re-position or disengage (drag 1 person out of mid, flash back to mid etc). The AoE cleave isn’t there but with the state of the guardian, cleaving in the middle of a downed body cluster eff isn’t exactly the safest thing in the world for us.
If you don’t already use generosity on LB, you should give it a try, its been a staple in my build since season 2. Air/Generosity on LB and leeching/hydro on sword/focus for burst.
Darknicrofia Sage – Bad Gerdian, Merciless Legend, Platinum NA Solo Que
I’m still curious on your choice of GS over Sw/Foc
GS is more of a group-fight weapon and can punish a ressing attempt like no other, but in gerdians’ current state, being in the middle of a cluster youknowhat is just asking for punishment.
Personally i’ve stuck to opting to getting home at start, watching crosses, generally picking smaller scale fights because imo its more advantageous for us to be in 1v1/2v2’s as opposed to larger fights and in single target instances, sword/focus is much better than GS.
Darknicrofia Sage – Bad Gerdian, Merciless Legend, Platinum NA Solo Que
I use GS over sw/fc, because I like GS more, honestly. I know the weapon really well. It has burst that has a better chance of landing IMO. It has less survivability, but that’s okay, because I get survivability in other places to make up for it (sigil of blood & kiting w traveler’s runes). I also get another leap finisher, so I can get more light aura. I can use GS’ mobile ability without a target. I feel like GS hits harder too, especially auto hit #3. GS 2 is great for clearing blocking abilities that end after one hit.
I start off by going to mid, and if we win it, then I go to far to keep the opponents attention away from our home. I’m pretty mobile, because of traveler’s.
I feel like sword is too weak in moments like when an ele casts swirling winds.
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Just kidding, it’s nice to see that some guardians are still doing their job well but let’s be honest here. 