Guild Wars 2

Dear Developers,

Right now I’m playing GS/swordXtorch + meditations. It’s great fun, however I’m taking traits from all 5 lines, and with the new system I’m going to have to rely on radiance line for most of my damage. (R.I.P fiery wrath but I don’t wanna grab all that symbol stuff with you.)

Plans are to make right handed strength to be changed to the go to sword trait. Great! I’m going to love having a powerful sword trait. I would not love however to be punished for using a sword/GS combo. Its hard enough with only having symbols on half my weapons(and feeling silly if I take zeal), please don’t make me feel nerfed any more for using these two weapons together. Make it a sword only trait, and take out the buff to other one handed weapons. Right now its the only weapon trait that affects things other than itself. That would be fine if it wasn’t the only one but it is and from what I can see right now I would be gimping myself if I didn’t go scepter/sword.

Also I’m finally getting a cool torch trait I’ll be using (praise Balthazar!) however I’m going to have to choose between that and a basic dps buff when using retaliation. I -always- have retaliation on, this is gonna hurt me(You know, on the inside). The big issue here feels like its making me pick between setting things on fire and going offensive with my retaliation up. As it is right now these things go hand in hand for me. They have always gone hand in hand for guardian. Set them on fire, pop my retaliation, go to town with a blade big or small. If this choice has to be forced for balance reasons, I understand that, but right now conceptually it feels weird how a person is being forced to choose between raw damage output/realiation and burn capability when so many other traits are made to fuse these things into a hybrid.

Also, nerf that third minor trait. That’s to much crit.

P.S. It’s going to be nice only having to use 3 trait lines for what I want. Thanks ahead of time for the update.

The thing with symbols is that they’re seemingly meant to be for guardians like what mesmers have with phantasms. Only problem is that unlike mesmers with phantasms, guardians don’t get a GUARANTEED symbol regardless of what weapon set they are using. Smite should be a symbol and I’d argue that sword 3 could be reworked to become a symbol skill so that there will be a symbol skill on every weapon set.

And no, pls don’t nerf the minor trait. It’ll help make up for the loss of crit chance that the radiance line currently provides through precision.

Black Box.9312:

The thing with symbols is that they’re seemingly meant to be for guardians like what mesmers have with phantasms. Only problem is that unlike mesmers with phantasms, guardians don’t get a GUARANTEED symbol regardless of what weapon set they are using. Smite should be a symbol and I’d argue that sword 3 could be reworked to become a symbol skill so that there will be a symbol skill on every weapon set.

And no, pls don’t nerf the minor trait. It’ll help make up for the loss of crit chance that the radiance line currently provides through precision.

I keep reading stuff like this. Am I crazy or did they not say you would be getting most of the stats from speccing trait lines through a combination of increased base and amulet stats. If you used to spec in radiance you are not losing 300 percision at least thats how I read it.

Black Box.9312:

The thing with symbols is that they’re seemingly meant to be for guardians like what mesmers have with phantasms. Only problem is that unlike mesmers with phantasms, guardians don’t get a GUARANTEED symbol regardless of what weapon set they are using. Smite should be a symbol and I’d argue that sword 3 could be reworked to become a symbol skill so that there will be a symbol skill on every weapon set.

And no, pls don’t nerf the minor trait. It’ll help make up for the loss of crit chance that the radiance line currently provides through precision.

Please, no more symbols. Only because we finally got a GM trait in Zeal that will benefit our symbols greatly, that doesn’t mean we need to go kitten and put symbols on every freaking thing.

And OP, by making RHS be viable to sword only you are not making sword more powerful, you are nerfing the other 1h’ers. And besides you got a 10% dmg modifiers to all weapons not just sword. You will have to choose between radiant retaliation and Zealot’s Flame. Probably because ZF would be very powerful in a 1h build that will make it more worth than 10% dmg mod.

I’m surprised no one is trying to push for in suggesting an Increased Atack Speed modifier. Radiance GM would use something like that because besides Amplified Wrath, which I can see it work nice on some Pvp builds, there is nothing worthy to take in a Pve setup.

Radiance or Zeal could use an Increased Atac Speed trait. Be it while wielding a torch (making torch even more valuable) or be it you get a % IAS for each burning enemy near you etc. Sad no one hypes this for Guard.

creepmatic.9435:

Black Box.9312:

The thing with symbols is that they’re seemingly meant to be for guardians like what mesmers have with phantasms. Only problem is that unlike mesmers with phantasms, guardians don’t get a GUARANTEED symbol regardless of what weapon set they are using. Smite should be a symbol and I’d argue that sword 3 could be reworked to become a symbol skill so that there will be a symbol skill on every weapon set.

And no, pls don’t nerf the minor trait. It’ll help make up for the loss of crit chance that the radiance line currently provides through precision.

Please, no more symbols. Only because we finally got a GM trait in Zeal that will benefit our symbols greatly, that doesn’t mean we need to go kitten and put symbols on every freaking thing.

Why not? Maybe once we finally have some symbol consistency, they’ll realize just how stupid the concept of area-based attacks without CC are and give us tools to keep enemies in our symbols.

Black Box.9312:

creepmatic.9435:

Black Box.9312:

The thing with symbols is that they’re seemingly meant to be for guardians like what mesmers have with phantasms. Only problem is that unlike mesmers with phantasms, guardians don’t get a GUARANTEED symbol regardless of what weapon set they are using. Smite should be a symbol and I’d argue that sword 3 could be reworked to become a symbol skill so that there will be a symbol skill on every weapon set.

And no, pls don’t nerf the minor trait. It’ll help make up for the loss of crit chance that the radiance line currently provides through precision.

Please, no more symbols. Only because we finally got a GM trait in Zeal that will benefit our symbols greatly, that doesn’t mean we need to go kitten and put symbols on every freaking thing.

Why not? Maybe once we finally have some symbol consistency, they’ll realize just how stupid the concept of area-based attacks without CC are and give us tools to keep enemies in our symbols.

I have a feeling the Bow will give you symbol lovers more than enough ground aoe. How else are we going to offer support And damage from range?

creepmatic.9435:

And OP, by making RHS be viable to sword only you are not making sword more powerful, you are nerfing the other 1h’ers.

Yes I am. That way when I face them in pvp they aren’t getting 2 buffs from a trait when I’m only getting 1. That’s called imbalanced and its one of the things we are hoping won’t come with this trait update.