Guild Wars 2

With all the casting and tomes, firebrand seems quie usefull as a ranged class, even with the staff 1 skill nurf. Anyone else planning to go this route?

lordbachus.6091:

With all the casting and tomes, firebrand seems quie usefull as a ranged class, even with the staff 1 skill nurf. Anyone else planning to go this route?

Have i missed something? Ranged and FB. What skills has a range over 600? And as i recall all/most mantras are 300 in a cone.

You would think a caster spec would be long-ranged, but since ANet’s game design is super smart, the firebrand is actually almost entirely melee-ranged but with all of the downsides of being a caster, such as high casting times and no self-defense or mobility.

Ranged FB op?

The irony of things is FB can be AA and killed from every ranged classes, once agains people wil have to go for gap closers as meditations to do something with guardian cause everything else is easilly overhwelmed by any class.

kitten so much ppl loving firebrand but dont even read the tooltips of skills, I swear if they listen to this ppl on friday you can say goodbye to him in pvp and wvw.

I expected ranged skills as well and was pretty disappointed by the elite spec. It seems like Firebrand was mainly designed to allow Guardians to use condition damage in PvE raids.

Dagger.2035:

I expected ranged skills as well and was pretty disappointed by the elite spec. It seems like Firebrand was mainly designed to allow Guardians to use condition damage in PvE raids.

And that could have been accomplished just by buffing Virtue of Justice to its pvp values. All other classes were allowed to play with their condi builds until last patch, when they nerfed most of them to replace them with the new specs. Saying that guardian had to wait for firebrand is short-sighted.

Firebrand was designed to be a support spec. But the new design philosophy is to not make another druid or chrono that sacrifices all damage for support, but more like PS warrior, that has good personal dps.

So they made firebrand, scourge and renegade. But because they gave them more damage, their support is weaker than chrono and druid (heck, even warrior). Only, firebrand still has to dedicate its traits to access quickness and boon duration was nerfed, so even the damage seems to be pretty low.

So, in the end, instead of good support with low damage, we get mediocre support with mediocre damage.