Guild Wars 2

Hi,

First of all, there’s a tooltip “bug”; it says 2seconds cast for 3s invulnerability, implying you could move & being invulnerable for 1second, but that never happens. Seems like it’s 3s cast & 3s invuln. It’s a detail though.

However, I think this skill isn’t “responsive” at all, and that’s in my opinion a big issue. I see it as an avoid-burst skill, but it doesn’t trigger instantly somehow. It’s more of a feeling than anything else but it’s very disturbing, and makes that skill even more useless…
Does anyone here have this impression of slow response time when you press the skill as well?

Sometimes it feels kinda sluggish, yeah – not everytime though for some weird reason. But the bigger annoyance for me is, if you so much as much a millimeter (hard to do in furious combat) you don’t get any of the invulnerability or any of the virtues reset – yet you get the FULL 90 second cooldown.

They perhaps should mame it root you to the spot (or better yet, cast on the move ).

MajorMelchett.6042:

Sometimes it feels kinda sluggish, yeah – not everytime though for some weird reason. But the bigger annoyance for me is, if you so much as much a millimeter (hard to do in furious combat) you don’t get any of the invulnerability or any of the virtues reset – yet you get the FULL 90 second cooldown.

They perhaps should mame it root you to the spot (or better yet, cast on the move ).

Basically I’ve had the same experiences.

Can be a tad sluggish … hard to gauge if that’s the power or any lag (either client of server) that may be going on at the time (I’ve had similar issues with other skills from time to time).

RF pairs nicely with either talented Virtues and/or Altruistic Healing builds. I use it more for the “blow my virtues, buff the group, get healed and reset” then the 3 seconds of invulnerability itself (that really huge hit coming aside).

yea as I said, I’m not sure if it’s lag or something, but this elite seems WAY less responsive than any “instant” cast spell. And the 3s-immunity is anti burst, I mean whats the point of having a delay on a anti burst skill seriously.

There is a bit of a delay in it. I’ve attempted to use it to counter the scream of the final boss of AC path 3 (giant graveling, has a howl that deals immense damage if you stand in it, but fairly short duration—got stuck without endurance in a bad spot). Even triggering it a hair in advance, you still generally take the first tick of damage or so. It seems to have about a quarter second of setup time.

This elite is pretty useful, but it does need a little something to make it special. Recharging virtues is great, yes, but it’s very situational since you don’t tend to pop all 3 virtues at the same time, and several have other ways of recharging them or lowering their cooldowns.

Perhaps it’s simply because of its similarity to the warrior shield 5—essentially 3 seconds of damage immunity—but I can’t help but feel this elite is weaker than even this warrior weapon skill at times. You can at least move during the warrior block, and it can be traited to reflect projectiles as well.

yea this elite is kinda weak, because who needs an immunity which can’t prevent say a burst when it starts, but just the middle and end of it?Moreover, the immune time after the burst is totally useless, ie 3seconds is not even really needed.
Example: only possible to negate partially a HB frenzy warrior with this elite when poping it when just when the warrior comes into range. Kinda useless.

This elite compared to other guardians elites, and other profession’s elite is poorly designed and really lackluster in my opinion.