Guild Wars 2

After the 15th, all Meditations will be instant.

Make Renewed Focus a Meditation, increase the duration to 4sec, and you’ll have a more useful Elite skill for a lot of builds but an incredibly useful Elite skill for Meditation builds.

With Meditation Mastery, Focused Mind, and Monk’s Focus, it’d become one of the top elite skills. A 72s version of Endure Pain with a small heal, renewed virtues, and another application of Fury. That sounds like an Elite skill to me.

Uh, RF isn’t a good elite skill? It’s like our only good one. I mean I don’t mind buffs but it’d make RF pretty OP.

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Uh, RF isn’t a good elite skill? It’s like our only good one. I mean I don’t mind buffs but it’d make RF pretty OP.

Its the only good one because it’s not terribad like the books.

It’s not a “great” elite by any means. It could stand to use a build-specific buff.

Redscope.6215:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Uh, RF isn’t a good elite skill? It’s like our only good one. I mean I don’t mind buffs but it’d make RF pretty OP.

Its the only good one because it’s not terribad like the books.

It’s not a “great” elite by any means. It could stand to use a build-specific buff.

Well, if we do want to buff it, I’d focus on lowering the cd mostly. Increasing the invulnerability time would make it unfair to other invulnerability skills such as mist form.

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Redscope.6215:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Uh, RF isn’t a good elite skill? It’s like our only good one. I mean I don’t mind buffs but it’d make RF pretty OP.

Its the only good one because it’s not terribad like the books.

It’s not a “great” elite by any means. It could stand to use a build-specific buff.

Well, if we do want to buff it, I’d focus on lowering the cd mostly. Increasing the invulnerability time would make it unfair to other invulnerability skills such as mist form.

Actually I’d make it more of a Endure Pain than Mist Form. Yeah, it’d be a bit of a nerf…but you’d get 4s, the ability to increase it with Elite Focus, and the ability to contest points while its up.

The current issue I find with RF is that it doesn’t fit any one particular build. That’s not to say it isn’t useful, but many elites in GW2 are able to be manipulated with multiple build-oriented traits. The Elite Focus trait is the only one that can effect RF but it does way more for the books from an effectiveness standpoint. Giving it Meditation status again would stick at least one of the Guardian’s Elite skills with a viable build option.

I mean, they can fiddle with the balance on their own. We’re not going to come up with proper numbers just by shooting the breeze on the forums. I just think this begs attention.

Redscope.6215:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Redscope.6215:

ArcTheFallen.7682:

Uh, RF isn’t a good elite skill? It’s like our only good one. I mean I don’t mind buffs but it’d make RF pretty OP.

Its the only good one because it’s not terribad like the books.

It’s not a “great” elite by any means. It could stand to use a build-specific buff.

Well, if we do want to buff it, I’d focus on lowering the cd mostly. Increasing the invulnerability time would make it unfair to other invulnerability skills such as mist form.

Actually I’d make it more of a Endure Pain than Mist Form. Yeah, it’d be a bit of a nerf…but you’d get 4s, the ability to increase it with Elite Focus, and the ability to contest points while its up.

The current issue I find with RF is that it doesn’t fit any one particular build. That’s not to say it isn’t useful, but many elites in GW2 are able to be manipulated with multiple build-oriented traits. The Elite Focus trait is the only one that can effect RF but it does way more for the books from an effectiveness standpoint. Giving it Meditation status again would stick at least one of the Guardian’s Elite skills with a viable build option.

I mean, they can fiddle with the balance on their own. We’re not going to come up with proper numbers just by shooting the breeze on the forums. I just think this begs attention.

But there are a lot of elites (even for the other professions) that are not affected by your current build… Renewed Focus, Lich Form, Time Warp, Thieves Guild… Still this are great elites and people use them a lot.

Renewed Focus is fine as it is, making it a Meditation would be really cool but that would make it even more OP, that invulnerability and virtues recharge has saved me many, many times.

It’s an interesting point but I think RF is good as it is, would be better to have a bit of change to the other ones. Books aren’t as bad as people say, they do need an update but c’mon that #5 skill from the support one is just fantastic.

as amazing as it would be, I can’t see it being a meditation for the exact reasons you listed…… those and chances are the other professions would cry.

What I’d love to see is some new Elite Skills for Guardians.
It’s obvious they aren’t going to completely rework the books, and Renewed Focus is pretty good as it is already. The changes OP suggested would make it way too strong, so that won’t ever happen.