Guild Wars 2

Do our shout represents what do guardians do?

What do you think about guardians shouting “Retreat!”

It’s an homage to the old GW1 skill.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Retreat

its’ to juke out your enemies! while you yell out retreat, but charge towards them.

I’m pretty sure other players can’t hear a guardian’s shout, so it can’t be used to confuse enemies.

yea.. sadly. it only happens in my head. :///
don’t pop my bubble! lol

Still use it to charge at enemies. RETREAT FROM THE BACKLINES TO THE ENEMY!

Logan inspired the Shout, Retreat, to guardians.

I think “Retreat” skill do is intended for withdrawing from a fight…

with swiftness and aegis to defend you from further attacks while shouting retreat…

lets just say its for Tactical Retreat tactics

I use it a lot when either farming PvE or bags in a zerg with the staff. You can cover a lot of ground with 20s of swiftness. I also use it for the aegis block or simply traveling. I do wish it was longer though, maybe an extra 10s to boost our mobility. There can be a lot more useful utilities to bring to a fight.

Though I hardly use it for actually retreating.

This has always bothered me, and frankly, I think it speaks to ANET’s idea of the Guardian role.

Obviously Guardians should Retreat (20s swiftness on 60s timer for 33% swiftness uptime), because a Warrior’s job is to Charge (10s swiftness on a 15s timer for 66% swiftness uptime.)

Getting the picture here? Yeah…just Retreat.

I just find it Ironic that they gave us a skill based off of something the class is generally horrible at being able to do… honestly it should just be called “Attempt to keep up while I am being kited!”