Guild Wars 2

I know that we are all down on Guardian ranged, but has anyone else leveled this way, with Scepter/Torch? My goodness it is fun, and effective. Why?

The slow orbs…

Hear me out. Because they move so slow and mobs are mostly standing there I can get off about 4 or 5 of them before the mob even knows he is being attacked from range. This means by the time he starts moving towards me and gets in range he has been hit at least 4 times with orbs, putting him at half health. Follow that up with Zealot’s Flame, Cleasning Flame, etc. You can use Chains of Light after all 4 orbs hit, and then pound away.

In other words, I take no damage leveling, at all. And the great thing is this is fun for events and groups too. Smite is very powerful tagging groups of mobs for experience.

I wonder if this setup works for dungeons. Anyone tried it?

I suspect most people complaining about the lack of ranged are talking purely from a PvP/WvW sense where wading into melee is instant death (for them).

I would not mind scepter anywhere NEAR as much,if it had different animations. They can all do the exact same damage and attack speed,that’s fine by me. I just want to not look so stupid using it. Others have scepter chain attacks,so it shouldn’t be a hard thing to throw in,and it would make such a huge difference to me.

If scepter has a chain attack, I prefer the 3rd hit to be the guided missile balls that the inquest mob has in CoE story. Would be so fun to have it chasing someone around.