Guild Wars 2

Alright SOMETHING has gotta change because it is now crippling people to use zerker stats with 1h sword. It doesn’t have symbols so zeal lines a bad idea. Valor line if your going meditations sure but oh look that just got changed into offensive support. Honor line…haha no. Virtues? Sure if you feel like doing condition damage, healing, or retaliation? Not really zerker stuff. The stability would be nice but again, support. So that kind of leaves the radiance line. adepts and master traits are pretty wonderful but

-> Radiance Grandmaster traits are a bad combination

You either pick a burn buff, or using condi for retaliation. So 2/3 of those are condition and then the third is SIGNETS. So If i want to use 1h sword along with meditations I’m kind of shooting myself in the foot. If somebody else sees some other traits I could take please tell me but right now all I’m getting from Anet is that I need to switch to signets or go jump in a volcano.

Edit: Oh wait I know! I can just use another 1h weapon with it to get benefits from its trait in the radiance line. mace is defensive so Ill just use a scepter and go into zeal line and OH WAIT SWORD DOESN’T HAVE A SYMBOL

Hello Guardian,

you can use 2 Weapon Sets. And why Honor no? Empowering Might without ICD? Here some calc form that_shaman trait line thingy. just look at it and see how nice we can zerk things down. #synergyisstrong

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgIBrAK0BPQ~

You took zeal line, congradulations there will already be a build better than yours since sword does not use symbols.

Also amplified wrath is gona be a pretty crummy grandmaster skill for zerkers dont you think?

Edit: Also empower might is a support skill. While guardians support is still strong (as it always has been) our ability to duel just got kneecapped. Meditations, our biggest mano E mano skillset, got buffed by giving it party fury. If it really needed a buff they should have done it in another way. That just made it stronger in groups

marcel.3019:

Hello Guardian,

you can use 2 Weapon Sets. And why Honor no? Empowering Might without ICD? Here some calc form that_shaman trait line thingy. just look at it and see how nice we can zerk things down. #synergyisstrong

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgIBrAK0BPQ~

empowering might likely has a icd, it has one now, they prob just left it out of the notes. and even if it doesn’t have icd, look closely at those adept traits (awful) and even the gm ones aren’t something to write home about for many builds

Yeah honor is GREAT if your support or playing tanky, but it dont do JACK for my stabbing abilities

Empowering Might is kind of useless if you have an Ele or PS warrior anyway. Guardian can’t build up might that quickly.

Man as a guard you block a lot, just think about focus 5 (i assume you use a focus as offhand bc you want to do burst dmg in 1v1), shelter and your F3. free bruning, also more dmg on burning is nice. best option there.

ok if you think you dont use an offhand GS/Hammer/Bow or Mace than put out Symbolic Avenger and use Shatterd Aegis. Thats also a very good trait, since as power guard it can crit for around 3k i guess.

Ok with an IDC empowering might wont be the best, but it also support yourself. and have tons more endurence isnt bad in 1v1 situations either, bc you dont TANK dmg this way, you AVOID it. thats exactly what you need if you cant take dmg in your face with zerker builds.

and thats not everything honor gives you.

guard will be very potent in 1v1’s, even better than now.

You block alot IF you use focus IF you use shelter. Also they are putting an ICD on the burn on block. And again any build using symbols along with sword is a nerfed build because a build with two symbol weapons would be better. Also the dodging on honors is nice but its not something you want to take a whole traitline for. Youll be innitially more tanky but in the long run youll have less sustained DPS than the other guy.

Guard is getting nerfed 1v1. Sword is boned

Also. Might on block in the same line with meditations trait, shelter blocks litany of wrath doesnt, what the heck

Also. Torch trait in the same line as burn on block. Torch don’t block. Neither does sword.

I feel like the person who set up the new traits has never played Guardian before. I seriously feel like the people in charge of balancing the game don’t play the game and it makes me sad as hell.

Just work with what we have got. thats what we have to do anyway. and the “tourch” traid is also good for non tourch skills.

you can have so nice synergys with on block and on aegis end. i know thats not everything, but at least something to start of.

i also think that 20% more dmg in our symbols is not the best, but after some weeks we can see how good it realy is

Dinks.2478:

I feel like the person who set up the new traits has never played Guardian before. I seriously feel like the people in charge of balancing the game don’t play the game and it makes me sad as hell.

I knew that year ago

marcel.3019:

Just work with what we have got. thats what we have to do anyway. and the “tourch” traid is also good for non tourch skills.

you can have so nice synergys with on block and on aegis end. i know thats not everything, but at least something to start of.

i also think that 20% more dmg in our symbols is not the best, but after some weeks we can see how good it realy is

to get +20% dmg w/ symbols your enemy has to stand in that symbol. have u ever seen someone stand in a guard symbol? i haven’t.

More importantly, you would have to switch to your sword to get the damage boost for people in that symbol. Taking away the ability to apply other symbols for 10s