As the title says i think a lot of that we find missing in FB is in fact a reflection of what the core guardian lack.
Lets break down some of the issues with FB.
PvP/Roaming in wvw:
It is clunky and easily interruptible
It lacks melee sustain since it have no bubbles
It lacks easy to access self sustain (like medis)
It lacks mobility (disengage and engage primarily)
Large scale WvW:
Its clunky and easily interruptible
It lacks ranged weapon options so it can be close right behind the melee train. Doing damage AND supporting
It lacks melee sustain since it have no bubbles
It lacks mobility (disengage and engage)
Not enough heals for being a valid healer option.
Open world PvE:
Seriously strong and probably the best farmer/tagger around. I will run this in pve, it’s a beast.
Fractals and raids:
Lack sustained dps on bosses compared to vanilla and DH, have huge aoe burst though.
Bring nothing unique that other professions cant do better other aegis/stab spamming.
Give up all dps when using ToC and ToR. We sacrifice damage for support and its fine, but i know its not fine for high end pve.
Not enough heals
Overall:
Still the best elite is RF for renewing the tomes.
Solution:
Increase passive VoR with 100%
Increase active VoR with 200%
Fix staff as a working weapon in all game modes. Just copy some of the water skills ele has and we are good to go.
Move the passive effect from the trait “loremaster” to “Absolute Resolution”
The above would address some of the core issues and when traiting for FB/DH this will enhance the FB/DH as well.
Loremaster is changed so it reduces skills cooldown with 33% AND the cooldown on the tomes with 30-50%. Keep the tome cd as they are but give us a mean to reduce the cd.
Make tomes instant casts. Keep the skills as they are. The option to reduce cd dramatically will make the tomes stronger. And if you want the even stronger just use RF as the elite skill.
We got combofields in all the tomes but no finishers. Easy solution is to add a blast finisher to skill 2 in all the tomes. Then it would be possible to have a water field up and by swapping tomes trigger it three times. Healing issue solved, great at stacking might even though some what lackluster in the light field but i can live with that.
This solves the entire issue we have with poor healing.
Make Mantra of flame a 600 teleport that gives you swiftness 10 seconds and a x% speed in revival speed for x sec, great synergy with honor.. A 45 sec CD. This would add mobility which increases both survivability and the ability to support allies. Tbh I think is the most important part of FB, they need to fix the ability to support and heal and mobility is crucial here since positioning with short range spells is key to success.
The elite mantra should reset and charge all mantras on the third step. This in combination with the changed Lore Master would make it possible to use this elite instead of renewed focus.
Make Mantra of Solace heal allies as well.
Mantras should work in 360 around the FB with 300 range. Or 600 range with the same cone as Shield #4.
Add a damage component to some/all skills in the tomes so FB at least can trigger Permeathing wrath och keep some sort of decent dps while using ToR and ToC in raids/fractals.
(edited by Brutaly.6257)