Guild Wars 2

I am not sure if its culmination of all the changes that happened over the years, but playing my guardian it feel…weak…. Specifically the survivability as a guardian feels almost non-existent.

I played guard since release and the profession’s lore and design was a major contributing factor that lured me to the profession (coming as a GW1 veteran). A warrior that uses magic and light to support his allies and is able to survive. Although I hate the scepter and don’t see how it fits at all to the guard and I think staff should have been a long-mid range dmg/support wep, Battlemage anyone?

Over the years playing guard and encountering all different types of scenarios in the game it would seem that the profession no longer feels and plays as solidly as it did back then. For the past few month’s I’ve been trying to utilize different utility skills, but with spirit weapons being useless and the signet builds being utterly boring to me the choices of finding a good combination of skills that provide, good utility is rather short. other skills while they sound great are not practical like sanctuary and both Interventions requiring a target.

Dragonhunter added a longbow which was a godsent alternative to the scepter for me, but the trap skills are better used with melee weapons which kinda breaks the concept of using a bow and traps as a guard that the elite spec introduced.

Maybe it’s just me, but guard feels a bit “off” from its concept and role.

Karl is class designer now for years… and if it is Karl… it is bad:)
Don’t expect any good reasoning in guardian changes…
Worst and least used skills were traps before hot and guardian got plenty of them.
What is least played skills now ? (if you remove spirit weapons guard already have)
Yes mantra.. you are correct

Kicast.1459:

Karl is class designer now for years… and if it is Karl… it is bad:)
Don’t expect any good reasoning in guardian changes…
Worst and least used skills were traps before hot and guardian got plenty of them.
What is least played skills now ? (if you remove spirit weapons guard already have)
Yes mantra.. you are correct

At least this time class is supposed to have a spec aligned with what it is supposed to do: support.

I personally like Mantras, and Karl wasn’t in charge of Firebrand this time around, it was Irenio Calmon-Huan (who did the Scrapper and Druid elite specializations).

these guys need to touch DH :] next and remove the traps for anything else that requires brains xD and fits better with the bow…

they managed to mix 2 things that were lacking to Guardian fire and support

Wards > trap spam …. wards were so kewl even used on GvG, PVE, PVP…. everywhere.