I have been playing my Guardian with under a Valor build, and would love to see some improvement. I would comment the same way it other Traits but Valor is what I know best at the moment. I know this is more of a suggestion type of post but I’d want fellow Guardians to take a look first, and have their thoughts as well.
First of +30% Critical Damage is Amazing. I hope that one stays spot on.
Minor Traits
- Valorous Defense: this is good.
- Courageous Return: seems useless, even if you activate Courage very often. The objective of a Guardian is to be difficult to put down.
- Might of the Protector: this is good as well. A possible twist might be is to change it to Fury. It would be such a nice burst for the Guardian. (Of course we have to change the name to Protector’s Fury or something)
Major Traits
- Meditation Mastery: okay, however, it would be nice to condense it with Focused Mind. (I don’t actually know the benefit of Focused Mind, since Meditations are quite quick by default)
- Defender’s Flame: Amazing that it’s 100% already. I don’t know about the duration of the Burning though. With too little sources of blocking, it would be nice to have a bit of duration on the Burning condition.
- Strength of the Fallen: May have its uses but, like I said, Guardians should be hard to put down.
- Strength in Number: Change to percentage, maybe 5% – 10%. +30 is just trivial.
- Purity: Okay. Additional healing would be nice for improvement.
- Retributive Armor: It would be nice if it stayed at 10%, as 5% wouldn’t really make a dent even if you stack a lot of Toughness.
- Mace of Justice: Mace isn’t really designed for damage. It would be better if it improved the healing from the Mace Skills. Or for name’s sake, we can actually have Mace have a chance to cause burning together with the original 5% increase.
- Defender’s Shield: Change to percentage of total that will not affect Retributive Armor.
- Honorable Shield: Condense with Defender’s Shield
- Focused Mind: See Meditation Mastery.
- Altruistic Healing: Okay
- Monk’s Focus: Additional effect of Protection would be great. Maybe 3secs.
That’s about it. A bit lengthy. Would like to hear your thoughts.
In-game: Una Vigdis
Norn Guardian
Isle of Janthir
This thread was made 2 hours ago, but it seems ArenaNet has pre-empted you.
Defender’s Shield and Honorable Shield: Merged together into the same trait.
Hmm.. That’s something pretty nice. Not sure if I’d switch to Shield yet though.
I’m only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.
This thread was made 2 hours ago, but it seems ArenaNet has pre-empted you.
Defender’s Shield and Honorable Shield: Merged together into the same trait.
So what Trait replaced it?
In-game: Una Vigdis
Norn Guardian
Isle of Janthir