Guild Wars 2

If you used defenders flame with superior runes of the guardian, would both the burn damage and duration be increased, though the runes don’t exactly specify how much it burns for, just a 1 second burn whenever you block. And I really only see a burn build working in Pve with scepter and scepter power/fiery wrath/maybe radiant power and maybe unscathed contender (though you can pretty much run any build in Pve and do fine) but fire is pretty much the only dps condition guardians can apply atm…

My favorite question I want to ask about guardian is about the trait Indomitable Courage. It says it’ll grant aegis and stability to “nearby allies” but I didn’t know that “nearby” meant a 1200 radius XD though I’m only seeing this on the gw2 build editor. a 1200 radius stability field is awesome! (assuming it actually does that)

and do the traits in game show which skills that they have an effect on? cuz it doesn’t say on any of the build generators. And my last question is, do most zerker guardians in pvp use GS and empowering might +might sigil? those 3 stacks of might seem like it’d be pretty nice… :O

GS can net you 3 1/4 might stack. Empower might nets you maximum 5 stacks if you crit as soon as it goes of cooldown. The sigil can net you about 10 stacks assuming the same above statement.

That is a total of 18 stacks if you have no boon duration. And no downtime and crit everytime it goes of cooldown without any spare time between.

However as most Guardian using GS know, the might from the Auto-attack is terrible.
And Zerk Guard are rare cause a fully specced zerker Guard would die instantly to most other classes.

Perikittenor.1892:

GS can net you 3 1/4 might stack. Empower might nets you maximum 5 stacks if you crit as soon as it goes of cooldown. The sigil can net you about 10 stacks assuming the same above statement.

That is a total of 18 stacks if you have no boon duration. And no downtime and crit everytime it goes of cooldown without any spare time between.

However as most Guardian using GS know, the might from the Auto-attack is terrible.
And Zerk Guard are rare cause a fully specced zerker Guard would die instantly to most other classes.

i’ve noticed most GS zerker guards go down rather fast, and not just from the low base hp either

CMstorm.8679:

i’ve noticed most GS zerker guards go down rather fast, and not just from the low base hp either

They do/We do. One of the few reason that our attacks Autoattack. Although scale really nice for once. Is terrible at the end. 1 stack of might for every target you hit.(Remember, anet told us Guardian is not about damage)

Whirling wrath deal very little damage in a 1vs1 and will only excell in a zerg vs zerg environment since it is capable to hit 5 enemies with each 7 strikes and then you have an additional 7 projectiles.(Once again Why do a class that have the “No Damage” status have a attack that only deal damage? And don’t tell me whirl finisher.)

Leap of Faith is one of the only ok ability but 15 second cd for a attack that deals less damage than the finisher on autoattack(but hit up to 5 people) and then blinds for 3 seconds. Once again the blind is the really good part. Leap 600 range, yeah terrible. And blind is not even that good atleast not on a 15 second.

Symbol of wrath. Yeah i totally want to have the weakest Guardian symbol that are ment to scare people away from attacking me. To bad it is long cooldown, retaliation although is about 70% of my damage in PvE(Sad but i kill about 10 mobs as fast as i kill 3 mobs). is nerfed alot in WvWvW and SPvP(i think) so much that dealing 150 damage to your attacker when they hit 7k on your 3.5k armor. Will not scare them away.

Then we come to one of our good abilitys Binding Blade. Well it is a pretty good puller, but it lacks two things, 600 radius. Low scaling damage and who the fudge though it would be a good idé to add a condition on the binding that deal damage. Jesus add that to the impact instead.

So why are GS a bad weapon. Well, most of the time you end up autoattacking. although the damage scale really good, it has nothing special about it, second is that Guardian are not ment to deal damage(Dev team own words) Yet GS is specificly designed to deal damage in almost all situation. And the trait. 5% increase in damage and a heal that is really really really weak and requires you to hit your target. And ontop of that they are going to add that it scales from healing power. Yeah we totaly want that on a good power crit scaling weapon.

I wonder why GS is not healing yourself and allies. Why its finisher on autoattack chain is might instead support boon to yourself and allies, or why the symbol as i consider one of the worst don’t scale bether from the traits, since it is the longest cd. And if perma retaliation was so bad, why are they going to give it to warrior, or not remove it from hammer. Jesus, GS Symbol should add two boons considering its cooldown. And for the love of baby Charr jesus. Buff Light Field!!!!

To make it short, a weapon skill set designed to deal damage added to a class that is not supposed to deal damage. And it has no survivability except a pitiful heal.